Simulation - e-flux Architecture, Noa Levin and Sascha Roesler - Editorial

Editorial

e-flux Architecture, Noa Levin, and Sascha Roesler

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Berkeley Environmental Simulation Laboratory, 1985, showing a model of downtown San Francisco. A student blows smoke to study the various wind effects near skyscrapers. The glass windows above the observers sealed off the chamber during data collection. Source: University of California, Peter C. Bosselmann.
Simulation
August 2026










Notes
1

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 1995).

2

Ivar Ekeland, “The Climate Change. Transition, Bifurcation or Catastrophe?” lecture at UM6P, Chair of Complexities ∞ Humanities, Morocco, 2023, .

3

Examples of the investigation of wind flows through simulation in closed physical experimental set-ups are the Micrometeorological Wind Tunnel at Colorado State University or the Environmental Simulation Lab in Berkeley, where the wind profiles of emerging high-rise districts have been investigated. Sascha Roesler, City, Climate, and Architecture: A Theory of Collective Practice, KLIMA POLIS Vol. 1 (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2022).

4

See Nathalie Bredella, “Simulation and Architecture: Mapping Building Information Modeling,” NTM Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 27, (2019): 419–41.







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