Strange Attractors // Patterns in chaos

This book on Strange Attractors is so interesting I am drooling over it right now. Good for anybody, even the mathematically stupid.

A random illustration from the book.
Yep, it’s free to download.
Go p55 it!

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Documenting the works and thoughts of Dimitrie Stefanescu regarding architecture and related disciplines.

Mainly he is searching for meaningful applications of computer-driven practices in building science/architecture.

If you think you can contribute to his (hopefully) never-ending quest to find out the meaning of life, the universe and architecture, feel free to dump your brainwaves in the comment boxes or in an email. Right now his best answer is 42, so there's quite a lot of room for improvement.

#license

Unless otherwise specified, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Licence. This gives you quite a number of interesting freedoms, like "remixing" my architectural projects, with the sole condition of properly and visibly crediting me as an initial author.

My Super Delicious Bookmarks. No sugar.

Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web November 23, 2011
Luigi Snozzi, presedintele juriului la concursul de arhitectura pentru Piata Universitatii: "Pentru mine, majoritatea proiectelor au fost, daca nu slabe, oricum in afara adevaratei probleme urbane puse in discutie" - Imobiliar - HotNews.ro November 16, 2011
Matila Ghyka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia November 15, 2011
sandragalan.com November 15, 2011
Design and nature - TU Delft Discover November 8, 2011
Tall Tales of Depravity November 6, 2011
Sabin+Jones LabStudio November 3, 2011
Honeyed Chicken | Inn at the Crossroads October 31, 2011
Medieval Recipes October 31, 2011
Facing Forward » FUTURE TECH October 30, 2011
DSD :: PHD Program: Platform October 25, 2011
The London Consortium | A Masters & Doctoral Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies » October 25, 2011
SAGE Publications Ltd: The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory: C. Greig Crysler: 9781412946131 October 25, 2011
20 Hz October 24, 2011
A Finger on the Pulse of the World § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM September 22, 2011
Sorin Cotofana's home page September 14, 2011
Constructal theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia September 14, 2011
Paul Prudence [BLOG] August 31, 2011
max klaentschi June 24, 2011
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What People Are Saying

carrie08 on Swarm Behaviours Workshop Material
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Dimitrie Andrei Stefanescu on Algorithmic Abuse

undigested thoughts. irresponsible of me, isn’t it?

Modernity in The Digital Age October 29, 2011
This is just a really wild speculative rant. It’s more science-fiction than anything else, though it does describe a trend which, if it will mature, will kill modernity. “The Digital” can be said to provide a common medium in which we now encode (through different theoretical constructs) - or try to - all facets of reality relevant to our existence. This co […]
Why Schumacher is Wrong October 17, 2011
Patrick Schumacher promotes parametricism as a global style and proposes a theory of architectural autopoiesis as a supporting framework which, while ensuring the discipline’s independence, isolates it from its parameters. […]
"We long for simplicity and satisfaction. Simplexity therefore stands for a balance between the..." October 8, 2011
““We long for simplicity and satisfaction. Simplexity therefore stands for a balance between the growing complexity of daily life and our own personal satisfaction. In order to attain this state, we have to stop always striving to make optimal decisions. In the future, it will be more important to make judgments that are just good enough.”” - Petter Wipperma […]
Optimization Overdose October 6, 2011
Optimization and optimizing are now central features in any architectural discourse, alongside performance. The concept of optimization is associated with the continuous betterment of a certain design by finding the optimal values for the parameters describing it. Nevertheless, there are certain aspects which require critical reflection. Optimizing a system […]
Extended Abstract. September 28, 2011
Digital techniques have had – and continue to have – a huge impact on architecture, both as a design process and as artifact[1]. Over the last few years this fact has been registered by a wider audience than that of the initial early adopters (which can be actually referred as the avant-garde) mostly because of the radicalism and novelty of the theoretical d […]
Science, Society, Metaphors and Architecture August 27, 2011
Looking back, I could now argue that authored architecture’s conscious relationship with nature has always been mainly on a superficial metaphorical level, and therefore the voronoi diagram fits right in as a continuation of previous endeavors – not that i agree that this relationship is still useful now (ie the current eco-fuck context), it’s just the way i […]
abstract machines and architecture July 25, 2011
The speculation that the diagram becomes reality and that reality becomes a diagram, while valid from a philosophical standpoint, is limited in practice – and certainly in architecture – by the precision of our measurements and our bounded predictive capabilities. In short, computational architecture is far from being able to devise a Deleuzian abstract mac […]
PE July 15, 2011
One can argue that computational techniques enable architecture to mediate in a more direct manner the scientific aspects (Nature). Nevertheless, this comes at a cost to overall legibility/usefulness since these technologies have yet to be fully culturally linked. On the other hand, one can argue that computational techniques help in improving the legibilit […]
Thesis (1) July 15, 2011
Computational architecture is greatly expanding the “hybridization” possibilities of architecture (you can argue that this is a return to the so called gothic merger) yet it fails to acknowledge the fact that architecture (as a process) is a linkage, a hybrid in itself. In essence, parametric techniques are, even through the design interface, explicitly exp […]
trying to define architecture (as a process and as a product) July 15, 2011
These definitions rely on Bruno Latour’s We have never been modern. [Architecture] It is a mediator, a quasi-object, a product of the networks (as a finite object). An architectural object is the result of an ever adapting process which mediates and expresses our construction of nature and society. Architecture is a mediation process between Nature and Soc […]