thanx in advance!!

Thanks for your kind words. I really like your transition from abuse to irrelevancy – it’s true and it’s even more worrisome from my point of view. Irrelevancy leads to disinterest and subsequently to the issue society at large is experiencing today with the digital world in general: program or be programmed (Douglas Rushkoff).

Computational architecture has indeed reached a crisis of its own making – creating projects that just feed the insatiable (formal) appetite of the digital tools, and not the real needs of the job is one factor which led us to this point as well as to the irrelevancy you mentioned.

I’ll keep my blabber short today. Thanks for your comment!

A string and well thought out piece as usual. I would like to suggest that the abuse of the algorithm has now become a larger problem than just the superficial link between the image of nature and its replication in architecture. I think we are at a point where computational architecture has reach a crisis. Enough work has been to see the possibilities but we do not yet know why. Until we bridge that gap and find an argument that can push this type of work out of the experimentation phase and into a more relevant socio-political discourse, everything we do is in danger of not only being an abuse, but also irrelevant.

I am a big fan of your work, which I find well thought out and better grounded than most. And I think that it will be this type of thinking beyond the simple tools and into the meaning of what we do that is needed to get to the next level. Keep it up.

Matei

Thanks for your kind words. It’s true – this is a generative process which does have a relation with the way infrastructural networks are formed, as opposed to voronoi or other variations. I’m glad I’m not the only one seeing this.

Regarding the errors, there’s plenty of places they can come from. First off, try to see if you have all the libraries that the sketches are using (they’re at the top, the import bla.bla.*; statements) and if not, head over to the processing website and download&install them (there’s instructions there on how to do that). If this is not the case, then something might be more seriously wrong – so if you hit me (preferably in an email) with the specific errors it would be great.

Cheers!

I’ve downloaded your Constructal Theory and Wetgrid2 sketches but I’m a complete novice with Processing. I get a whole range of error messages when attempting to run your sketches and I was hoping you could perhaps provide me with a more step-by-step set of instructions so I can start researching the possibilities.

Any help would be fantastic and much appreciated!

Keep up the good work my friend!

Cheers!