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Articles: Op/Positions

Op/Positions
2.1
Legs
by Theo Jansen
Hurrying across a deserted beach, their many legs weaving intricate spatial patterns, Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest...
Legs
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Op/Positions
2.1
Design Research: Objects, Procedures, and New Understanding
by Stan Ruecker & Jennifer Roberts-Smith
Shifting objects across the earth’s surface is no easy matter. The moon rushes through space, as do the satellites....
Design Research: Objects, Procedures, and New Understanding
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Op/Positions
2.1
Architectural Research in an Age of Open Systems
by Kiel Moe
Design Research has an epistemological mode that differs from those in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities,...
Architectural Research in an Age of Open Systems
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Op/Positions
2.1
Re-finding a Voice: Building an Agenda for Research in Architecture
by Thomas Vonier
Architectural research is constitutively different in an age of open systems. There are important epistemological...
Re-finding a Voice: Building an Agenda for Research in Architecture
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Op/Positions
1.2
Bespoke and Organic: Simulation toward Simplification, Repetition, and Rationalization
by James O'Donnell, David J. Gerber & Shibo Ren
The recent history of architecture and engineering has rightly focused on rationalization to realize otherwise...
Bespoke and Organic: Simulation toward Simplification, Repetition, and Rationalization
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Op/Positions
1.2
Research and Architecture’s Knowledge Loop
by Thomas Fisher
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has developed a research roadmap that sends the AIA further down a road...
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Op/Positions
1.2
Simulation and Design of Hybrid Human-Natural-Technological Systems
by Marina Alberti
Interactions among complex and rapidly evolving human, natural, and technological systems in urbanizing regions...
Simulation and Design of Hybrid Human-Natural-Technological Systems
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Op/Positions
1.2
Architecture from the Bottom-up
by Daekwon Park
Buildings are multiscale material systems with an interconnected web of assemblies, components, and materials....
Architecture from the Bottom-up
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Op/Positions
1.2
Computational Design Synergy: Stimulation Through Simulation
by Alvise Simondetti & David Birch
In complex decision-making such as city design, good designers should find the most synergetic solution between...
Computational Design Synergy: Stimulation Through Simulation
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Op/Positions
1.2
Computational Doppelgängers
by Nataly Gattegno & Jason Kelly Johnson
Future Cities Lab explores the intertwining of physical space and objects with their computational doppelgängers:...
Computational Doppelgängers
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