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The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) is currently celebrating Frei Otto – recipient of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize – with a Special Issue of the IASS Journal (Vol.59, No.1, March 2018). This publication was edited by Juan Gerardo Oliva (Vice President of the IASS and Professor…
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Aalborg University, Fall semester 2010: I was coordinating the Master’s subject “Formfindings” when I introduced programming using the “parametric wall”. Through a single consistent system of elements and interrelations, designers could rapidly explore a multitude of spatial configurations in what Lars Spuybroek defined ‘the architecture of variation’.
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The church of Longuelo is the last main building designed by Pino Pizzigoni and could be considered his most innovative work, representing the sum of experimentation about shells made during the last twenty years of his activity. His final project was presented in May 1961. The construction started in 1962 and…
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This article was recently published (in Italian) in BLOOM n°14. Wilfing Architecture has kindly republished the text online, correcting a few errors and inserting images for a better comprehension of the precedents and references. I am proposing below an English translation of the original article in Italian. ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE (English translation by…
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We have completed a paper on the history of construction of the Church of Longuelo. The authors are: Carlo Deregibus and Alberto Pugnale. The paper will be published on the “Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2009: Evolution and Trends in Design, Analysis and Construction…
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“Graham promoted the creation of a computerized program called Building Optimization Program (BOP), aimed to cut down the construction costs. This program was designed as a diagnostic tool by which architects and engineers could identify the points where constructive costs could be cut down, but, of course, it was accused…
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[…] the computer is a device with the power and speed to meet the requirements of the limits of our imaginations. We need this power to compress evolutionary time and space so that results can be achieved more realistically in our life-times. The emphasis, however, rests in the techniques, in…
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Mutsuro Sasaki gave a speech at Politecnico di Torino on Tuesday, 6 November 2007. He presented his recent projects and book “Flux Structures”. After the presentation, Mario Sassone and I had the opportunity to interview Mutsuro Sasaki for “Il Giornale dell’architettura”. Click here to read the interview (in Italian). Below, the flyer…
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Una piccola quantità d’ordine ha avuto origine dal disordine, senza essere pianificata da nessuna mente. Richard Dawkins, 1986 Lo studio delle tecniche evolutive artificiali è volto in gran parte al miglioramento dell’efficienza dello strumento di per sé. Cito oggi un libro di Richard Dawkins che riflette principalmente su questo tema,…
