Far From Equilibrium

Friday, July 10, 2009

Opening Night

Last night was the opening reception for the Wild Child Exhibition at the Bridge Gallery in Manhattan.

Monday, July 6, 2009

WILD CHILD

http://bridgegalleryny.com/wildchild/

FADarch will be showing work in the “Wild Child” exhibition at the Bridge Gallery in Manhattan. The exhibition will run from July 9^th to September 2^nd.

Peter Macapia and Marilyn Garber of bridgegallery are pleased to present WildChild, a unique array of computationally experimental art, architecture and design involving the latest experiments in digital and algorithmic computing and advanced fabrication. Each of the designers in this exhibition have taught and evolved over the last decade using digital, animation, scripting, and parametric software tools. However, they have recently begun to develop idiosyncratic attitudes that continually defy easy categorization either in methodology or results. They are essentially ‘wild’ in their technical ambition and in their aesthetic. In that sense, the artists, designers, and architects in this exhibition are moving towards new theories, new territories, and new problems.

The extraordinary range of skill and technique exhibited through WildChild comes from a rigorous and continued manipulation of software tools branching into the generation of code, and producing exotic results. The question becomes how these processes result or impinge upon material considerations and aesthetic affect. Selecting work that represents major developments from New York City on the East Coast and Los Angeles on the West Coast, WildChild introduces a new generation of work tempered by the differences in urban environment as well as design sensibility and fabrication.

WildChild includes:

Aranda\Lasch

FPmod

p-a-t-t-e-r-n-s

Atilier Manferdini

Kokkugia

SOFTlab

Biothing

Kol/Mac

Supermanoeuvre

Emergent

Murmur

Testa & Weiser

FADarch

Noah Olmsted

THEVERYMANY

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Squiggle Script

Click to see the code

Nearest Neighbor Script

This is a nearest neighbor script I have been working on in Mathematica.

Click to see the code

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

AAST Advanced Architecture Settimo Tokyo Biennale

FADarch was invited to exhibt work in the 2009-2011 Advanced Architecture Settimo Tokyo Biennale.

The Rause Hill Natatorium Project will be exhibited from 7 April to 17 May 2009 in Turin, Italy.

The House of Arts and Architecture Association CASARTARC settled in Settimo Torinese, Turin, is developing a project called ‘Advanced Architecture Settimo Tokyo’ (AAST), a group of Generative Architecture events: workshops, a two days conference and an exhibition with venues in Settimo & Tokyo and possibly Cagliari & London.

The events of AAST focus on the approach to design through parametric design tools, such as Rhinoscript, Grasshopper, Mel script, DP, GC.

The first stage of the exhibition will run from 7 April to 17 May 2009 in Turin, Italy. The opening conference for the exhibition will be made by Patrik Schumacher (partner at Zaha Hadid Architects). The exhibition will travel to Tokyo, Japan in May 2010.

Project team:

FADarchitecture (Francis Anthony Bitonti)

BOTH (Brian Osborn)

Severn Clay Studio (Severn Clay-Youman)

The following video will be among the materials shown at the exhibition.

OPENING NIGHT: Future.city.Past>FORWARD Exhibition

Last night I attended the opening reception for the Future.city.Past>FORWARD Exhibition at the d3 gallery.

These are some images and photographs of the submission from FADarch (Francis A. Bitonti)

Crawler_Urbanism

DEFINE: Web Crawler:::: “a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, and worms or Web spider, Web robot.”