Articles tagged with: diagrams
Arakawa & Gins, project 4 »
Browsing the news at MOS we can find some indication of what happens when you make hairy architecture:
And, on that note, I urge you to read a review of the hairy installation by MOS architects, in which it is claimed this is “the first time hair has been convincingly employed in architecture. Not merely a simple novelty, the hairiness of the pavilion is distinctly unique enough to represent an entirely new category of material possibility.”
This review, by Trevor Patt on his blog, draws attention to some of the poignant …
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Here is an interesting ‘diagram’ I saw this morning in the local mag while waiting for my takeaway coffee. Its message is clear and effective and it seemed pertinent in relation to our recent diagramming exercises. By connecting a long history with a tangible life, the lump of wood became the tree that deserved more respect. I found this highly affecting at the time. Then as I walked away, feeling emotional about the tree, I realized that it had a powerful reverse effect as well: if the duration implied in …
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This HTML Graph applet converts any website into a graph. It generates an animated “growing” representation of the linear or nested relationships between different HTML tags within the website. Here is what liveness.org/plasticfutures looks like. Each time you reload the page the graph “grows” in a new configuation like plants or microbes in a petri dish (or a city?).
There is an explanation of how it works here including a number of images showing how the structures of different websites differ.


