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Eliza Pertigkiozoglou
Eliza Pertigkiozoglou

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May 1, 2017

1960s

Allen Bernholtz at Harvard Graduate School of Design — Around 1965, Allen Bernholtz was professor of Architecture and Computer Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design, working also in collaboration with Harvard Center for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis. His methodology of analyzing and synthesizing design problems was aligned with Christopher Alexander’s approach, with whom they were in close…

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1960s
1960s
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Apr 30, 2017

1966

Michael Noll & Kenneth Knowlton — Bell Telephone Laboratories and Early Computer Graphics During the 1960s, creative research was conducted at Bell Telephone Laboratories, with a significant number of contributions in the area of computer graphics. Revisiting these early achievements is informative not only regarding the origins of current forms of digital image formats but also…

Design

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1966
1966
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Apr 14, 2017

1976

Architecture Machine Group MIT — Architecture by Yourself: An Experiment with Computer Graphics for House Design Between 1975 and 1977, the Architecture Machine Group(AMG) at MIT, was conducting a research project called “Architecture by Yourself: An Experiment with Computer Graphics for House Design”, headed by Nicholas Negroponte and Guy Weinzapfel. The research was in close…

Design

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1976
1976
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Apr 7, 2017

1976

Cedric Price & John Frazer — The Generator Project The Generator Project, conceived and designed by Cedric Price in 1976 and John Frazer as computational consultant, is mentioned in the bibliography as the first “intelligent” building that “ knew itself” and was readjusting to user’s desires, while was also capable to generate new solutions to trigger…

Design

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1976
1976
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Mar 10, 2017

1960s

Max Bense & Abraham Moles — Information Aesthetics Information Aesthetics was a short-lived but influential attempt to establish a mathematically rigorous aesthetic theory that is based on objectification of perception and effort to bridge philosophy, psychology, aesthetics, sciences, and art theory. Influenced by Wiener’s cybernetics, Shannon’s information and Communication theory and Birkoff’s semiotics, its main instigators…

Design

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1960s
1960s
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Mar 7, 2017

1960s

Christopher Alexander — Diagrams as Information Structures Background and Influences: Christopher Alexander, educated both as an architect and mathematician, was widely influential during 60’s -and still is- on discussions around design methodology and the use of computers in design, architecture and urbanism. Despite being a quite controversial and “lone” scholar, he was engaged…

Design

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1960s
1960s
Design

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Feb 20, 2017

1973

Nicholas Negroponte and Architecture Machine Group MIT — Urban 5 Nicholas Negroponte (1943) founded in 1967, together with Leon Groisser, the Architecture Machine Group (Arch Mac) at MIT, which later in 1985 transformed to MIT Media Lab. Negroponte’s vision was an architecture machine that would turn the design process into a dialogue, altering the traditional human-machine dynamics. His…

Design

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1973
1973
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Feb 19, 2017

1969

Gordon Pask “The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics” Cybernetics emerged in early 1940, during World War II, after a long prehistory spanning in many fields, and influenced new paradigms in design, architecture and arts. Cybernetics, officially named in 1948 by the American mathematician Norbert Wiener is a term difficult to articulate in a…

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1969
1969
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Eliza Pertigkiozoglou

Eliza Pertigkiozoglou

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Architect, Computational Designer, PhD student at McGill University

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