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A persuasive framework for the digital that has ontological implications is being developed by Benjamin Bratton in San Diego. Bratton’s (2014) concern with the geopolitics of planetary-scale computation leads him to posit the existence of an “accidental megastructure,” the Stack.
Arturo Escobar • Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
Tony taught us that structure was architecture. Most enduringly good modern buildings of the past fifty years, like the Pompidou Centre in Paris or the Lloyd’s building in London, as well as medieval cathedrals and ancient designs like the Pantheon in Rome, are defined by the structure that holds them up rather than by cladding or style.
James Dyson • Invention: A Life
Peter Andersson,
Fredrik Backman • Beartown: A Novel (Beartown Series)
distributed structures scale best of all.
Robin Chase • Peers Inc
seeing it as an inspiration for architecture that would be both more sensual and more geometrically complex than the conventional modernist box.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
The self-organization of production toward profit (rent) maximization around the central market results in a heterogeneous pattern of land uses!
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Bernard Rudofsky’s Streets for People;