Submitted by Ivan Redi on Tue, 2006-08-29 17:24.
Dictionary of architectural code (to be edited and expanded):
A - advanced architecture - is an architecture positively bound to change: with events and the temporal and evolutionary dimension of processes.
B - Biodiversity - We can design by saving energy, when we rediscover within fixed parameters a conjoint of new and changing possibilities.
C - Collaborative Design Game - is a method of improving the speed and quality of the design process based on parallel processing of the knowledge of all disciplines involved from the very first stages of the design, according to a game structure.
D - Distributed Intelligence - The growing reliance of system connections on functional, rather than physical, proximity of their elements will dramatically transform the notions of personhood and identity and create a new community of distributed infomorphs - advanced informational entities.
E - Extended Body - Electronic space is a medium of action rather than information, thus giving us the opportunity of developing full physical engagement with the global environment. Deep ecology due to technology.
F - File-to-Factory (F2F) - procedures facilitate the transfer of complex digital design information to computer driven material production and manufacturing, setting new standards that overcome the repetitive modalities of modernism.
G - Generative Design Tools - involve the use of time-based and code-based software to avoid intentionality and produce unexpected, arbitrary and inexhaustible diversity. The generative process is controlled by the software, not by the designer.
H - Heterarchitecture - A new kind of architecture, conceived as a quantum object in which real space and virtual space are coherently superposed, thus obeying the rules of quantum mechanics rather than classical physics.
I - Immersive Virtual Environment - allows the user in a networked collaborative environment to work with the data set as though it occupied real space. The user has immediate and direct control of the process of segmentation and visualization.
J - Just do it - Just do it: come on, do it. But we take it further and The proposal is now more Difficult still: do it again.
K - Knowledge - Knowing nature of things in order to act upon the reality. This is how a city_upgrade starts.
L - Liquid Logic - runs at least two opposites at once, e.g. 1 and 0, thus enabling an open environment where both human creativity and supercool subatomic bits flourish.
M - Mass-customization - A peer-to-peer network of machines communicating with each other to produce an endless variety of different building elements, visually rich and complex, but still based on a set of simple rules. Now everything is different!
N - Network Practice - is an evolutionary mode of prototyping an architectural product formed by higher orders of information, provided both locally and globally.
O - Operative - A system or device capable of fostering combinatorial evolutionary developments based upon open logics.
P - Parametric Design - is based on a dynamic parametric 3D model. All elements are defined in the form of simplest formula possible. All relations between elements are described in its most compact form,leaving space for a maximum of future adjustments.
Q - Quantum Schizo - A state of the mankind development in which the medium is the architecture and myself means many selves - at least two: 1 and 0.
R - Responsive Architecture - The new kind of building is based on real-time behavior of programmable pro-active structures, adapting to the needs of dwellers.
S - Sprawling reality - No distinction between city, suburb and open land; no fixed organizational and conceptual structures that once established safe frameworks around us. Sprawl is the physical manifestation of modernity.
T - Translucency - The 20th century modernism gave us great transparent buildings. We now live in an era that demands translucency: the state that reveals the contours of sprawl beyond a screen of interpretation.
U - Ubiquitous Computing - New types of computers invisibly embedded into our everyday environment. Rather than explicitly being the "user" of a computer a human will implicitly profit from services running between computers without even taking notice: of them.
V - Virtual Working - : augments the common working environment by virtual 3D objects. This location independent work approach provides the basis for a collaborative real-time planning and presentation among several actors dispersed on sites across the country or around the globe.
W - World Wide Grid - is a hardware and software infrastructure that makes resources like computing power, data, software roducts, etc. accessible on demand at any place in the world. From the World Wide Web into the World Wide Grid.
X - XL - XL architecture is architecture, or architectural device, which multiplies X times.
Y - prefix of uncertain meaning, sometimes of perfective or intensifying force.
Z - Zoom - Zoom is a mechanism for enlarging and shrinking. Structures in mutual resonance and transference.