architecture & complexity: systems architecture

A seminar on complexity and architecture involving Dr Sylvia Nagl

Published on 01/31/2009

architecture &: is a termly interdisciplinary seminar providing opportunities for researchers within the Bartlett School of Architecture – both staff and students – to initiate research conversations at various inderdisciplinary crossings. This one-day workshop will explore current issues concerning the new architectural design methodology Systems Architecture, which is the study of complexity within the discipline of the built environment that enables the convergence of the nano-bio-info-cogno technologies and extends from the macroscale flow of information to the microscale flow of the information to the microscale organization of building materials. Systems Architecture methodology takes the form of a scientific experiment with architectural outcomes and draws together architects and complexity scientists working with ‘wet’ technologies.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 2–8pm
Organisers: Rachel Armstrong, Neil Spiller, Ben Campkin, Jane Rendell

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