Besides the site, I have been adding a few more scripts to my repertoire. This weekend I focused on creating a script that I have had in my head for a while, and would be extremely useful for some of the fabrication exercise that are to come soon. Here is the idea, and I am [...]
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I just stumbled onto something really exciting. In my newest (not the latest, see Study Materials) AD there is an article about John Maeda’s project over at PROCESSING.ORG. Processing is not software tools that you use in a package like Illustrator (although I do love Illustrator). This is totally cook your own tools using [...]
Cecil Balmond has some fantastic work in his books (A+U, Informal) regarding his use of fractals for a tiling pattern in a Liebskind project. This project uses an aperiodic fractal tiling pattern. An interesting lexicon here is that that the word “tiling” means not only the “physical laying of tiles” but is a mathematical term [...]
Controlling objects with planes:
object centroid would have to travel exactly between lines
object could stretch, or not
OR could stretch only in + direction so that when lines converge the shape is different
would need a threshold for stretching/resizing as it is copied
Guess it pays to ride the train.
Title: Digital Tectonics
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Title: Digital Tectonics
Asin: 0470857293
Comments: New favorite (I’m still reading it though). Features an all-star cast and is more focused than the ADs.
Title: 10 X 10 _ 2
Author: Editors of Phaidon Press
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Title: 10 X 10 _ 2
Asin: 0714844411
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Now that my research is up and running ahead full-steam, I added some internets-coolness to keep track of the resources I am using for the project. You will now find a link on the right to “Study Materials” with many thanks to the free wordpress plugin over at http://www.sozu.co.uk/ which not only makes some hot [...]
Course Syllabus
Benjamin Callam - Independent Study
“There reigns a great disagreement between the modern state of mind, which is an admonition to us, and the stifling accumulation of age-long detritus. The problem is one of adaptation in which the realities of our life are in question.”
- Le Corbusier, 1923
Faculty Advisor
Michael A. [...]
This site began as a means to document an independent study course that I created at the University of Maryland school of Architecture to document my interest in architecture related scripting. That specific course has concluded, but as I had hoped, that initial study provided me with the catalyst I needed to jump start an [...]