Systemic Architecture

<p>This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of self-organization.</p><p>Collecting together nearly a decade of design experiments by the authors and their practice ecoLogicStudio the book discusses key disciplinary definitions such as ecologic urbanism algorithmic architecture bottom-up or tactical design behavioural space and the boundary of the natural and the artificial realms within the city and architecture.</p><p>A new kind of real-time world-city is illustrated in the form of an operational design manual for the assemblage of proto-architectures the incubation of proto-gardens and the coding of proto-interfaces. These prototypes of machinic architecture materialize as synthetic hybrids embedded with biological life (proto-gardens) computational power behavioural responsiveness (cyber-gardens) spatial articulation (coMachines and fibrous structures) remote sensing (FUNclouds) and communication capabilities (Ecological Footprint Grotto).</p><p>Supporting the authors’ own essays and projects are contributions from key innovators in contemporary architecture and urban design: Michael Batty Andrew Hudson-Smith Michael Weinstock and Patrik Schumacher.</p>