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Research paper thumbnail of Norman Foster: Ecosophy of Systems

Norman Foster, Sustanaible Futures, ACCART Books - Centre Georges Pompidou , 2023

'Etymologically, the word "ecosophy" combines oikos and sophia, "household" and "wisdom". As in "... more 'Etymologically, the word "ecosophy" combines oikos and sophia, "household" and "wisdom". As in "ecology", "eco-" has an appreciably broader meaning than the immediate family, household, and community. "Earth household" is closer to the mark. So an ecosophy becomes a philosophical world-view or system inspired by the conditions of life in the ecosphere.' Arne Naess 1 When we think of the work of Norman Foster, it is his most spectacular projects that come to mind, the ones that seem to epitomise the image of a city, a region, or that, more simply, have changed the shape of a site or the configuration of a place. And the list is a long one. We are talking of an architect who has worked in most countries of the world and has undertaken a huge diversity of projects, most of which have impacted on the very structure of the urban fabric. Airports, transport networks, headquarters of international companies, public buildings, major works of art, urban development programmes, museums-Norman Foster has explored the whole complexity of industrial society through hundreds of projects, some only planned, some realised, in every part of the globe. He has constantly adapted the size and composition of his practice, founded in 1967, to the evolution of the world's economy, which had centred on the United States during the postwar period, but then opened up to China, Russia, India and South America. In the face of this globalised world, Norman Foster has developed a practice that has grown from its base in London to form a network of international offices that is better able to respond to multiple commissions. Unlike those large anonymous firms that produce equally anonymous projects all across the globe, and also unlike those architects whose names have almost become brands, Norman Foster has created a practice that has preserved its own identity as a global enterprise constantly open to new research and innovation. 'Foster + Partners is coming to resemble not so much any previous large architectural practice,' explains Deyan Sudjic, 'but more a cross between a leading school of architecture and a global research-based consultancy.' 2

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Research paper thumbnail of PAUL NELSON Dimensions de l'espace libre

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Research paper thumbnail of John Frazer . Le Generator Project - Un constructivisme Re-évolutionnaire

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Research paper thumbnail of SUPERSTUDIO On the Reasons of Architecture - On the Unreasons of Architecture

Superstudio Migrazioni, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of EILEEN GRAY. THE IMAGIST

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Research paper thumbnail of Tadao Ando. Embodiment : The Nature of Architecture

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Research paper thumbnail of Morphosis. Thom Mayne. Simplexity of Patterns

Morphosis. Strange networks. Rizzoli . , 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Corrélations. Les intelligences simulées

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Research paper thumbnail of THE ORDERS OF THE NON STANDARD

Rivka Oxman Theories of the Digital in Architecture Routledge 2013, 2013

Behind the title "Non Standard Architecture", the exhibition in 2003 recovered different goals, t... more Behind the title "Non Standard Architecture", the exhibition in 2003 recovered different goals, trying to change the critical dialogue with a traditional understanding of rationalism, ration-alisation, technicism, engeneering and to fi nd a most accurate apprehension of the mutation of the processus of conception and production of architecture imposed by the new homogeneity of the computation tools from "fi le to factory" on the other side. The generalisation of new softwares opened a generative domain, an algorithmic culture opened to the potentialities of complex morphogenesis and complex geometries. The fi rst level of interpretation came from the fi eld of the American neo-structuralism still infl uenced by the Italian scene of the seventies turned to a unilateral linguistic transcription of architecture in terms of typol-ogies and morphologies. The logicisation of the space defi ned by this neo-rationalism confronted a spatial hermeneutic where the algorithmic and the variation were assimilated as an ultimate state of the ontological difference. The dynamic fi eld of morpho-genesis was formalised through computation as an homogeneous geometric domain mathematically encoded. The quest of an ontological anchorage defi ned by ultimate spatial metaphors (space-ment, differance, chora, deterritorialisation, folds, diagrams. . .) preserved the idealistic notion of a genetic of forms. The Husserlian reduction was reifi ed in a translation of the variations in a suspended system of notations. N.S.A. tried to redefi ne the source of the morphogenesis and to refuse the logic of deconstruction muted in a generical economy of sequenciation. Through an approach of the emergence, the singularities were defi ned by their pure capacity of integration under a continuum (topologic) which opened a new economy of the manifold. In this way the multiplicities have a capacity of mutation where a contraction, a part, an element, supposed a complete mutation of the entire structure, including the geometry. Edmund Husserl tried to defi ne those "vague morphological entities" and the conditions of a singularisation (a thing, a form, an object. . .) apart from all the onto-theological interpretations as a dynamic of relations where the structure was not reduced to the system. This dynamic understanding of the morphogenesis imposed a naturalist genealogy of structuralism where a radical materialism is related to an absolute discretisation. The Husserlian distinction between formal and material, between a formal ontology working on the ultimate structures organising the reality and the division in sectors of different material ontologies (physics, biology. . .) opened the way to a radical logicisation of ontology. This transfi guration of the formal ontology as an algebra, this radical shift between physicalism and phenomenology, between the emergence of singularities and their mathematisation

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Research paper thumbnail of Coder le monde. Conjectures des langages formels

Coder le monde. Ed. Centre Georges Pompidou - HYX, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Pierre Paulin : Les variétés d'un organicisme

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Research paper thumbnail of Steven Holl : Proceedings of an elementary architecture

Steven Holl Birkhauser Verlag

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Research paper thumbnail of Ross Lovegrove Natures of a Synthetic Design

Ross Lovegrove Sieveking Publishers, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of DILLER & SCOFIDIO Tourisms of War. The extended Body: Chronicles of a day with no History

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Research paper thumbnail of La Strada Novissima. Destins du Postmoderne

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Research paper thumbnail of Les Convulsions du concept.pdf

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Research paper thumbnail of Why Philosopers draws? Une figure sans traits. La pensée sans façon

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Research paper thumbnail of L'identité élusive de l'architecture japonaise

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Research paper thumbnail of Norman Foster: Ecosophy of Systems

Norman Foster, Sustanaible Futures, ACCART Books - Centre Georges Pompidou , 2023

'Etymologically, the word "ecosophy" combines oikos and sophia, "household" and "wisdom". As in "... more 'Etymologically, the word "ecosophy" combines oikos and sophia, "household" and "wisdom". As in "ecology", "eco-" has an appreciably broader meaning than the immediate family, household, and community. "Earth household" is closer to the mark. So an ecosophy becomes a philosophical world-view or system inspired by the conditions of life in the ecosphere.' Arne Naess 1 When we think of the work of Norman Foster, it is his most spectacular projects that come to mind, the ones that seem to epitomise the image of a city, a region, or that, more simply, have changed the shape of a site or the configuration of a place. And the list is a long one. We are talking of an architect who has worked in most countries of the world and has undertaken a huge diversity of projects, most of which have impacted on the very structure of the urban fabric. Airports, transport networks, headquarters of international companies, public buildings, major works of art, urban development programmes, museums-Norman Foster has explored the whole complexity of industrial society through hundreds of projects, some only planned, some realised, in every part of the globe. He has constantly adapted the size and composition of his practice, founded in 1967, to the evolution of the world's economy, which had centred on the United States during the postwar period, but then opened up to China, Russia, India and South America. In the face of this globalised world, Norman Foster has developed a practice that has grown from its base in London to form a network of international offices that is better able to respond to multiple commissions. Unlike those large anonymous firms that produce equally anonymous projects all across the globe, and also unlike those architects whose names have almost become brands, Norman Foster has created a practice that has preserved its own identity as a global enterprise constantly open to new research and innovation. 'Foster + Partners is coming to resemble not so much any previous large architectural practice,' explains Deyan Sudjic, 'but more a cross between a leading school of architecture and a global research-based consultancy.' 2

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Research paper thumbnail of Expansions du Pneuma

Aerodream, Editions HYX, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of PAUL NELSON Dimensions de l'espace libre

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Research paper thumbnail of John Frazer . Le Generator Project - Un constructivisme Re-évolutionnaire

Le comportement des choses, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of SUPERSTUDIO On the Reasons of Architecture - On the Unreasons of Architecture

Superstudio Migrazioni, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of EILEEN GRAY. THE IMAGIST

Eileen GRAY. Bard Graduate Center, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Tadao Ando. Embodiment : The Nature of Architecture

Tadao Ando . Endeavours. Centre Pompidou, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Morphosis. Thom Mayne. Simplexity of Patterns

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Research paper thumbnail of Corrélations. Les intelligences simulées

Neurones. Les intelligences simulées, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of THE ORDERS OF THE NON STANDARD

Rivka Oxman Theories of the Digital in Architecture Routledge 2013, 2013

Behind the title "Non Standard Architecture", the exhibition in 2003 recovered different goals, t... more Behind the title "Non Standard Architecture", the exhibition in 2003 recovered different goals, trying to change the critical dialogue with a traditional understanding of rationalism, ration-alisation, technicism, engeneering and to fi nd a most accurate apprehension of the mutation of the processus of conception and production of architecture imposed by the new homogeneity of the computation tools from "fi le to factory" on the other side. The generalisation of new softwares opened a generative domain, an algorithmic culture opened to the potentialities of complex morphogenesis and complex geometries. The fi rst level of interpretation came from the fi eld of the American neo-structuralism still infl uenced by the Italian scene of the seventies turned to a unilateral linguistic transcription of architecture in terms of typol-ogies and morphologies. The logicisation of the space defi ned by this neo-rationalism confronted a spatial hermeneutic where the algorithmic and the variation were assimilated as an ultimate state of the ontological difference. The dynamic fi eld of morpho-genesis was formalised through computation as an homogeneous geometric domain mathematically encoded. The quest of an ontological anchorage defi ned by ultimate spatial metaphors (space-ment, differance, chora, deterritorialisation, folds, diagrams. . .) preserved the idealistic notion of a genetic of forms. The Husserlian reduction was reifi ed in a translation of the variations in a suspended system of notations. N.S.A. tried to redefi ne the source of the morphogenesis and to refuse the logic of deconstruction muted in a generical economy of sequenciation. Through an approach of the emergence, the singularities were defi ned by their pure capacity of integration under a continuum (topologic) which opened a new economy of the manifold. In this way the multiplicities have a capacity of mutation where a contraction, a part, an element, supposed a complete mutation of the entire structure, including the geometry. Edmund Husserl tried to defi ne those "vague morphological entities" and the conditions of a singularisation (a thing, a form, an object. . .) apart from all the onto-theological interpretations as a dynamic of relations where the structure was not reduced to the system. This dynamic understanding of the morphogenesis imposed a naturalist genealogy of structuralism where a radical materialism is related to an absolute discretisation. The Husserlian distinction between formal and material, between a formal ontology working on the ultimate structures organising the reality and the division in sectors of different material ontologies (physics, biology. . .) opened the way to a radical logicisation of ontology. This transfi guration of the formal ontology as an algebra, this radical shift between physicalism and phenomenology, between the emergence of singularities and their mathematisation

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Research paper thumbnail of Coder le monde. Conjectures des langages formels

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Research paper thumbnail of Ross Lovegrove Natures of a Synthetic Design

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Research paper thumbnail of DE STIJL. Néoplasticisme, Nieuwe Beelding, Neue Gestaltung: Configurations de l'élémentaire. Une architectonique des dimensions

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Research paper thumbnail of Dominique Perrault Edifications of a Mereography . Edifications d'une méréographie

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Research paper thumbnail of Naturalising Architecture . Naturaliser l'Architecture. Archilab

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Research paper thumbnail of Aldo Rossi. . La Tendenza, Italian Architectures 1965-1985. La Tendenza: Historical Backlash

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Research paper thumbnail of Bernard Tschumi Architecture Concept & Notation: Vectors of a Pro-Grammed Event . Vecteurs d'un évènement programmé

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Research paper thumbnail of SUPERSTUDIO On the Reasons of Architecture - On the Unreasons of Architecture

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Research paper thumbnail of ArchiLab Naturalizing Architecture

Naturalizing Architecture, ArchiLab 2013 , 2013

Contributions to the Naturalizing Architecture, ArchiLab 2013 catalog

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