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21 Sep 2009

my reading list

If you are going to stop smoking, the advice is to tell as many people of your intention. The reasoning going something along the lines of ‘if you tell a lot of people, and you fail, failure is embarrassing, so you put more effort into not failing’. Respect seems to be a powerful motivator!

I don’t smoke, but I do read, and I’m going to go all Philip Morris on some books by telling people of my intention to read more of them.

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21 September, 2009 at 14:50 by ben

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21 Sep 2009

screen shots

51qbDEk72uL._SS500_I got really bashed in the feedback for my degree dissertation about how ugly the cover was. [I don't have a photo, but I'll put one up when I do]

I saw this this morning, it looks like an interesting book, which I’ll read when I get a second (more on that later),  but it did remind me how disapointed that the most biting critique of my work was focused on the cover art.

I do feel a tiny bit vindicated that the same technique has made it onto the cover of a published book!

I’m going to start being a bit mercenary these days, and start putting an amazon associates link on here if I mention a book, if you buy it through this link, I get a tiny amount of money to feed my crack book habit.

21 September, 2009 at 9:21 by ben

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23 Jun 2009

Programming.Architecture

Paul Coates’ book is finally scheduled for release just after Christmas. It’s pretty exciting as it covers a lot of historical (i.e. mid to late 20th century) computational design topics. This might sound dull, but a lot of what I come across my students struggling with these days is stuff that people were struggling with 30 years ago, some of it was solved, and would lead to an easy fix, and some of it was proven (pretty much) to be impossible, leading to a painless kill of a dead end. Basically what I’m talking about is precedent, and most people think that computational design doesn’t have any, but in reality, some very smart people have been toiling for the last 40 years to solve a lot of these questions.

The book is a great introduction to a lot of the ‘grander’ ideas of computational design too, if you’ve ever wondered what ? syntax, universal Turing machines, or artificial neural networks are, then this will be a great help.
This should be required reading for anyone who thinks that computers have a bigger role to play in design than just checking your email.

You can pre order it from here
http://www.tandfbuiltenvironment.com/books/The-Programming-of-Architecture-isbn9780415451888

23 June, 2009 at 13:46 by ben

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20 Apr 2007

CA update

I’ve finally finished this Notes on the synthesis of form essay.

I think I might be as allergic to writing as I am to running!

the pdf is here

20 April, 2007 at 0:45 by ben

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12 Apr 2007

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

book cover, exciting isn't it!

I’m currently writing a piece about Christopher Alexander’s book Notes on the synthesis of form. I’ve read part one about 4 times now and it’s either warpign my brain, or he had a good point to start with because I’m starting to agree with a lot of what he says (part 2 is a differnt story)
I did a little presentation about it a while ago, it’s here if you want to have a look.

I’ll even post the essay when it’s done! Now don’t you feel lucky

12 April, 2007 at 15:42 by ben

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