a r c h i t e x t u r e z
an online community for hacking
and cracking the architectural code
http://www.architexturez.com/
newly redesigned, the architexturez
project website catalogues architectural
research and theoretical texts about the
built environment, online the internet.
following is a sample of the site's content:
{computer icon} the *architectural texts*
section currently has /research/ in the
following categories:
[aesthetics] [a-life] [anthropology] [archaeology]
[artificial intelligence] [building code] [cad]
[cartography] [complexity] [computing] [construction]
[criticism] [cyberplanning] [cyberspace] [deconstructivism]
[design] [disney] [electricity] [energy] [ethnography]
[gated communities] [geometry] [historiography] [humanity]
[identity] [information architecture] [infrastructure]
[interface] [landscape] [language] [las vegas] [malls]
[mathematics] [media] [modernism] [music] [nurbanism]
[organicism] [pedagogy] [philosophy] [photography]
[planning] [politics] [post-modernism] [practice]
[preservation] [psychology] [representation] [research]
[security] [space settlement] [space-time] [style]
[superstars] [sustainability] [theme parks] [typology]
[virtual archaeology] [virtual reality]
--> if you have written a text related to architecture,
in the broadest sense of the word, and it's on the
internet, please send the url to [log in to unmask]
{people icon} the *researchers & publishers* section
seeks to catalogue /researchers/ of architecture,
be they media archaeologists, critics, writers,
or laypeople with a desire to decode and recode
the built environment. please submit your contact
information to the network. also, /publishers/ of
architectural texts are listed to help those
researchers seeking venues for publication.
{eye icon} the *architexturez perspectives* section
provides a platform for writers to share their
architectural /perspectives/ in essays. feedback
for is provided via an /evocations/ form.
{nodes icon} the *architectural hyperlinks* section
compiles a wide-range of internet resources related
to architectural theory and research.
...
about the new aesthetic: the clich'e of architecture
as a manipulation and combination of materials has
been exploited by placing freely available textures
of various materials such as wood, metal, marble, and
concrete in complex and contradictory relations with
one another. these architectural signs simultaneously
simulate and represent materiality, online and off.
this dichotomy is demonstrated in the /research/
section, where traditional areas of architectural
thought are placed upon a marble background, while
new fields of architectural exploration based upon
knowledge of electricity is located on a background
of a lightning storm. it is the specific interest of
architexturez to interrogate this relationship between
these two orders of architecture, actual and virtual.
the interface also reflects a strategy of information
archaeology, whereby (the signs of architecture and)
pre-existing architectural content on the internet is
gathered as an open-source architectural code, along-
side the architectural building of new content.
...
the architexturez project is a not-for-profit endeavor...
your support and partnership are necessary to keep it living.
...
become an architectural programmer, and
hack and crack the architectural code...
http://www.architexturez.com/
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