Armyofclerks.net Website Review

Army of clerks explores generative and algorithmic approaches in architecture and design. Its rationale is the investigation of a computed and a computing architecture, one performed through algorithms instead of represented through drawings and projections. Army of clerks seeks a new type of architectural aesthetics which are no longer grounded on the architects privileged point of view, but on the relentless accu*ulation of unintelligent calculations, mindless arithmetics performed by computational armies of clerks. Clients and partners, contacts for discussion, collaborations, research and commissions are welcomed at armyofclerks. Responsive Fields 2.   Developed by Pablo Miranda and Tobi Schneidler at Smart Studio RF2 exemplifies at the scale of the architectural model, the qualitative principles of spaces that adapt, evolve and learn over time, through the slow sedimentation and erosion of patterns of interaction. RF2 implements swarm-like algorithms similar to those in the Responsive Field of Lattice Archipelogics and Enactive Space. is a simple Genetic Algorithm applet that evolves architectural diagrams. It explores the qualities of design made by machines, devoid Algorithm of the responsive field.   A self-generating interactive space, collaboration between Smart 2003. Non Standard Architectures, Centre Pompidou. 2004. Glamour is an experiment that explores the relations between structure, matter and computation, by reproducing some of Gordon Pask's electrochemical Part of the work was developed as a workshop at the 'Complexity and Transformations' interdisciplinary research group. Dendrite was Self designed structures. The project explores the ideas and qualities of 'Machine Creativity' applied to the design of structures. The work was carried at the Interactive Institute, during the autumn of 2001. develops the idea of a space constructed from the interaction of subjective observers and an environment , through the use of the complex self-organising properties of swarms of digital agents.