Week 1 (Mash up)

Valley of Wu Long Tian Long,  China

Cryengine

Mash up

We are sometimes eager to celebrate the influence of our surroundings. To make architecture is to attempt to establish order in the midst of an unstable and ceaselessly changing social and natural world.

Evolution has a place in structural design, as in any field. New techniques emerge, entailing the belief that nature could be conquered through technological innovation.

Architecture is perplexing, too, in its capacity to generate how one can attain some degree of freedom with connection to nature.

"It is absolutely useful for them to be aware of such things to take advantage of the flexibility and precision inherent in technology to create artificial environments. If one room can alter how we feel, They have been part of that evolution, taking back our closeness to nature.

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Maher, M 2008, Strength Design Method Gains Foothold in Structural Engineering, University of Wisconsin System, viewed 12 May 2013, http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/AEC_Articles/15_Strength_Design.lasso

Basulto, D 2013, 2013 Pritzker Prize Ceremony, Toyo Ito, ArchDaily, viewed 12 May 2013, http://www.archdaily.com/380366/2013-pritzker-prize-ceremony-toyo-ito/#more-380366