Network Practices
Anthony Burke and Therese Tierney, editors
Network Practices New Strategies in Architecture and Design
Princeton Architectural Press, New York www.papress.com
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Table of Contents Preface 25
Anthony Burke and Therese Tierney
The Architectural Brain 30
Mark Wigley
Redefining Network Paradigms 54
Anthony Burke
Biological Networks: On Neurons, Cellular Automata, and Relational Architectures 78
Therese Tierney
Scalar Networks, Super Creeps: Approaching the Non-Standard in the Architecture of Servo 100
Christopher Hight
Stop Motion Studies 116
David Crawford
Material Agency 120
Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser
The Dom-in(f)o House 132
Dagmar Richter
From Data to Its Organizing Structure 144
George Legrady
Beyond Code 166
C. E. B. Reas
Climbing through Complexity Ceilings 178
Peter J. Bentley
Multi-National City: Inside Outsourcing 198
Reinhold Martin
Intelligence After Theory 212
Michael Speaks
218
Acknowledgments
220
Image Credits
222
Contributor Biographies
A short visual introduction to Network Practices:
from: The Architectural Brain see p. 51
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from: The Architectural Brain see p. 51
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from: Redefining Network Paradigms see p. 69
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from: Redefining Network Paradigms see p. 64-65
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from: Biological Networks: On Neurons, Cellular Automata, and Relational Architectures see p. 91
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from: Biological Networks: On Neurons, Cellular Automata, and Relational Architectures see p. 95
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from: Scalar Networks, Super Creeps: Approaching the Non-Standard in the Architecture of Servo see p. 111
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from: Stop Motion Studies see p. 117
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from: Material Agency see p. 127
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from: The Dom-in(f)o House see p. 137
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from: From Data to Its Organizing Structure see p. 156-157
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from: From Data to Its Organizing Structure see p. 163
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