The Gap in the Map
It was late November of 1948 when the ceasefire lines between Israel and Jordan were drawn. Two military commanders, Moshe Dayan and Abdullah al-Tal had a map on their hands to delineate the line with two markers: one green, the other red. The lines that emerged from the markers were wide enough to make it […]
Posted at 6:13 pm on February 1, 2017 | Leave a comment | Filed Under: Architecture, Books, cities, urbanism | Tagged: Borders, cities, Contributions, Politic, research, urbanism | Continue reading
‘SAM,’ Stafford Beer [1968]
*** “Patterns—rigid or chaotic—are the stuff of the universe … Therefore of both art and artifacts … The rigid patterns do not change at all. Wallpaper patterns, the triangle of the Sistine Madonna, the proportions of the Parthenon, the shape of a fugue— of a ballade— are like the pattern of an engine, of a […]
Posted at 5:13 pm on August 29, 2016 | Leave a comment | Filed Under: Architecture, Art, History, Science | Tagged: Augmented reality, clever bots, cognitive systems, Poetry, Stafford Beer | Continue reading
