Texas Tech University College of Architecture
Saturday, March 24, 2012
9:30 - 1:00 pm
First Floor Gallery in the College of Architecture
TOPOLOGICAL URBANISM
2012 Symposium
http://arch.ttu.edu/wiki/Urban_Symposium_2012
Participants:
John Hoal
of H3 Studio & Washington University in St. Louis
Lars Lerup
Albert K. and Harry K. Smith Professor of Rice University
Peter Zellner
of ZELLNERPLUS & Future Initiatives Program at SCI-Arc
Jeffrey S. Nesbit, Organizer + Moderator
of Haecceitas Studio & Texas Tech University
‘Topological thinking’ is a term used by Manual de Landa as a way to describe and interpret an understanding of differential geometry. Though for de Landa, this mathematical theory is used to investigate how our environments evolve through intensive differences, or rather determining rates of change within informational data. Within ‘Field Conditions’, Stan Allen describes object to field systematic responses. Allen explains that it is no longer about the ‘global’ rule sets for systems to operate as a ‘whole’, but more importantly it is controlling the clarity of ‘local’ part-to-part interactions. For urbanism, this provides opportunities to analyze and synthesize intensive phase transitions through identification of local interactions. What are the ways that we can organize our analytical evaluations of city development so that we can more successfully create an urban landscape that has the ability to generate ephemeral tissues from various scales and simultaneously constructing an inter-connected urban fabric? This symposium will explore how researchers and practitioners define new explorations and offer new implementations for our built environments with the acknowledgment of understanding these informational intensities of ‘local’ interactions in order to control ‘global’ outputs.
With questions, please contact Jeff.Nesbit@ttu.edu
