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 Studio 5 Advanced Architecture StudioInstructor:
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John Von Neumann, the Hungarian-American mathematician who developed what is now know as the 'Von-Neumann Architecture', also toyed with the idea of machines that make machines in the early 1950s. Von Neumann wondered if a machine could make a machine more complex than itself since all existing machines manufacture machines that are much simpler than themselves. While Von Neumann was entertaining preliminary design, Stanislaw Ulam, a fellow mathematician at Los Alamos, suggested to Von Neumann that he construct an abstract universe for his analysis of machine reproduction. As a consequence, Von Neumann developed a world of animated logic diagrams on an infinite checker board, where each square cell could be in any of a number of states. A machine was a pattern of such organization of cells which finally developed into what we now recognized as cellular automaton -- a system that contained a complete description of its own organization.
The project for the studio was similar in spirit to Von Neumann's ambition with the exception that we attempted to develop a logic of self-reproduction for genetic architecture at various scalar and specification regimes of organization. This system was used to generate a housing complex to form a cohesive organ or organism of some kind -- call it a proto-species of genetic architecture.
Carlo Aiello
Chih-Weh Cheng
Janghwan Cheon
Hackjong Choi
Alex DeLooz
Koichi Endo
Jose Gonzalez
Michael Hansmeyer
Hansoo Kim
Konstantina Kostopoulou
Stephen Myers
Leopoldo Sguera
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