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The Making of The New Open Project
Georg Vrachliotis
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Jaap Bakema, John Habraken, Open Building, Theodoor Karel van Lohuizen, The New Open Minds Conference, TU Delft, POWER exhibition, museum, Launching a New Magazine, The New Open, Jan Duiker, Georg Vrachliotis, essay, dutch

A brief history of how it all began, the research idea, the questions we explored, and how a utopian thought became a magazine.
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The Making of The New Open Project
Georg Vrachliotis
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Jaap Bakema, John Habraken, Open Building, Theodoor Karel van Lohuizen, The New Open Minds Conference, TU Delft, POWER exhibition, museum, Launching a New Magazine, The New Open, Jan Duiker, Georg Vrachliotis, essay, dutch
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The Making of The New Open Project
Georg Vrachliotis
Jaap Bakema, John Habraken, Open Building, Theodoor Karel van Lohuizen, The New Open Minds Conference, TU Delft, POWER exhibition, museum, Launching a New Magazine, The New Open, Jan Duiker, Georg Vrachliotis, essay, dutch
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From Darwin to GPS. Seeing the Invisible
Angela Rout
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Charles Darwin, GPS, The Power of Movement in Plants, data visualisation, plants, Plant Movement to Human Movement, Living Data Studies, Angela Rout, essay,

From Darwin’s meticulous plant diagrams to GPS traces of urban life, Angela Rout explores how data makes the invisible visible, and how “living data” can help designers better understand the subtle ecosystems within buildings.
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From Darwin to GPS. Seeing the Invisible
Angela Rout
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Charles Darwin, GPS, The Power of Movement in Plants, data visualisation, plants, Plant Movement to Human Movement, Living Data Studies, Angela Rout, essay,
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From Darwin to GPS. Seeing the Invisible
Angela Rout
Charles Darwin, GPS, The Power of Movement in Plants, data visualisation, plants, Plant Movement to Human Movement, Living Data Studies, Angela Rout, essay,
03
Looking Through Data to See the Traces
A conversation with Dietmar Offenhuber, Northeastern University
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Dietmar Offenhuber, Autographic Design, self-inscribing data, GPS, Javier de Balmis, data ethnographer, Angela Rout, Kamel Makhloufi, Rob Kitchin, material artefact, Reservoirs of Venice, Orkan Telhan, Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec, Dear Data Project, openness, privacy, ethical, data literacy, AI, KI,

Media artist Dietmar Offenhuber on reading data like a trace, not a truth, why ambiguity matters, how design reveals hidden dimensions, and what it means to think with data instead about it.
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Looking Through Data to See the Traces
A conversation with Dietmar Offenhuber, Northeastern University
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Dietmar Offenhuber, Autographic Design, self-inscribing data, GPS, Javier de Balmis, data ethnographer, Angela Rout, Kamel Makhloufi, Rob Kitchin, material artefact, Reservoirs of Venice, Orkan Telhan, Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec, Dear Data Project, openness, privacy, ethical, data literacy, AI, KI,
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Looking Through Data to See the Traces
A conversation with Dietmar Offenhuber, Northeastern University
Dietmar Offenhuber, Autographic Design, self-inscribing data, GPS, Javier de Balmis, data ethnographer, Angela Rout, Kamel Makhloufi, Rob Kitchin, material artefact, Reservoirs of Venice, Orkan Telhan, Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec, Dear Data Project, openness, privacy, ethical, data literacy, AI, KI,
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Mixing Data Like a Master Chef
A conversation with Seul Lee, Snøhetta
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Seul Lee, landscape architecture, Snøhetta, SRTM data, water flows, topography, hydrological, GIS, future, Collecting and processing data, urban, climate, Angela Rout

Landscape architect Seul Lee on why using open data is like cooking from scratch, and how GIS, intuition, and collaboration shape the future of landscape architecture.
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Mixing Data Like a Master Chef
A conversation with Seul Lee, Snøhetta
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Seul Lee, landscape architecture, Snøhetta, SRTM data, water flows, topography, hydrological, GIS, future, Collecting and processing data, urban, climate, Angela Rout
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Mixing Data Like a Master Chef
A conversation with Seul Lee, Snøhetta
Seul Lee, landscape architecture, Snøhetta, SRTM data, water flows, topography, hydrological, GIS, future, Collecting and processing data, urban, climate, Angela Rout
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Tracing Sites Across Space and Time
A Book Review by Lilli Selcho
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Terra Forma, Lilly Selcho, Book, review, map, maps, Frédérique Aït-Touati, Alexandra Arènes, and Axelle Grégoire,

Terra Forma unsettles the map, inviting us to see the earth as layered, living, and in flux. A review of speculative cartographies and new ways of sensing site, time, and design.
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Tracing Sites Across Space and Time
A Book Review by Lilli Selcho
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Terra Forma, Lilly Selcho, Book, review, map, maps, Frédérique Aït-Touati, Alexandra Arènes, and Axelle Grégoire,
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Tracing Sites Across Space and Time
A Book Review by Lilli Selcho
Terra Forma, Lilly Selcho, Book, review, map, maps, Frédérique Aït-Touati, Alexandra Arènes, and Axelle Grégoire,
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Design Intelligence as a Mechanical Process
A conversation with Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich
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Architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, Claudia Ludovico and Tom Kobayashi, machines as co-designers, risks of offloading decisions to AI, public-machine collaboration, Nicholas Negroponte, Chat-GPT, prompt, KI, RIBB3D, architecture, ETH Zurich, COMPAS XR, 3D models and VR, rethinking machines as co-designers, risk

Architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler speak with TU Delft students Claudia Ludovico and Tom Kobayashi about rethinking machines as co-designers, and the risks of offloading decisions to AI.
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Design Intelligence as a Mechanical Process
A conversation with Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich
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Architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, Claudia Ludovico and Tom Kobayashi, machines as co-designers, risks of offloading decisions to AI, public-machine collaboration, Nicholas Negroponte, Chat-GPT, prompt, KI, RIBB3D, architecture, ETH Zurich, COMPAS XR, 3D models and VR, rethinking machines as co-designers, risk
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Design Intelligence as a Mechanical Process
A conversation with Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich
Architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, Claudia Ludovico and Tom Kobayashi, machines as co-designers, risks of offloading decisions to AI, public-machine collaboration, Nicholas Negroponte, Chat-GPT, prompt, KI, RIBB3D, architecture, ETH Zurich, COMPAS XR, 3D models and VR, rethinking machines as co-designers, risk
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Koolhaas. Journalism, Architecture, and the Power of Information
Antonio Cantero
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Rem Koolhaas, architecture, treated data as cultural, not computational, Harry Mulisch, Haagse Post, Antonio Cantero, power of inofrmation, journalism, Interviews, newspaper, generative,

Before Rem Koolhaas designed buildings, he designed narratives. This essay explores how his early journalism turned interviews into architecture, treated data as cultural, not computational.
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Koolhaas. Journalism, Architecture, and the Power of Information
Antonio Cantero
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Rem Koolhaas, architecture, treated data as cultural, not computational, Harry Mulisch, Haagse Post, Antonio Cantero, power of inofrmation, journalism, Interviews, newspaper, generative,
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Koolhaas. Journalism, Architecture, and the Power of Information
Antonio Cantero
Rem Koolhaas, architecture, treated data as cultural, not computational, Harry Mulisch, Haagse Post, Antonio Cantero, power of inofrmation, journalism, Interviews, newspaper, generative,
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From Monasteries to Machine Intelligence: Refining Architectural Data
Georg Vrachliotis
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Georg Vrachliotis, essay, Architectural Data, Monasteries, Machine Intelligence, scriptoria, AI, knowledge, monasteries, Abbey, Scriptoriums, Mainframes, 19th century, Data Refinement, Rediscovery, design, architects, computer scientists, and media and science historians, history,

From medieval scriptoria to machine intelligence, this essay explores how the ancient art of refinement shapes today's architectural data, revealing that designing with information is as much about rediscovery as it is about precision.
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From Monasteries to Machine Intelligence: Refining Architectural Data
Georg Vrachliotis
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Georg Vrachliotis, essay, Architectural Data, Monasteries, Machine Intelligence, scriptoria, AI, knowledge, monasteries, Abbey, Scriptoriums, Mainframes, 19th century, Data Refinement, Rediscovery, design, architects, computer scientists, and media and science historians, history,
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From Monasteries to Machine Intelligence: Refining Architectural Data
Georg Vrachliotis
Georg Vrachliotis, essay, Architectural Data, Monasteries, Machine Intelligence, scriptoria, AI, knowledge, monasteries, Abbey, Scriptoriums, Mainframes, 19th century, Data Refinement, Rediscovery, design, architects, computer scientists, and media and science historians, history,
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Invisible Correlations: Process Design Through Machine Interpretation
A conversation with Roberto Bottazzi, The Bartlett, UCL
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Architect Roberto Bottazzi, Kaan Özdemir, designing through data, architectural, age of AI, urbanism, data, architecture, The Bartlett, UCL, i486, AutoCAD, Digital Architecture Beyond Computers, computational design, creative, knowledge, machine learning

Architect Roberto Bottazzi speaks with TU Delft student Kaan Özdemir about designing through data and how architectural thinking must evolve in the age of AI.
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Invisible Correlations: Process Design Through Machine Interpretation
A conversation with Roberto Bottazzi, The Bartlett, UCL
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Architect Roberto Bottazzi, Kaan Özdemir, designing through data, architectural, age of AI, urbanism, data, architecture, The Bartlett, UCL, i486, AutoCAD, Digital Architecture Beyond Computers, computational design, creative, knowledge, machine learning
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Invisible Correlations: Process Design Through Machine Interpretation
A conversation with Roberto Bottazzi, The Bartlett, UCL
Architect Roberto Bottazzi, Kaan Özdemir, designing through data, architectural, age of AI, urbanism, data, architecture, The Bartlett, UCL, i486, AutoCAD, Digital Architecture Beyond Computers, computational design, creative, knowledge, machine learning
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The Urgency of Openness in Design
A conversation with Bryan Boyer, University of Michigan
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Urban technologist Bryan Boyer, openness, design value, architecture school, community, urban technology, Angela Rout, social media, Helsinki Design Lab, online, social housing, humanity, People Party, census, US, ethnography, University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Urban technologist Bryan Boyer on why openness is a design value, how architecture schools need to rethink the user, and why building a community is as much a design act as building a city.
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The Urgency of Openness in Design
A conversation with Bryan Boyer, University of Michigan
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Urban technologist Bryan Boyer, openness, design value, architecture school, community, urban technology, Angela Rout, social media, Helsinki Design Lab, online, social housing, humanity, People Party, census, US, ethnography, University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
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The Urgency of Openness in Design
A conversation with Bryan Boyer, University of Michigan
Urban technologist Bryan Boyer, openness, design value, architecture school, community, urban technology, Angela Rout, social media, Helsinki Design Lab, online, social housing, humanity, People Party, census, US, ethnography, University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
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The Bouwcentrum Rotterdam as a historical compass
A conversation with Georg Vrachliotis, TU Delft
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Georg Vrachliotis and Angela Rout on architecture as display, postwar statistics, and the politics of building knowledge for the public, Bouwcentrum Rotterdam, historical, Netherlands, history, Efficiency in data sorting, curate, Jaap Bakema, Jo van den Broek, open society, personal computer, Jan van Ettinger, statistics, ISOTYPE, culture,

Georg Vrachliotis and Angela Rout on architecture as display, postwar statistics, and the politics of building knowledge for the public.
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The Bouwcentrum Rotterdam as a historical compass
A conversation with Georg Vrachliotis, TU Delft
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Georg Vrachliotis and Angela Rout on architecture as display, postwar statistics, and the politics of building knowledge for the public, Bouwcentrum Rotterdam, historical, Netherlands, history, Efficiency in data sorting, curate, Jaap Bakema, Jo van den Broek, open society, personal computer, Jan van Ettinger, statistics, ISOTYPE, culture,
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The Bouwcentrum Rotterdam as a historical compass
A conversation with Georg Vrachliotis, TU Delft
Georg Vrachliotis and Angela Rout on architecture as display, postwar statistics, and the politics of building knowledge for the public, Bouwcentrum Rotterdam, historical, Netherlands, history, Efficiency in data sorting, curate, Jaap Bakema, Jo van den Broek, open society, personal computer, Jan van Ettinger, statistics, ISOTYPE, culture,
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What cannot be modelled?
A conversation with Theodora Vardouli, McGill University
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Architecture historian Theodora Vardouli and Angela Rout, ambiguity, architectural representation, computation reaches, limits, Christopher Alexander, development, history, complexity, design, infrastructure, empowerment, participatory, Yona Friedman, optimization, building, openness, modelling, data-driven, John Habraken, DALL-E, Midjourney, ChatGPT, consequence, architects, mathmatics

Architecture historian Theodora Vardouli and Angela Rout on the beauty of ambiguity, the politics of architectural representation, and where computation reaches its limits.
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What cannot be modelled?
A conversation with Theodora Vardouli, McGill University
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Architecture historian Theodora Vardouli and Angela Rout, ambiguity, architectural representation, computation reaches, limits, Christopher Alexander, development, history, complexity, design, infrastructure, empowerment, participatory, Yona Friedman, optimization, building, openness, modelling, data-driven, John Habraken, DALL-E, Midjourney, ChatGPT, consequence, architects, mathmatics
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What cannot be modelled?
A conversation with Theodora Vardouli, McGill University
Architecture historian Theodora Vardouli and Angela Rout, ambiguity, architectural representation, computation reaches, limits, Christopher Alexander, development, history, complexity, design, infrastructure, empowerment, participatory, Yona Friedman, optimization, building, openness, modelling, data-driven, John Habraken, DALL-E, Midjourney, ChatGPT, consequence, architects, mathmatics
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