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Full Story »Telluric city planning or pure coincidence? Empire State Building sits on top of a hidden lake… http://t.co/bgAAGcEu via @BLDGBLOG
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Full Story »How Geniuses Think | The Creativity Post http://t.co/OCw2kz4C #quantumcity
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Full Story »Dr. Farid Younes, author of “The 21st Century Paradigm” at TEDxBeirut
I’ve discovered after googling Dr. Farid Younes, a great essay titled “The 21st Century Paradigm“: In fact, in the history of science development, there are three paradigmatic changes, in spite of debates about their names and dates of emergence: The Pre-Modern with Vitalism; The Modern with Mechanism (the Classic); The Post-Modern with Relativism and/or Systemism [...]
Full Story »Antonino Saggio Gets Model vs Metaphor in Quantum Urbanism
Antonino Saggio has written a great introduction to Kas Oosterhuis‘s recent book Towards a New Kind of Building: A Designers Guide for Non-Standard Architecture. He mentions Quantum City and puts his finger on one of the fundamental keys to understanding quantum urbanism: it allows for both model and metaphor to co-exist in a self-reflective theory: [...]
Full Story »TED: Aaron O’Connell puts a surfboard in two places at the same time
You hear a lot of talk about how quantum mechanics says that everything is all interconnected. Well, that’s not quite right; it’s more than that, it’s deeper. It’s that those connections, your connections to all the things around you,literally define who you are. And that’s the profound weirdness of quantum mechanics. //Aaron O’Connell
Full Story »Living in a Quantum World
Quantum mechanics is not just about teeny particles. It applies to things of all sizes: birds, plants, maybe even people
Full Story »Perfect Timing: Hyperbody releases iA#4: Quantum Architecture
Coinciding with the relaunch of quantumcity.com, our good friends Kas Oosterhuis, Han Feng, and Xin Xia at Hyperbody have just released the 4th issue of the iA bookzine, this one focusing on Quantum Architecture. I was very happy to contribute again to the series (after the iA1 interview), and my paper, entitled “Urbanism and Architectures [...]
Full Story »New quantumcity.com website up!
Hello everyone, I am excited to say that the after 9 years from launch, we finally managed to refresh the quantumcity.com website! In theory almost all the original content is still here, but better presented and easier to find. Beyond the usual Quantum City the book details, you will be able to (re)discover many articles [...]
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