Nice art! Such intricacies.

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Inspiring!

Technology and its wonders!

Kinetic Aspects of a House

Vincent Scully on Louis Kahn

Genius

Elizabeth Gilbert said it's a lot of burden to call a person a genius. That act will take it's toll on his sanity. She said the better option would be to consider having a genius rather than being one. Well, if I have a genius, I haven't seen him for a long time. Calling on my genius, let's have coffee some time!

Being part of the solution.

"I am only one, but I am one." Oftentimes, we take for granted the power of one. More so, we neglect doing what has to be done because we think what we have to do is insignificant. The first stride is always the most difficult, but it has to be done!

10 Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate, by: Chris Goodall

1. Capturing the wind
2. Solar energy
3. Electricity from the oceans
4. Combined heat and power
5. Super-efficient homes
6. Electric cars
7. Motor fuels from cellulose
8. Capturing carbon
9. Biochar
10. Soil and forest

It makes good sense to read about these technologies. I'm picking
my brains out on schemes for super-efficient homes. Let's go!

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Ecology for Innovation: Knowledge Management for Architecture

The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry is a well known latecomer in reaping the benefits of Information Technology. As design professionals, architects should be in the front line of innovation and creativity. Often used interchangeably, their fundamental difference should be made clear. Creativity coupled with implementation will produce innovations. Only then will the benefits of creativity be reaped. New media technologies are flooding us with information. Ironically, we are drowning with information but lacking in knowledge. O’Dell and Grayson defined knowledge as information in action. The management guru, Peter F. Drucker, believed that knowledge is information that changes something or somebody, either by becoming grounds for action, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action. Information is knowing what, while knowledge is knowing how. According to the 2001 World Development Report, the global economy has become a service economy, thus, making it more knowledge intensive. This is the new arena that architects have to compete in. The traditional notion of economy as land, labor, capital is no longer applicable. We must gear up or be left out in the process. A collective response will benefit not only the UAP as our organization but the entire profession.

As media architects, we should aim to turn the future into an asset. We should do it rapidly, systematically, boldly, and openly. What we need is an innovative tool called future center. A future center is a facilitated organizational space dedicated to support an organization in its efforts to prepare systematically for the future and address it in a proactive way. Future centers nourish radical open innovation and complement other functions of the organization. The center provide the methodology, facilitation, expertise for identification, analysis of (very) long term threats, trends and opportunities which may be called "a future image". Off hand, the borderless practice of architecture initiated by the PRC through the BOA seemingly poses a threat to us as design professionals. But we have to weigh the threat against the benefits of open collaboration and knowledge transfers. In due time, the UAP will be a better learning organization.

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Design

According to Von Stamm, Design is the conscious decision-making process by which information (an idea)

is transformed into an outcome, be it tangible (product) or intangible (service). I agree. But when we travel to different
places and naturally get absorbed with its fabric, context, and culture,thus, augmenting our visual frame of reference, aren't 
we designing unconsciously?

A LIVESTRONG Day Event | LIVESTRONG Day 2010 | LIVESTRONG.org

A LIVESTRONG Day Event | LIVESTRONG Day 2010 | LIVESTRONG.org

podseven. evolution.

A pod is a seed vessel, a streamline enclosure. A seed as a noun is a germ, a source of anything. As a verb, a seed is to sow. Either way, a seed brings a lot of promise, potentials, opportunities. Seven just happened to be the perfect number.