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Processes( )Systems, Transdisciplinary

The Identity of a Place: Place-Based Interventions Between Land and Society

January 11, 2024

A few weeks ago, I responded to a call issued by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their Multidisciplinary Research Project. This initiative seeks to promote ‘new modes for collective research.’[1] In its sixth edition, the program proposed the theme In the Hurricane, On the Land, inviting participants to explore the…

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Metaphysics, Processes( )Systems

On the Structure of Reality

September 5, 2020

“… static patterns of value are divided into four systems: inorganic patterns, biological patterns, social patterns and intellectual patterns. They are exhaustive. That’s all there are. If you construct an encyclopedia of four topics – Inorganic, Biological, Social and Intellectual — nothing is left out. No ‘thing’, that is. Only Dynamic Quality, which cannot be described in any encyclopedia, is…

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Processes( )Systems

Same Space, Different Place

June 16, 2020

The recent spread of a new biological menace — the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) — has completely changed the appearance of our cities for months: during the lockdown period, the virus that caused the Coronavirus Disease 2019, or COVID-19, literally transformed the familiar places we were used to, into ghost territories. Image 1: Places are…

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Books, Philosophy of Nature

The Place of Processes: Nature and Life

June 16, 2020

In October 1933 the British philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead delivered two lectures at the University of Chicago, which were published as ‘Nature and Life’, the following year.[1] The content of those two lectures, now in the public domain, is available on the Internet Archive. What follows is the integral transcription of the second lecture. Whitehead’s arguments, in this…

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Ecoarchitecture

Architecture as Place of Sustainability

June 16, 2020

The argument I am introducing here stems from my initial inquiry into the relationship between architecture and the concept of environmental sustainability—an issue I began working on in the latter part of the first decade of the new century. The first draft of this document dates back to late 2012, conceived as the architectural continuation of a broader inquiry into…

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