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Design using function, behaviour, structure
Last month, at the Architectural Association, Bill Hillier described how English Heritage often want to reinstate the paths and roads of the historic sites they are trying to preserve. Hillier argued that these sites need new pathways as the way … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour, bill hillier, campbell, Design, english heritage, function, jung, space syntax, structural monitoring, structure
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Using patterns to shape our world
In the 1990s, Erich Gamma changed the way I thought about software engineering forever! Gamma visited the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne where I was a PhD student, in order to give a seminar on design patterns. The idea of … Continue reading
Stalkers in space and Facebook in your face
I created my first webpage in 1995, which has since disappeared forever as even www.archive.org thinks it’s too old to store. Fingers poised over my keyboard, I felt shy about what to write. Eventually, I restricted myself to my research … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour, facebook, flickr, Musings, social networking, stalkers, virtual communities, web 2.0
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