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- Philip F.Yuan & Neil Leach. “Fabricating the future”. 2012

- Roland Snooks & Neil Leach. “Swarm Intelligence, Architectures of Multiagents Systems”. 2006

- Philip F.Yuan & Neil Leach. “Scripting in architecture”. 2012

-Neil Leach. “Digital Cities”. 2012

Swarm Urbanism

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Neil Leach - Roland Snooks, 2012
“Introduction Swarm Intelligence”

How architecture should be

related to swarm intelligence?
Emergence

#2
Interview John Holland, 2012
“Excavating emergence”

What is emergence?
Agents

#3
M.Delanda, 2012
“Multi-agent systems”

What is an agent?
 Minirobots, IaaC OTF

#4
Marco Dorigo, 2014
“Swarms of self-assambling robots”

Swarm-bots: self-assembling robot swarms for

architecture?
 Swarm Urbanism

#5
Neil Leach, 2012
“Swarm Urbanism”

Which is the advantadge of a genuively

swarm emergent system?
Massive solar panels

#6
Kokkugia, 2012
“Behavioral Matter”

How to disolve matter hierarchies?

 Guvenç Ozel

#7
Benjamin Bratton, 2012
“Swarm what? Notes on the
imagining of aggregation”

What is swarm intelligence for a designer?

 Cell Processes

#8
Guy Theraulaz, 2012
“Stigmergic building algorithms for
smart architecture”

What does it mean

self-organisation?
 Composite material

#9
G.Lynn,2012
“From Tectonics (Mechanical Attachment)
to Composites (Chemical Fusion)”

How to build architecture through

the notion of chemical fusion?
 An evolutionary architecture

#10
Robert Stuart-Smith, 2012
“A Matter of Organization: Re-emphasizing
Organization”

Organization vs Self-organization
HOW TO WRITE?
Abstract
Position
Debate
State of the art
Footpage
Resources of figures
Bibliography
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What is an abstract?

- Title + Subtitle

- Brief, pertinent and comprehensive resume (100-150 words)

- Objective representation of the content of the document

- Last point to write

- Extremely important: is the gate to the article

- Separate category: Key words

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What is an index?

- List of contents

- Representative chaper names

- Number of page
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What is a position?

- DESCRIPTION (episteme): Unerring and rational affirmation

- OPINION (doxa): Verosimil and personal consideration

- POSITION (krinein) : Reasonable and argumented criterion

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What is a debate?

- Topic that generates dissent

- Contemporaneous relevance

- Rooted or not in the tradition

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What is a state of the art?

- Research on the existing bibligraphy & projects on the debate

- Grouping of the different contributions in streams

- Evaluation of the these streams

- Proposal of a space to occupy

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Footpage

- Foodnotes: Additional information of interest that breaks the fluidity of the text (30-100words)

- Quotes: Origine of the document

- Reference: Part of the refered document.

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Resources of figures

- Number of figure

- Author

- Short Description (10-30 words)

- Example:
Figure 38: The top view and section of Brunswick Center Redevelopment, Patrick Hodgkinson.
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References

- Magazines, Books, Papers, Interviews

- Lectures, Talks, Interviews

- Example:
- Riegl, Alois. 1901. “The Main Characteristics of the Late Roman Kunstwollen.” Methodological Foundations. USA:The MIT Press
- Hertzbeger, Herman. 2015. Architecture and Structuralism: the ordering of space. Rotterdam : Nai010 publishers
- Hilberseimer, Ludwig. 1949. “The Art of Architecture”. In the Shadow of Mies (1988): 94-99.
- Hilberseimer, Ludwig. 1923. “The Will to Architecture”. Das Kunstblatt 7 (1923): 133-140.
- Köhler, Daniel. 2016. The Mereological City: A reading of works of Ludwig Hilberseimer. Germany: Transcript Verlag.
- Köhler, Daniel. 2017. “Large City Architecture: the mereological mode of the quantified city.” International
Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (2017).
- Banham, Reyner. 1976. Megastructure: Urban futures of the recent past. London:Thames and Hudson Ltd.
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To be avoided

- In my opinion... / I think that... / From my point of view... / Personally... / For me...

- Long sentences (< 45 words)

- Long quotes (< 60 words)

POSITIONS vs CHRONICLES
How do you position your project in the
contemporary architectural panorama?
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5.000 - 10.000 WORDS

0.- ABSTRACT
1.- INTRODUCTION > Debate
2.- STATE OF THE ART > Research
3.- CASE STUDY > Project
4.- EVALUATION > Impact
5.- CONCLUSION > Reflection
6.- APPENDIX > Bibliography