INDEXES – PROLOGUE I– Part 1: OBJECTIVES Outlook, Reading, Interpretation

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INDEXES

– PROLOGUE

I– Part 1: OBJECTIVES

Outlook, Reading, Interpretation

1: SURVEYS: Initial Declarations, Ultimate Intentions: An Explorative Advance 1.1. Run-Up as Preface

1.2. Order and Form: Equivocal Terms 1.3. Open Logics

1.4. Transfers

1.5. Protologic and Protomoment

2: KEYS: Another Outlook, Another Interpretation. (Reading Layers, Onion Layers: Explorations vs. Chronicles) 2.1. Holisms: Slippery Universes

2.2. Transversalities. Grafts and Cross-Breeding

2.3. Mapping (as) Projections: Maps, Beacons, Codes and Keys 2.4. Layers of Reading, Like the Layers of an Onion. 2.5. Battle Maps

II– Part 2 SCENARIOS

Territory, City, Map

3: TERRITORIES: Metropolis > Metapolis, A Vibrating Territory 3.1. Geourban Mutations

3.2. <Res> Planning

3.3. Another Form, Another Place: The Outskirts as Myth

3.4. Dispersions, Discohesions, Disloca(lisa)tions: Into “Urban-territorial” Space 3.5. Infrastructures as “Arteries” (and “Articulations”)

3.6. Ruburbia: From the Container City to the Container Territory 3.7. Patchwork City: Scrap Culture. Sites and Intersites 3.8. Gasifications: Polynuclear, Polycentric, Multi-faceted 3.9. Ink Stains. Interactions and Self-Organizations 3.10. Matrix Evolution

3.11. Globalization / Glocalization

3.12. Metapolis: The Multi-Layered City or Multicity

3.13. Elastic Territories: Multi-Layered Cartographies: Maps and/as Projections 3.14. Dynamic Processes: Overlying or Linked Structures

4: RECORDS: Multi-Layered Cartographies; Maps and/as Projections 4.1. Ordinary / Extraordinary: Simultaneities and Slippages

4.2. Criss-crossing: Cohabitations and Discontinuities, Behaviors and Estrangements 4.3. Framework Conditions (F.C.)

4.4. Fictions

4.5. The Classical Observer – or Delineator

4.6. The Modern Spectator: from the Flâneur to the Planner 4.7. The Contemporary Explorer

4.8. Open Maps. Evolving Cartographies

III– Part 3: FORMULATIONS

Order, Form, Organization

Space-Time-Information

5: PROCESSES: Dynamic Trajectories, Open Patterns 5.1. Space-Time Structures

5.2. Deployments, Dissipations, Dispersions, Distributions and/as Dispositions 5.3. Rules and Logics. Polyconstructions

5.4. Mechanisms of Occupation and Distancing 5.5. Distributions, Occupations, Spontaneous Settlements 5.6. Projections: Predictions and Simulations 5.7. Spectrum Associations: Dynamic Simulations 5.8. Open Geometries and Fractality 5.9. Strange Attractors and Figures of Synthesis 5.10. Recurring Parameters (R.P.): Partial Summary 6: DISPOSITIONS (ORDER-FORM-ORGANIZATION): Dynamic Time, Informational Order: <In-Ex> Factors.

6.1. Reformulations: Space and Time > Space-Time > Space-Time-Information Order is not control, but rather the capacity for relationships

6.2. Deterministic Order

6.3. Dynamic Systems and Non-Linearity 6.4. Protocols and Patterns

6.5. An Organic Order Rather than an Organicist One 6.6. Informational Order / Informal Order: <In> Factors 6.7. Informal Order / Elastic Order

6.8. Does New Science Equal New Architecture? 6.9. Compositions. Space and Time

6.10. Positions. Space-Time

6.11. Dispositions: Space-Time-Information 6.12. Open Devices (Dispositifs) and/as Operating Systems 6.13. Operations, Operators, Operatives

6.14. Questions of Form w

6.15. Extraverted Form, Form “Toward”. <Ex> Factors

IV– Part 4: DEVICES (DISPOSITIFS)

System, Strategy, Project

7. DIAGRAMS (STRATEGIC MAPS). Inductors and Transfers: Scalar Leaps 7.1. I. Abstract Translations: Diagrams as “Compressions of Information” 7.2. Codes and Seeds: Self-Reproduction and Recursiveness. 7.3. Diagram and Ideogram: Concept and Instruction, Criteria and Action 7.4. Bits of Information, Battle Maps (and Negotiation Maps) 7.5. Epitomes, Transfers and Scalar Leaps

7.6. Isomorphisms, Icons and Symbols 7.7. Descriptors and Keys for a Taxonomy 7.8. Machinations

8. 8 GROWTHS (UNFOLDS)

SHOOTS AND GRAFTS. Growths-Regrowths as Local Accumulators 8.1. I. Growths (Unfolds): Complex (Re)Growths as Local Accumulators 8.2. Offshoots: Fitted Sequences

8.3. Embedded Profiles: The Hague City Hall and Rockefeller Center

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8.6. Edges of the City: Flexible Megastructures 8.7. “Wrinkled” Sections

8.8. Back to Rockefeller Center 8.9. Oscillations X, Y, Z 8.10. Grafts and Conglomerates 8.11. Fragments and Strata: Coexistences 8.12. Hybrids and Mixed Use

8.13. Grafts and Commensalisms: Cohabitations and Multi-valences 8.14. Overlapping. Dual Contracts

8.15. Prinsenhoeck and Via Campania: Contract and Contrast 8.16. WoZoKo: Parasitism

9. MESHES (REFOLDS)

KNITS and KNOTS. Mesh-Meshworks as Weaving Circuits 9.1. Meshes (Refolds): Flexible Meshes as Matrix Circuits 9.2. Knits. Weaving-Interweavings as Guideline Circuits 9.3. Basic Tracks (Frameworks Using Bands and Barcodes) 9.4. Rails for Movement

9.5. Extruded Pixels: Overlapping Weavings 9.6. Three-Dimensional Matrices

9.7. Knots and Ties: The Ring Culture and the Logic of Belts 9.8. Xcrossing(s): Multi-Dimensional Knots (and Intersections) 9.9. Transferias

9.10. “Resonating with the Highway”

9.11. Big Loops, Big Buildings: Loops, Bows and Links

9.12. Cordoning/Intertwining: Strips and Braided Circuits The Lingotto Building and the European Patent Office

9.13. Road-Buildings and Mat-Buildings 10. TOPOGRAPHIES (FOLDS)

GROUNDS AND RELIEFS. Topographies-Topometries as Operative Landscapes 10.1. Topographies (Folds): Operative Topo-graphies/metries as Operative Landscapes 10.2. Grounds: “Carpets of Uses”

10.3. Reformulating the Ground: Work by F.O.A.

10.4. Simulated Topographies/Active topographies/Liaison Topographies 10.5. Groundscrapers.

10.6. Ponds, Basins and Pinches: Francois Roche & DSV &SIE 10.7. Furrows and Trenches

10.8. Rips, Engravings and Origami 10.9. Yin-Yang: Figure/Background, Empty/Full 10.10. Crushing

10.11. Reliefs: Localized “Geographies” 10.12. Geodesic Forms: Shoei Yoh

10.13. Mountains: Peaks, Breaks and Morphologies 10.14. Naturfices: Operative Landscapes 10.15. (Re)folding devices

10.16. Compressed Landscapes, Stacked Landscapes 10.17. Loop Landscapes

10.18. Shifting Fluctuations 10.19. Intermediate Epilogue

V– Part 5: FIELDS AND/OF OPERATIONS

Place: Action, Reaction, Interaction

11.4. “x” (not “+”, or “–” and not just “=”). Architectural Operations, Architecture and Landscape 11.5. “Field” Logi(sti)cs: (Re)active Environments

11.6. Reaction and Resistance

11.7. Orthopedics and Prostheses, Inductors and Stimulators 11.8. Reaction and Reactivity

11.9. Transfers: Leaps and (Re)stimulations Architecture as a Virtual Interface 12. INTRIGUES (AND PARADOXES)

Crossing (and Looping) Trajectories: Other Formulations, Other statements 12.1. Situations of Intrigue and Decoding/Uncoding

12.2. Linguistic Paradoxes 12.3. Systems and Metasystems 12.4. Quotidian/Extra-quotidian 12.5. Paradoxes as Reactivations 12.6. Intrusiveness

12.7. Images “on the edge”

12.8. Loops of Meaning and Architectures of Paradox

VI– Part Six: OUTCOMES >>>>

Epilogue and Conclusions

On the Emergence of a New Framework for Action

13.1. A Framework for a Network, or Why do we need a new architecture today? 13.2. Logics of Interaction

13.3. Complexity and Impurity: Celebrating and Articulating Diversity 13.4. Open Logic, Interactive Capacity

13.5. Proneism

13.6. Id(r)ealism or Toward a New Operative Optimism 13.7. Environment-Architectures

14.MANIFESTO: FINAL DECALOGUE 21 Operative paradoxes

– POSTFACE

– INDEXES

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Scientists Thanks: Eduard Bru, Federico Soriano Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller, Areti Markopoulou and the IAAC Staff. Personal Thanks:

Ramon Prat and Marga Gibert. Angeles Espinosa and Vicky Lenz. Susanna Cros, Rosa Lladó, Ricardo Devesa, Jordi Vivaldi and Florence Raveau. Isabel and Desi.

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