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Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded Essays on Space And © 2008 AGI-Information Management Consultants May be used for personal purporses only or by libraries associated to dandelon.com network. Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded Essays on Space and Science Edited by Peter Weibel Contents 12 Christa Steinle, Peter Weibel Editorial 17 Works by Olafur Eliasson Your surroundings 252 Elizabeth Grosz >ositioned and your The Future of Space: Toward an Architecture of Invention position 302 Marianne Krogh Jensen surrounded Mapping Virtual Materiality 394 Anders Michelsen The Artificial Environment: Smart Design Design Semantics and Designer-Intelligence 518 Jaime Salazar MVRDV, VPRO 126 Jonathan Crary Visionary Abstractions 208 Peter Galison Objectivity is Romantic 504 Otto E. Rossler and Peter Weibel Endophysics or Our Rainbow World 79 Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos Interactive Instruments in Operation Diagrams 539 ErikScheldon Solar Surrounded 646 Manfred Wolff-Plottegg Updating Transformating Principles in Architecture 109 Works by O. E. Your now is my 93 Daniel Birnbaum surroundings The Hospitality of Presence Problems of Otherness in Husserl's Phenomenology 150 William Day Motion 181 Thorleifur Einarsson Geothermal Activity Ursula Frohne 200 Re-Mapping the Virtual World Utopian Construction versus Power Structures in Cyberspace Ove Nathan 405 The Quest for the Great Symmetry Kurt Schilcher 543 Water Structuring: Dynamics and Order in Liquid Water Einar Thorsteinn 604 A Mathematical Order of Polyhedrons Fourfold to Fivefold Symmetry Transitions Giinter Leising 378 Light and Order Gyorgy Darvas 136 Symmetry and Asymmetry in Our Surroundings Aspects of Symmetry in the Phenomena of Nature, Physical Laws, and Human Perception Hans C. von Baeyer 34 Impossible Crystals Jergen Dehs 166 Sense of Landscape Reflections on a Concept, a Metaphor, a Model Manuel Gausa 216 Dynamic Time - (In)Formal Order: (Un)Disciplined Trajectories Istvan Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai 280 Symmetry Within and Without Per Bak 43 The Science of Self-Organized Criticality Manuel de Landa 332 Meshworks, Hierarchies, and Interfaces Brian Greene 224 Space, Time, and the Eye of the Beholder Robert Osserman 438 Encompassing the Earth Works by O. E. 587 The only thing we 194 Yona Friedman Towards a Poor World or How Scarcity Might have in common is Prevent the Catastrophe that we are different 480 JohnPbger Architecture's Ethical Ambivalence - Aesthe-Ethic Urbanism 533 Katya Sander and Ashley Hunt revolutions per minute 350 Henri Lefebvre The Production of Space (Extracts) 566 Simon Sheikh Space Fellow Travellers An Interplanetary and Interpretative Voyage to the Worlds of R. Buckminster Fuller and Sun Ra 417 Hans Ulrich Obrist Interview with Ralph Erskine, Stockholm, summer 2000 498 John Rajchman The Virtual House 572 Michael Speaks It's Out There... The Formal Limits of the American Avant-Garde 235 Works by O. E. Your inverted veto 313 Rem Koolhaas The Generic City 342 Lars Bang Larsen The Urban Plan and Kanonklubben's Garden 387 Bruce Mau 12 Strategies. Notes 295 Henrik Plenge Jakobsen Diary of Plasma 276 Frederikke Hansen If You Think You Have a Psychic Parrot, Click Here. Comments on the Internet by way of browsing <http://www.sheldrake.org> 412 Jeff Noon Pollen 452 Franz Pichler Victor Schauberger and the Turbulence of Water 54 Cecil Balmond Powers Gregory Volk 638 The Youngest Country Andrzej Przywara and Adam Szymczyk 492 On Melioration and Electrification as Twin Sisters of the Fine Arts Works by O. E. 463 Aaron Betsky 89 Seeing yourself Let it Rain-. The A.rt of Code seeing InaBlom 100 Too Close to the Real Lise Bek 62 Creating Reality by Sight A Contribution to the History of Man's Visual Relation to his Surroundings Jane Schul 552 Plants for the Tunnel of Scent Richard Sennett 556 The Technology of Unity Norman Foster 189 The Rainbow Cloud Mika Hannula 269 Tidal Waves and Dissidents Diller + Scofidio 176 Blur Building Gerhard Roth 514 Can One Meaningfully Speak of a World Independent of Consciousness? Anthony Vidler, 628 Any Mores Works by O. E. 361 Epilogue 658 Appendix Works in the Exhibition 676 Chronology 681 Biographies 688 References 714 Photo Credits 718 Works by O. E. 659.
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