Today’s Links

2blowhards.com: Salingaros on Tschumi 1. “[A]rchitectural theory has developed into two parallel strands. [One] based on solutions that work historically [and one] on science [aiming] explain how architectonic form emerges, and why [we] react in certain predictable ways to different structures.”
Howard S. Becker: A New Art Form: Hypertext Fiction. “There is no one linear path through the [hypertext] work. The experience of reading such a text is more like consulting a map, or looking at a painting or photograph, than reading a book.” (Via Håkan Kjellerstrand.)
Incipient(thoughts): Modeling, systems and software “I suspect that what we call ‘development’ today consists not so much of programming, but of modeling [as in] ‘the act of designing mental structures which aid our dealings with reality …’.”
Michael Bierut: Vladimir Nabokov: Father of Hypertext? “What impresses me about Pale Fire—and one of the reasons I see it as a design achievement—is that it brings to bear a degree of planning to a medium that seems born to resist it, and it all works so beautifully.”
The Future Of Cities: The Absurdity of Modernism. “Nikos Salingaros interviews Léon Krier.”