Summary of August, 2004
There were two major themes in August, 2004, cities and software architecture.
I attended a seminar held at the Stockholm Museum of Architecture in conjunction with the “Two Urban Models” exhibition, where a huge model of the Minato City district of Tokyo, made by the Mori Urban Institute for the Future. I dumped my raw notes and photos from the seminar, as well as photos of the models:
- “Evolution of [Minato City] from 1960’s to the Present Day,”
- “‘Two Urban Models’ at Stockholm Museum of Architecture,”
- “The Structure of Public Space and Everyday Life” (on Space Syntax),
- “Evolution of [Stockholm] Over the Last 100 Years,”
- “Micro/Macro Q & A Sessions,” and
- “Deutschlandscape: Epicenters at the Periphery” (on Shrinking Cities).
Then I thought and wrote a lot about software architecture and enterprise architecture. For instance, I tracked down what appears to be the original appropriation of the term “architecture” within the computer field.
- “Frederick Brooks and the Definition of Computer Architecture,”
- “Definitionen av verksamhetsarkitektur” (in Swedish),
- “Arkitektur som metafor för systemutveckling” (also in Swedish),
- “Note to Self on ‘Software Architecture’,”
- “Sven-Olov Wallenstein om filosofi och arkitektur” (in Swedish)
- “Umberto Eco definierar arkitektur” (also in Swedish, but I later attempted an English translation of the Eco quote), and
- “Frederick Brooks and the Definition of Computer Architecture: A followup.”
I almost forgot, two Swedish posts that are among my personal favorites, the interview I did with japanophile Axel Andersson on anime: