Michael Weinstock is Director of Research and Development and Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design programme in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He has taught at the AA since 1989 in a range of positions from workshop tutor through to Academic Head. Over the last decade his published work has arisen from research into the dynamics, forms and energy transactions of natural systems, and the application of the mathematics and processes of emergence to cities, to groups of buildings within cities and to individual buildings. Whilst his principal research and teaching has been conducted at the Architectural Association, he has published and lectured widely, and taught seminar courses, studios and workshops on these topics at many other schools of Architecture in Europe and in the United States.

“Personally, I found several of the ideas presented in the book relevant for my own research, and possilbe sources of cross-fertilization.“  (Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design 2015, 1 January

• ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORSPOTLIGHT: Visual highlights of the issueINTRODUCTION: System City: Infrastructure and the Space of FlowsVariation and Distribution: Forest Patterns as a Model for Urban MorphologiesA History of Territories, Movements and Borders: Politics of InhabitationA Distributed Ground: The Unknown Fields DivisionThird Natures: Incubators of Public SpaceIntelligent Cities and the Taxonomy of Cognitive ScalesDarwin Among the MachinesCities and Grids: In Search of New ParadigmsThe Grounds of a Renewed Practice: Groundlab’s Approach Towards Landscape and InfrastructureScales of Metabolic Flows: Regional, Urban and Building Systems Design at SOMMetasystems of Urban Flow: Buro Happold’s Collaborations in the Generation of New Urban EcologiesLocal Climates of the CityEx Silico Ad Vivo: Computational Simulation and Urban Design at Foster + PartnersNetworks and the CityData City: Urban Metabolic Decision ProcessesCOUNTERPOINT: The City Beyond AnalogyCONTRIBUTORSABOUT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Michael Weinstock is Director of Research and Development and Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design programme in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He has taught at the AA since 1989 in a range of positions from workshop tutor through to Academic Head. Over the last decade his published work has arisen from research into the dynamics, forms and energy transactions of natural systems, and the application of the mathematics and processes of emergence to cities, to groups of buildings within cities and to individual buildings. Whilst his principal research and teaching has been conducted at the Architectural Association, he has published and lectured widely, and taught seminar courses, studios and workshops on these topics at many other schools of Architecture in Europe and in the United States.

“Personally, I found several of the ideas presented in the book relevant for my own research, and possilbe sources of cross-fertilization.“  (Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design 2015, 1 January

• ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORSPOTLIGHT: Visual highlights of the issueINTRODUCTION: System City: Infrastructure and the Space of FlowsVariation and Distribution: Forest Patterns as a Model for Urban MorphologiesA History of Territories, Movements and Borders: Politics of InhabitationA Distributed Ground: The Unknown Fields DivisionThird Natures: Incubators of Public SpaceIntelligent Cities and the Taxonomy of Cognitive ScalesDarwin Among the MachinesCities and Grids: In Search of New ParadigmsThe Grounds of a Renewed Practice: Groundlab’s Approach Towards Landscape and InfrastructureScales of Metabolic Flows: Regional, Urban and Building Systems Design at SOMMetasystems of Urban Flow: Buro Happold’s Collaborations in the Generation of New Urban EcologiesLocal Climates of the CityEx Silico Ad Vivo: Computational Simulation and Urban Design at Foster + PartnersNetworks and the CityData City: Urban Metabolic Decision ProcessesCOUNTERPOINT: The City Beyond AnalogyCONTRIBUTORSABOUT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Michael Weinstock is Director of Research and Development and Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design programme in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He has taught at the AA since 1989 in a range of positions from workshop tutor through to Academic Head. Over the last decade his published work has arisen from research into the dynamics, forms and energy transactions of natural systems, and the application of the mathematics and processes of emergence to cities, to groups of buildings within cities and to individual buildings. Whilst his principal research and teaching has been conducted at the Architectural Association, he has published and lectured widely, and taught seminar courses, studios and workshops on these topics at many other schools of Architecture in Europe and in the United States.

“Personally, I found several of the ideas presented in the book relevant for my own research, and possilbe sources of cross-fertilization.“  (Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design 2015, 1 January

• ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORSPOTLIGHT: Visual highlights of the issueINTRODUCTION: System City: Infrastructure and the Space of FlowsVariation and Distribution: Forest Patterns as a Model for Urban MorphologiesA History of Territories, Movements and Borders: Politics of InhabitationA Distributed Ground: The Unknown Fields DivisionThird Natures: Incubators of Public SpaceIntelligent Cities and the Taxonomy of Cognitive ScalesDarwin Among the MachinesCities and Grids: In Search of New ParadigmsThe Grounds of a Renewed Practice: Groundlab’s Approach Towards Landscape and InfrastructureScales of Metabolic Flows: Regional, Urban and Building Systems Design at SOMMetasystems of Urban Flow: Buro Happold’s Collaborations in the Generation of New Urban EcologiesLocal Climates of the CityEx Silico Ad Vivo: Computational Simulation and Urban Design at Foster + PartnersNetworks and the CityData City: Urban Metabolic Decision ProcessesCOUNTERPOINT: The City Beyond AnalogyCONTRIBUTORSABOUT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN