(((Waitaminute – Paola Antonelli KNOWS Benoit Mandelbrot?!
They're big pals? She's a disciple, even? How did that room not explode from sheer out-thereness?)))
Link: Seed: Paola Antonelli + Benoit Mandelbrot.
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/paola_antonelli_benoit_mandelb.php
(((And they're really chewing the fractal fat here:)))
PA: What is really amazing to me right now is how contemporary architects are using the idea that is behind fractals, the idea of a rule that lets them work at different scales indifferently, at least until the moment when the real design application, the reality of the client or manufacturer wanting a building or a toaster, sets in.
I am thinking, for instance, of Ben Aranda and Chris Lasch, who you may remember spoke right after you when we had the salon at MoMA. They are two architects that have founded their practice on understanding algorithms and finding ways to take scientific concepts and translate them for architecture's benefit and evolution.
So, it seems to me that it is not only and simply about the formal beauty of fractals, it is the idea of growth that your theory has really given to architects and designers.
And now we're seeing the algorithm become the principle, and the subject of research, for so many architects today. They're hoping that they can ultimately input an algorithm, give it a push, and then all of a sudden an object, a building, a city, and a world will grow out of it.
BM: Well, that would be very exciting and I am very pleased to hear you say it.
(((Uh, yeah.)))
