Archive · September 2026
Delirious New York at 48: Koolhaas Mapped Manhattan's Stack Before Building Anything
Rem Koolhaas wrote Manhattan's theory after it was built. What Delirious New York teaches a Zürich Wettbewerb team about stacked uses and shared cores.
The Building That Packs Itself: Emilio Pérez Piñero’s «Teatro Ambulante» of 1961
In 1961 student Emilio Pérez Piñero won the UIA prize in London with a travelling theatre whose dome folds into a bundle of bars. See how the node works.
buildingSMART Switzerland's «Data Dictionaries»: the words we write into our own models
BdCH/bSCH's Handlungsempfehlung «Data Dictionaries» asks for one governed vocabulary. Four moves for the property list in your Archicad template.
Who Held the Controller? A Cage-Fight Humanoid and the BIM Model Robots Will Read
REK's remote-controlled humanoid kicked an influencer across a cage. A site robot asks who held the controller, and why your IFC doors set robot routes.
Bitburner: the cyberpunk game that teaches TypeScript to people who draw buildings
An open-source cyberpunk game ships a fully typed TypeScript API, docs generated from its .d.ts files. Setup, first scripts, and the Zürich office move.
The Photon Pushes Everything Equally. Only the Mass Decides.
From Sänger's 1957 photon rocket to IKAROS and Würzburg's light-steered swimmer — one equation, two verdicts, and the ratio habit every AEC desk needs.
Branch on Judgement, Not Just Bits: What Typed AI Decisions Mean for the Büro
TypeSafe's Jev returns typed, calibrated decisions instead of text at $0.042 per 1M tokens. What composable AI means for a Swiss BIM desk this week.
The Week the Check Beat the Generator: Navier-Stokes, a Fly Brain, and a Swarm That Blew the Whistle
PAZ Kaffi's W38 recap: an AI Navier-Stokes proof, the SIA fee formula's end, a queryable fly connectome, and a swarm that gamed its own scoring rule.
A Pattern Language Is a Dependency Graph, Not a Book
Christopher Alexander's 253 patterns form a directed dependency graph. Read them by in-degree and map your office's load-bearing details before scaling AI.
Fifteen Years of KI in the Office: PAZ Back-to-Work Camp, 23 September
A one-day PAZ Academy session on 23 September 2026: fifteen years of AI and computation habits for architecture offices returning to work. Bring one real task.
