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Student work by Jeffrey Montes produced while earning the Master of Architecture (M. Arch) degree at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation / Columbia University in the City of New York. Architecture depends on and is enabled by all the things which it purports to contain. The work in "Architecture &" is not self-referential. Instead, it deals with eleven themes from the specifically hypervast to the abstractly minute: Noosphere, system, agonism, spatia, code, waterworks, views, the desert, drones, mechanism, and Space.

Student work by Jeffrey Montes produced while earning the Master of Architecture (M. Arch) degree at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation / Columbia University in the City of New York.

Architecture depends on and is enabled by all the things which it purports to contain. The work in "Architecture &" is not self-referential. Instead, it deals with eleven themes from the specifically hypervast to the abstractly minute: Noosphere, system, agonism, spatia, code, waterworks, views, the desert, drones, mechanism, and Space.

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ANTS<br />

BIO<br />

GLOBALLY AWARE<br />

EXPLORATION CHANGES THROUGH DENSITY.<br />

“As ants explored a novel arena, they adjusted the shapes of their paths<br />

in response to the density of ants in the arena. Paths were more tortuous<br />

when ants were more crowded; turning index increased with overall<br />

work showing that a high turning index detracts from discovery rate<br />

at low densities, but not at high densities. ... this relation between<br />

individual path shape and group size maximizes the<br />

discovery rate of the group as a whole.”<br />

-Deborah M. Gordon, “The Expandable Network of Ant Exploration”<br />

Stanford University (1994)<br />

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DESERT - 136

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