Key Definitions- 10.16.03 (11:45a.m.) 

Adapt\ e-'dapt\vb.tr.:to make suitable or fit for a specific use or situation (as for new use or different conditions) v.intr.to become adapted.  syn adjust, accomodate, conform

Adaptation\ad'ap-ta'-shen n: (1a.) The act or process of adapting.  (1b.) The state of being
adapted.  (2a.) Something, such as a device or mechanism that is changed or changes so as to become suitable to a new or special application or situation.  (2b.) A composition that has been cast into a new form.
(3.) Biology:  An alteration or adjustment in structure or habits, often herdeitary, by which a species
or individual improves its condition in relationship to its enviornment.
(4.) Physiology: The responsive adjustment of a sense organ, such as the eye, to varying conditios,
such as light intensity.
(5.) The change in behavior of a person or group in response to new or modified surroundings.

Transform\trans-'form\ vb: to change in structure, apperance, or character. (1.) To change markedly the appearance or form of.  (2.) To change the nature, function, or condition of,
convert. syn transmute, transfigure, transmorgify

10.18.03 (10:17p.m.)  
Lars Spuybroek (NOX) sees the computer as an instrument that will effect a revolution comparableto the discovery of the perspective during the Renaissance period. The computer allows us to visualize the real world in a different way, we are able to see aspects of the world that would be invisible to the naked e ye.  The computer isa design tool which can produce a plan that can be mapped onto the world as a projection, in the sense of an architectural project.


10.20.03 (9:39 p.m.)   
I found this great quote in a older article written by Peter Mc Cleary? entitled Some Characteristics of Technology.  Mc Cleary? states that "If questioning is the primary tool of thinking, then new ways of thinking which lead to new concepts perhaps need to ask new questions."

He discusses three major technological influences/factors that will affect the ways people view and respond to architectural form: transparency and opacity; amplification and reduction; and appropriateness and appropriation of context.


10.21.03    
"ll n'y a pas de de'tail dans la construction"  The full tectonic potential of any
 building stems from its capacity to articulate both the poetic and the cognitive
aspects of its substance.                                        -Auguste Perrett


"Architecture cannot live by simply mirroring its own problems, exploiting its
 own tradition, even though the professional tools required for architecture 
as a discipline can be found only with that tradition."  Vittorio Gregotti  


"Material constraints aside, innovation is, in this sense, contingent upon a
 self-concious rereading, remaking, and recollection of tradition, including the
 tradition of the new, just as tradition can only be revitalized through innovation."
                                                                          -Kenneth Frampton