“What is fascinating is the inability to separate the real from the digital, because they already form part of the same nature.” So we said in the last issue of Verb. Here we explore how this fusion takes place. Buildings and cities grow, are transformed, and dissolve. How can this evolution be generated, controlled, enhanced or imagined? Is our environment programmable? How does the fusion of natural and artificial matter produce new architectural organisms, new environments, new natures? How does technology animate space, and how do users and programs animate matter? The fifth volume of Actar's boogazine looks for a new definition of the organic.Projects by: Terraswarm, Aranda/Lasch, Shohei Matsukawa / 000studio, Kram/Weisshaar, Michael Meredith, mos, Foster + Partners, George L. Legendre, IJP Corporation, PTW Architects + Arup Australia + CSCEC, ON-A, Hitoshi Abe, Manuel Gausa Asociados, Vicente Guallart, Mick Pearce, Yusuke Obuchi, R&Sie(n), Cristina Díaz, AMID, INI, ONL...

Irene Hwang , Albert Ferré , Tomoko Sakamoto , Ramon Prat , Michael Kubo , Mario Ballesteros , Anna Tetas

Shortlisted for the upcoming 2008 RIBA International Book Awards

¨Cultivated, socially conscious, cautiously optimistic, yet pragmatic... Want to impress fellow grad students? Then hang onto every word of Actar’s boogazine... An enjoyable exploration into the nature of nature.¨ Dwell Magazine

¨Nature meets technology in this, Actar’s latest Verb boogazine. Presenting some of the most striking projects to grace the pages of the series.¨ Life Without Buildings

¨The selected works are as varied as the approaches or design methodologies demonstrated...Another well-crafted Actar publication with generous photos, drawings and text.¨ Death By Architecture

¨Through a series of profiles and interviews this self-dubbed 'boogazine' captures the zeitgeist of design that is rooted in biology and algorithmic geometry.¨ SEED MAGAZINE

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