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		<title>Bogdan &amp; Van Broeck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you were wondering where and what I&#8217;m up to recently. You can find me in Brussels, usually working at BOGDAN &#38; VAN BROECK. They just got this super nice responsive website (developed by yours truly). Hope you like it.]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1615</link>
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		<title>When Geometry Explodes</title>
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		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1483</link>
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		<title>Makerbot Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we&#8217;re having quite some fun* in the seminar with DYI 3d printing. The machine is hectic, unpredictable at times and has a number of quirks that need to be worked around. Other than that, hey &#8211; it&#8217;s cheap and it&#8217;s great. All images © Some me, and most of them the students from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1412</link>
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		<title>R.A. @ Stuttgart Kunst Akademie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since October 2012 I am working at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, affectionately known as the AKA. I am a Research Assistant under prof. Tobias Walliser (LAVA), pushing up digital magic over at the Digital Design Group. Currently I am in charge of teaching the DE2 seminar. Looking forward to see what we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1401</link>
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		<title>Mass Customized Branding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The logo is actually a very simple processing sketch (processing.js, to be more exact). The shape is based on a icosahedron whose vertexes constantly move around trying to find themselves in euclidean space. Colors are chosen randomly from three hard-coded palettes (grabbed from adobe kuler). Events are generated randomly every few milliseconds, and they can be either [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1394</link>
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		<title>AP/GSys: An Experimental Growth Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This projects tries to meaningfully explore the nature of optimization taking cues from the concept of growth. The assignment was calling for the development of the Almere Pampus, an area north-east of Amsterdam, an completely blank plot of land which would serve in reaching the goals of doubling up the population of Almere. The relatively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1351</link>
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		<title>Tools of The Digital Fetish: Computation and User.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Published in Horizonte no. 5. Architecture has made an irreversible jump into the computational world. We can now justly affirm that the digital medium has gained a considerable foothold in this otherwise traditional and highly suspicious domain. The role of the computer has expanded beyond that of a simple drafting tool and now actively shapes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1337</link>
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		<title>Framing Optimization in Contemporary Architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Framing Optimization in Contemporary Architecture[1] Keywords: optimization, architecture, computational techniques I am in debt to the generous friends (Patrick, Matas, Gustavo) who shared their thought on the initial rather thoughtless rant which was the base for the following piece, as well as to Henriette Bier who guided and steered its manufacture. Thanks! Optimization, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1246</link>
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		<title>AMS: Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Project Team: Mariana Popescu, Mihaela Radescu, Ovidiu Stanciu, Dimitrie Stefanescu The competition&#8217;s assignment was calling for an iconic bridge over the Amstel river in front of the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam. Out of a contextual analysis, we derived our priorities as being the expansion of the public space in front of the museum by speculating the most prominent local assets present [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1228</link>
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		<title>Algorithmic Abuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PLAT 1.5 has just been released, and with it my critical essay entitled Algorithmic Abuse, which I&#8217;m sharing below. It&#8217;s a short attempt to raise awareness towards several gaps in computational architecture&#8217;s theory as well as practice. Please support the journal by purchasing a copy! A recurring concern among the practitioners and promoters of what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1213</link>
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		<title>Constructal Theory and Infrastructure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve been digging around in Constructal Theory, mainly because it provides a &#8220;predictive&#8221; framework for natural growth unifying &#8211; in a sense &#8211; physics and life. As it is now, constructal law theoretically accounts for all design phenomena in nature. It states that &#8220;For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1187</link>
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		<title>Swarm Behaviours Workshop Material</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve tutored a Processing workshop for the Hyperbody department at the TU Delft. I&#8217;ve decided to share the sketches with the open world &#8211; who knows, maybe someone will find them useful. There&#8217;s quite a few variations included &#8211; clustering, attractors, collision avoidance, etc. Read below for the download link and some screens of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1169</link>
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		<title>Optimization Overdose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just thinking out loud &#8211; don&#8217;t take too seriously. Read below if you really, really want to.  Optimization and optimizing are now central features in any architectural discourse, alongside performance. The concept of optimization is associated with the continuous betterment of a certain design by finding the optimal values for the parameters describing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1162</link>
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		<title>Border Conditions: F/RF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Project team: Manuel Torres, Dimitrie Stefanescu Studio Leader: Sang Lee This is the final studio (Border Conditions) project for msc2. Though quite a lot of parametric techniques went into the making of it, they were subservient to rather than defining the project&#8217;s outcome. This project embodies a virtual study of the process of folding with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1137</link>
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		<title>CLJ02: ZA11 Pavillion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Design/Organization: Dimitrie Stefanescu [improved.ro], Patrick Bedarf [a-ngine.com], Bogdan Hambasan [ASTA Cluj] Organization: ASTA Cluj Workshop Team: Ciprian Colda, Anamaria Androne, Razvan Sencu, Madalin Gheorghe Assembly: Bogdan Badila, Vlad Pop, Georgiana Hlihor, Denisa Lula, Robert Veber, Zoltan Vaida, Imre Vekove, Ciprian Colda, Mihai Pascalau, Calin Negret, Bogdan Borbei, Iustin Nechiti, Dan Ioanici, Razvan Luca, Stefan Grosariu, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://improved.ro/blog/?p=1099</link>
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