#russell

Today’s Digital Culture reading was on Frege. After the historical process shaped by thinkers like Hobbes and Leibniz, and by the effects of capitalism, I thought reading Frege would provide a good foundation before moving on to Wittgenstein. Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. He spent most of his academic life at the University of Jena. Regarded as one of the founders of modern logic and analytic philosophy, Frege argued that the foundations of mathematics should be…

The question of how form emerges in architecture has always been one of the most fundamental debate topics of computational design. When I was a graduate student, we used to examine how abstract language structures made of words and rules turned into spatial and geometric systems. In this post, starting from the reflection of linguistic theories on architecture, we will talk about the logic of discrete aggregation that we study in the first year Design Computing courses. At the same…