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Shaun Murray: Detail of Information Polyp, Educational Stoppage, Cumbria, 1998. Photograph of clay model. #superarchitects #fraccentre #architecturestudent #architecture #eniatype #nowness #freizemagazine #arqsketch #drawings #architecturaldesign #shaunmurray #aaschool #arqsketch #iarchitectures #archisketcher #architecturalnotation #arch_more #architectura #visualarts #graphic #architecturetheory #sketch #architecturesketch #architecturaldrawing #archisource #architecturelovers #thecontemporaryarchitect #surrealism #shaunpatrickmurray #dezeen #designboom (at Dalton in Furness)

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Shaun Murray: Detail of Basque River Ecologies, short film stills, Bilbao, 2004. #superarchitects #fraccentre #architecturestudent #architecture #eniatype #nowness #freizemagazine #arqsketch #drawings #architecturaldesign #shaunmurray #aaschool #arqsketch #iarchitectures #archisketcher #architecturalnotation #arch_more #architectura #visualarts #graphic #architecturetheory #sketch #theoreticalarchitecture #architecturesketch #architecturaldrawing #archisource #architecturelovers #thecontemporaryarchitect #surrealism #shaunpatrickmurray (at Bilbao, Spain)

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Shaun Murray: Detail of Camargue Air Turbulence, les Baux de Provence, France, 1999. Hand drawing, airbrush on line board. Revealing the fraying of ecology into design, through the ‘strategic’ insertion of incompleteness, replaces the ideal of a discoverable archetype with ‘an emerging design theory’ or Eniatype – a learning procedure that is itself under construction. At the limit of absolute consistency, or structural collapse, where signs and substances lose ontological distinctiveness, and the formulation of design is indistinguishable from its implementation, ecologies are populated by ‘complex notational systems’ or nebulous materials: ‘Climate proxies, dust, temperature, precipitation, chemistry and gas composition of [the] lower atmosphere…’. At once clouds of variable density and indices of complex interconnections, such notational markers are stripped of all pretence to rational or representational values that could be separated from the fabrications they enter into, dissolving the preparatory and programmatic status of architectural semiotics into patterns of constructive involvement and artificial perception. Within architecture of the advanced Eniatype, there is no language that is not immediately building material, and no plan that is temporally separable from project development. ‘Architects are the editors of the environment. #superarchitects #fraccentre #architecturestudent #architecture #eniatype #nowness #freizemagazine #avantgarde #artistsoninstagram #drawings #architecturaldesign #shaunmurray #aaschool #arqsketch #iarchitectures #archisketcher #architecturalnotation #arch_more #architectura #visualarts #graphic #architecturetheory #archilibs #architecturesketch #architecturaldrawing #archisource #architecturelovers #thecontemporaryarchitect #theoreticalarchitecture #shaunpatrickmurray (at Les Baux-de-Provence)

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Shaun Murray: Detail of Collapse Documentary, Educational Stoppage, Cumbria, 1998. Photo stills from a short film. Documenting the collapse of drawing onto building through sentient technologies. The impact of virtual technologies on Ecological design visions encompasses our relationship between systems for everyday environments and activities. Through our coming to terms with ubiquitous computing, air travel, global financial markets, and the like, it would be a combination of naiveté and hubris to think that traditional architectural communication could any longer manage mass communication and perception. The diversity and complexity of all the components in an ecological study requires studying living and non-living entities within their environments. Participants developed strategies and tactics for new – ecotype model – which can connect many fields through different levels in the model and areas of expertise, and in so doing illustrate complex aspects of components and their relationships to one another within their spatial community. To view ecology as a model is to integrate the design into the ecology of the place – through the materials and energy residing in the community. Architectural practice has been slow to acknowledge the reality of interconnectedness, yet in the past few decades, the message has grown stronger – from the physical unity of the universe, to the unity of life on Earth, to the interconnectedness of ecological systems, to even the interdependence of our global economy. #superarchitects #fraccentre #architecturestudent #architecture #eniatype #nowness #freizemagazine #avantgarde #artistsoninstagram #drawings #architecturaldesign #shaunmurray #aaschool #arqsketch #iarchitectures #archisketcher #architecturalnotation #arch_more #architectura #visualarts #graphic #architecturetheory #archilibs #architecturesketch #architecturaldrawing #archisource #architecturelovers #thecontemporaryarchitect #theoreticalarchitecture #shaunpatrickmurray (at Langdale)

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Shaun Murray: Detail of Archulus, Flood Shields, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 2000. Hand drawing, airbrush on line board. #superarchitects #fraccentre #architecturestudent #eniatype #freizemagazine #avantgarde #dazedandconfused #arqsketch #artistsoninstagram #drawings #architecturaldesign #shaunmurray #aaschool #arqsketch #iarchitectures #archisketcher #architecturalnotation #arch_more #architectura #visualarts #archilibs #architecturesketch #architecturaldrawing #archisource #architecturelovers #thecontemporaryarchitect #surrealism #shaunpatrickmurray #sciarc #designboom #dezeen (at Aldeburgh)

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Shaun Murray: Detail of Information Polyp, Educational Stoppage, Cumbria, 1998. Hand drawing, airbrush on line board. #superarchitects #fraccentre #architecturestudent #riverthames #architecture #eniatype #nowness #freizemagazine #arqsketch #drawings #architecturaldesign #shaunmurray #aaschool #london #arqsketch #iarchitectures #archisketcher #architecturalnotation #arch_more #architectura #visualarts #graphic #architecturetheory #archilibs #theoreticalarchitecture #architecturesketch #architecturaldrawing #archisource #architecturelovers #thecontemporaryarchitect (at Dalton in Furness)