The Language of Architecture

A video of Daniel Libeskind\u27s lecture to the University of New Mexico\u27s School of Architecture and Planning, November 7, 2013. Event sponsored by the School of Architecture and Planning, the Anderson School of Management, the International Studies Institute, and the Office of the Provost. Lecture video (streaming only) and two posters

Contemporary Jewish Museum

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Entre líneas: el Museo Judío en Berlín

Daniel Libeskind explicita los conceptos y mecánicas proyectuales desarrollados en la elaboración del proyecto para el Museo Judío. Incluye el texto en su idioma original, inglés.Material digitalizado en SEDICI gracias a la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (UNLP).Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanism

Entre líneas: el Museo Judío en Berlín

Daniel Libeskind explicita los conceptos y mecánicas proyectuales desarrollados en la elaboración del proyecto para el Museo Judío. Incluye el texto en su idioma original, inglés.Material digitalizado en SEDICI gracias a la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (UNLP).Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanism

Ground Zero – the socio-political minefield of symbolic architecture

Daniel Libeskind is today one of the architecture profession's media elite. He took up his position in the list of 'super star architects' twenty ago and has remained in the spotlight of the press ever since. He has projects across the globe and has been awarded prizes by Time Magazine, The Goethe Institute, the American Institute of Architects and the RIBA. He was also appointed the first Cultural Ambassador for Architecture by the State Department of the United States in 2004. He has been both critically lauded and sardonically ridiculed. Tom Dyckhoff of the London Times refers to him as a 'global brand'. His most high profile project to date has been The Jewish Museum of Berlin which, after various years of partial completion, was finally opened in full on September 11 2001. The opening day of Libeskind's commemoration of the twentieth century's act of horror par excellence then, was also the day of the twenty-first century's most iconic terrorist act. The macabre irony was not lost on Libeskind himself but the competition that led to him being appointed master planner and architect of the Ground Zero project, turned out to be a dirty, personalised and publically aired media circus. It was a story of political infighting, tawdry economic deals and architectural brinkmanship. It culminated ten years ago this month with Libeskind's 'victory.' In this interview Daniel Libeskind looks back over a decade of working on this project and muses on one of the most high profile, emotive and polemic architectural projects of recent times

Entre líneas: el Museo Judío en Berlín

Daniel Libeskind explicita los conceptos y mecánicas proyectuales desarrollados en la elaboración del proyecto para el Museo Judío. Incluye el texto en su idioma original, inglés.Material digitalizado en SEDICI gracias a la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (UNLP).Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanism

Planes of satellite galaxies and the cosmic web

Recent observational studies have demonstrated that the majority of satellite galaxies tend to orbit their hosts on highly flattened, vast, possibly co-rotating planes. Two nearly parallel planes of satellites have been confirmed around the M31 galaxy and around the Centaurus A galaxy, while the Milky Way also sports a plane of satellites. It has been argued that such an alignment of satellites on vast planes is unexpected in the standard ({\Lambda}CDM) model of cosmology if not even in contradiction to its generic predictions. Guided by {\Lambda}CDM numerical simulations, which suggest that satellites are channeled towards hosts along the axis of the slowest collapse as dictated by the ambient velocity shear tensor, we re-examine the planes of local satellites systems within the framework of the local shear tensor derived from the Cosmicflows-2 dataset. The analysis reveals that the Local Group and Centaurus A reside in a filament stretched by the Virgo cluster and compressed by the expansion of the Local Void. Four out of five thin planes of satellite galaxies are indeed closely aligned with the axis of compression induced by the Local Void. Being the less massive system, the moderate misalignment of the Milky Way's satellite plane can likely be ascribed to its greater susceptibility to tidal torques, as suggested by numerical simulations. The alignment of satellite systems in the local universe with the ambient shear field is thus in general agreement with predictions of the {\Lambda}CDM model.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables. Accepted by MNRAS, 9 June 201

Jane: a new tool for the cophylogeny reconstruction problem

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>This paper describes the theory and implementation of a new software tool, called <it>Jane</it>, for the study of historical associations. This problem arises in parasitology (associations of hosts and parasites), molecular systematics (associations of orderings and genes), and biogeography (associations of regions and orderings). The underlying problem is that of reconciling pairs of trees subject to biologically plausible events and costs associated with these events. Existing software tools for this problem have strengths and limitations, and the new <it>Jane </it>tool described here provides functionality that complements existing tools.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The <it>Jane </it>software tool uses a polynomial time dynamic programming algorithm in conjunction with a genetic algorithm to find very good, and often optimal, solutions even for relatively large pairs of trees. The tool allows the user to provide rich timing information on both the host and parasite trees. In addition the user can limit host switch distance and specify multiple host switch costs by specifying regions in the host tree and costs for host switches between pairs of regions. <it>Jane </it>also provides a graphical user interface that allows the user to interactively experiment with modifications to the solutions found by the program.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p><it>Jane </it>is shown to be a useful tool for cophylogenetic reconstruction. Its functionality complements existing tools and it is therefore likely to be of use to researchers in the areas of parasitology, molecular systematics, and biogeography.</p

Jane: A New Tool for the Cophylogeny Reconstruction Problem

Background This paper describes the theory and implementation of a new software tool, called Jane, for the study of historical associations. This problem arises in parasitology (associations of hosts and parasites), molecular systematics (associations of orderings and genes), and biogeography (associations of regions and orderings). The underlying problem is that of reconciling pairs of trees subject to biologically plausible events and costs associated with these events. Existing software tools for this problem have strengths and limitations, and the new Jane tool described here provides functionality that complements existing tools. Results The Jane software tool uses a polynomial time dynamic programming algorithm in conjunction with a genetic algorithm to find very good, and often optimal, solutions even for relatively large pairs of trees. The tool allows the user to provide rich timing information on both the host and parasite trees. In addition the user can limit host switch distance and specify multiple host switch costs by specifying regions in the host tree and costs for host switches between pairs of regions. Jane also provides a graphical user interface that allows the user to interactively experiment with modifications to the solutions found by the program. Conclusions Jane is shown to be a useful tool for cophylogenetic reconstruction. Its functionality complements existing tools and it is therefore likely to be of use to researchers in the areas of parasitology, molecular systematics, and biogeography

The Cophylogeny Reconstruction Problem is NP-Complete

The cophylogeny reconstruction problem arises in the study of host-parasite relationships. Specif- ically, we are given a host tree H, a parasite tree P, and a function \u27 mapping the leaves (extant taxa) of P to the leaves of H. Four biologically plausible operations are considered: cospeciation, duplication, host switching, and loss (Figure 1). A host switch is permitted in conjunction with a duplication event but not with a cospeciation event [1]