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Lessons from Molecular Gastronomy
“Lessons from Molecular Gastronomy” by David Ruy explores modern techniques of culinary visionaries who stray from traditional approaches to cooking to create entirely new approaches to experiencing food. Despite controversy within the traditional culinary world, new modalities within the culinary … Continue reading
Lessons from Diagrammatic Architecture
A typical diagram by Kadi Franson’s architectural practice, *w0_a/, consists of 36 or so strokes of different thicknesses and dash orientations and takes about 6 hours to complete. More than two million requests come in from around the world for … Continue reading
We are what we eat: response to Lessons from Molecular Gastronomy
Whenever a new process of ‘doing’ is introduced, there has always been a group of intellectuals, experts, authorities, etc… at the ready to negate and profess the evils of which is foreign. This is especially true of technology and its … Continue reading
Lessons from Molecular Gastronomy
This article mentions trial and error and how not to always follow a process. I can agree with Ruy to some extent. I think that you can get away with this sort of ‘freedom’ and not following rules, after you … Continue reading
Response to “Lessons from Molecular Gastronomy” & “Leap into the Void: A New Organon?”
“In short, a technique is a way to do something. In contrast, a methodology is a comprehensive system of techniques governed by a theory about why a way of doing something is the right way.” (Ruy 35) “Technique is the … Continue reading
Response to “Lessons from molecular gastronomy” & “Leaping into the void:A New Organon”
It seems like there is an ideological confluence of these two reading that they both suggest a rethinking of orthodox methodology. What Ruy borrows from molecular gastronomy is that constant trials and errors of experiments of new technologies inform the … Continue reading
Response to “Lessons from Molecular Gastronomy”
In his article “Lessons from Molecular Gastronomy,” David Ruy cautions one to be inherently suspicious of methodology. Operating in the nefarious field of rights and wrongs, methodology is, according to Ruy, another form of dogma or orthodoxy, meant to produce … Continue reading
‘Lessons from Molecular Gastronomy’ Response
David Ruy posits that we have developed a form of cultural language that implies a tradition (if something looks a certain way, it should taste a certain way). Comparably so in architecture we have developed a visual and organizational symbology for … Continue reading
