An online community for hacking and cracking the architectural code
http://www.architexturez.com/ newly redesigned, the architexturez
project website that catalogues architectural research and theoretical
texts about the built environment, on the internet.

Following is a sample of the site's content:

{computer icon} the *architectural texts* section currently has
/research/ in the following categories:

[aesthetics] [a-life] [anthropology] [archaeology] [artificial
intelligence] [building code] [cad] [cartography] [complexity]
[computing] [construction] [criticism] [cyberplanning] [cyberspace]
[deconstructivism] [design] [disney] [electricity] [energy]
[ethnography] [gated communities] [geometry] [historiography] [humanity]
[identity] [information architecture] [infrastructure] [interface]
[landscape] [language] [las vegas] [malls] [mathematics] [media]
[modernism] [music] [nurbanism] [organicism] [pedagogy] [philosophy]
[photography] [planning] [politics] [post-modernism] [practice]
[preservation] [psychology] [representation] [research] [security]
[space settlement] [space-time] [style] [superstars] [sustainability]
[theme parks] [typology] [virtual archaeology] [virtual reality]

–> if you have written a text related to architecture, in the broadest
sense of the word, and it's on the internet, please send the url to
human@architexturez.com

{people icon} the *researchers & publishers* section seeks to catalogue
/researchers/ of architecture, be they media archaeologists, critics,
writers, or laypeople with a desire to decode and recode the built
environment. Please submit your contact information to the network.
also, /publishers/ of architectural texts are listed to help those
researchers seeking venues for publication.

{eye icon} the *architexturez perspectives* section provides a platform
for writers to share their architectural /perspectives/ in essays.
Feedback for is provided via an /evocations/ form.

{nodes icon} the *architectural hyperlinks* section compiles a
wide-range of internet resources related to architectural theory and
research.

About the new aesthetic: the clich'e of architecture as a manipulation
and combination of materials has been exploited by placing freely
available textures of various materials such as wood, metal, marble, and
concrete in complex and contradictory relations with one another. these
architectural signs simultaneously simulate and represent materiality,
online and off. This dichotomy is demonstrated in the /research/
section, where traditional areas of architectural thought are placed
upon a marble background, while new fields of architectural exploration
based upon knowledge of electricity is located on a background of a
lightning storm. It is the specific interest of architexturez to
interrogate this relationship between these two orders of architecture,
actual and virtual. The interface also reflects a strategy of
information archaeology, whereby (the signs of architecture and) pre-
existing architectural content on the internet is gathered as an open-
source architectural code, along-side the architectural building of new
content.