ABSTRACT
Architecture has the universal, exclusive competency and responsibility for the adaptive innovation of the built environment as ordering frame and interface for social interactions of all kinds: economic, political, recreational, etc. The engineered infrastructures, traffic, land values, investment opportunities and other economic parameters are so many constraints and/or demands upon architecture's adaptive, organizational and articulatory repertoire and intelligence. The ecological challenge is confronting all subsystems of global society, the economy, the political system, science/engineering and also architecture/design. So, ecological sustainability is on the agenda of architecture. Machines have been always part of the history of architecture; however the "machinic" in architecture has acquired a new meaning, expanding the mechanical significance it has acquired during the Industrial Revolution. The new emerging architecture, that relates pattern and process, form and behaviour, with spatial cultural parameters, offers new behaviours and adaptations to the changing ecologies and climate of the natural world.
