Mark Hemel

In his view, architecture can play an important and positive role in shedding light on potential routes global culture could take.

He was particularly influenced by the books of Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene 1976), Kevin Kelly (Out of Control 1995), Ilya Prigogine (Order Out of Chaos 1984), and Douglas Hofstadter (Gödel, Escher, Bach).

The reason for his interest in chaos theory is that it seems to explain why Modernism is doomed to lead to disaster, and that the alternative "synthesis and integration" bears much more prospect.

[6] During this year he travelled through Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, India, and Indonesia concentrating his research on organic city-developments.

[citation needed] Hemel is registered as an architect at the Stichting Bureau Architectenregister, The Hague, Netherlands.

The office is called "information based" in order to clearly break with the common state of architecture at that time that was producing modernist architects.

[citation needed] Hemel is the author of a book entitled Supermodel, the making of the world's tallest TV tower (2011).