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The next big thing is not parametrics. It's not a
new geometry. It is more than that. The stances
of Gehry, Eisenman, Libeskind, UNStudio, Hadid
and others are pointing towards a new direction
altogether. They give us a taste of what lies
beyond , as do the aesthetic exercises of Herzog &
de Meuron or Zumthor.
We have left the certainties of geometry, logic
and arithmetic behind. The substrate of the new
meta-level is symbolic .
At our Chair, we don't want to follow a
reductionist, functional view of architecture. Wedon't like the uncommitted structuralist attitude
towards global challenges. We want to start
cultivating a new plateau; widen the perspective.
We want to be pioneers in learning to construct
within the symbolic, and do so seriously.
The MAS class provides a forum, establishes a
network and offers practical experiments, doing
just that.
A New Plateau
Tired of today's free-form architecture?
Still interested in
technology?
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Today, information technology is ubiquitous. Most architects
have a self-taught working knowledge of visualisation and
computer-aided modelling techniques. In some places, there
are specialised technical programmes, especially in the areas
of parametric design and experimental computer-generated
production. This specialist knowledge is not sufficient,
however, to keep track of the medial, technical,
organisational, economical and political developments in
architecture. Information technology has become a driving
force in every sphere of activity for architects. But these
developments are as yet badly understood, and so their
interpretation is narrow and the architectural landscape
diffuse.
This programme is directed at architects, designers and
creative people. It offers, for the first time, not technical
specialisation but architectural integration on a higher
technical level. It conveys profound insights into a variety of
technical areas and prompts theoretical reflection as well as
promoting an independent personal stance.
The programme is demanding. Technologies are becoming
ever simpler and more accessible, but defining an individualposition for an architect is becoming more and more difficult.
We offer no formulas or solutions. We mistrust the attitude,
taken by MIT for example, that popularises, and in doing so
naturalises, technology. This, to our minds, amounts to a
positioning for power by way of simplification: complexities
are being externalised. We believe that this is not enough:
technological creation has to be complemented by expertise,not just in technology, but also in creation.
What's next ?
Step out of the wood
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The MAS in Architecture and
Information is a one-yearfull-time course at the Chair
for CAAD at ETH Zürich. It
starts at the beginning of the
academic year in September
and consists of 3 theory
modules (M1, M4 and M7),
and 4 practical modules (M2,
M3, M5 and M6), in 3
different focal areas
(research, development and
application) and concludes
after 12 months with an
individual Master’s project,
in September the following
year. The cost of the
programme is CHF 12,000.
Brighton
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ETH Zürich, MAS in Ar hitecture a d Information September, 1 Week October, 4 Weeks November, 4 Weeks Dec - Januar, 4 Weeks Januar - Feb,
M0 welcome
Livint in a World of
Abundant Potentiabilities
p 13
M1 theory
Theory and Information
p 13
M2 A research
Algorithmic Design
p 13
M3 A research
Connected Artefacts
p 13
M4 theory
Architecture and
Information
M2 B development Fiction
p 13
M3 B development Innovation
p 13
M2 C application
Advanced Geometry
Modelling
p 13
M3 C application
Mass Customised
Production
p 13
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4 Weeks March, 4 Weeks April, 4 Weeks Mai, 4 Weeks June - Sept, 12 Weeks
p 13
M5 A research
Customised Materials
p 13
M6 A research
Design Beyond the
Problematic
p 13
M7 theory
Information and I
p 13
ITIndividual Thesis
p 13
M5 B development Articulation
p 13
M6 B development Population
p 13
M5 C application
Building Information
Models
p 13
M6 C application
Buidling Operation Models
p 13
Charles Jencks on Postmodernism
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Map about Architecture by
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Charles Jencks
Map of the Internet
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Rem Koolhaas OMA Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal 2005
'' It is great to be a part of a true research! ''
Miro Roman
...I'm talking to my parents, trying to explain
them what I'm doing for this module. My
mother says 'Why you are not learning
Architecture?' My father, very satisfied replies
'They are learning to think'...
Ekaterina Ageeva
"Few higher-academic experiences allow for
self-reflective and insightful paths in the field
of technology, relying not on
instrumentalism, but on conceptual and
methodological strategy. My experience here
has revealed a fresh and fertile perspective
towards the future of architecture, accessible
today."
Mauricio Rodríguez
"Looking deeper into theoretical issues, while
shifting perspectives towards tools and
methods. Rethinking "computational"
architecture by focusing on underlying
principles."
Evangelos Pantazis
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module 0 welcome Living in a World
of AbundantPotentiabilities
M0
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This programme is unlike any other.
We take a different stance.
Technology is not comfortable. We
can’t ask technology what’s right
and what’s wrong, what’s good or
bad. These are our machines, we’ve
made them. They are our statistics,
our images, which we’ve created of
our world. They are not ‘The Truth’
about earth or nature. So who can
we complain to, if not ourselves?
Who should we be afraid of?
Elsewhere, you may hear people
declare: “Nothing is scarier than the
truth.” (Al Gore). Globalisation,
finance, climate, technological
catastrophes, naturalisation,
scarcities, wars, terrorism,
fundamentalism, media overkill,
educational crises... cool it! Our
programme takes an optimistic
perspective, from a new plateau: we
have more energy than we need, we
have fantastic potential. But we
have to do it ourselves. We can’t ask
anybody else to do it for us. Not
nature, not technology. Just
ourselves.
Worm up, lectures and seminar.
1 week in September.
The Draughtsman’s Contract, Peter Greenaway
M0
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Silk production in Bejing, China
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Cabinet of curiositiesSilk production in China
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theory
Theory andInformation
M1
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Information is everywhere. The term ‘information’ is so
powerful, yet we understand it so little. Information is
information. It’s neither energy nor is it matter (as Norbert
Wiener claims). But this doesn’t say a lot, and perhaps it isn’t
even accurate, because matter is a form of energy. What,
though, is information? Perhaps the question is put the wrong way. Couldn’t we ask instead: how can we use information?
Especially seeing that computers are not machines but general
machines. And in asking the question ‘how?’, other,
unexpected, questions pose themselves, such as: how do we
use rationality? How analytics? How do we use geometry,
arithmetic, algebra? How can we produce stabilities? How can
we use symbols, indices, signals? How calculations, functions,codings? How generalisations and abstractions? How concepts,
words, texts, constructs, drawings? How infrastructures,
medialities, narratives? Fictions, phantasms, specifications,
definitions? How form, structure, topoi? How behaviour,
sensation, reason, cognition, logic? How does the new come
about? What do Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Habermas,
Heidegger, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Peirce, Boole, Poe,
Hegel, Kant, Leibniz, Spinoza, Descartes, Aristotle, Plato and all
the others have to say about it? - Curious yet?...
Lectures, seminar and exercises in reading and writing. Final
presentation as a short video.
4 Weeks in October.
M1
splanting rice seedlings in Java, Indonesia
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Lib
module 1 theory Theory and Information
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ary of the Abbey of St Gall (St Gallen, Switzerland)
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Georg Flegel, Still L
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fe with Apple, 1566 - 1638. Van Gogh: Still Life with a Basket of Apples, 1885.
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Apples, 2011.
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Daredevil Comic, 2005.
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Rice-field,Kakogawa,Japan, 2008.
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Dehli, India 2010
M2 A
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module 2 A
research Design by Algorithms, or
The Availability of
Logical Thinking
M2 A
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The Masjid-i Shah, Isfahan 1629
M2 A
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In 1854 George Boole developed an algebra that
reflects logical thought (An Investigation of the Laws
of Thought). Computers follow this type of algebra
and externalise precisely what we call logical
thinking (Turing, 1936; von Neumann, 1945). We
may call it Turing Computing. Using computers, we
are able, as creative people, to explore this logical
‘think space’. We can discover phenomena never
seen before. Multitudes of new images, geometries
and artefacts become concrete constructions from a
logical world. It’s so simple: procedures, iterations,
recursions, objects, rules, constraints, agents, text,
drawing, imagery, video, morphing, topology,grammar, cellular automata, parametric geometry,
simulation, generation, evolutionary algorithms,
neural networks... all easily accessible and online.
This module offers practical exercises in logical
order systems and delivers an introduction to
corresponding thought. Technologies: processing,Java, Eclipse.
Lectures and exercises in programming. Final
presentation as a short video.
4 weeks, November
M2 A
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Charles Babbage, Analytical Engine, 1823, 2000
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Culmann, Grafische Statik 1866. Lueger 1904
module 2 A research
Design by Algorisms
module 2 A research
Design by Algorisms
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Applied Fourier (1768 - 1830) Transformation
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Applied Fourier (1768 - 1830) Transformation
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Design by Algorismsmodule 2 A research
Design by Algorisms
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The first Intel processor, 4004, 1971.
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Michael Hansmeyer, CAAD 2009CAAD 2009
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It is always the great narratives, the big concepts that count. They are told, and retold, again and again. Over and over, they are
reformulated, as poetry, as prose, as fiction, as definitions, as lists, as
compositions, as tables, as forms, as user’s guides, as formulas, as
equations, as drawings, as pictures, as constructs, as machines, as
software, as figures, as fusion, as dance, as theatre, as music; spoken,
sung, gestured, as lectures, as deceptions, as orders, as advertising,
in German, in English, in the 16th Century, in the 18th Century,today; as photography, as email, as text message, as a wiki, as a blog.
Melville’s Moby Dick, Edgar Allan Poe, Scorsese’s Godfather, NASA’s
Apollo missions, Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Spielberg’s Star
Wars, Tati’s Play Time, Koolhaas’s New York, Jenck’s postmodernism,
Loo’s Ornament, Wittgenstein’s wordplay, Heidegger’s ‘Gestell’. What
does Ovid tell us, what scholastics, what is the turn of meaning in
Shakespeare, Goethe, Nietzsche, Bach, Mozart, Wagner,Stockhausen, what in Vatel, Bocuse, Ducasse or Adria, what in
Leibniz, Newton, Descartes, Lagrange, Maxwell, Einstein; how do
Popper, Feyerabend, Chomsky, Kurzweil articulate themselves, how
Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari?
How are the big concepts reformulated and rephrased, over and over
again? Element, substance, body, life, love, power, friendship,
hospitality, fertility, symbolism, security, contemplation, freedom,
fear, joy, nature, death, age, equilibrium, energy, matter, being,
order, time. What are the narratives for their derived concepts:
existence, health, childhood, vitality, progress, youth, intelligence,
landscape, nutrition.
Lectures and exercises to investigate and learn to read the big themes
of our culture beyond their concrete manifestations.
4 weeks, November
M2 B
oreau, Hercules and the Hydra Lernaean - 1876
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A Space Odysee, 1968
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Stanley Kubrick, 2001:
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Yuri Gagarin, 1961Bjork .
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module 2 application Advanced
Geometry Modelling
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Generative Components, CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid
Works, Rhino, Revit, scripting, Grasshopper, processing,
OpenGL... - Non-Euclidian geometry is now universally
available. Only ten years ago, it belonged to the experts,
25 years ago to visionaries; 40 years ago the only people
who had access to it were mathematicians. Today, the
machines using it are on every desk, the software onevery laptop, and the tutorials on YouTube.
Secularisation. The fascination with its potential of this
geometry, iterated a millionfold in blogs. But in actual
fact, designing buildings or developing an architectural
style, even in this environment, is only easy at first
glance. How, for example, can you generate the
continuities of, for instance, Hadid, UNStudio, NOX,Eisenman, Gehry, or the geometrical discontinuities of
Liebeskind, Herzog & de Meuron, Ito or Sejima? How
can we proceed in technology, without getting stuck
within a very short time? How can we plan such
buildings at a rate that we’re used to from regular
geometry? How can we preserve our creative freedom
within that technological complexity? How can weretain the flexibility of a small geometrical experiment
when we apply it to a building that has been thought
through in every detail?
Lectures and exercises in advanced CAD modelling
4 weeks, November
M2 B
ry, Düsseldorf (Germany) 2006.
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ation Project for Kartal, 2008.
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module 3 A research Design
and Construction of Connected Artefacts,
or:The Global Availability
of Physical
Characteristics
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Nicola Tesla, US390721 Patent for a "Dynamo Electric Machine", 1888.
Diagram of the
of radio wavesante
M3 A
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Computers are general machines (Turing 1936). Not just all known, but also all
future machines can be logically visualised through them. Computers are abstract
from any physics (von Neumann, 1945). The networks of space and time (Baran,
1964, Licklider, 1960), reduced to minute, printed particles, connected with eachother by electromagnetic modulations. Billions of them. Every computer, phone,
machine. Design is no longer constructed from necessities, rather it condensates
from the wealth of all possibilities. Rendered from virtual availability into concrete
existence. And it’s so simple: mechanics from CNC production, electrical controls
from do-it-yourself kits, general processors, accessible networks, a bit of software.
This module offers practical exercises in the established manifestations of virtualinformation technology order systems, and an introduction to corresponding
thought patterns. Over the last few years, electronic prototyping has evolved to the
extent where any interested lay person can very quickly develop electronic gadgets
and connect them to the mediality of the internet. This module gives an overview
over the technological concepts and delivers a guide to building your own gadgets
in electronics, software and mechanics. The Internet of Things, distributed
computing, remote procedure calls, TCP/IP, URL, Google Earth, sensors, actuators, Arduino, automation, interaction
technologies: processing, wiring, CNC production.
Lectures and exercises in Electronics, Programming and CNC Production.
Final presentation as a short video.
4 weeks, December and January
3
electric fields (E) and magnetic fields (H)
emitted by a monopole radio transmittingna (small dark vertical line in the center).
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Photodiode
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Paul Baran, "On Distributed Comm
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United States radio spectrum fr
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quency allocations chart as of 2011
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module 3 A research Connected Artefacts
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3D Printer
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‘Whatever you call out into the forest, the forest calls back at you.’ We call out ‘into the forest’
with statistics, analyses, methodology, automaton, diagnoses, references, illustrations, didactics,
safeguards. And for a long time, we got a lot of responses to these reductions and
concentrations. The harvest was rich. But today, you could be forgiven for getting the
impression that this way of going about things has exhausted itself. There is talk of ‘limits to
growth’. There are calls for discipline, empathy, sustainability.
But might it not be the case that we could see further, solve more problems, master more
riddles, if we were to bypass the shortest possible route, the logical arguments and stringent
analysis? If, instead of putting to one side - as so often demanded by critics of modernity -
methodology, because we’ve always known about it and now demand naturalisation and
aestheticisation, we were to learn how to juggle the established methodologies, specialisms and
manifold forms of articulation. Creative people know that problems and their solutions twist,
turn and change the moment you articulate their narrative in a different medium or language.
We might call this meta-rational.
How then is it possible, in a networked world of ubiquitous accessibility, to look and listen, to
ask questions, to examine, without blocking your own possibilities for the new, without losing
the flexibility of future twists and turns. If we are looking for the new, we cannot depend on our
established disciplines, methods and expertise. The new is neither out there, nor is it inside us; it
doesn’t lie rooted in our language or in differences of iteration. These manifestations of the
concept of scarcity are what blocks our view. Could such a concept still be adequate in the
context of a trillion links referenced by Google? The hypothesis of this module is that the new
resides in the potential that derives from the concentration of that which is explicitly and
rationally accessible. It lies in cultivating the rational.
Lecture and exercises on the free availability of information and on the subject of indexability.
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
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Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse, 2010.
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The Crown of Genghis Khan, 13th century.
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A very early example of constructions in non-eucledian geometry. Peter Cook, Kunsthaus Graz Austria, 2003.
It’s contemporary CNC production methods that make non-standard buildings and the use of
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It s contemporary CNC production methods that make non standard buildings and the use of
non-Euclidean geometry possible. Worlds of a difference lie between the qualities of Peter
Cook’s Kunsthaus in Graz (2003) and the Norpark Cable Railway by Zaha Hadid (2007). Using
a master geometry and a continuous digital workflow from design via construction right
through to production and logistics, buildings can be realised in freeform geometry at prices
normally associated with serial production ‘in the grid’. Industrial production has
emancipated itself from the grid, or the table, as the principle of order, coordination andlogistics. Beyond that, 90% of architecture that is being built could be parametrically
modularised, and could therefore be manufactured in CNC production without significantly
affecting the architectural result in terms of spatiality, materials or construction. (Other
economic sectors show that industrialisation makes possible an increase in productivity of
60% and a reduction in costs of 30% across the board. Applied to the construction industry -
globally the largest economic sector - this results in gigantic amounts.) The idea that
industrial production brings about a uniform system of construction has been reversed: now systems are being developed for individual buildings and make possible a fantastical
architecture in the first place.
So how do you dismantle buildings into parametric modules? How can you actually build
Coop Himmelblau, Hadid, Gehry, UNStudio? How can you mass produce bespoke everyday
architecture? Modularisation, standardisation, normalisation, parametrisation, deformation,
configuration, integration, serialisation, master geometry, building construction, building
services, building logistics, production code, production tools, production facilities.
Lectures and exercises in mass customised building production with field trips to production
facilities.
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What could be more fantastical, of more consequence, than building a new
it ? O h ? H ti h l hi fi ld i h
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city? Or a new house? Hunting a hog or ploughing a field is easy enough,
you can follow a natural order. But building a new city? That’s pure
imagination, pure virtuality. On a small, carefully chosen and defined plot
of land, a city can be anything we want it to be. There, in that particular
abstraction of territory, there are no qualitative boundaries, except those
set by our own imagination, which in turn has been shaped over time by the rhythms of the fields that lie under the sun.
Today, thus our contention, it is no longer the cultivation of fields that is
being visualised and whose surpluses find articulation in the cities.
Through information technology it is our cities themselves that are being
cultivated. Today we look for virtualisations and architectural articulations
on a new plateau. What, then, are the imaginings, the thought patterns that
are being shown to us by Vitruvius, Palladio, Ledoux, Durand, Semper,
Loos,
Wright, Corbusier, Sullivan, Rossi, Krier, Ungers, Alexander, Otto, Venturi,
Eisenman, Libeskind, Hadid, Gehry, Lynn, Herzog & de Meuron, Zumthor,
Koolhaas? What are the virtualities, what the urbanities described by
deconstructivism, structuralism, post-structuralism, minimalism,
functionalism, international style, modernity, postmodernism,existentialism, phenomenology, behaviourism, positivism, vitalism?
Let’s cultivate these ideas for our new architecture and our new cities.
Lectures, seminar and exercises in reading and writing. Final presentation as
a short video.
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La Cité de Carcassonne Park in Isphahan, 2010.
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Anonymous 17th-century watercolor of the Semper Augustus, famous for being the most expensive tulip sold during tulip mania.
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Apple Computer, Think Different: Hitchcock, Boston 2000.
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Herzog & de Meuron, Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg, 2007.
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Doping material with ions
Material availability - the explosion of materials - the
search for construction that is appropriate to materials -
no longer boiled, refined, concentrated, arduous, cleansed
- materials are being thought up and made drawn from
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materials are being thought up and made, drawn from
the earth, in controlled processes. The most explicit
manifestation of this is found in doping, the deliberate
adding of impurities - materials achieve what we’ve never
been able to achieve through continuities: they turn
sunlight into electricity, they glow, shine, gleam, oscillate,
move, see, smell, hear, sound, absorb, concentrate, switch,
operate logically... simply because we’ve coded them,
doped them.
This module conveys, by way of exercises, the methods of
material doping. What we are looking for are material
constructions which articulate these constructed material
properties into new kinds of constructions. Processing,
wiring, CNC production.
Lectures and exercises in Electronics, Programming and CNC Production. Final
presentation as a short video.
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Light emitting foil
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. Kinetic foil.
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Shape Shift, 2010.
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Metal sheet blow ups. Zieta.
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Brussels, Grand Place, 2007.
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Articulation
iati, The Yellow House, Flims, Switzerland, 1999.
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Europe by satellite.
It’s so easy to play the individual disciplinary, medial and technological channels. There’s no problem producing a
satellite picture showing us the hole in the ozone layer, calculating a model that simulates the climate on planet
earth, publishing a video report about the revolution in Egypt, generating imagery that shows the phenomena at
work in our brain, developing the crumple zone for a new car, making an artificial nose to aid wine tasting,
designing a curved facade for a new airport building, going for a week-long hike in the Amazon, attending a three-
day conference in Seoul, manufacturing a computer chip in Taiwan, selling your old printer on eBay to a man in
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Stockholm, making a phone call to the slums of Mumbai, buying shares in a start-up in Chicago... there’s no
problem doing anything we like.
The many standards we use: ASCII, dtp, html, TCP, JPEG, MP3, AVI, Linux, AJAX, USB, UPnP, DXF, MEL, TCL, JAVA,
GSM, GPS, UPC, IBAN - there are thousands. And the technologies we use for the development of our buildings:
building layout generators, building structure simulation, building automation, finite elements analysis,
photorealistic rendering and printing, one-of-a-kind production, 3D printing... Or, more generally: energy
harvesting, ubiquitous logic, worldwide logistics, mobile phones, social media, micro-banking... An ever more
densely populated carpet of electronic media. The idea that for a development project, for research, for thought
itself one of these channels could suffice - and it doesn’t matter whether it be a classical channel such as a scientific journal, a lecture, a political book, a journalist’s picture, an eye witness report, a technical development, a new
product, or any of the new media channels - becomes increasingly absurd. More and more, these channels can be
utilised automatically; rendering content into any of these channels becomes easier all the time, and it’s being done
more and more frequently. The channels themselves keep getting broader. And increasingly it’s not us, but the
channels that determine the content. ‘The medium is the message.’ (McLuhan).
Time to take a step back. Time to find the right level of abstraction for our projects, our articulations. Time to learn
to understand what we can do with information, what the code is that can play all these channels. It, the code,brings about a new substrate. With it, we can learn seriously, and at the same time fantastically. Cross-media story
telling. We want to learn to cultivate the logical channels (exactly not the magical channels [McLuhan, 1964], and
not the sacred channels [Hörl, 2006], and neither a metaphysics of mediality [Krämer, 2009]), so as to be able to
create the fantastical.
Lectures and exercises in the Articulation of the Fantastical.
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Future Systems, Selfridges (Birmingham), 2003.
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Ski Dubai, 2005.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2006. Josie has also been suffering from low hemoglobinand low iron for some as yet undetermined reason. Because of this Josie is going to
have a peripheral catheter put into her hand through which she'll get a bloodtransfusion to help this conditions ...
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Junya Ishigami, the japanese pavilion at the Architectural Biennale in Venice 2008.
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RFID chip.
The construction industry is under increasing pressure from economists. They, not
unreasonably, want to know what it is that they’ll get, when they’ll get it, at what price and to
what specification. To the end of quantitative transparency, so called Industry Foundation
Classes (IFC) were formulated in 1995 by American and European AEC (Architecture
Engineering and Construction) firms and promoted worldwide by the institution
buildingSMART in 2005. The IFC derives from the production information model standards
IGES and STEP from the year 1980. IFC pursues a hypothesis that it is possible to describe
every building that has ever been built as well as every building that is ever going to be built
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every building that has ever been built, as well as every building that is ever going to be built,
no matter in which part of the world or culture it happens to be, by a hierarchical system of
pre-defined formulas. This, to us, seems somewhat crazy.
These long-term efforts, within a set-up that is in itself adventurous, lead to a situation where
technicians draw up more and more tables into which practitioners make more and more
erroneous entries, if they are using them at all. Yet still economists demand this type of
solution, because it has been shown to work in other industries, and so they increasingly cause
a reduction of architecture to simplistic quantities.
Wikipedia, Google and the success stories of the internet in general demonstrate a different
path towards solutions. There is no technological need for tables, nor for strict hierarchies,
there is no reason for specifications before designing a building just in order to enable
transparencies and comparison and with it open competition and quality standards. So how
can buildings be modelled in such a way that effective cost management is possible early on in
the planning, while allowing for the prerequisite architectural freedom? How is it possible to
model in such a way that buildings can be compared with each other? So that learnings andexperiences can quickly and efficiently be applied to other projects? So that jobs and mistakes
don’t have to be repeated three, five, a hundred or a thousand times?
Lectures and exercises in building information models, databases, standards, modules,
abstractions, flexibilities, indexing and cost management.
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Somewhere in the US.
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the Problematic,
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With all these manifold availabilities, we, with ourproblems, tend to get in our own way. We can’t see the
wood for the trees. In view of all the analysis and
statistics, we are blind to the causes. We don’t see what
next steps are adequate. (We don’t want to keep talking
about ‘solutions’ any more, seeing that we want to go
beyond thinking in terms of ‘problems’.) Yet we could
create approaches to issues such as urbanity,
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pp y,sophistication, modes of living, friendliness,
inspiration, openness, concentration, creativity,
liveliness, differentiation, narratives, styles and
fashions, beyond individual parameters. A new way of
looking at things in a new environment of information
makes these creative potentials available to us. We are
calling this ‘Non-Turing-Computing’.
This module offers practical exercises in meta-logical
order systems and gives an introduction to the
corresponding thought processes. Self-organising
maps, reaction diffusion diagrams, JAVA, Eclipse.
Lectures and exercises in advanced programming
concepts. Final presentation as a short video.
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eboy Tokyo
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Shape grammar. Project Südpark by Herzog & de Meuron, Basel
Switzerland 2006.
Peter Zumthor, Kolumba -zbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum,Cologne (Köln), Germany . 2007.
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How can we evaluate all these cross-media narratives? Is it sufficient for something to work, for
something to be correct, for it to have been checked, said out loud and clear, in a world of logical channels? Can we find stabilities in fixing, in referencing, in illustrating, in looking, if
everything is absorbed in logical channels? Here, stability and order can no longer be found,
they have to be made. In the repetitions (Deleuze, 1968), in the populations, in exercises
(Sloterdijk, 2009), in the ever renewed narratives, in the differences in time, in space, in the
articulations of the various channels.
What, though, is it that needs to be told in order to create stabilities across these various
channels to popularise a narrative to make a story valuable We can’t invent any new stories So
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channels, to popularise a narrative, to make a story valuable. We can’t invent any new stories. So,
what can we rely on? We have to pass them on, the big stories, tell them afresh, modulate them.
Body, life, love, power, friendship, hospitality, fertility, security, contemplation, freedom, fear,
joy, nature, death, age, equilibrium, health, childhood, vitality, progress, youth, intelligence,
landscape, nutrition...
So how do journalists, political scientists, sociologists, economists, communication scientists
deal with this situation? How does Nestlé, for example, tell the narrative of body and hospitality,
Siemens the narrative of technology and progress, what’s the story of Apple, of SAP, of IBM,
what’s the story about the knowledge of Google, the novelty of Facebook, what is the technology
story as told by MIT, what the story of history and values of Harvard, what is Marlboro’s story
about freedom, what’s the story that liberalism tells us about the history of ethics, what does
Swiss Re tell us about security, what Nike about our bodies, what does Formula 1 tell us, what
BMW about motion, what the French revolution about freedom, what’s the story that Marxism
tells us... What are the channels that are successfully being played by H&M, Toyota, Novartis,
Nokia, IBM, SAP, Google, by the Louvre, by Harvard, by UBS, Walt Disney, by Rem Koolhaas?
Lectures and exercises in the dissemination of the great narratives into popular culture
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Parmigianino, Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, 1524.
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Herzog & de Meuron, Schaulager Basel 2003.
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application B ildi
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Power station Weisweiler, Ge
Between 30% and 60% of the investment cost for new buildings goes
towards building technology. Building technology itself develops
from central, hierarchical systems - so called central building control
systems - to locally distributed and IT-networked systems. The focus
is no longer on the temperature, brightness or level of humidity that
is being brought about; instead, what’s being created are
atmospheres for animated discussion, concentrated study, security,
access, maintenance, logistics, navigations, displays, transmissions,
readiness, availability, efficiencies, services, management,
accounting.
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In hospitals, within 6 years of completion, running the building costs
more than its original investment for construction. In offices, it’s 10
years. Thus, new business models evolve. Buildings become smart.
Services are being articulated into the building by its users, ratherthan functions being produced by the building for the user.
Middleware, building services, building automation, SPS, PLC,
zigbee, digitalSTROM, UIN, facilities management, persistence,
multi-hierarchical databases, SAP integration, WEB, mobile phones,
interaction, tracking, accounting...
Lectures and exercises on building automation and service models.
4 weeks, April
rmany since 1913.
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Solar-powered lanterns recharging, Barefoot C
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ollege, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, 2006.
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CAAD 2009
Single chip, high voltage computer with power line communication for building automation, digitalSTROM, 2009.
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Crystal mesh media facade, realities:united, Singapore 2009.
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Minato Tokyo
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HASSELL architects, ANZ Centre, Melburne 2010.
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CAAD 2010 Builidng automation and management,digitalSTROM, mivune, 2010.
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Arriving late night at Dizengoff square, Tel Aviv, 2010.
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ETHZ 2008
Decentralized HVAC module, ETH Zürich GT, 2008.
emission freeocean world
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solar pv
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CAAD 2007
Emmision free building service, ETH Zürich CAAD & GT, 2007.
desalination
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module 7:
theoryInformation
M7
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Information
and I
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IIT cam
It’s not easy, finding your own position as an architect. With our
technologies, we accelerate everything: more people, more
mobility, more television, more images, more phones, more
networks, more research, more publications, more complexity,
more statistics, more rubbish, more technology, more advertising,
more consumerism... Google, Twitter, games, leisure, over-ageing,
privacy, intellectual property, corporate communications, global
village, mega-cities, economy drives, liberalism, marketing,
entertainment, war architecture... It’s easy to think that all this
could be halted, that it could all slow down, that it is possible to castan anchor an arrest the movement. Sustainability, misery, crisis,
scarce resources, nature, empathy, renunciation, limitation,
insurance, reassurance, delegation, the original, the origin,
territory, land, causes, simplicity, clarity, guilt, regeneration,
li ti ti i li it t i l i t
M7
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recycling, recreation, creation, simplicity, materials-appropriate
construction... but information technology is of a different ‘nature’.
Which is why our old concepts are not sufficient to grasp it or itsphenomena. Just as described in the fable of the Hare and the
Tortoise: the hare kills himself running and the tortoise doesn’t even
get out of breath. That’s exactly what we’re witnessing: we feel
washed away every time we try to cast an anchor, within the sea of
our old conceptions. And so, adrift, we keep looking for an
equilibrium in arranging our belongings. But how about, instead of
casting anchors, we learn to surf?
Lectures, seminar and exercises in conceptualising. Final
presentation as a short video.
4 weeks, May
us, Chicago, 2010.
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brose, Hallstadt Germany, 2003.
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Delhi
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Coney Island
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Jan van Huijsum - Vase of Flowers in a Niche, 1720-40.
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Individual
Thesis
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your choice
12 weeks in June - September
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ETHZ 2009
IABR
4. Internationale Architektur Biennale Rotterdam24. September 2009 – 10. Januar 2010
Rotterdam-Amsterdam
ETHZ 2
Gwangju D biennale cuSept. 2nd –
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sign Biennale: The Sixth Order,ated by Ai Wei Wei and Seung H-Sang,Oct. 23rd 2011
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H Zürich Hönggerberg campus
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CAAD
The Chair of CAAD (Computer Aided Architectural Design) represents the
information-technology branch at the ETH's Department of Architecture. The Chair
was newly vested with Ludger Hovestadt at the end of year 2000, which led to a
paradigm shift in its orientation. Since then the aim has no longer been to illustrate
architecture within the computer (simulation, virtual reality), but to once more
extract architecture from the computer (back to reality) in order to think, design and
build artefacts, which cannot be realised by conventional methods. To attain thesegoals, the CAAD Group employs a uniquely large faculty of teachers and researchers,
which is formed in an interdisciplinary manner and is – at its core – oriented
towards a pragmatic conversion of information technologies in architecture.
ETH Zürich
ETH Zürich is one of Europe's leading research universities. The school attractsexcellent faculty members and draws on a large community of architects, theorists
and practitioners in the field. The Department of Architecture is particularly
vibrant, with a large number of exhibitions, conferences and lectures. See the
Department of Architecture's site for further information and for a list of current
events: www.arch.ethz.ch
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A programme by
Prof. Ludger Hovestadt
Architecture, Computer Science
Dr. Vera Bühlmann
Philosophy, Literature, Media Theory
Michael Hansmeyer
Architecture, Computational Art
Manuel Kretzer
Architecture
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see YOUin Zürich
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