Guest Lectures
M3:16.12.2010/ Johannes S. Sistermanns
16.12.2010, 17:00: Johannes S. Sistermanns @ CAAD, HPZ, F www.sistermanns.eu, Bornheim Everything is less [or the Small becomes big] Johannes S. Sistermanns sees itself as a sound sculptor (Klangplastiker). He works with the versatility of sounds. The reference of image in the sound. Electro-acoustic instruments allow him to open up the potential of an open space. Earth’s... Read More
M3:30.11.2010/ Osamu Tsukihashi, Kobe University
30.12.2010, 10:00: Osamu Tshukihashi, Graduate School of Eng.Kobe University @ CAAD, HPZ, F http://www.teehouse.com, ARCHITECTS TEEHOUSE Mounting Geometry Background in traditional village researches with Hiroshi Hara, Professor Tsukihashi talked about聽japanese geometrical concepts with his work and briefly introduced the city of Kobe. 1. Geometry of “na-ga-re” :聽the... Read More
M3:29.11.2010/ Alvin Huang, Amanda Levete Architects
14:00 HIT E 51, Alvin Huang, director of London based Amanda Levete Architects http://amandalevetearchitects.com http://www.vimeo.com/17381959 Digital Craft: The Grey Area A new territory has emerged from the act of realizing forms and spatial constructions that until recently have only existed on computer screens. The pairing of advanced digital... Read More
M2:22.11.2010/ Nervous System (Jessica Rosenkrants, Jesse Rosenberg)
16:00 HCI J4 Jessica Rosenkrantz, Jesse Rosenberg, Nervous System, Shutesbury n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com < Programmed design inspired by natural phenomena > Read More
M2:15.11.2010/ Karsten Schmidt aka Toxi
16:00 HIL E3 Karsten Schmidt aka Toxi, Postspectacular, London postspectacular.com < Code as the primary design tool > There was a presentation of various works done by processing and a positive discussion on open source based creation. Some ideas and citations from the presentation: “Technology as Landscape of Possibilities..” “You don’t need ideas,... Read More
M2:08.11.2010/ Sebastien Wierinck
OnSite Studio 2002-2010 The lecture will be the occasion to present and discuss the evolution of the OnSite_00 project through the years. Started in the year 2002 as a proposal for customizable urban furniture for the city of Brussels, the OnSite_00 project or 鈥減rogrammatic urban furniture prototype鈥 is a system based design project, using both CAD/CAM technologies, and a flexible... Read More
M1:18.10.2010/ Prof.Kate Marshall/Narrative Infrastructures: Architecture, Narrative, Fiction
Narrative Infrastructures: Architecture, Media, Fiction In this lecture I will show how infrastructure, or what the American novelist Henry Roth calls 鈥渢he strange world behind the walls,鈥 works not only as a highly visible and privileged topic of fiction, but also as an important way of thinking about narrative form. Reading infrastructures quite literally as narrative objects... Read More
M1:01.10.2010/Dr.Edward Willat/Gilles Deleuzes Architectonics of Growth
Architectonics has a long history in philosophy.聽 Successive philosophers sought to locate the beginning or foundation of all knowledge.聽 This was used to organise all the disciplines of knowledge in a聽system.聽 This lecture will explore聽the work of Aristotle and Kant where聽the foundational and organisational tasks of architectonics are articulated.聽 We will then introduce聽the... Read More
2010-2011 CAAD Guest Lectures
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