‘The architect is no longer a designer of discrete objects, matter and space, but a designer of systems with complex components and multi-layered relationships, and we have started handling the scripts, but we are still very far away from thinking the protocols, from defining the definitions for the tools needed.’ LCW The flesh of architecture in the twenty-first century is …
Codes in the clouds V – indicium taxonomy motus
TOPIC ‘Imagine the possibilities of being able to predict the intricacies of an evolving city. The capability to compute algorithms for not only a standard city model, but to include variable sets specific to a single city. CITC V is looking at the possiblity of using real time streaming data of human movement through GIS information to develop algorithms, which …
FRANK RATCHYE GRANT
Liss C. Werner receives a grant from the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier (FRFAF)— an endowment to encourage the creation of innovative artworks by the faculty, students and staff of Carnegie Mellon University. With this fund, the STUDIO seeks to develop a cache of groundbreaking projects created at CMU — works that can be described as “thinking at …
Codes in the clouds IV – Atrophic re-topography
TOPIC CITC IV looking at the architecture of masquerade, of the ornate veil; the architecture of reproduction and the [t]issue of Atrophic [RE]Topography. The Term ‘atrophic’ mainly is used in medicine and biology, however the material built fabric as well as the understanding of it is subject to atrophy over the centuries. We will cross over the boundary of first …
Codes in the clouds III – 2012AI Maribor Venice Biennale
TOPIC CITC III has been invited by the Slovenian curating team of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 and to join 2112AI for Maribor, the European Capital of Culture 2012 located in Slovenia. Maribor, a small city in the north-east of Slovenia with approximately 120.000 inhabitants between the mountains and the river Drava, has a vibrant cultural history whereas it belonged …