ASK THE BUILDING:
speculating and playing on computational instruments
on architecture, the city, humans and capitals
one in a series
How to talk to buildings if their language is unfamiliar?
What to ask if their universe is unknown?
This course intends to promote articulations orbiting the respective topic, precisely, consistently, yet, considering the impossibilities of any kind of exhaustive understanding: neither a search for axiomatic answers fully absorbed by reasonings of meanings (statements), nor grounded on encapsulated discourses (manifestos); instead, an inventive quest on criterias of amplification over ordinary dimensions.
Departing from specific buildings on peculiar urban contexts, participants will have the chance to speculate on possible correlations between architectural objects and the transformations of Capitals (in their distinct forms of absent presence) by playing with computational instruments as platforms of fiction.
Simultaneously, students will be invited to a theoretical journey around duets of complementary themes disposed as a ‘ballet of concepts’: on aesthetics and economy, statues and percolation, mass and myth, discrete and continuum, and so forth.
In addition, guidance over computational techniques will be provided, taking computation as a process of ‘thinking through’ and not as a mechanical apparatus driven by stylistic manifestations or framed by representational visualities as literal analytical translations.
Activities will be developed mainly in the Studio, as a 'laboratory', in groups or individually, distributed over three phases on different exercises.
Each phase will lead to a specific output that should be considered on the subsequent phase development.
In the end, students will have the chance to expose their respective production by performing a narrative presentation and using diverse medias of communication.
Where?
Wiedner Hauptstr. 7 - ATTP: Seminar room
When?
Every week, on Thursday, from 9am until 6pm
Schedule:
07/03/19 - SESSION 01:
introductions and start of exercise 01
14/03/19 - SESSION 02:
development of exercise 01
warm-up talk I
21/03/19 - SESSION 03:
development of exercise 01
28/03/19 - SESSION 04:
development of exercise 01
warm-up talk II
04/04/19 - SESSION 05:
exercise 01 presentation and critic (!)
11/04/19 - SESSION 06:
explanation and start of exercise 02
18/04/19 - EASTER HOLIDAY:
no session
25/04/19 - EASTER HOLIDAY:
no session
02/05/19 - SESSION 07:
developments of exercise 02
warm-up talk III
09/05/19 - SESSION 08:
developments of exercise 02
16/05/19 - SESSION 09:
exercise 02 presentation and critics (!)
23/05/19 - SESSION 10:
explanation and start of exercise 03
30/05/19 - ASCENSION DAY:
no session
06/06/19 - SESSION 11:
developments of exercise 03
warm-up talk IV
13/06/19 - SESSION 12:
developments of exercise 03 and presentation test
20/06/19 - CORPUS CHRISTI:
no session
27/06/19 - SESSION 13:
Complete presentation and critics (!)
* extra sessions might be arranged in different days for tutorials on computational techniques, depending on the group interest, necessity and feasibility
Evaluations will be addressed through exercises processes, presentations performances and outputs consistency.
* for the application, please submit a portfolio
