After successful completion of the course, students are able to see the vast societal transformations that go along with digitalization in a big picture. They have acquired ideas of how contemporary technology can be anchored with respect to the tradition of thinking about technics in the tradition of architecture. The module addresses specifically students interested in pursuing an academic and research oriented career, with emphasis on theory in architecture and urban design and planning. This module will llet the students actively participate in the ATTP research pursuits, as well as in our cooperations with other international universities.
The Digital Architectonics Module is conceived and directed by:
Vera Bühlmann (TU Wien)
Ludger Hovestadt (ETH Zurich)
Elias Zafiris (Parmenides Foundation Münich)
The official start of the Module is Thursday March 7, 10 am
This module expands a set of instruments for digital architectonics, which introduces into how the structures of thought in architecture, mathematics, and philology, can play together upon the background of generic information technology, big data, and machine intelligence. The focus of our research is based on the problem diagnosis that we are experiencing upheavals with digitization that affect almost all aspects of our societies, and in which largely invisible and somewhat uncontrolled, new power structures emerge. For architecture and urban planning, this means a challenge that is very fundamental. Many conventional values become non-specific and diffuse into the generic. Cities and buildings need a new self-understanding and a new face. We are looking for how general technology (digitalization) can be anchored in the thinking of the tradition of architecture, and how one can give a "face" to current power structures in the manner of rhetorical composition and the treaties writing tradition.
The three VO courses and the VU will be taught live in 7 sessions each, before all courses join forces in the blocked Workshop Week at the end of May 2024, where all students will develop the structure for their final delivery (Treatise).
259.568 VO Architektur und Philologie (2 ECTS): Thursdays 10:00-12:00 Uhr
259.567 VO Architektur und Mathematik (2 ECTS): Thursdays 14:00-16:00 Uhr
259.569 VU Architecture und Traktate (4 ECTS): Thursdays 16:00-18:00 Uhr
259.565 VO Architektur und Digitalisierung (2 ECTS): Fridays 10:00-12:00 Uhr
Blocked Workshop in Tuscany May 23 to June 03 2024
There will be lectures, readings, discussions, and the students are expected to write and work on weekly exercises whose outcomes they present in class.
We will find inspiration in Andrew Witts book "Formulations" (MIT Press, 2022) which demonstrates and reminds us how architects have always been "thinking mathematically" – and we will explore what such architectonics of thinking might feel and look like in the digital.
Mandatory participation in the blocked workshop week May 23-June 3 2024.
Approx. costs: travel (individual) and a fee of 30 Euro per person/night for accommodation and food.
Individual preparation for the session, active participation in the exercises and discussions, written essays.
