Guest Lectures
14.03.2011 / DANIEL ALIAGA
14.03.2011, 14:00, Daniel Aliaga @ CAAD, HPZ F Chair for Information Architecture, ETH, and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. www.ia.arch.ethz.ch/ Computational Cities: Geometrical Modeling for Urban Design and Simulation. This lecture addresses the growing desire to create geometrical models that design better, smarter, and more efficient cities. Cities... Read More
14.02.2011 / BIGE TUNCER
14.02.2011, 14:00, Bige Tuncer @ CAAD, HPZ F Chair for Information Architecture, ETH, and Design Informatics, Delft University of Technology. www.ia.arch.ethz.ch/ Performative Architecture. Design Models, Methods and Tools. Bige Tunçer is an assistant professor at the Design Informatics chair, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. She has a B.Sc. in Architecture... Read More
09.02.2011 / MICHAEL WEINSTOCK
09.02.2011, 14:00, Michael Weinstock @ HCI J 4 www.architectureofemergence.com Metabolism of the City Geometry has always been the principal mathematical means of describing the form of a city, persisting from the plans of ancient cities through to many contemporary studies. In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the application to urban analysis of mathematical... Read More
04.02.2011 / Andrei Rodin
04.02.2011, 15:00, Andrei Rodin @ CAAD, HPZ F canoe.ens.fr/~rodin/spip/ Objects Without Structure. A philosophical introduction to mathematical category and topos theory. University Paris-Diderot in Paris and Russian Academy of Science in Moscow. Andrei Rodin is a philosopher affiliated to Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and Russian Academy of Science in Moscow. He works in philosophy... Read More
19.01.2011 / Werner Oechslin (Video)
Werner Oechslin, Household of Things. Presentation at II Methalithicum Klausur, Einsiedeln Werner Oechslin studied art history, archeology, philosophy and mathematics in Zurich and Rome. From 1971 to 1974 he was assistant at the University of Zurich. Then, in 1975 and 1978 he taught at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. and in 1979 at the RISD in Providence. After a short period at the FU... Read More
24.01.2011 / Dr. Keith Lilley
24.01.2011, 10:00: Dr. Keith Lilley @ CAAD, HPZ F Cities of tomorrow? Geometrical forms and their cultural symbolism. Queens University Belfast, Ireland. Dr. Keith Lilley joined the School of Geography at Queen’s in 1999 as lecturer in human geography. He began his academic career at the University of Birmingham, gaining a PhD in 1995. Dr. Lilley was awarded a British Academy... Read More
24.01.2011 / Dr. Christoph Schindler
24.01.2011, 16:00, Dr. Christoph Schindler @ HCI J 4 www.schindlersalmeron.com An architectural periodization model with criteria of production technology, as illustrated with the example of timber construction. Contemporary production technology is about to exert an influence on the development of architecture as fundamentally as experienced during Industrialization in the 19th... Read More
17.01.2011 / Arnold Walz, Stuttgart
17.01.2011, 16:00: Arnold Walz @ HCI J 4 www.designtoproduction.com, Stuttgart Arnold Walz (born 1953 in Stuttgart) studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart. He started as one of the first to develop parametric CAD-models for construction planning and helped to improve workmanship and precision of some of the most discussed buildings of the past years such as the Mercedes... Read More
11.01.2011/ Frank Eckardt, Bauhaus-University
11.01.2011, 14:00: Prof.Dr.Frank Eckardt @ location t.b.a. Urban Research @ Bauhaus-University Read More
M3:20.12.2010/ Achime Menges, ICD Stuttgart
20.12.2010, 14:00: Prof. Achim Menges @ HIT E 51 – Siemens Auditorium icd.uni-stuttgart.de, Stuttgart Material Computation The lecture will introduce Achim Menges’ research focusing on computational design approaches that unfold morphological complexity and performative capacity without differentiating between form generation and materialisation processes. Based on an understanding... Read More