6. Forum Architekturwissenschaft15. bis 16. November 2019Universität der Künste BerlinCall for Papers[bereits geschlossen]VeranstalterNetzwerk Architekturwissenschaft e.V. in Kooperationmit der Universität der Künste Berlin
UTOPIA COMPUTER: The "New" in Architecture?forum2019@architekturwissenschaft.netThe critical concern of the workshop “Utopia Computer” is the euphoria, expectation and hope inspired by the introduction of computers within architecture in the early digital age. With the advent of the personal computer and the launch of the Internet in the 1990s, utopian ideals found in architectural discourse from the 1960s were revisited and adjusted to the specific characteristics of digital media.Buckminster Fuller’s World Game, Gordon Pask’s belief in an architecture that can learn via feedback loops, and Frei Otto’s form-finding experiments bore witness to concepts of participatory planning procedures, self-optimising design processes and non-standard architectural structures. These ideas gathered momentum in the 1990s: Planning and negotiating architecture was reconceived as gameplay, initiating the exploration of virtual game interfaces as potential sites for generating collective and interactive urban solutions. Algorithm-based computer software and parametric design fostered the idea of a self-organising architecture that emerges from the interplay of parameters able to offer “optimised” answers to internal and external constraints. And the 1990s buzzword liquid architecture captured the concept of an architecture capable of adapting flexibly to changing parameters.+ Mehr InformationenAt the same time, technological developments at the turn of the millennium were part of neoliberal shifts in politics and the economy. Scenarios of all-encompassing surveillance and the commercial use of private data, as well as social injustices resulting from free-market economic practices thus provoke the question, have dystopian narratives replaced utopian ones? Taking the 1990s discourse as a starting point, the workshop will centre critical and historical reflections on the significance of ideas about interconnectedness in the post-war period and its participatory effects, about self-organisation and its potential for optimisation, and about non-standard architecture and its capacity to adapt itself to its environment, asking, in what ways have these utopian ideas changed in today’s digital culture?The forum seeks to explore the follwoing themes:GAMEPLAYSELF-ORGANISATIONLIQUIDKozept & OrganisationNathalie Bredella, Chris Dähne, Frederike Lausch
Jahrestreffen: 14. Mai 2019
Die 9. ordentliche Mitgliederversammlung des Netzwerk Architekturwissenschaft fand am 14. Mai 2019 in den Räumlichkeiten der TU Berlin statt.Bei den turnusgemäßen Wahlen des Vorstandes sind die bisherigen Mitglieder Juan Almarza Anwandter, Doris Hallama (Schatzmeisterin), Ralf Liptau und Christine Neubert bestätigt worden. Frederike Lausch ergänzt ab sofort das nunmehr wieder vollzählige, fünfköpfige Vorstandsteam.
Veröffentlichung
Vom Baumeister zum Master, Formen der Architekturlehre vom 19. bis ins 21. JahrhundertHg.von Carola Ebert, Eva Maria Froschauer und Christiane Salge
3. Band in der Reihe Form Architekturwissenschaft
Erschienen: März 2019446 Seiten, Print- und Online-PublikationISBN 978-3-7983-3066-5 (print)ISBN 978-3-7983-3067-2 (online)Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin Link
Publikation auf der Website des Netzwerks Link
