Talks and Poster Presentations (without Proceedings-Entry):
V. Bühlmann:
"Once upon a Plenitude: Architectonics and Architecture";
Talk: Advanced Lecture Series in Architecture Technology,
Nanjing, China (invited);
2020-07-20.
English abstract:
This lecture will relate the question of computation in architecture to the field of architecture theory since Vitruviusī first systematic treaty in his Ten Books on Architecture, more than 2000 years ago. Thereby, it will introduce the audience to a more abstract notion of "computation" that is equally old, and that relates cognition to buildings and machines and simulation practices long before the rise of computation and artificial intelligence as we understand them more strictly today. The lecture will introduce to this legacy of architectonics by proposing to approach the knowledge of architecture through coding literacy that is poetic, and that can be reasoned through speech and philology rather than through writing in grammar, syntax, logical arguments. Computation in architecture then relates to language as a natural force, at once propelling and sustaining the art and technics of memory - in addition to lending itself for mastering aspects of problem solving.
The lecture will be organised in five parts: it begins with 3 tales on what is architecture theory, then 1 episode on philology and architecture today, leading to 3 legends on the computer, followed by 5 treaties on what is an idea in architecture, leading to a proposal of how to think of the architectonic book in computational terms, and concluding with a proposal of how to complement le Corbusierīs Modulor approach (relating code to scale) with the digital gnomonics stance of a philological "Contrapposto Pose" - that is inspired among other sources, also by Le Corbusierīs own Poem of the Right Angle.
German abstract:
This lecture will relate the question of computation in architecture to the field of architecture theory since Vitruviusī first systematic treaty in his Ten Books on Architecture, more than 2000 years ago. Thereby, it will introduce the audience to a more abstract notion of "computation" that is equally old, and that relates cognition to buildings and machines and simulation practices long before the rise of computation and artificial intelligence as we understand them more strictly today. The lecture will introduce to this legacy of architectonics by proposing to approach the knowledge of architecture through coding literacy that is poetic, and that can be reasoned through speech and philology rather than through writing in grammar, syntax, logical arguments. Computation in architecture then relates to language as a natural force, at once propelling and sustaining the art and technics of memory - in addition to lending itself for mastering aspects of problem solving.
The lecture will be organised in five parts: it begins with 3 tales on what is architecture theory, then 1 episode on philology and architecture today, leading to 3 legends on the computer, followed by 5 treaties on what is an idea in architecture, leading to a proposal of how to think of the architectonic book in computational terms, and concluding with a proposal of how to complement le Corbusierīs Modulor approach (relating code to scale) with the digital gnomonics stance of a philological "Contrapposto Pose" - that is inspired among other sources, also by Le Corbusierīs own Poem of the Right Angle.
Electronic version of the publication:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZ-tsVoVzA&list=PLWfc_2VBcW9Tc4OUIGucZfKWU3cRFeQ1x&index=8&t=220s
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