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The next big thing is not parametrics. It's not a

new geometry. It is more than that. The stances

of Gehry, Eisenman, Libeskind, UNStudio, Hadid

and others are pointing towards a new direction

altogether. They give us a taste of what lies

beyond , as do the aesthetic exercises of Herzog &

de Meuron or Zumthor.

We have left the certainties of geometry, logic

and arithmetic behind. The substrate of the new

meta-level is symbolic .

At our Chair, we don't want to follow a

reductionist, functional view of architecture. Wedon't like the uncommitted structuralist attitude

towards global challenges. We want to start

cultivating a new plateau; widen the perspective.

We want to be pioneers in learning to construct

within the symbolic, and do so seriously.

The MAS class provides a forum, establishes a

network and offers practical experiments, doing

just that.

A New Plateau

Tired of today's free-form architecture?

Still interested in

technology?





Today, information technology is ubiquitous. Most architects

have a self-taught working knowledge of visualisation and

computer-aided modelling techniques. In some places, there

are specialised technical programmes, especially in the areas

of parametric design and experimental computer-generated

production. This specialist knowledge is not sufficient,

however, to keep track of the medial, technical,

organisational, economical and political developments in

architecture. Information technology has become a driving

force in every sphere of activity for architects. But these

developments are as yet badly understood, and so their

interpretation is narrow and the architectural landscape

diffuse.

This programme is directed at architects, designers and

creative people. It offers, for the first time, not technical

specialisation but architectural integration on a higher

technical level. It conveys profound insights into a variety of

technical areas and prompts theoretical reflection as well as

promoting an independent personal stance.

The programme is demanding. Technologies are becoming

ever simpler and more accessible, but defining an individualposition for an architect is becoming more and more difficult.

We offer no formulas or solutions. We mistrust the attitude,

taken by MIT for example, that popularises, and in doing so

naturalises, technology. This, to our minds, amounts to a

positioning for power by way of simplification: complexities

are being externalised. We believe that this is not enough:

technological creation has to be complemented by expertise,not just in technology, but also in creation.

What's next ?

Step out of the wood





The MAS in Architecture and

Information is a one-yearfull-time course at the Chair

for CAAD at ETH Zürich. It

starts at the beginning of the

academic year in September

and consists of 3 theory

modules (M1, M4 and M7),

and 4 practical modules (M2,

M3, M5 and M6), in 3

different focal areas

(research, development and

application) and concludes

after 12 months with an

individual Master’s project,

in September the following

year. The cost of the

programme is CHF 12,000.

Brighton



ETH Zürich, MAS in Ar hitecture a d Information September, 1 Week October, 4 Weeks November, 4 Weeks Dec - Januar, 4 Weeks Januar - Feb,

M0 welcome

Livint in a World of

Abundant Potentiabilities

p 13

M1 theory

Theory and Information

p 13

M2 A research

Algorithmic Design

p 13

M3 A research

Connected Artefacts

p 13

M4 theory

Architecture and

Information

M2 B development Fiction

p 13

M3 B development Innovation

p 13

M2 C application

Advanced Geometry

Modelling

p 13

M3 C application

Mass Customised

Production

p 13



4 Weeks March, 4 Weeks April, 4 Weeks Mai, 4 Weeks June - Sept, 12 Weeks

p 13

M5 A research

Customised Materials

p 13

M6 A research

Design Beyond the

Problematic

p 13

M7 theory

Information and I

p 13

ITIndividual Thesis

p 13

M5 B development Articulation

p 13

M6 B development Population

p 13

M5 C application

Building Information

Models

p 13

M6 C application

Buidling Operation Models

p 13

Charles Jencks on Postmodernism



Map about Architecture by



Charles Jencks

Map of the Internet





Rem Koolhaas OMA Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal 2005

'' It is great to be a part of a true research! ''

Miro Roman

...I'm talking to my parents, trying to explain

them what I'm doing for this module. My

mother says 'Why you are not learning

Architecture?' My father, very satisfied replies

'They are learning to think'...

Ekaterina Ageeva

"Few higher-academic experiences allow for

self-reflective and insightful paths in the field

of technology, relying not on

instrumentalism, but on conceptual and

methodological strategy. My experience here

has revealed a fresh and fertile perspective

towards the future of architecture, accessible

today."

Mauricio Rodríguez

"Looking deeper into theoretical issues, while

shifting perspectives towards tools and

methods. Rethinking "computational"

architecture by focusing on underlying

principles."

Evangelos Pantazis





module 0 welcome Living in a World

of AbundantPotentiabilities

M0





This programme is unlike any other.

We take a different stance.

Technology is not comfortable. We

can’t ask technology what’s right

and what’s wrong, what’s good or

bad. These are our machines, we’ve

made them. They are our statistics,

our images, which we’ve created of

our world. They are not ‘The Truth’

about earth or nature. So who can

we complain to, if not ourselves?

Who should we be afraid of?

Elsewhere, you may hear people

declare: “Nothing is scarier than the

truth.” (Al Gore). Globalisation,

finance, climate, technological

catastrophes, naturalisation,

scarcities, wars, terrorism,

fundamentalism, media overkill,

educational crises... cool it! Our

programme takes an optimistic

perspective, from a new plateau: we

have more energy than we need, we

have fantastic potential. But we

have to do it ourselves. We can’t ask

anybody else to do it for us. Not

nature, not technology. Just

ourselves.

Worm up, lectures and seminar.

1 week in September.

The Draughtsman’s Contract, Peter Greenaway

M0



Silk production in Bejing, China



Cabinet of curiositiesSilk production in China









theory

Theory andInformation

M1



Tra



Information is everywhere. The term ‘information’ is so

powerful, yet we understand it so little. Information is

information. It’s neither energy nor is it matter (as Norbert

Wiener claims). But this doesn’t say a lot, and perhaps it isn’t

even accurate, because matter is a form of energy. What,

though, is information? Perhaps the question is put the wrong way. Couldn’t we ask instead: how can we use information?

Especially seeing that computers are not machines but general

machines. And in asking the question ‘how?’, other,

unexpected, questions pose themselves, such as: how do we

use rationality? How analytics? How do we use geometry,

arithmetic, algebra? How can we produce stabilities? How can

we use symbols, indices, signals? How calculations, functions,codings? How generalisations and abstractions? How concepts,

words, texts, constructs, drawings? How infrastructures,

medialities, narratives? Fictions, phantasms, specifications,

definitions? How form, structure, topoi? How behaviour,

sensation, reason, cognition, logic? How does the new come

about? What do Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Habermas,

Heidegger, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Peirce, Boole, Poe,

Hegel, Kant, Leibniz, Spinoza, Descartes, Aristotle, Plato and all

the others have to say about it? - Curious yet?...

Lectures, seminar and exercises in reading and writing. Final

presentation as a short video.

4 Weeks in October.

M1

splanting rice seedlings in Java, Indonesia

http://genewikiplus.org/index.php?title=Java&action=edit&redlink=1





Lib

module 1 theory Theory and Information



ary of the Abbey of St Gall (St Gallen, Switzerland)



Georg Flegel, Still L



fe with Apple, 1566 - 1638. Van Gogh: Still Life with a Basket of Apples, 1885.

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/0115/Still-Life-with-a-Basket-of-Apples.jpg








Apples, 2011.








Kughelof-Specialite alsacienne parfumee au citron et a la fleur d'oranger








Daredevil Comic, 2005.









Rice-field,Kakogawa,Japan, 2008.











Dehli, India 2010

M2 A



module 2 A

research Design by Algorithms, or

The Availability of

Logical Thinking

M2 A



The Masjid-i Shah, Isfahan 1629

M2 A



In 1854 George Boole developed an algebra that

reflects logical thought (An Investigation of the Laws

of Thought). Computers follow this type of algebra

and externalise precisely what we call logical

thinking (Turing, 1936; von Neumann, 1945). We

may call it Turing Computing. Using computers, we

are able, as creative people, to explore this logical

‘think space’. We can discover phenomena never

seen before. Multitudes of new images, geometries

and artefacts become concrete constructions from a

logical world. It’s so simple: procedures, iterations,

recursions, objects, rules, constraints, agents, text,

drawing, imagery, video, morphing, topology,grammar, cellular automata, parametric geometry,

simulation, generation, evolutionary algorithms,

neural networks... all easily accessible and online.

This module offers practical exercises in logical

order systems and delivers an introduction to

corresponding thought. Technologies: processing,Java, Eclipse.

Lectures and exercises in programming. Final


4 weeks, November

M2 A



Charles Babbage, Analytical Engine, 1823, 2000

module 2 A research Design by Algorisms





Culmann, Grafische Statik 1866. Lueger 1904

module 2 A research

Design by Algorisms

module 2 A research

Design by Algorisms



Applied Fourier (1768 - 1830) Transformation



Applied Fourier (1768 - 1830) Transformation

module 2 A research

Design by Algorismsmodule 2 A research

Design by Algorisms



The first Intel processor, 4004, 1971.



module 2 A research

Design by Algorisms



Michael Hansmeyer, CAAD 2009CAAD 2009



CAAD 2009

M2 B



module 2 Bdevelopment

Fiction

M2 B



Gustave

M2 B

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/gustave-moreau





It is always the great narratives, the big concepts that count. They are told, and retold, again and again. Over and over, they are

reformulated, as poetry, as prose, as fiction, as definitions, as lists, as

compositions, as tables, as forms, as user’s guides, as formulas, as

equations, as drawings, as pictures, as constructs, as machines, as

software, as figures, as fusion, as dance, as theatre, as music; spoken,

sung, gestured, as lectures, as deceptions, as orders, as advertising,

in German, in English, in the 16th Century, in the 18th Century,today; as photography, as email, as text message, as a wiki, as a blog.

Melville’s Moby Dick, Edgar Allan Poe, Scorsese’s Godfather, NASA’s

Apollo missions, Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Spielberg’s Star

Wars, Tati’s Play Time, Koolhaas’s New York, Jenck’s postmodernism,

Loo’s Ornament, Wittgenstein’s wordplay, Heidegger’s ‘Gestell’. What

does Ovid tell us, what scholastics, what is the turn of meaning in

Shakespeare, Goethe, Nietzsche, Bach, Mozart, Wagner,Stockhausen, what in Vatel, Bocuse, Ducasse or Adria, what in

Leibniz, Newton, Descartes, Lagrange, Maxwell, Einstein; how do

Popper, Feyerabend, Chomsky, Kurzweil articulate themselves, how

Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari?

How are the big concepts reformulated and rephrased, over and over

again? Element, substance, body, life, love, power, friendship,

hospitality, fertility, symbolism, security, contemplation, freedom,

fear, joy, nature, death, age, equilibrium, energy, matter, being,

order, time. What are the narratives for their derived concepts:

existence, health, childhood, vitality, progress, youth, intelligence,

landscape, nutrition.

Lectures and exercises to investigate and learn to read the big themes

of our culture beyond their concrete manifestations.

4 weeks, November

M2 B

oreau, Hercules and the Hydra Lernaean - 1876

module 2 development Fiction


http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/gustave-moreau/hercules-and-the-hydra-lernaean-1876







A Space Odysee, 1968



Stanley Kubrick, 2001:



This visualization depicts specific atmospheric humidity on June 17, 1993, during the Great Flood that hit the Midwestern United States

module 2 development Fiction



Yuri Gagarin, 1961Bjork .



M2 B



module 2 application Advanced

Geometry Modelling

M2 B



Frank Ge

module 2 B applicationAdvanced Geometry Modelling

M2 B



Generative Components, CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid

Works, Rhino, Revit, scripting, Grasshopper, processing,

OpenGL... - Non-Euclidian geometry is now universally

available. Only ten years ago, it belonged to the experts,

25 years ago to visionaries; 40 years ago the only people

who had access to it were mathematicians. Today, the

machines using it are on every desk, the software onevery laptop, and the tutorials on YouTube.

Secularisation. The fascination with its potential of this

geometry, iterated a millionfold in blogs. But in actual

fact, designing buildings or developing an architectural

style, even in this environment, is only easy at first

glance. How, for example, can you generate the

continuities of, for instance, Hadid, UNStudio, NOX,Eisenman, Gehry, or the geometrical discontinuities of

Liebeskind, Herzog & de Meuron, Ito or Sejima? How

can we proceed in technology, without getting stuck

within a very short time? How can we plan such

buildings at a rate that we’re used to from regular

geometry? How can we preserve our creative freedom

within that technological complexity? How can weretain the flexibility of a small geometrical experiment

when we apply it to a building that has been thought

through in every detail?

Lectures and exercises in advanced CAD modelling

4 weeks, November

M2 B

ry, Düsseldorf (Germany) 2006.



ISTANBUL- Zaha Hadid’s Urban Transform




ation Project for Kartal, 2008.








CAAD 2005





M3 A



module 3 A research Design

and Construction of Connected Artefacts,

or:The Global Availability

of Physical

Characteristics

3



Nicola Tesla, US390721 Patent for a "Dynamo Electric Machine", 1888.

Diagram of the

of radio wavesante

M3 A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_(radio)





Computers are general machines (Turing 1936). Not just all known, but also all

future machines can be logically visualised through them. Computers are abstract

from any physics (von Neumann, 1945). The networks of space and time (Baran,

1964, Licklider, 1960), reduced to minute, printed particles, connected with eachother by electromagnetic modulations. Billions of them. Every computer, phone,

machine. Design is no longer constructed from necessities, rather it condensates

from the wealth of all possibilities. Rendered from virtual availability into concrete

existence. And it’s so simple: mechanics from CNC production, electrical controls

from do-it-yourself kits, general processors, accessible networks, a bit of software.

This module offers practical exercises in the established manifestations of virtualinformation technology order systems, and an introduction to corresponding

thought patterns. Over the last few years, electronic prototyping has evolved to the

extent where any interested lay person can very quickly develop electronic gadgets

and connect them to the mediality of the internet. This module gives an overview

over the technological concepts and delivers a guide to building your own gadgets

in electronics, software and mechanics. The Internet of Things, distributed

computing, remote procedure calls, TCP/IP, URL, Google Earth, sensors, actuators, Arduino, automation, interaction

technologies: processing, wiring, CNC production.

Lectures and exercises in Electronics, Programming and CNC Production.

Final presentation as a short video.

4 weeks, December and January

3

electric fields (E) and magnetic fields (H)

emitted by a monopole radio transmittingna (small dark vertical line in the center).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_field

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopole_antenna












Photodiode

module 3 A research

Connected Artefacts





Paul Baran, "On Distributed Comm



nications" Series, 1964.



United States radio spectrum fr

module 3 A research Connected Artefacts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States





quency allocations chart as of 2011








Wiring, Processing





42

CAAD 2009

3D Printer







CAAD 2009

wireless sensor system network for paragliding

M3 B



44

module 3 B

development Innovation



M3 B



‘Whatever you call out into the forest, the forest calls back at you.’ We call out ‘into the forest’

with statistics, analyses, methodology, automaton, diagnoses, references, illustrations, didactics,

safeguards. And for a long time, we got a lot of responses to these reductions and

concentrations. The harvest was rich. But today, you could be forgiven for getting the

impression that this way of going about things has exhausted itself. There is talk of ‘limits to

growth’. There are calls for discipline, empathy, sustainability.

But might it not be the case that we could see further, solve more problems, master more

riddles, if we were to bypass the shortest possible route, the logical arguments and stringent

analysis? If, instead of putting to one side - as so often demanded by critics of modernity -

methodology, because we’ve always known about it and now demand naturalisation and

aestheticisation, we were to learn how to juggle the established methodologies, specialisms and

manifold forms of articulation. Creative people know that problems and their solutions twist,

turn and change the moment you articulate their narrative in a different medium or language.

We might call this meta-rational.

How then is it possible, in a networked world of ubiquitous accessibility, to look and listen, to

ask questions, to examine, without blocking your own possibilities for the new, without losing

the flexibility of future twists and turns. If we are looking for the new, we cannot depend on our

established disciplines, methods and expertise. The new is neither out there, nor is it inside us; it

doesn’t lie rooted in our language or in differences of iteration. These manifestations of the

concept of scarcity are what blocks our view. Could such a concept still be adequate in the

context of a trillion links referenced by Google? The hypothesis of this module is that the new

resides in the potential that derives from the concentration of that which is explicitly and

rationally accessible. It lies in cultivating the rational.

Lecture and exercises on the free availability of information and on the subject of indexability.






Hurricane Katrina, 2005.



module 3 B development Innovation



Frei Otto





Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse, 2010.







The Crown of Genghis Khan, 13th century.

M3 C



module 3 C

applicationMass

CustomisedProduction



A very early example of constructions in non-eucledian geometry. Peter Cook, Kunsthaus Graz Austria, 2003.

It’s contemporary CNC production methods that make non-standard buildings and the use of

module 3 C applicationMass Customised Production

M3 C



It s contemporary CNC production methods that make non standard buildings and the use of

non-Euclidean geometry possible. Worlds of a difference lie between the qualities of Peter

Cook’s Kunsthaus in Graz (2003) and the Norpark Cable Railway by Zaha Hadid (2007). Using

a master geometry and a continuous digital workflow from design via construction right

through to production and logistics, buildings can be realised in freeform geometry at prices

normally associated with serial production ‘in the grid’. Industrial production has

emancipated itself from the grid, or the table, as the principle of order, coordination andlogistics. Beyond that, 90% of architecture that is being built could be parametrically

modularised, and could therefore be manufactured in CNC production without significantly

affecting the architectural result in terms of spatiality, materials or construction. (Other

economic sectors show that industrialisation makes possible an increase in productivity of

60% and a reduction in costs of 30% across the board. Applied to the construction industry -

globally the largest economic sector - this results in gigantic amounts.) The idea that

industrial production brings about a uniform system of construction has been reversed: now systems are being developed for individual buildings and make possible a fantastical

architecture in the first place.

So how do you dismantle buildings into parametric modules? How can you actually build

Coop Himmelblau, Hadid, Gehry, UNStudio? How can you mass produce bespoke everyday

architecture? Modularisation, standardisation, normalisation, parametrisation, deformation,

configuration, integration, serialisation, master geometry, building construction, building

services, building logistics, production code, production tools, production facilities.

Lectures and exercises in mass customised building production with field trips to production

facilities.














CAAD 2005 Daniel Libeskind, Sculpture, St. Gallen, 2006.



M4



module 4

theory Archtecture

andInformation

CAAD 2005



What could be more fantastical, of more consequence, than building a new

it ? O h ? H ti h l hi fi ld i h

M4



city? Or a new house? Hunting a hog or ploughing a field is easy enough,

you can follow a natural order. But building a new city? That’s pure

imagination, pure virtuality. On a small, carefully chosen and defined plot

of land, a city can be anything we want it to be. There, in that particular

abstraction of territory, there are no qualitative boundaries, except those

set by our own imagination, which in turn has been shaped over time by the rhythms of the fields that lie under the sun.

Today, thus our contention, it is no longer the cultivation of fields that is

being visualised and whose surpluses find articulation in the cities.

Through information technology it is our cities themselves that are being

cultivated. Today we look for virtualisations and architectural articulations

on a new plateau. What, then, are the imaginings, the thought patterns that

are being shown to us by Vitruvius, Palladio, Ledoux, Durand, Semper,

Loos,

Wright, Corbusier, Sullivan, Rossi, Krier, Ungers, Alexander, Otto, Venturi,

Eisenman, Libeskind, Hadid, Gehry, Lynn, Herzog & de Meuron, Zumthor,

Koolhaas? What are the virtualities, what the urbanities described by

deconstructivism, structuralism, post-structuralism, minimalism,

functionalism, international style, modernity, postmodernism,existentialism, phenomenology, behaviourism, positivism, vitalism?

Let’s cultivate these ideas for our new architecture and our new cities.

Lectures, seminar and exercises in reading and writing. Final presentation as

a short video.

4 weeks, January and February





La Cité de Carcassonne Park in Isphahan, 2010.

http://www.google.ch/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carcassonne.culture.fr%2F&ei=D0gxT8qcJYaphAe6zs2PBQ&usg=AFQjCNHKJu_0f3FVGyAZ53yqFriZCL8auQ&sig2=Ub_IWFpsOmVzvK5WdyC4CA





module 4 theory Archtecture and Information





St. Mary's Church, Lübeck, Germany, 1250-1350






Notre Dame de Paris, 1163-1345











Anonymous 17th-century watercolor of the Semper Augustus, famous for being the most expensive tulip sold during tulip mania.


















Apple Computer, Think Different: Hitchcock, Boston 2000.







Herzog & de Meuron, Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg, 2007.






d l A h

module 5A research Customised Materials

M5 A



module 5 A research

Design andConstruction

with Customised

Materials -Printed Physics



Doping material with ions

Material availability - the explosion of materials - the

search for construction that is appropriate to materials -

no longer boiled, refined, concentrated, arduous, cleansed

- materials are being thought up and made drawn from


M5 A






materials are being thought up and made, drawn from

the earth, in controlled processes. The most explicit

manifestation of this is found in doping, the deliberate

adding of impurities - materials achieve what we’ve never

been able to achieve through continuities: they turn

sunlight into electricity, they glow, shine, gleam, oscillate,

move, see, smell, hear, sound, absorb, concentrate, switch,

operate logically... simply because we’ve coded them,

doped them.

This module conveys, by way of exercises, the methods of

material doping. What we are looking for are material

constructions which articulate these constructed material

properties into new kinds of constructions. Processing,

wiring, CNC production.

Lectures and exercises in Electronics, Programming and CNC Production. Final


4 weeks, March

.






Light emitting foil






. Kinetic foil.

CAAD 2010






CAAD 2010

Shape Shift, 2010.







CAAD 2006

Metal sheet blow ups. Zieta.






CAAD 2009



Jean Prouve,









Ink Jet Bubbles.









70

Brussels, Grand Place, 2007.









71

Print. Herzog & de Meuron, Ricola Mülhausen-Brunstatt, Switzerland 2000.






Valerio Ol


M5 B

d l 5 B

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerio_Olgiati





module 5 Bdevelopment

Articulation

iati, The Yellow House, Flims, Switzerland, 1999.






Europe by satellite.

It’s so easy to play the individual disciplinary, medial and technological channels. There’s no problem producing a

satellite picture showing us the hole in the ozone layer, calculating a model that simulates the climate on planet

earth, publishing a video report about the revolution in Egypt, generating imagery that shows the phenomena at

work in our brain, developing the crumple zone for a new car, making an artificial nose to aid wine tasting,

designing a curved facade for a new airport building, going for a week-long hike in the Amazon, attending a three-

day conference in Seoul, manufacturing a computer chip in Taiwan, selling your old printer on eBay to a man in

module 5 B development Articulation

M5 B



Stockholm, making a phone call to the slums of Mumbai, buying shares in a start-up in Chicago... there’s no

problem doing anything we like.

The many standards we use: ASCII, dtp, html, TCP, JPEG, MP3, AVI, Linux, AJAX, USB, UPnP, DXF, MEL, TCL, JAVA,

GSM, GPS, UPC, IBAN - there are thousands. And the technologies we use for the development of our buildings:

building layout generators, building structure simulation, building automation, finite elements analysis,

photorealistic rendering and printing, one-of-a-kind production, 3D printing... Or, more generally: energy

harvesting, ubiquitous logic, worldwide logistics, mobile phones, social media, micro-banking... An ever more

densely populated carpet of electronic media. The idea that for a development project, for research, for thought

itself one of these channels could suffice - and it doesn’t matter whether it be a classical channel such as a scientific journal, a lecture, a political book, a journalist’s picture, an eye witness report, a technical development, a new

product, or any of the new media channels - becomes increasingly absurd. More and more, these channels can be

utilised automatically; rendering content into any of these channels becomes easier all the time, and it’s being done

more and more frequently. The channels themselves keep getting broader. And increasingly it’s not us, but the

channels that determine the content. ‘The medium is the message.’ (McLuhan).

Time to take a step back. Time to find the right level of abstraction for our projects, our articulations. Time to learn

to understand what we can do with information, what the code is that can play all these channels. It, the code,brings about a new substrate. With it, we can learn seriously, and at the same time fantastically. Cross-media story

telling. We want to learn to cultivate the logical channels (exactly not the magical channels [McLuhan, 1964], and

not the sacred channels [Hörl, 2006], and neither a metaphysics of mediality [Krämer, 2009]), so as to be able to

create the fantastical.

Lectures and exercises in the Articulation of the Fantastical.

4 weeks, March



A bomber captured on CCTV at Luton station at 7:21 am on 7 J

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luton_railway_station





ly 2005. Humanoid walking robot, Cornell University, 2005.





Future Systems, Selfridges (Birmingham), 2003.








Ski Dubai, 2005.






TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2006. Josie has also been suffering from low hemoglobinand low iron for some as yet undetermined reason. Because of this Josie is going to

have a peripheral catheter put into her hand through which she'll get a bloodtransfusion to help this conditions ...








Junya Ishigami, the japanese pavilion at the Architectural Biennale in Venice 2008.



module 5 C

M5 C



application Building

InformationModels



RFID chip.

The construction industry is under increasing pressure from economists. They, not

unreasonably, want to know what it is that they’ll get, when they’ll get it, at what price and to

what specification. To the end of quantitative transparency, so called Industry Foundation

Classes (IFC) were formulated in 1995 by American and European AEC (Architecture

Engineering and Construction) firms and promoted worldwide by the institution

buildingSMART in 2005. The IFC derives from the production information model standards

IGES and STEP from the year 1980. IFC pursues a hypothesis that it is possible to describe

every building that has ever been built as well as every building that is ever going to be built

module 5 C applicationBuilding Inform

M5 C



every building that has ever been built, as well as every building that is ever going to be built,

no matter in which part of the world or culture it happens to be, by a hierarchical system of

pre-defined formulas. This, to us, seems somewhat crazy.

These long-term efforts, within a set-up that is in itself adventurous, lead to a situation where

technicians draw up more and more tables into which practitioners make more and more

erroneous entries, if they are using them at all. Yet still economists demand this type of

solution, because it has been shown to work in other industries, and so they increasingly cause

a reduction of architecture to simplistic quantities.

Wikipedia, Google and the success stories of the internet in general demonstrate a different

path towards solutions. There is no technological need for tables, nor for strict hierarchies,

there is no reason for specifications before designing a building just in order to enable

transparencies and comparison and with it open competition and quality standards. So how

can buildings be modelled in such a way that effective cost management is possible early on in

the planning, while allowing for the prerequisite architectural freedom? How is it possible to

model in such a way that buildings can be compared with each other? So that learnings andexperiences can quickly and efficiently be applied to other projects? So that jobs and mistakes

don’t have to be repeated three, five, a hundred or a thousand times?

Lectures and exercises in building information models, databases, standards, modules,

abstractions, flexibilities, indexing and cost management.

4 weeks, March



module 5 C applicationBuilding Information Models



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han Herzog & de Meuron, Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg, 2010.CAAD 2010




















CAAD 2007 Autoselection and -adaptation of indexed floorplans according to individual needs.



CAAD 2009

module 6 A research

Designing Beyondh bl i

M6 A



the Problematic,

or: Design Underthe Premise of

General Availabilities



With all these manifold availabilities, we, with ourproblems, tend to get in our own way. We can’t see the

wood for the trees. In view of all the analysis and

statistics, we are blind to the causes. We don’t see what

next steps are adequate. (We don’t want to keep talking

about ‘solutions’ any more, seeing that we want to go

beyond thinking in terms of ‘problems’.) Yet we could

create approaches to issues such as urbanity,

M6 A



pp y,sophistication, modes of living, friendliness,

inspiration, openness, concentration, creativity,

liveliness, differentiation, narratives, styles and

fashions, beyond individual parameters. A new way of

looking at things in a new environment of information

makes these creative potentials available to us. We are

calling this ‘Non-Turing-Computing’.

This module offers practical exercises in meta-logical

order systems and gives an introduction to the

corresponding thought processes. Self-organising

maps, reaction diffusion diagrams, JAVA, Eclipse.

Lectures and exercises in advanced programming

concepts. Final presentation as a short video.

4 weeks, April.

Reaction Diffusion Diagram



Self Organizing Map clustering schemes of flo



CAAD 2010or plans.



eboy Tokyo





Compressio



s by Rem Koolhaas,Content, 2004.



E



CAAD 2006

Shape grammar. Project Südpark by Herzog & de Meuron, Basel

Switzerland 2006.

Peter Zumthor, Kolumba -zbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum,Cologne (Köln), Germany . 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolumba

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany













Prada 2009

How can we evaluate all these cross-media narratives? Is it sufficient for something to work, for

something to be correct, for it to have been checked, said out loud and clear, in a world of logical channels? Can we find stabilities in fixing, in referencing, in illustrating, in looking, if

everything is absorbed in logical channels? Here, stability and order can no longer be found,

they have to be made. In the repetitions (Deleuze, 1968), in the populations, in exercises

(Sloterdijk, 2009), in the ever renewed narratives, in the differences in time, in space, in the

articulations of the various channels.

What, though, is it that needs to be told in order to create stabilities across these various

channels to popularise a narrative to make a story valuable We can’t invent any new stories So

M6 A



channels, to popularise a narrative, to make a story valuable. We can’t invent any new stories. So,

what can we rely on? We have to pass them on, the big stories, tell them afresh, modulate them.

Body, life, love, power, friendship, hospitality, fertility, security, contemplation, freedom, fear,

joy, nature, death, age, equilibrium, health, childhood, vitality, progress, youth, intelligence,

landscape, nutrition...

So how do journalists, political scientists, sociologists, economists, communication scientists

deal with this situation? How does Nestlé, for example, tell the narrative of body and hospitality,

Siemens the narrative of technology and progress, what’s the story of Apple, of SAP, of IBM,

what’s the story about the knowledge of Google, the novelty of Facebook, what is the technology

story as told by MIT, what the story of history and values of Harvard, what is Marlboro’s story

about freedom, what’s the story that liberalism tells us about the history of ethics, what does

Swiss Re tell us about security, what Nike about our bodies, what does Formula 1 tell us, what

BMW about motion, what the French revolution about freedom, what’s the story that Marxism

tells us... What are the channels that are successfully being played by H&M, Toyota, Novartis,

Nokia, IBM, SAP, Google, by the Louvre, by Harvard, by UBS, Walt Disney, by Rem Koolhaas?

Lectures and exercises in the dissemination of the great narratives into popular culture

4 weeks, April



Parmigianino, Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, 1524.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-portrait_in_a_Convex_Mirror










William Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Western Railwa



Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006.Great, 1844





Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Home, 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_Arthus-Bertrand















Herzog & de Meuron, Schaulager Basel 2003.



module 6 C

application B ildi

M6 C



Building

OperationModels



Power station Weisweiler, Ge

Between 30% and 60% of the investment cost for new buildings goes

towards building technology. Building technology itself develops

from central, hierarchical systems - so called central building control

systems - to locally distributed and IT-networked systems. The focus

is no longer on the temperature, brightness or level of humidity that

is being brought about; instead, what’s being created are

atmospheres for animated discussion, concentrated study, security,

access, maintenance, logistics, navigations, displays, transmissions,

readiness, availability, efficiencies, services, management,

accounting.

M6 C



In hospitals, within 6 years of completion, running the building costs

more than its original investment for construction. In offices, it’s 10

years. Thus, new business models evolve. Buildings become smart.

Services are being articulated into the building by its users, ratherthan functions being produced by the building for the user.

Middleware, building services, building automation, SPS, PLC,

zigbee, digitalSTROM, UIN, facilities management, persistence,

multi-hierarchical databases, SAP integration, WEB, mobile phones,

interaction, tracking, accounting...

Lectures and exercises on building automation and service models.

4 weeks, April

rmany since 1913.



Solar-powered lanterns recharging, Barefoot C



ollege, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, 2006.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barefootcollege/map/?photo=310046568







CAAD 2009

Single chip, high voltage computer with power line communication for building automation, digitalSTROM, 2009.





Crystal mesh media facade, realities:united, Singapore 2009.





Minato Tokyo





HASSELL architects, ANZ Centre, Melburne 2010.





CAAD 2010 Builidng automation and management,digitalSTROM, mivune, 2010.





Arriving late night at Dizengoff square, Tel Aviv, 2010.





ETHZ 2008

Decentralized HVAC module, ETH Zürich GT, 2008.

emission freeocean world



solar pv



CAAD 2007

Emmision free building service, ETH Zürich CAAD & GT, 2007.

desalination



module 7:

theoryInformation

M7



Information

and I



IIT cam

It’s not easy, finding your own position as an architect. With our

technologies, we accelerate everything: more people, more

mobility, more television, more images, more phones, more

networks, more research, more publications, more complexity,

more statistics, more rubbish, more technology, more advertising,

more consumerism... Google, Twitter, games, leisure, over-ageing,

privacy, intellectual property, corporate communications, global

village, mega-cities, economy drives, liberalism, marketing,

entertainment, war architecture... It’s easy to think that all this

could be halted, that it could all slow down, that it is possible to castan anchor an arrest the movement. Sustainability, misery, crisis,

scarce resources, nature, empathy, renunciation, limitation,

insurance, reassurance, delegation, the original, the origin,

territory, land, causes, simplicity, clarity, guilt, regeneration,

li ti ti i li it t i l i t

M7



recycling, recreation, creation, simplicity, materials-appropriate

construction... but information technology is of a different ‘nature’.

Which is why our old concepts are not sufficient to grasp it or itsphenomena. Just as described in the fable of the Hare and the

Tortoise: the hare kills himself running and the tortoise doesn’t even

get out of breath. That’s exactly what we’re witnessing: we feel

washed away every time we try to cast an anchor, within the sea of

our old conceptions. And so, adrift, we keep looking for an

equilibrium in arranging our belongings. But how about, instead of

casting anchors, we learn to surf?

Lectures, seminar and exercises in conceptualising. Final


4 weeks, May

us, Chicago, 2010.



brose, Hallstadt Germany, 2003.





Delhi



Coney Island





Jan van Huijsum - Vase of Flowers in a Niche, 1720-40.







Individual

Thesis



your choice

12 weeks in June - September















ETHZ 2009

IABR

4. Internationale Architektur Biennale Rotterdam24. September 2009 – 10. Januar 2010

Rotterdam-Amsterdam

ETHZ 2

Gwangju D biennale cuSept. 2nd –



11

sign Biennale: The Sixth Order,ated by Ai Wei Wei and Seung H-Sang,Oct. 23rd 2011



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H Zürich Hönggerberg campus



CAAD

The Chair of CAAD (Computer Aided Architectural Design) represents the

information-technology branch at the ETH's Department of Architecture. The Chair

was newly vested with Ludger Hovestadt at the end of year 2000, which led to a

paradigm shift in its orientation. Since then the aim has no longer been to illustrate

architecture within the computer (simulation, virtual reality), but to once more

extract architecture from the computer (back to reality) in order to think, design and

build artefacts, which cannot be realised by conventional methods. To attain thesegoals, the CAAD Group employs a uniquely large faculty of teachers and researchers,

which is formed in an interdisciplinary manner and is – at its core – oriented

towards a pragmatic conversion of information technologies in architecture.

ETH Zürich

ETH Zürich is one of Europe's leading research universities. The school attractsexcellent faculty members and draws on a large community of architects, theorists

and practitioners in the field. The Department of Architecture is particularly

vibrant, with a large number of exhibitions, conferences and lectures. See the

Department of Architecture's site for further information and for a list of current

events: www.arch.ethz.ch

http://www.arch.ethz.ch/





A programme by

Prof. Ludger Hovestadt

Architecture, Computer Science

Dr. Vera Bühlmann

Philosophy, Literature, Media Theory

Michael Hansmeyer

Architecture, Computational Art

Manuel Kretzer

Architecture



see YOUin Zürich



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