Contemporary Processes in Architecture

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Introduction Investigation of contemporary theories of media and their influence on the perception of space and architecture Technology and Art – Technology and Architecture – Technology as Rhetoric – Digital Technology and Architecture Aspect of Digital Architecture Aspects of Digital Architecture – Design and Computation – Difference between Digital Process and Non-Digital Process – Architecture and Cyber Space – Qualities of the new space – Issues of Aesthetics and Authorship of Design – Increased Automatism and its influence Contemporary Process Emerging phenomena such as increasing formal and functional abstractions – Diagrams – Diagrammatic Reasoning – Diagrams and Design Process – Animation and Design – Digital Hybrid Geometries and Surfaces Fractal Geometry – Shape Grammar - Hyper Surface - Liquid Architecture – Responsive Architecture Seminar Students would make presentation on the ideas and works of the following architects. The proposal must be discussed with course faculty prior to presentation. Greg Lynn, Reiser + Umemotto, Lars Spuybroek/ NOX Architects, UN studio, Diller Scofidio, Dominique Perrault, Decoi, Marcos Novak, Foreign Office Architects, Asymptote, Herzog and de Meuron, Neil Denari

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