Students,

This week the conference “Bilden und Gestalten” will be taking place on campus on Wednesday and Thursday, the 23rd and 24th of May. This conference is a joint production of both the Bauhaus and Hochschule Anhalt.

On Wednesday, the lectures are to take place at the Bauhaus Aula, the famous lecture hall located on the first floor of the building, followed by a “Long Night of Creatives” featuring an exhibition of student work from design and architecture. Following will be a party at the Technikmuseum Hugo Junkers. (Kühnauerstraße 161a, a 10 minute walk west of the Brauereistraße dormitory)

Thursday, three different sets of lectures / workshops are prepared along the topics of “Digital Media in Design Teaching,” “Studying after Studying” and “Internationalisation of Architectural Education.” Students who will be participating in these lectures / wokshops will have the opportunity to receive a stamp on the Dessauer Talks lecture cards.

In order to confirm your participation in these lectures, please visit http://www.afg.hs-anhalt.de/?id=846 and chose which lecture / workshop on Thursday you would like to participate in.

PROGRAM

Wednesday, 24th of May 2012

10:00 Opening @ Bauhaus Aula

11:00 Bilden und Gestalten - Education and Bauhaus

15:00 Bilden und Gestalten Today

20:00 Creative Anhalters in the Digital Universe @ Technikmuseum Hugo Junkers

Thursday, 25th of May 2012

Digital Media in Design Teaching

Time: 11:30 - 17:30

Location: Foyer of Building 005

Working Language: German

Studying after Studying

Time: 11:30 - 17:30

Location: Room 114 Building 004

Working Language: English

Internationalisation of Architectural Education

Time: 11:30 - 17:30

Location: Room 006 Building 008

Language: German & English

Students,

DIA proudly presents another set of sessions with Neil Leach this Tuesday and Wednesday, the 15th and 16th of May. All students and teachers are invited to take part at these rejuvenating events on both days. Neil Leach is one of DIA’s previous professors and visits DIA on an annual basis to show cutting edge architectural design, strategies, construction and theory. We are very happy to welcome Neil Leach again this year and look forward to enriching conversations.

Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:00

Dialogue with Neil Leah on “Computation and the architecture of desire”

Location: Building 08 / Room 005 (Across from the main lecture hall)

Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:30

Lecture “Desiring Machines” (This lecture is compulsory for all first year students to attend as it is a part of this semester’s CAD Logic course)

Location: Building 08 / Room 006 (Main lecture hall)

Bio:

Neil Leach is a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California. He has also taught at the Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell University, Dessau Institute of Architecture and SCI-Arc. He is the author, editor and translator of 22 books, including Rethinking Architecture, The Anaesthetics of Architecture, Designing for a Digital World, Digital Tectonics, Digital Cities and Camouflage. He has been co-curator of a series of exhibitions at the Architecture Biennial Beijing since 2004, and was also co-curator of the Swarm Intelligence exhibition in Gallery SH, Shanghai, China in 2010.

Lecture: Desiring Machines - Robotics and the future of Architecture

In his 1968 classic science fiction movie,2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick depicts a maverick computer attempting to take charge of a
Mission to Jupiter, and oust the human occupants from their spaceship. The 1960s were a time of great technological advances, and within a year of the Launch of Kubrick¹s movie the US had successfully sent the Apollo 11 crew to The Moon. Yet such was the suspicion of technology - and computation in particular - that Kubrick¹s apparent technophobia was no isolated incident. Indeed for several decades afterwards many schools of architecture were dominated by a phenomenological outlook, which saw technology as Symptomatic of our alienated condition in the world today, and the computer as antithetical to human creativity. Indeed in some schools computers were even banned from the design studio.
With the advent of the new millennium, however, the full impact of technology on our lives has become only too evident. We now live within
a hyper-technological environment with computer systems so advanced that even our individual mobile phones have more computational power than the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. Our homes have become veritable machines for Living in. It is time, perhaps, to formulate a more sympathetic theoretical approach towards technology.
This lecture argues for a new theoretical approach towards technology Based on the materialist philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda,
looking in particular at Deleuze¹s concepts of machinic processes and desiring machines - concepts that move beyond the earlier
Distinction between the mechanical and the organic, and that recognize the human potential to absorb the new and the unfamiliar, and to appropriate technology as a prosthesis to human operations. The lecture then goes on to look at design itself, and considers various robotic fabrication technologies that may be understood within this logic of machinic processes, especially 3-D printing. The paper argues that while items within the home - chairs, tables, shoes and even clothes – are being printed these days, technologies for printing the home itself - architectural 3-D printing - are less advanced. The paper considers three rival attempts to develop the world¹s first commercially available 3-D concrete printer, evaluating the merits of each. It then goes on to explore the race to print buildings not just on earth, but also on the Moon, focusing in particular on the NASA sponsored project to adapt the Robotic concrete fabrication technique, Contour Crafting, for printing structures out of regolith on the Moon. 
Do robotic fabrication technologies threaten to take over our lives, or are they the future for the design industries? 

Students,

If you are taking part in Lars Lerup’s seminar “Issues in Architecture” this semester, the first meeting will take place tomorrow morning, the 2nd of May, at 10:30. The seminar will be taking place in his studio ( building 008 room 172). Please be on time.

“Merging Smart Skins and Fabrics”

Students,

The next Dessauer Gespräche is to take place on this Wednesday, the 2nd of May 2012. Heiko Trumpf from Buro Happold in Berlin will be conducting a lecture titled “Merging Smart Skins and Fabrics.” As always, the lecture is to take place at 18:30 in the main lecture hall in building 008.

For more imformation about Buro Happold, you can visit their website @ http://www.burohappold.com/.

Students,

Welcome to summer semester 2012 ! Winter holidays have come to an end and it’s time for classes to start up again ! (At lease for first year students, second year students are free this semester ;)) 

Classes officially start on Tuesday, the 10th of April so check your student schedule to see if you have any electives taking place tomorrow. As far as lectures go, Gunnar Hartmann will be holding the first architectural theory lecture of the semester, “Design Economies,” tomorrow evening. It is to take place at 19:00 in the main lecture hall in building 008 so please be there.

Good luck with classes and studios and enjoy the semester! (It won’t last long ;) )

Students,

We still have a month left of break before the summer semester of 2012 starts so keep relaxing. However, we only have until next Thursday, the 15th of March, to pay the tuition and students fees for the semester. It takes a few days for the transfer to process into the school’s bank account so to make sure you don’t end up paying late fees try and get the transfer started a few days before the due date. If you need the information of where to transfer to, please either refer to the sheet posted on the DIA bulletin board outside of the office (room 172) in building 008 or to Beeke’s email from 14.02.2012. If you can’t do either, please email me @ gryglakk@gmail.com and I will get you the information as soon as possible.

The general introduction for the 1st year students will take place on Wednesday, the 4th of April in the main auditorium in building 008. The time of the introduction will be posted on the blog as soon as it is confirmed. Studio topics for 1st year studios will also be posted to the blog in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

See you in April!

This study investigates the use of minimal quantities of material and the proper distribution of workload between the team members to create the final installation. The final model consists of a repitition of the same component N number of times.

The research was initiated with the modeling of the 3D basic component that can be obtatined from the 2D patterns. In the initial experiments, cardboard was used as the main element as it was flexible enough and easy to use. As a result of this study, the hexagon shape was chosen with cut-outs that allow to obtain the spatial components. For further work, an element was selected that equally developed into two directions.

Further studies concerned the choice of final material and fastening elements as the qualities of the cardboard did not satisfy the requirements when the work was brought up to a 1:1 scale. In the search, a transparent plastic with a bolting connection was chosen.

Assembly rules were developed in working with a digital model and adjusted during the fabrication of the final installation. The final model is an example of what is possible to acheive with using this twisting type of the base component.

Wednesday, 25 January 2011

WS2011 Finals

CITC II…adaptive growth processes - Liss C. Werner

This semester Codes in the Clouds II explored Adaptive Growth Processes through material behavior as rule-based organisational systems. Starting from classic Science Fiction Literature and material analysis students developed advanced design strategies and methods. Observations of structural growth in living and non-living systems are received as design-strategies, translated into analogue and digital models of self-regulating, emerging iterations. Underpinned with the relevant literature students focused on the interface of architecture, biology and computation. We practice design by research and deal with anatomy, operability and permeability of physical/digital realms. The Architecture of Growth is the machinery to adapt its genetic code in order to reconstruct. The site for the project was the Opecast Mine F60 in Lichterfeld, Lusatia.

Inflatable Wall

Sensitive Leaves

Tunicates