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IoA Spring Challenge Design Workshop, February 13-18, 2012
IOA SPRING CHALLENGE is an international design workshop intended for architecture studen- ts interested in exploring integrated digital design and fabrication within the teaching environment of the Institute of Architecture at the University.
Integrated digital design and fabrication
Architectural Design at the Angewandte is taught as an integrated, multidisciplinary process. Fol- lowing this tradition, the design process will be enriched with structural testing of parametric models in Karamba, a structural analysis plugin for Grasshopper developed as a research project at the Department of Structural Design at the Angewandte. The research project was awarded the Austrian "Baupreis 2010/11". Specialists from Bollinger+Grohmann Engineers will co-tutor the workshop. The handling of virtual simulation methods in the fields of parametric and digital pro- duction will be a primary focus of the workshop.
This week long intense workshop will result not only in full scale built structures, but will also inform and prepare interested students for the MArch entrance exam (22nd-24th Feb. or 26th- 28th Sept. 2012) and the architecture study program at the Angewandte.
Format & Output
The Spring Challenge Program will be organized as a 6 day event. Participation is expected full- time starting 9am. Introduction to Rhino/Grasshopper/Karamba will be followed by project design development and daily reviews of group projects which will enter into a competition mode. Se- lected projects will be fabricated and assembled as a group effort. The workshop will close with a final presentation with guests. The output will be parametrically designed and digitally produced human scale structures. The used material will be corrugated cardboard.
Organization
Time & Location: 13th-18th February 2012 in Studio Greg Lynn / Angewandte
Info: www.springchallenge2012.wordpress.com
Application, Q&A: springchallenge2012@uni-ak.ac.at
Material Fee: early bird 150 € (until 25th January) 190 € (after 25th January)
Instructors: IoA Team: Andrei Gheorghe, Bence Pap Bollinger+Grohmann: Clemens Preisinger
Blog www.springchallenge2012.wordpress.com; www.facebook/springchallenge2012
11/01/12
IoA Sliver Lecture Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, January 12th, 2012, 7pm
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director MAK, Vienna
Architects without Architecture? (The new quest for saving the world)
Inversing the title of Bernard Rudofsky’s famous exhibition „Architecture Without Architects“ Christoph Thun-Hohenstein’s lecture will be dealing with the changing role of architecture since the late 1990s and especially architecture’s new mission to be a driving force for positive change. Looking at this topic from different perspectives (reflecting Thun-Hohenstein’s former positions as director of the Raimund Abraham-designed Austrian Cultural Forum New York and managing director of „departure“, the City of Vienna’s agency for creating industries, as well as his new position as director of the MAK), he will be discussing the case for intercreativity and architects’ potential to contribute to social, ecological, and cultural innovations.
January 12, 2012, 7pm, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Lichthof 2
04/01/12
IoA Sliver Lecture Seungkoo Jo, January 11th, 2012, 7pm
Seungkoo Jo, Architect, Busan South Korea
Between Transformation and Evolution: Growth, Globalization, and People
Cities have been analyzed in historical and theoretical terms. There is a close relationship between urban society and formal and spatial con- figurations of cities in Korea. Urban form is not previous to the social phenomena. It is a product, it is built history. The city was redefined and built from scratch. Society would accommodate itself to its proposals, and it had to be persuaded to live within the new or old social formal context. During the past 30 years, urban change and transformation in Korea occurred at a very radical pace. Unlike European Cities, urban transformation and evolution seem to be an ongoing process in which strong interventions are involved in Korean Modern architecture. Buildings are not built one framework, they are a succession of frame- works over time; growth, globalization, people. In this sense, buildings in Korea can be read and understood from two perspectives: The first looks at buildings as a result of a continuous process, the other as a product of a certain moment in history.
January 11, 2012, 7pm, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Lichthof 2
04/01/12
IoA Sliver Lecture Series Winter term 2011/12
UPCOMING SLIVER EVENTS 2012
January 11th, Seungkoo Jo, Architect, Busan/South Korea
January 12th, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director MAK, Vienna
All lectures start at 7pm, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Lichthof B
21/12/11
IoA Sliver Lecture Fiona Raby, December 13, 2011, 7pm
Fiona Raby, Designer, London
Speculative Everything
Design is in a state of flux, mutating and evolving as it adjusts to the ever changing social, political, economic and technological landscape. Approaches and values that made sense before, perhaps do not always make sense today. One of the biggest challenges facing designers, is to re-design design itself to ensure it remains relevant and meaningful in these uncertain times.
Lack of dogma and orthodoxy, and the blurring of boundaries bet- ween disciplines, make it a very exciting time to be a designer, even if, with this new freedom comes some existential angst.
I offer no solutions, or even answers, but lots of questions, thoughts, ideas and possibilities, all expressed through the language of design. They probe our beliefs and values, challenge our assumptions, and encourage us to imagine how what we call ‘reality’ could be different. They help us see that the way things are now is just one possibility.
December 13, 2011, 7pm, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Lichthof 2
UPCOMING SLIVER EVENTS 2012
January 11th, Seungkoo Jo, Architect, Busan/South Korea
January 12th, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director MAK, Vienna
09/12/11