“A Building that Recalls” is a report that offers up the provocation that figures of housing are prevalent throughout histories of rhetorics connected to memory, and are of great ethical significance. One can turn to three key examples to demonstrate this thesis: Martin Heidegger’s Black Forest “Hut,” Michel Foucault’s “Panopticon,” and Lebbeus Woods’ “Scar” and “Scab” architectural designs. Heidegger’s hut reminds its viewers that a place of dwelling can serve both as a lesson in the dangers of nationalist memory-politics, and simultaneously as a model for overcoming fascism in oneself. Foucault’s Panopticon model reveals that the rooting out and “forgetting” of burned in social norms is difficult because subjectivity is a social fabrication. Finally, Lebbeus Wood’s “Scar” and “Scab” designs (accompanied with commentary by Victor Vitanza) show how an affirmative forgetting is possible in the wake of tyranny and trauma. / text

To incorporate bioremedial functions into the performance of buildings and to balance generative architecture's dominant focus on computational programming and digital fabrication, this thesis first hybridizes theories of autopoiesis into extended cognition in order to research biological domains that include synthetic biology and biocomputation. Under the rubric of living technology I survey multidisciplinary fields to gather perspective for student design of bioremedial and/or metabolic components in generative architecture where generative not only denotes the use of computation but also includes biochemical, biomechanical, and metabolic functions. I trace computation and digital simulations back to Alan Turing's early 1950s Morphogenetic drawings, reaction-diffusion algorithms, and pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) in order to establish generative architecture's point of origin. I ask provocatively: Can buildings think? as a question echoing Turing's own "Can machines think?" Thereafter, I anticipate not only future bioperformative materials but also theories capable of underpinning strains of metabolic intelligences made possible via AI, synthetic biology, and living technology. I do not imply that metabolic architectural intelligence will be like human cognition. I suggest, rather, that new research and pedagogies involving the intelligence of bacteria, plants, synthetic biology, and algorithms define approaches that generative architecture should take in order to source new forms of autonomous life that will be deployable as corrective environmental interfaces. I call the research protocol autopoietic-extended design, theorizing it as an operating system (OS), a research methodology, and an app schematic for design studios and distance learning that makes use of in-field, e-, and m-learning technologies. A quest of this complexity requires scaffolding for coordinating theory-driven teaching with practice-oriented learning. Accordingly, I fuse Maturana and Varela's biological autopoiesis and its definitions of minimal biological life with Andy Clark's hypothesis of extended cognition and its cognition-to-environment linkages. I articulate a generative design strategy and student research method explained via architectural history interpreted from Louis Sullivan's 1924 pedagogical drawing system, Le Corbusier's Modernist pronouncements, and Greg Lynn's Animate Form. Thus, autopoietic-extended design organizes thinking about the generation of ideas for design prior to computational production and fabrication, necessitating a fresh relationship between nature/science/technology and design cognition. To systematize such a program requires the avoidance of simple binaries (mind/body, mind/nature) as well as the stationing of tool making, technology, and architecture within the ream of nature. Hence, I argue, in relation to extended phenotypes, plant-neurobiology, and recent genetic research: < Architecture = Nature > Consequently, autopoietic-extended design advances design protocols grounded in morphology, anatomy, cognition, biology, and technology in order to appropriate metabolic and intelligent properties for sensory/response duty in buildings. At m-learning levels smartphones, social media, and design apps source data from nature for students to mediate on-site research by extending 3D pedagogical reach into new university design programs. I intend the creation of a dialectical investigation of animal/human architecture and computational history augmented by theory relevant to current algorithmic design and fablab production. The autopoietic-extended design dialectic sets out ways to articulate opposition/differences outside the Cartesian either/or philosophy in order to prototype metabolic architecture, while dialectically maintaining: Buildings can think.

Orientador: Daniel de Carvalho Moreira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T21:28:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Beltramin_RenataMariaGeraldini_M.pdf: 8718202 bytes, checksum: 2f67e5b82f2ffeb0f84cf0d3e49df308 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa investiga a estrutura e as características da análise em arquitetura ¿ os conceitos e definições acerca da análise enquanto processo e a presença do método enquanto sistematizador e organizador. Desde a segunda metade do século XX até os dias atuais, diversos teóricos de arquitetura e urbanismo versam sobre a análise de projetos e obras. Entretanto, alguns autores vão além, propondo modelos de análise de projetos e obras de arquitetura: Roger Clark e Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker e Simon Unwin se destacam pela proposição de modelos de análise de arquitetura amplamente fundamentados e desenvolvidos. Portanto, o objetivo deste trabalho foi a caracterização, a classificação e a comparação dos modelos e métodos de análise de projetos propostos por Roger Clark e Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker e Simon Unwin. O primeiro passo da pesquisa consistiu o levantamento e a leitura de obras sobre procedimentos de análise, metodologias e modelos de análise em arquitetura, processo de projeto e teoria da arquitetura. A etapa em questão teve como foco o entendimento do exercício da análise e dos modelos de análise de Roger Clark e Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker e Simon Unwin. Na segunda etapa da pesquisa, foi estruturado um procedimento de comparação dos quatro modelos estudados. Para isso, a etapa em questão abrangeu a classificação e a caracterização dos modelos de análise conforme seus critérios de construção e seu caráter processual e a construção do procedimento de comparação de modelos de análise a partir da elaboração de um fluxograma de ações. Por fim, na terceira etapa da pesquisa foram selecionadas quatro obras de arquitetura presentes em estudos de caso realizados por Clark/ Pause, Ching, Baker e Unwin, as quais foram submetidas ao procedimento de comparação de modo que a pesquisa pudesse revelar, como resultados, a caracterização dos quatro modelos estudados enquanto meios de ampliação do olhar sobre a arquitetura e a verificação da viabilidade do procedimento proposto enquanto ferramenta de comparação e avaliação / Abstract: This research investigates the structure and the characteristics of analysis in architecture ¿ the concepts and definitions about the analysis in architecture as a process and the presence of the method while systematizer and organizer. Since the second half of the twentieth century to the present day, many theorists of architecture and urbanism deal with the analysis of projects and works. However, some authors go further by proposing models for the analysis of projects and works of architecture: Roger Clark and Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker and Simon Unwin stand out because of the proposition of widely founded and developed architecture analysis models. Therefore, the aim of this work was the characterization, classification and comparison of the design analysis models and methods proposed by Roger Clark and Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker and Simon Unwin. The first step of the research was a survey and reading of works about analysis procedures, architectural analysis methodologies and models, design process and theory of architecture. This step had great focus on understanding the analysis exercise and the analysis models of Roger Clark and Michael Pause, Francis Ching, Geoffrey Baker and Simon Unwin. In the research¿s second stage, a comparison procedure to the four models was structured. Thereunto, this stage covered the classification and characterization of the analysis models as their construction criteria and their procedural character and the construction of an analysis models comparison procedure from the preparation of a flowchart of actions. Lastly, in the third stage of the rsearch four works of architecture present in case studies realized by Clark / Pause, Ching, Baker and Unwin have been selected, which were submitted to the comparison procedure so that the research could reveal, as results, the characterization of the four studied models as a means of broadening the perspective on architecture and the verification on the viability of the proposed procedure as a comparison and evaluation tool / Mestrado / Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade / Mestra em Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade

Trata-se de trabalho realizado por uma arquiteta e professora de projeto que pretende mostrar a importância da observação direta das poéticas dos arquitetos, tanto para a produção da arquitetura quanto para sua teoria e seu ensino. Ele se baseia na idéia de uma separação entre os campos da história, da crítica e da teoria da arquitetura, esta não tendo um caráter valorativo, mas sendo vista como um catalisador da produção. Nessa posição de frente, a teoria necessariamente passa a necessitar das poéticas dos próprios arquitetos o lugar onde a invenção ocorre. A valorização das poéticas também se explica pela crise por que passa o pensamento racionalista em todas as disciplinas, a qual permite o aparecimento do pluralismo de idéias e o afrouxamento da dicotomia subjetividade/objetividade. Essas poéticas, embora revelem idéias e conceitos particulares, forjam permanentemente uma teoria mais geral, através do diálogo com outras poéticas, a crítica e a história. Para isso ela analisou seus próprios projetos realizados entre 1970 e 1990 e entrevistas e projetos de outros arquitetos publicados de 1990 até o momento. / This is a work realized by a woman architect and project teacher that demands to show the importance of direct observation of architects poetics, for the architectural production as much as for theory and teaching. Its based on the idea of a separation between the areas of history, criticism and architecture theory, this one with no valorizing character, but considered as a production catalyser. In this front, theory necessarily needs poetics of its own architects the place where invention occurs. Poetics valoriazation also explains by crisis that attains rationalistic thought in all points os view, as well as allows the appearing of ideas pluralism and slackening of dycotomy subjectivity/objectivity. This poetics although reveals particular ideas and concepts, permanently forges a more general theory by the dialog among other poetics, criticism and theory. On the strenght of it, she analyzed her own projetcs, realized between 1970 and 1990, teoria da interviews and projects of other architects, published from 1970 up till now.

Trata-se de trabalho realizado por uma arquiteta e professora de projeto que pretende mostrar a importância da observação direta das poéticas dos arquitetos, tanto para a produção da arquitetura quanto para sua teoria e seu ensino. Ele se baseia na idéia de uma separação entre os campos da história, da crítica e da teoria da arquitetura, esta não tendo um caráter valorativo, mas sendo vista como um catalisador da produção. Nessa posição de frente, a teoria necessariamente passa a necessitar das poéticas dos próprios arquitetos o lugar onde a invenção ocorre. A valorização das poéticas também se explica pela crise por que passa o pensamento racionalista em todas as disciplinas, a qual permite o aparecimento do pluralismo de idéias e o afrouxamento da dicotomia subjetividade/objetividade. Essas poéticas, embora revelem idéias e conceitos particulares, forjam permanentemente uma teoria mais geral, através do diálogo com outras poéticas, a crítica e a história. Para isso ela analisou seus próprios projetos realizados entre 1970 e 1990 e entrevistas e projetos de outros arquitetos publicados de 1990 até o momento. / This is a work realized by a woman architect and project teacher that demands to show the importance of direct observation of architects poetics, for the architectural production as much as for theory and teaching. Its based on the idea of a separation between the areas of history, criticism and architecture theory, this one with no valorizing character, but considered as a production catalyser. In this front, theory necessarily needs poetics of its own architects the place where invention occurs. Poetics valoriazation also explains by crisis that attains rationalistic thought in all points os view, as well as allows the appearing of ideas pluralism and slackening of dycotomy subjectivity/objectivity. This poetics although reveals particular ideas and concepts, permanently forges a more general theory by the dialog among other poetics, criticism and theory. On the strenght of it, she analyzed her own projetcs, realized between 1970 and 1990, teoria da interviews and projects of other architects, published from 1970 up till now.

Oil is a finite resource; This much has been established as fact and is commonly agreed upon. We will, some day, find our supplies depleted. The question that remains hotly debated, however, is when this will happen and what impacts it will have on our modern lives. Estimates and forecasts abound, but still no one can answer these questions definitively. As fossil fuels, the energy behind virtually every aspect of our lives, become scarce, our patterns of growth will face a reckoning. We will be forced to adapt and adjust; either shifting our energy demand to more renewable sources, or reducing it by significant amounts. Although there are a plethora of what-if scenarios when predicting the effects of an end to oil, it’s easy to recognize that the peak oil crisis will significantly impact our lives. It will change how we live them and, by extension, where and how we construct our buildings. So what does this mean for buildings - one of the country’s largest consumers of energy? This thesis proposes that a theory of adaptability, when applied properly to the design and construction process, can begin to equip our building to handle the range of possible outcomes that an energy-poor future poses. This thesis also aims to address, in the broadest of terms, how our current approach to design could lead to significant issues in a post-oil, energy hungry world. It does so by encouraging a more holistic approach to problem solving and building design, while outlining how the values of cost efficiency and speed have polarized global construction techniques.

This thesis investigates the role of the term plot in mediating relations between architecture and narrativity. Examining organisational strategies in the creation of real and virtual spaces, it identifies literary works by novelists who have resisted, or subverted, plot conventions in fiction (Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Xavier de Maistre and Neal Stephenson), and introduces architectural spaces such as Thomas Edison’s film-studio Black Maria, and the plotless productions of early cinematography, to juxtapose concepts of plot and spatiality in a study of the production and consumption of pre-digital virtual spaces. Plot here relates therefore both to narrative sequentiality and spatial organisation – from "storyline" to "ground plan". The "plotless" narrative structure of Huysmans, Goncourt and de Maistre focuses on the interaction between man – the "writerin- residence" – and his domestic interior, functioning as an excitant or stimulant for the production of both material and imagined spaces. The media culture of late 19th century society saw the first significant attempts at moving image technology and its related spatialities – the Black Maria, the kinetoscope, the kinetograph, and the films produced by these, which had yet to find a narrative form. The architecture of the plotless novels and the proto-cinematic experiments of the late 19th century modulate between physical reality and fiction. They are ripe in their descriptive narrativity, expanding in the imagination of the consumer. Stephenson’s imaginative transposition of book media into a "Primer" – a new form of narrative media that develops its narrative content directly from the environmental context of its reader – concludes the discussion of the thesis, highlighting interrelations between fictive and real space, influencing both writer and reader. The refusal of narrative plot deprives the reader of causality, but emphasises the fictitious spatial creation in which the reader becomes immersed. These spaces, by virtue of their disengagement from plot, allow us to revisit the possibilities of virtual space without common preconceptions concerning the creation or experience of digital mediating technology.

Transgressing the borders between politics and aesthetics, imaginary and physical forms, this dissertation pursues a broad interdisciplinary exploration of the construction of public space. In order to confront the dual character of public space – a physical realm with unclear borders, as well as an evasive concept, imbued with ideas of freedom, critique and democracy – the dissertation addresses public space as a ”medium”, that is, as a material for aesthetic practice and in terms of communication, as a “projective screen” of society. Using the refurbishment of Stortorget in Kalmar as its generative case, the dissertation examines the conditions for making and thinking such a space, whereby the hidden assumptions of public space are brought to the fore. Due to the hybrid character and complexity of the Stortorget project, carried out as a seamless collaboration between art and architecture, it in addition raises issues that are highly significative for the identity and legitimacy of the respective disciplines. Focussing on the concept of “place”, and tracing its role within art and architecture theory and practice since the paradigmatic shift between late modernity and postmodernity, the dissertation examines the conflictual relationship between art and architecture in order to gain an understanding of them as different, yet intimately connected, ways of producing new forms of reality. The claim made throughout the dissertation is that public space cannot be “reconstructed” on the basis of historical forms and ideals – rather it must be continuously reinvented in accordance with a critical understanding of democracy. Ultimately, the dissertation is an examination of how, and why, public space can be defended as an indispensible form of society and of the complex coalition of its aesthetical and political effects. / QC 20100824

This thesis presents theatrical queer feminist interpretations of architecture staged within a series of architectural scenes: architect Eileen Gray’s building E.1027 in the south of France (1926-29); author Natalie Barney’s literary salon at 20 rue Jacob, Paris (1909-1968); and author Selma Lagerlöf’s former home and memorial estate Mårbacka, situated in mid-west Sweden and transformed between 1919 and 1923. Interpreted as queer performative acts, or enactments of architecture, these cases bring into play the interconnectedness of material container, the setting, the deeds and the actors. A broad aim of the thesis is to explore the role played by architecture in the social and cultural constructions of bodies, in particular in relation to gender and sexuality. Architecture is investigated as one of the subjectivating norms that constitute gender performativity. The thesis is thus not only about but also operates through enactment. It masquerades as a series of lectures written in the form of scripted drama. The aim of this formal experiment is not only to explicate and critique from a detached perspective but also to represent architecture in the process of being enacted. Architecture is investigated not only as a theoretical metaphor but also as a concrete material practice always entangled with subject positions. With this exploration into the queerness and the theatricality of architecture, Behind Straight Curtains seeks to affect both the analysis and enactment of architecture and contribute to an architectural shift towards a built environment that does not simply repeat repressive structures but attempts to resist discrimination and dismantle hierarchies. / QC 20100630

<p>This thesis investigates the role of the term plot in mediating relations between architecture and narrativity. Examining organisational strategies in the creation of real and virtual spaces, it identifies literary works by novelists who have resisted, or subverted, plot conventions in fiction (Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Xavier de Maistre and Neal Stephenson), and introduces architectural spaces such as Thomas Edison’s film-studio Black Maria, and the plotless productions of early cinematography, to juxtapose concepts of plot and spatiality in a study of the production and consumption of pre-digital virtual spaces. Plot here relates therefore both to narrative sequentiality and spatial organisation – from "storyline" to "ground plan". The "plotless" narrative structure of Huysmans, Goncourt and de Maistre focuses on the interaction between man – the "writerin- residence" – and his domestic interior, functioning as an excitant or stimulant for the production of both material and imagined spaces. The media culture of late 19th century society saw the first significant attempts at moving image technology and its related spatialities – the Black Maria, the kinetoscope, the kinetograph, and the films produced by these, which had yet to find a narrative form. The architecture of the plotless novels and the proto-cinematic experiments of the late 19th century modulate between physical reality and fiction. They are ripe in their descriptive narrativity, expanding in the imagination of the consumer. Stephenson’s imaginative transposition of book media into a "Primer" – a new form of narrative media that develops its narrative content directly from the environmental context of its reader – concludes the discussion of the thesis, highlighting interrelations between fictive and real space, influencing both writer and reader. The refusal of narrative plot deprives the reader of causality, but emphasises the fictitious spatial creation in which the reader becomes immersed. These spaces, by virtue of their disengagement from plot, allow us to revisit the possibilities of virtual space without common preconceptions concerning the creation or experience of digital mediating technology.</p>