Description
The non-apodictic culture of architecture is often at cross-purposes with the techno-deterministic nature of engineering. From the scientific point of view architecture’s modi operandi are often (mis)perceived as vague. It is a bias that has tangible consequences for the disciplinary research and education alike. However, this alleged weakness could turn out to be architecture’s greatest strength, a result of the symbiosis between its Beaux-Arts and Polytechnic traditions (aberrant nuptials). Yes, it is possible to be both inexact and rigorous. What distinguishes architecture from other disciplines and makes it the material-discursive practice par excellence is the interplay between the abstract means and concrete ends. Architecture requires both conceptual and practical tools to work effectively in a paradoxical milieu: immersed in the incorporeal world of images and abstract notations while intimately connected to the corporeality of material and forces. Architecture neither houses nor represents culture, but is the mechanism of transindividuation whose primary ethico-aesthetic role is to modulate modes of existence. The persistent idea of a variably deformable object in a complex vector field as the main principle of architectural design needs to be rethought. By contrast, only action can be related to another action. Action-on-action, not action-on-object, is the secret of ethological metastability.| Period | 12 Oct 2022 |
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| Event title | Exploring New Materialism: Space |
| Event type | Course |
| Location | Copenhagen, DenmarkShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |