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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Architecture InFormation studio has a continuous research agenda that re-considers the history of systems and components in post- war 20th century architecture and further re-examines the implications of a cellular or componental approach in contemporary architectural design practice and aesthetic discourse. The research was initiated in the Informed Modularity studio in the spring of 2006, continued in the Architecture InFormation studio 2006-2007, and commences in the Articulations studio 2007-2008. AIF Articulations 2007-2008 was initiated by the three-week Articulations Primer, that introduced important concepts and techniques vital to the studio AIF Artculations 1 that is currently underway and ends on December 21. AIF Articulations 2 and 3 are continuing the issues introduced during the spring of 2008. Architecture InFormation
/ Articulations NEW: Articulations 2+3 (spring semester) brief on-line: Articulations 1 (fall semester) hand-in requirements
now on-line: Phase 2 schedule is now on-line: Resources from the Articulations Primer and program
+ sites for the forthcoming studio now online at: Through developing aesthetic strategies, dealing with aspects of transparency and visibility the studio will explore the potentials for the design of a series of independent media production companies. The studio will be pushing extreme ideas concerning architectural design, performance and affect. Affect goes beyond the material physical limitations of the built and starts to influence the surrounding environment. This approach enables us to rethink aspects of visibility and transparency, allowing new modes for conceiving, investigating and producing architectural design. Since visibility suggests the relative ability to be seen under given conditions of distance, light or atmosphere, it is interesting to inform the notion of visibility and propose various stages of visibility. Camouflage allows an otherwise visible organism or object to remain indiscernible (barely visible) from the surrounding environment. In map design, on the other hand, there is the technique differentiation which is described as the ability to easily discriminate the main figure from the ground. The studio will be looking at many ways of articulating different modes of transparency and visibility appropriate to aesthetic ambitions, utilising parametric design systems and digital fabrication techniques. The development of these conditions will entail design strategies of amplification, modulation and deformation, mediating between space, structure, ornament and the purely decorative. The organisation and production of media, especially broadcasted information, is going through transformations. Print media, and radio and television broadcasts, are today being redefined by the speed of technological change through the Internet and telecommunications. Many media buildings are today housed in facilities that are culturally, physically, organizationally and technologically becoming obsolete. In parallel, contemporary architectural design practice is shifting to new cellular or componental approaches, including the modularisation of skill and expertise, industrial production and construction systems as well as business models. Last year the students in the Architecture InFormation studio proposed designs for a new Swedish Public Service building complex. This year we will start by looking at smaller and independent media production companies. If much of public service is being produced by independent media production companies, what are the potential for the design of such a series of buildings. What potential identities amongst other public and private institutions in the built environment, are there? How are they made visible or how do they blend with the urban or rural fabric, depending on site context? Are they physically made accessible or does media technology take care of the accessibility via internet, radio, television and cell phone technology? Design, Research and Theory techniques// teams// archive// International study trips// Requirements//
RESEARCH task// ************************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************** Ulrika Karlsson is one of
the four partners/founding members of the international architectural
research and design collaborative servo. She is a board member
of AKAD - the Academy of practice based research in architecture
and design - and a member of design research group Krets. Ulrika
has been conducting PhD research at KTH and has been teaching
at different Architecture Schools both in Europe as well as
in the US since 1997. She received her Master of Architecture
from Columbia University, New York. Jonas Runberger is a practicing
architect, a PhD candidate at the KTH School of Architecture
and a member of the architecture and design research group Krets.
Employed at Scheiwiller Svensson Architects since 2000, he has
been involved in design and production of residential, commercial
and educational buildings, as well as being the director of
the ssark medialab. He has been teaching at the KTH School of
Architecture, the ETHZ School of Architecture (Zurich) and was
a Visiting Fellow at RMIT School of Architecture (Melbourne).
A graduate from the KTH School of Architecture, Jonas has also
studied at Chalmers and the Bartlett (London). Thomas Wingate's
early fascination by the experiences and environments created
for theatre lead him to start designing costumes and sets, as
well as creating events and experience-spaces for people. From
there he went on to do interior design work, and later becoming
a 3D CAD specialist in architecture. Thomas worked as a freelance
Creative Director and Project Manager between 1995 and 2002,
designing, developing and building interior and exterior space
for interiors, theatre, film and TV set design and architecture.
Since 2002 he has focused more on computational geometry and
CAD tools. Today his main interests include information modeling,
as well as process and supply-chain challenges, recognizing
them as the greater bottlenecks to achieving the architecture
we dream of. Thomas was co-tutoring the Architecture InFormation
/ Device InFormation studio in the fall of 2006. Erik Hökby recently graduated as an Architect from the School of Architecture, KTH. He is currently working for the architecture office of servo Stockholm. Erik has also studied architecture at the Stuttgart Institute of Architecture. He has been teaching in the Informed Modularity course and in the Communication course for 2nd year students at the School of Architecture, KTH. Erik was co-tutoring the Architecture InFormation / Cell Tales and Architecture and Mass Media studios in the spring of 2007. |
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