Description
Can nonstandard structures become the norm? For those architectural icons that in the name of citybranding keep popping up like mushrooms after rain it seems to be the case: nonstandard everywhere. If it’s not nonstandard, it must be substandard. Even in the financial and real estate crisis, nonstandard construction remains a virulent topic. It does not contradict the demand for efficiency, heightened by the economic crisis. On the contrary, efficiency was quickly incorporated in the specifications of nonstandard technologies, and there is more and more reason to believe that they will revolutionize the production of architecture. GAM.06 – Non-Standard Structures looks at these connections from many perspectives. The bemusing potential of the nonstandard as norm is examined in three sections: Theory and Debate, Process and Performance, and Digital Crafting. The contributions make clear that what is at stake is not the construction of arbitrary shapes but a new way of dealing with complexity.
CONTENTS
Authors/Artists.
Nonstandard Structures
Theory and Debate:
- The Digital, “Mouvance”, and the End of History / Mario Carpo,
- Murturm architects / Klaus K. Loenhart
- Nonmodern Objects / Daniel Gethmann
- After Parametrics? / Bernard Cache
- Interview: Bernard Cache, Urs Hirschberg, Daniel Gethmann, – on Sollertia and Hyperpragmatism
- The Standardization of the Nonstandard, or the Depth of the Surface / Andreas Lechner
- Architectural Form and Saturated Space / Johan Bettum
Process and Performance:
- Logic or Form / Harald Kloft
- Interview: Harald Kloft, Jan Kokol, – Mass Customization Based on Economic Models and the Parallels to Unique Works of Art
- More Bang for the Buck? / Martin Bechthold
- Uncomplicated Complexity. Integration of Material, Form, Structure and Performance in Computational Design / Achim Menges
- Form and Algorithm / Daniel Bosia
- Livio Vacchini and “The Use of Technology”. / Till Lensing
Digital Crafting:
- Digital Craft / Tobias Bonwetsch, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler
- The Standards of the Nonstandard / Christoph Schindler
- From Digital to Analog – “Metropol Parasol”, Seville / Jürgen Mayer H., Jan-Christoph Stockebrand,
- Interview: Georg Vrachliotis, Fabian Scheurer (designtoproduction), / “What is Being Asked for Are Cathedrals for Free.” A Look Behind the Scenes of Digital Building Construction
Faculty News.
256 pages / 22,50 x 27,50 cm / English, German
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