SURFACE / ΕΠΙΦΑΝΕΙΑ

Description

Digital Materiality and the New Relation between Depth and Surface

The European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE-AEEA) Subnetwork on Architectural Theory, gathered in Chania Crete in the summer of 2010, in order to focus on the collateral relations between digital/material and depth/surface. In that seminal meeting, titled “SURFACE/ΕΠΙΦΑΝΕΙΑ: Digital Materiality and the New Relation between Depth and Surface as a Challenge for Architectural Education,” the invited group was asked to capitalise the findings of four previous work sessions held in Hasselt, Trondheim, Lisbon and Fribourg by applying methods and concepts as interpretive critical tools regarding the emergent digital architecture, its nature and effects in research, education and practice.
Following the SURFACE/ΠΕΡΙΕΧΟΜΕΝΑ events, the present book contains the revised views of the participants, as their contributions were written specifically for this volume. The book’s theme acknowledges that there has been an important break in the polarity between depth and surface caused in contemporary architecture by the rise of a new digital materiality and tactility. Following a couple of decades of experimentation and a wide spectrum of enchanting applications of the digital, we have well reached the point we can no more either ignore and condemn it, or just celebrate and faithfully apply it. In a broader sense, this shift towards the surface of things as “the deepest side of the world” has to do with a wider socio-cultural change, which has been triggered by postmodern irony and the wish to revalorise all values.
The attempt was seen as an opportunity to revisit a field which, so far, had often been seen as something extraneous and contradictory, if not even hostile, to the origins and the traditions of architecture; an attitude the group willed to also problematise and situate it within its relative context. The two key-texts are unlocking the field by emphasising at either the anthropological-sociological or the technical-ethical challenges underlying the overall re-organisation of architectural merits. The five ensuing parts are organised thematically in a way covering historical, epistemological, technical, conceptual-perceptual and natural properties of the issue respectively.

CONTENTS

INTRO: IMPLICATIONS OF THE DIGITAL IN THE ANATOMY OF THE SURFACE

• Implications of the Digital in the Anatomy of the Surface. Nikolas Patsavos, Yannis Zavoleas

KEYS: DICHOTOMIES

• Digging the Surface, Vana Tentokali
• Digital Culture, Kostas Terzidis

A: HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

• Drawing in the Grey Zone, David Vanderburgh
• The montage of flat surfaces through journeys, Laura Fernandez-Munoz
• BaaBaaBaahaus, William Thompson
• Deep skins/Mediterranean skins + bodies, Alexis Tzompanakis
• Writing, Speech, Silence. Alexis Dallas

B: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

• The visceral materiality of the digital and its biological poetics, Anastasios Tellios, Stylianos Psaltis
• Psycho Atmosphere: Unit of measure for architectural experience beyond materiality, Guillermo Guimaraens, Juan Tusset, Hugo Costa, Nuria Matarredona
• Exploring socio-cultural aspects of digitally driven kinetic structures: Architecture and the human-machine boundary discourse, Sokratis Yiannoudes
• Visible and Invisible facades, Jacob Rigos
• Maladies of the skin: The rise and fall of the architectural facade, Thanassis Moutsopoulos

C: TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND PROCESSES

• Parametric & Generative: The road to shape design, Domenico D’Uva
• Intensive aesthetics/Intensive surfaces, Alessio Erioli
• Supersurfaces: Morphogenetic narratives, Sophia Vyzoviti
• Trans-s-urface, Polyxeni Mantzou, Elissavet Mandoulidou, Katerina Zamzara
• Making as pedagogy: Thoughts on studio teaching and material practice, Ming Chung, Nick Tyson
• New localities and the aesthetics of continuity: an interpretation through surface dynamics, Konstantios Daskalakis, Marina Stassinopoulos, Maria Mandalaki, Alexandros Vazakas
• Data-driven practitioners: Architectural investigations of the digital condition in the Netherlands, Stylianos Giamarelos

D: CONCEPTS, PERCEPTION, REPRESENTATION

• lnform@ed: Sensorial Perception And Computer Enhancement, Peter Bjerrum
• Architecture as an expression of society’s values, Svein Hatloy
• Architectural disintegration, Gro Lauvland
• Digit Mat(t)ers: Pocesses of normalization in architectural design, Yannis Zavoleas
• An architectural challenge with the Mobius strip: The surface unravelled, A.Derin Inan
• Collaborative Mapping: An emergence from the surface or a means of top-down control?, Eirini Vouliouri

E: MATERIAL-DIGITAL PROPERTIES

• Surface Nets: Digital – Material behaviour of a Hybrid Structure, loanna Symeonidou
• Tessellated Surface: From relentless patterning to extreme materiality, Igor Siddiqui
• From Surface to Structure: Digital materiality as a challenge for architectural education, Aulikki Herneoja
• Epreinte Digitate: Smart materials re-invent the digital identity of Architecture, Konstantinos-Alketas Oungrinis, Marianthi Liapi
• Analog vs Digital – 2D vs 3D: The role of Critical Points for Change (CPC) as a bridging mechanism between traditional poles of architectural design, Panos Parthenios

APPRENDIX: FURTHER DIRECTIONS

• Osmotic correlation between private and public space on the photographic surface, Panagiotis Gouliaris
• Surface: Interface, Vassilis Stroumpakos
• Upside-down surfaces in postmodern monumenta: New mnemonic techniques of Holocaust Monuments in Europe, Kelly Papaioannou
• 2.xD design: The Greek Holiday Home, Dimitris Rotsios
• Studying the integration between environmental design and architectural form generation in an educational context, Socrates Yiannoudes, Panos Parthenios, Maria Mandalaki, Alexandras Vazakas, Panayiotis Malefakis
• Surface-Depth: Underground Metro space as a research field of this relation, Antigoni Valanidou, Elenh Tseva, Amalia Kotsaki (spvr)
• Sur-facing the Void, Maria Nikolakaki, Nikolas Patsavos (spvr)
• In-depth spatial experiences, Alexandra Bourganou, Marianthi Liapi (spvr)
• Identity Surfaces: The fashion of Architecture, Niki Kogkelli, Nikolas Patsavos (spvr)

305 pages / 17 x 24 cm / English