Instabilities and Potentialities

Chandler Ahrens is an Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis as well as a co-founder of Open Source Architecture (OSA), which is an international transdisciplinary collaboration developing research and commissioned projects. His focus is on the intersection of material investigations, environmental phenomena and computational design processes. He was on the board of directors for Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). His work with OSA has received several design awards and is part of the collection at the Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) in Orleans, France. He was a co-curator of the Gen(h)ome Project and co-chair for the exhibition, Evolutive Means, ACADIA2010. Aaron Sprecher is Associate Professor at the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. In parallel, he is co-founder and partner of Open Source Architecture, a collaborative research group that brings together international researchers in the fields of design, engineering, media research, history and theory. Aaron Sprecher taught at Syracuse University School of Architecture and McGill University School of Architecture. His research and design work focus on the synergy between information technologies, computational languages and digital fabrication systems, examining the way in which technology informs and generates innovative approaches to design processes. He currently leads the Material Topology Research Laboratory (MTRL) at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He is co-editor of the book Architecture in Formation—On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture (2013).

• Instabilities and PotentialitiesNotes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital ArchitectureEdited by Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher with Michael Wen-Sen SuTable of ContentsIntroductionChandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher - On the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture ForewordsGeorges Teyssot – Gilbert Simondon’s Key PointsPart 1. Images Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher – Images: Effect and Affect in the Digital Representation of Architecture Mark Linder – Episodes in the Emergence of Imaging PracticesDavid Freeland and Brennan Buck – Objective Perspective Dana Cupkova – interviewViola Ago – The Line, the Drawings and the Model John Carpenter – Multispectral 4D imaging of heart formation and c-looping in Tg embryos Nicholas de Monchaux – The Complexity of Complexity, or, Life Attracts LifePart 2. Objects Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher - Objects: Topological evolution of the architectural entity Martin Bressani – In Medias Res: Atmospheres and Hauntings Volkan Alkanoglu – In Pursuit of Novel Form: Super Light Thom Mayne – interviewAlvin Huang – Objects: Technology, Technique, Techné: Creation vs Contingency in Computational DesignPablo Lorenzo-Eiroa – Post-Digital as Design Authorship In Informed Material ProcessesAlessandra Ponte – Mapping in the Age of Electronic Shadows Part 3. Disciplines Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher – Disciplines: Transdisciplinarity and PotentialitiesLaurent Stalder – Machine/ Architecture Satoru Sugihara – Design Outside of the Frame: A Role of Architects in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Greg Lynn – interviewTom Shaked and Uri Dubin – Exercises in Style: A Transdisciplinary DiscussionJose Sanchez – From an Autopoietic to a Symbiopoietic Architecture DisciplineTheodora Vardouli – Dissimilar at First Sight : Structural Abstraction and the Promises of Isomorphism in 1960s Architectural Theory PostscriptAntoine Picon – Digital fabrication, Between disruption and nostalgiaBiographiesIndexAcknowledgements