Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
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Der Vortrag von Thomas Wagner wird Krankheitsbedingt auf das kommende Sommersemester verschoben.
Due to illness the lecture by Thomas Wagner has to be postponed to the summer term.
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Wolfgang Tillmans
Wednesday, 23rd January, 19h, Aula
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
In this lecture Wolfgang Tillmans will present his recent works 'Lighter', 'truth study centre' , 'Memorial for the Victims of Organised Religions' and 'paper drop'. He will also talk about museum exhibitions he did in the US in 2006/07 among others in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington.
Paola Pivi: It’s a Cocktail Party
Thursday, 24th January, 19h, Studios Daimlerstrasse 32-36
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Die Daimlerstrasse erreichen Sie u.a. mit der Straßenbahnlinie 11.
Pivi has a reputation for realizing large-scale projects that highlight absurd aspects of our everyday world, confronting the viewer with unanticipated and spectacular situations. Her works place well-known objects in unusual contexts, imparting to them a modified meaning and function, thus exhibiting cultural and social conventions. Paola Pivi realizes conceptions and ideas of structures the viewer would not ordinarily get to see. The spectacular is here balanced with a certain Romantic notion of an inversion of all things. During the past few years, Pivi has been represented at important international group shows such as the 1999 and 2003 Venice biennials. In early 2007, Paola Pivi first presented her work in the German-speaking world with a major solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel.
The exhibition in Portikus opens Friday, 25 January, 8 p.m..
the Architecture Class presents:
Designed Materiality - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2007-8
a series of lectures addressing the contemporary status of architecture in relation to material and design technologies.
Elke Genzel / Pamela Voigt: Plastic Buildings
Thursday, 24th January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
The literature on the history of plastic buildings - or buildings made of fiber-reinforced polymer composite - is scarce. The book, Kunststoffbauten: Teil 1: Die Pioniere, is a precious contribution to this literature, and on Thursday 24.01., the authors, Elke Genzel and Pamela Voigt, present the book in a double-bill lecture.
Particularly the first historical phase, lasting from about the mid-1950s to the international oil-crisis in 1973, is important and interesting. The period included the first ever buildings with these materials and comprised aesthetic and cultural dimensions reflecting the groundbreaking advances that underlie phenomena such as "the Space Age." It is precisely this period that Genzel and Voigt address, and they examine the architectural results in a dual fashion with parallel chapters on, respectively, the architecture and the engineering of select buildings.
The lectures of Genzel and Voigt present accompanying material to the current lecture series that attempts to unfold the contemporary status of material, geometry and design. In fact, the subject of Genzel and Voigt, is a fundamental pivot point in recent architectural history. The history of fiber-reinforced polymer composites, despite the renaissance of these materials and material culture at large in architecture, remain a hidden treasure for a new and alternative approach to architectural production.
The Städelschule Architecture Class Lecture Series is supported by the Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen.
Montag, 21. Januar 2008
Montag, 14. Januar 2008
LAST WORD ... / MICHAELA MELIAN / GEORGE JERONIMIDIS
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
Discussion
Last Word on Ben van Berkel and The Theatre of Immanence
Saturday, 12 January, 17h, Portikus, Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
with Peter Schmal (Director DAM), Prof. Nikolaus Hirsch, Prof. Achim Menges, and Prof. Harald Kloft.
Moderated by Luis Etchegorry and Johan Bettum.
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
The “Theatre of Immanence", was developed as an interface for various forms of communication and exchange. The sum total of this layered and complex space is first and foremost driven and enabled by technology. From the design process to the merging of dynamic image flows and the physical construction, from the virtual domain of the Internet to the reality of the gallery space, the many spatial modes of "the Theatre" are the result of a current, massive technological pressure on all forms of design, making and living.
The two main questions are:
- In light of the contemporary technological pressure on architectural production, is "the Theatre of Immanence" a relevant model for contemporary and future architecture?
- What relevance does a material, structural and technological preoccupation hold for architecture with respect to other issues, first and foremost, the social and cultural dimensions of an architecture that seems increasingly driven by technological concerns?
The exhibition and the project is supported by Deutsche Telekom. Thanks also to Vitra, Royal Netherlands Embassy and Heinz und Gisela Friederichs Stiftung.
Michaela Melian: Schleifen und Spiralen
Dienstag, 15 Januar, 19 Uhr, Aula
Das Dingbar-Machen von flüchtigen Geschichten, das Einschreiben von scheinbar zufälligen Ereignissen, die sich aufgrund ungünstiger Machtverhältnisse und Hierarchien in Luft aufgelöst haben und nie Teil des kulturellen Gedächtnisses wurden, ist ein wichtiger Motor für Melián. "Wie kann man eine andere Form von Denkmalstruktur schaffen, die nichts Didaktisches hat oder konkret irgendjemandem dient - das sind die Fragen, die ich mir stelle", so die Künstlerin. Z.B. in ihrer Installation zu Hedy Lamarr, der aus Nazi-Österreich geflohenen Hollywood-Schönheit, die mit ihrem Patent zum Frequency Hopping für den Funkverkehr amerikanischer Kriegs-U-Boote einen wichtigen Beitrag zur heutigen Mobilfunktechnologie leistete, wurde einer dieser vergessenen Kulturbeiträge wieder ans Licht geholt.
Michaela Melián ist Künstlerin und Musikerin, sie lebt und arbeitet in Deutschland. Seit 27 Jahren ist Michaela Melián Bassistin und Sängerin der Avantgarde Band F.S.K. (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle), 2004 veröffentlichte sie Ihr erstes Solo-Album "Baden-Baden", dem jetzt "Los Angeles" folgte. Zur Zeit lehrt sie als Gastprofessorin an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg.
the Architecture Class presents:
Designed Materiality - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2007-8
a series of lectures addressing the contemporary status of architecture in relation to material and design technologies.
George Jeronimidis, University of Reading, Centre for Biomimetics: Structural Fibrous Architectures in Biology
Thursday, 17 January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
George Jeronimidis is professor of composite material engineering and director of the Centre for Biomimetics, - which 1992 he set up with Professor J.F.V. Vincent.-, and a leading international authority in this field. Biomimetics (or bionics, biognosis, or biomimicry) is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems. The field emerged and got its name during the 1950s and has of recently become an important influence on various forms of design outside engineering, including architecture.
Since biomimetics is concerned with the mechanical response of living organisms to internal and external forces, the lessons that can be had from it may be of great use in an approach to architecture that embraces complexity and engages with advanced material systems. Fibre-reinforced, composite material systems are central in this context, and Jeronimidis will address these types of material systems as they exist in nature. His past and current research interests cover biomimetics, plant and animal biomechanics, smart materials and structures, bio-inspired sensing systems, renewable materials from plants, mechanics and design aspects of composites. The common thread between these superficially unrelated research areas is the added functionality which can be incorporated into man-made designs exploiting fibrous architectures.
During the last few years, he has been involved in teaching at the Architectural Association in London, specifically in the Emergent Technologies program.
The Städelschule Architecture Class Lecture Series is supported by the Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen.
Discussion
Last Word on Ben van Berkel and The Theatre of Immanence
Saturday, 12 January, 17h, Portikus, Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
with Peter Schmal (Director DAM), Prof. Nikolaus Hirsch, Prof. Achim Menges, and Prof. Harald Kloft.
Moderated by Luis Etchegorry and Johan Bettum.
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
The “Theatre of Immanence", was developed as an interface for various forms of communication and exchange. The sum total of this layered and complex space is first and foremost driven and enabled by technology. From the design process to the merging of dynamic image flows and the physical construction, from the virtual domain of the Internet to the reality of the gallery space, the many spatial modes of "the Theatre" are the result of a current, massive technological pressure on all forms of design, making and living.
The two main questions are:
- In light of the contemporary technological pressure on architectural production, is "the Theatre of Immanence" a relevant model for contemporary and future architecture?
- What relevance does a material, structural and technological preoccupation hold for architecture with respect to other issues, first and foremost, the social and cultural dimensions of an architecture that seems increasingly driven by technological concerns?
The exhibition and the project is supported by Deutsche Telekom. Thanks also to Vitra, Royal Netherlands Embassy and Heinz und Gisela Friederichs Stiftung.
Michaela Melian: Schleifen und Spiralen
Dienstag, 15 Januar, 19 Uhr, Aula
Das Dingbar-Machen von flüchtigen Geschichten, das Einschreiben von scheinbar zufälligen Ereignissen, die sich aufgrund ungünstiger Machtverhältnisse und Hierarchien in Luft aufgelöst haben und nie Teil des kulturellen Gedächtnisses wurden, ist ein wichtiger Motor für Melián. "Wie kann man eine andere Form von Denkmalstruktur schaffen, die nichts Didaktisches hat oder konkret irgendjemandem dient - das sind die Fragen, die ich mir stelle", so die Künstlerin. Z.B. in ihrer Installation zu Hedy Lamarr, der aus Nazi-Österreich geflohenen Hollywood-Schönheit, die mit ihrem Patent zum Frequency Hopping für den Funkverkehr amerikanischer Kriegs-U-Boote einen wichtigen Beitrag zur heutigen Mobilfunktechnologie leistete, wurde einer dieser vergessenen Kulturbeiträge wieder ans Licht geholt.
Michaela Melián ist Künstlerin und Musikerin, sie lebt und arbeitet in Deutschland. Seit 27 Jahren ist Michaela Melián Bassistin und Sängerin der Avantgarde Band F.S.K. (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle), 2004 veröffentlichte sie Ihr erstes Solo-Album "Baden-Baden", dem jetzt "Los Angeles" folgte. Zur Zeit lehrt sie als Gastprofessorin an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg.
the Architecture Class presents:
Designed Materiality - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2007-8
a series of lectures addressing the contemporary status of architecture in relation to material and design technologies.
George Jeronimidis, University of Reading, Centre for Biomimetics: Structural Fibrous Architectures in Biology
Thursday, 17 January, 19h, Aula
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
George Jeronimidis is professor of composite material engineering and director of the Centre for Biomimetics, - which 1992 he set up with Professor J.F.V. Vincent.-, and a leading international authority in this field. Biomimetics (or bionics, biognosis, or biomimicry) is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems. The field emerged and got its name during the 1950s and has of recently become an important influence on various forms of design outside engineering, including architecture.
Since biomimetics is concerned with the mechanical response of living organisms to internal and external forces, the lessons that can be had from it may be of great use in an approach to architecture that embraces complexity and engages with advanced material systems. Fibre-reinforced, composite material systems are central in this context, and Jeronimidis will address these types of material systems as they exist in nature. His past and current research interests cover biomimetics, plant and animal biomechanics, smart materials and structures, bio-inspired sensing systems, renewable materials from plants, mechanics and design aspects of composites. The common thread between these superficially unrelated research areas is the added functionality which can be incorporated into man-made designs exploiting fibrous architectures.
During the last few years, he has been involved in teaching at the Architectural Association in London, specifically in the Emergent Technologies program.
The Städelschule Architecture Class Lecture Series is supported by the Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen.
Dienstag, 8. Januar 2008
GREGOR ZIMMERMANN
Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!
the Architecture Class presents:
Designed Materiality - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2007-8
a series of lectures addressing the contemporary status of architecture in relation to material and design technologies.
Gregor Zimmermann, GTecz: Two Case Studies: Materiality - Geometry
Thursday, 10 January, 19h, Portikus, Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
On this coming Thursday, Gregor Zimmermann, engineer and partner in G.tecz based in Kassel, gives a lecture in the Theatre of Immanence in Portikus on topics related to materials and geometry.
After studying civil engineering in Karlsruhe and working for the firm, Ingenieurplanung Leichtbau, Zimmermann recently completed his Ph.D. at Kassel University on the topic of membrane concrete grid shells. With partner, Thomas Teichmann, he set up the firm, G.tecz (German technologies and engineering concepts) in 2007, specialising in material and construction know-how related to these specific concrete structures.
Previous projects by Zimmermann includes the engineering design for the football stadium in Mönchengladbach for Ingenieurplanung Leichtbau and D-Tower for Bollinger & Grohmann, the latter with architectural design by Lars Spuybroek/NOX and the artist Q.S. Serafijn.
Zimmermann’s lecture spans between the fixed geometric premise set by the architecture of the D-Tower and new types of design environment wherein material systems allows for new forms of geometry and construction to emerge. In the case of the D-Tower, the engineering design must optimise a given, fixed geometry through a clever engagement of materials. The ten metre high D-Tower in Doetinchem (NL) was realised with pre-fabricated composite panels with a sectional thickness varying from 3 to 9 mm. The composite panels were made from glass-fibre and epoxy.
The other, more radical approach is to let select material systems influence and guide the architectural design process. In these cases, engineering and architectural design are confluent without collapsing into one another, and the project geometry is an emergent property given by the material properties and design intentions, not an a priori result of isolated design intentions.
Zimmermann’s lecture includes examples of both strategies and sets out one of the fundamental challenges to contemporary architecture and construction practices.
The Städelschule Architecture Class Lecture Series is supported by the Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen.
the Architecture Class presents:
Designed Materiality - Public Lecture Series Winter Semester 2007-8
a series of lectures addressing the contemporary status of architecture in relation to material and design technologies.
Gregor Zimmermann, GTecz: Two Case Studies: Materiality - Geometry
Thursday, 10 January, 19h, Portikus, Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.
On this coming Thursday, Gregor Zimmermann, engineer and partner in G.tecz based in Kassel, gives a lecture in the Theatre of Immanence in Portikus on topics related to materials and geometry.
After studying civil engineering in Karlsruhe and working for the firm, Ingenieurplanung Leichtbau, Zimmermann recently completed his Ph.D. at Kassel University on the topic of membrane concrete grid shells. With partner, Thomas Teichmann, he set up the firm, G.tecz (German technologies and engineering concepts) in 2007, specialising in material and construction know-how related to these specific concrete structures.
Previous projects by Zimmermann includes the engineering design for the football stadium in Mönchengladbach for Ingenieurplanung Leichtbau and D-Tower for Bollinger & Grohmann, the latter with architectural design by Lars Spuybroek/NOX and the artist Q.S. Serafijn.
Zimmermann’s lecture spans between the fixed geometric premise set by the architecture of the D-Tower and new types of design environment wherein material systems allows for new forms of geometry and construction to emerge. In the case of the D-Tower, the engineering design must optimise a given, fixed geometry through a clever engagement of materials. The ten metre high D-Tower in Doetinchem (NL) was realised with pre-fabricated composite panels with a sectional thickness varying from 3 to 9 mm. The composite panels were made from glass-fibre and epoxy.
The other, more radical approach is to let select material systems influence and guide the architectural design process. In these cases, engineering and architectural design are confluent without collapsing into one another, and the project geometry is an emergent property given by the material properties and design intentions, not an a priori result of isolated design intentions.
Zimmermann’s lecture includes examples of both strategies and sets out one of the fundamental challenges to contemporary architecture and construction practices.
The Städelschule Architecture Class Lecture Series is supported by the Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen.
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