NOUS is a London based collaborative that comprises a gallery, network, studio, and consultancy with an initiative to promote and facilitate realized work and research by architects and designers.
Alternative Initiatives: Cuba Conference
Architecture in Context
Conference 8 October 2-5pm at RIBA Jarvis Theatre
www.alternativeinitiatives.co.uk
Alternative Initiatives Cuba is the first in a series of groundbreaking conferences that investigate the influence of a country’s political, economic and social conditions on its architecture. The conference will speculate on the future of architecture and development in Cuba.
The conference series is run by NOUS, the innovative architecture gallery and collaborative based in London.
The event is curated by Melissa Woolford of NOUS and Francisco Gonzales de Canales and Nuria Lombardero of Canales & Lombardero.
Guests speakers include:
Dr. Mario Coyula
Dr. Francisco Gómez Díaz
Edgar Gonzalez
Francisco Gonzales de Canales
Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler
Nuria Lombardero
Ricardo Porro
for tickets please contact melissa@nousgallery.com
Spontaneous Schooling Exhibition
Spontaneous Schooling Exhibition
18 June - 23 June 2010
Opening Hours
Sunday 2-6pm
Mon-Wed 3-6pm
Opening 6 - 11pm 18 June
Roundtable on workshops at 6pm
3.01 Tea Building, 5 - 13 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6JJ
London Festival of Architecture Event
Sponsored by Nous 4m and Derwent London
With the participation of hundreds of tutors and thousands of students, this exhibition will showcase the outcomes of 86 architectural workshops around the world. The exhibition design is innovative in that images of the international workshops will be shown on faceted orbs that will hang as a field of information, interwoven with installations from workshops re-created in the space. On the opening of the exhibition, there will be a discussion about the future of workshops and their role in the discipline.
While workshops are rapidly becoming an important platform for experimentation and the production of ideas, they have never been critiqued outside of specific reviews, or as a broader methodology in architectural teaching. Nor have workshops ever been exhibited together and discussed as a key element of architectural education. Out of our own curiosity to expose and review workshops came ‘Spontaneous Schooling’. It is an exhibition and publication that aims to explore why workshops exist and provide some insight into their role in architectural education.
Spontaneous Schooling will show work that is different from that showcased at end of year shows or typical polished architectural exhibitions. The work is truly presented as an experiment or study. But it is precisely this unrefined quality that makes workshops popular. The Spontaneous Schooling exhibition will show some of the actual installations, drawings, and media created in the workshops featured. The parallel publication is to be used as a resource for tutors, and will explain in detail how the workshops were run.
This is the first exhibition for Nous 4M (www.nous4m.com), a collaboration between Nous Gallery (www.nousgallery.com) and 4M Group (www.4mgroup.co.uk), a London based architecture, construction, development and research company. Nous 4M was created as a resource for architects, designers, and creatives to provide fabrication and production facilities for professionals and tutors, and affordable professional office space. In September, its 540m2 fabrication space will open, featuring 5 axis and 3 axis CNC milling machines and space for setting up workshops, furniture viewings, installations, small film sets, and mock-ups for buildings. Nous 4M will also be hosting workshops from London and abroad at its facilities. As well, Nous 4M will be letting affordable office space to up and coming firms, and providing all the resources of a larger office.
Architecture is defined by connections: the method and the material by which an assembly is developed to create enclosure. This process results in an active performative connection, one that is specific and definitive producing an architecture that can be built through iterative means. REPEAT asks that you look first at the connection and then – through repetition – define the whole. In brief, by evaluating the design process from this perspective, what emerges?
Repeat
http://tex-fab.net/category/compete/
REPEAT as an international competition is established to foster the creative spirit in the burgeoning field of digital fabrication. We encourage the generation of cutting edge design proposals for a structure of your design with the only caveats being it be generated and conceived digitally, incorporate repetitive elements, be optimized for relocation and transportation and be produced through fabrication technologies available within Houston, Texas.
Within cities with atomized light manufacturing capabilities like Houston, there exists a potential for designers to engage fabrication via direct communication with machines. A culture of making that has its foot in the energy and aerospace industries is ready to be appropriated and applied to architecture. The competition challenges the current exploration of parametric design to engage this latent field of production to explore a meaningful synthesis based on repetition and variation.
The evaluation of all the REPEAT proposals will focus on the cohesion of the design concept to digital fabrication techniques and methods of assembly. Factoring in these two foundational requirements for the competition, the entrant is encouraged to propose a solution that is both formally challenging in the mechanics and aesthetics of the connections, but also speak to the issues of use and performance.
Apomechanes 2010 Studio
Ahylo lab in collaboration with supermanoeuvre and kokkugia are pleased to announce the launch of the apomechanes 2010 studio (seminar and workshop) to be held in Athens this summer, from the 19th of July till the 6th of August.
Apomechanes is an intensive 3-week computational design studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication. Apomechanes brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds and fields of study to discuss, exchange and collaborate on projects that investigate modes of algorithmic and machinic processes in architectural design. The title apomechanes is derived from “από μηχανής”, literally “from the machine”, and refers to the machinic nature of the studio in both an abstract/diagrammatic and a literal fabrication sense.
At present computational techniques are predominantly employed in the optimization, rationalization or surface decoration of more traditionally created wholes. This research instead focuses on the inherent potential of computation to generate space and of algorithmic procedures to engage self-organization in the design process. During the workshop, participants create their own custom algorithms leading to the fabrication of working full-scale prototypes appropriate to their research trajectories. Participants engage closely with computational processes in order to develop an aesthetic and intuition of complexity that resides in a balance between design intent and emergent character.
Along with the apomechanes studio there are four more events that are organized for this summer:
· Karl Chu will lecture on the 1st of June in Athens. Karl Chu is principal of the architectural studio METAXY. Before taking on the professorship at the School of Architecture at the Pratt Institute, he was the founder and director of the Institute for Genetic Architecture at the GSAPP, Columbia University, New York. In addition, he is also a Co-director of the Biodigital Architecture Program at ESARQ, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona. He is involved in the research and development of genetic architecture and the ontology of the architecture of possible worlds. He has taught, lectured, published and exhibited internationally.
· apomechanes is inviting the participants of the studio as well as a curated group of emerging designers to a weeklong sailing symposium around the Greek islands. This initiative is seeking to formalize, through a series of records of proceedings, an on-going dialog around the future of contemporary methodologies in architectural design and fabrication technologies.
· An exhibition with all the working full-scale prototypes from the apomechanes will be held in September in Athens. The exhibition will be supported with projects from the instructors and invited architects and designers.
· A bilingual (Greek and English) publication covering works from apomechanes, supported with articles and projects from the instructors and invited architects and designers will be published in September.
apomechanes is now accepting applications, further information is available at:
http://www.apomechanes.com
The apomechanes Instructors have a wide range of international teaching experience including teaching design studios and seminars in algorithmic design at Columbia University, the Architecture Association, SCI-Arc, Pratt Institute, UPenn, USC, UCLA, RMIT and the University of Michigan.
INSTRUCTORS:
EZIO BLASETTI, registered architect TEE-TCG, was born in Athens and holds a MsAAD from Columbia University after graduating from the NTUA. Founder of algorithmicdesign.net Ezio is a partner at ahylo studio, his recent collaborations include Acconci Studio, Serge Studio, biothing and a|Um studio. He has taught at Columbia University, the Architectural Association, the Pratt Institute.
DAVE PIGRAM is the founding partner of supermanoeuvre, Dave Pigram has taught at Columbia University, the Architectural Association, the Pratt Institute, The University of Michigan and The University of Canberra. He has exhibited and lectured on his work internationally and was formerly a project director for Studio Daniel Libeskind.
ROLAND SNOOKS is a founding partner of kokkugia. He has taught at Columbia University, The University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Sci-Arc, UCLA, the Pratt Institute and the RMIT. Roland was the curator of the Australasian section of the 2008 Beijing Architecture Biennale.
COORDINATORS:
PAVLOS XANTHOPOULOS architect NTUA, MΑrch Architectural Association [AADRL], PhD candidate NTUA. Executive coordinator. Partner at ahylo studio. He was an architect at Zaha Hadid Architects and his work has been published and exhibited internationally.
IOULIETTA ZINDROU architect NTUA, MArchAA Iaac [Institutto de Arquitectura Abancada de Catalunia]. Digital Fabrication Lab coordinator. Partner at ahylo studio, her collaborations include ΑCTAR architecture and Guallart architects in BCN. Invited jury at UPC, Iaac, Pratt Institute.
DIGITAL PRACTICE: SHANGHAI STUDIO
International Summer Program II in Architecture
31 July – 8 August, 2010
http://fac.arch.hku.hk/summer/sh/dp
Introduction
For a successful architectural project, the efficiency of design communication and the control of information-flow cannot be less important than the creativity of ideas. In response to the concurrent digital evolution emerging in the architectural industry world-wide, the Faculty of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong will host a 9 day intensive summer program named Digital Practice at its Shanghai Study Center, which is located at the heart of Shanghai.
Led by professors from The University of Hong Kong, as well as invited practitioners from Hong Kong with expertise in practice of cutting edge digital techniques, the program offers participants opportunities to experience applications of digital technology during different stages of an architectural project, i.e. delivery, management and communication of design information under the team-based working environment. By learning advanced digital techniques through case studies in the context of fast growing metropolis Shanghai, participants are expected to go beyond the conventional perception of technology, considering users and tools as a feedback-based entity instead of a dichotomy. The program, which is taught in English, includes a series of evening lectures related to the program topic, delivered by teaching staff and invited local architects.
Highlights
·Digital tools to be taught include Rhino Scripting, Grasshopper, Digital Project, Generative Components
·Design control through applications of Building Information Modelling
·Rapid prototyping to produce 1:5 CNC models
·Studio to design a series of crossing structures on The Bund at Shanghai
Studio
The studio will be divided into several big teams, each of which will work on a same project led by the teaching staff as if in the team-based practice. Taking Shanghai as not only a venue, but also a site, the program proposes to design a series of adaptable crossing facilities for pedestrian adjacent to The Bund at Shanghai, which was re-opened this March after 3 years of construction. The focus of the design exercise is a non-linear design process comprising site analysis, form generation and, performance evaluation to exchange and management of the design information within the team. The related digital tools will be customized into individual cases as a form of learning new digital techniques, i.e. Rhino GH and Scripting, Digital Project, Generative Components, etc. A big scale (1:5) of CNC model will be produced and exhibited alongside drawings, diagrams and images in the open jury at the end of the program.
Tour
The program will run during the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, which is said to be the largest ever Expo in human history. Participants will have special access to the Expo, as well as visiting the site of the studio project in the heart of Shanghai.
Dates and Venue
The program will take place at the Shanghai Study Centre from 31 July to 8 August, 2010.
Participants should arrive no later than 31 July.
Shanghai Study Center
2/F, 298 North Suzhou Road
Hong Kou District, Shanghai
Enrollment and Eligibility
Applicants who are interested to apply should have design or engineering background. It is also essential for successful applicants to have basic knowledge on digital modeling and drafting. The intensive course is designed to enhance participants’ advanced design knowledge and skills in applications of digital technologies in the professional context. A certificate of completion will be issued by The University of Hong Kong.
Fees
The fee for the program is $650 USD, which does not include flights or accommodation. Accommodation can be arranged at additional cost at an affordable hotel near the Shanghai Study Centre.
Payment Methods
Payment details will be sent along with a letter of acceptance to successful applicants. Payment in the amount of $650 USD can be made via credit card or by Foreign Bank Draft. Any bank charges incurred by The University of Hong Kong will be charged back to the applicant. Should The University of Hong Kong have to cancel the Architecture Studio Shanghai for any reason, you will receive a full refund. Should you have any inquiries about payment, please contact asprog@arch.hku.hk or Ms. Poonam Datta at +852 2219 4405
Application
Deadline for registration is 15 July, 2010
Online registration is required. Please go to
http://fac.arch.hku.hk/summer/sh/dp
for details and application forms.
Applicants should also submit the following documents alongside the application form:
A 200-word statement explaining why you want to apply this program and what you expect to learn.
At least 2 projects demonstrating your knowledge and skills on using the digital technique for architectural projects.
All submitted document should be A4 portrait with the format of pdf landscape.
Questions and applications should be sent to: dpprog@arch.hku.hk
http://fac.arch.hku.hk/summer/sh/dp
programming.architecture by Paul Coates
to purchase please follow the link below
/www.routledge-ny.com/books/ProgrammingArchitecture-isbn9780415451888
programming.architecture is a simple and concise introduction to the history of computing and computational design, explaining the basics of algorithmic thinking and the use of the computer as a tool for design and architecture.
Paul Coates, a pioneer of CAAD, demonstrates algorithmic thinking through projects and student work collated through his years of teaching students of computing and design. The book takes a detailed and practical look at what the techniques and philosophy of coding entail, and gives the reader many "glimpses under the hood" in the form of code snippets and examples of algorithms.
This is essential reading for student and professional architects and designers interested in how the development of computers has influenced the way we think about, and design for, the built environment.
Alternative Initiatives: Cuba Conference
Architecture in Context
Conference 8 October 2-5pm at RIBA Jarvis Theatre
www.alternativeinitiatives.co.uk
Alternative Initiatives Cuba is the first in a series of groundbreaking conferences that investigate the influence of a country’s political, economic and social conditions on its architecture. The conference will speculate on the future of architecture and development in Cuba.
The conference series is run by NOUS, the innovative architecture gallery and collaborative based in London.
The event is curated by Melissa Woolford of NOUS and Francisco Gonzales de Canales and Nuria Lombardero of Canales & Lombardero.
Guests speakers include:
Dr. Mario Coyula
Dr. Francisco Gómez Díaz
Edgar Gonzalez
Francisco Gonzales de Canales
Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler
Nuria Lombardero
Ricardo Porro
for tickets please contact melissa@nousgallery.com
Spontaneous Schooling Exhibition
Spontaneous Schooling Exhibition
18 June - 23 June 2010
Opening Hours
Sunday 2-6pm
Mon-Wed 3-6pm
Opening 6 - 11pm 18 June
Roundtable on workshops at 6pm
3.01 Tea Building, 5 - 13 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6JJ
London Festival of Architecture Event
Sponsored by Nous 4m and Derwent London
With the participation of hundreds of tutors and thousands of students, this exhibition will showcase the outcomes of 86 architectural workshops around the world. The exhibition design is innovative in that images of the international workshops will be shown on faceted orbs that will hang as a field of information, interwoven with installations from workshops re-created in the space. On the opening of the exhibition, there will be a discussion about the future of workshops and their role in the discipline.
While workshops are rapidly becoming an important platform for experimentation and the production of ideas, they have never been critiqued outside of specific reviews, or as a broader methodology in architectural teaching. Nor have workshops ever been exhibited together and discussed as a key element of architectural education. Out of our own curiosity to expose and review workshops came ‘Spontaneous Schooling’. It is an exhibition and publication that aims to explore why workshops exist and provide some insight into their role in architectural education.
Spontaneous Schooling will show work that is different from that showcased at end of year shows or typical polished architectural exhibitions. The work is truly presented as an experiment or study. But it is precisely this unrefined quality that makes workshops popular. The Spontaneous Schooling exhibition will show some of the actual installations, drawings, and media created in the workshops featured. The parallel publication is to be used as a resource for tutors, and will explain in detail how the workshops were run.
This is the first exhibition for Nous 4M (www.nous4m.com), a collaboration between Nous Gallery (www.nousgallery.com) and 4M Group (www.4mgroup.co.uk), a London based architecture, construction, development and research company. Nous 4M was created as a resource for architects, designers, and creatives to provide fabrication and production facilities for professionals and tutors, and affordable professional office space. In September, its 540m2 fabrication space will open, featuring 5 axis and 3 axis CNC milling machines and space for setting up workshops, furniture viewings, installations, small film sets, and mock-ups for buildings. Nous 4M will also be hosting workshops from London and abroad at its facilities. As well, Nous 4M will be letting affordable office space to up and coming firms, and providing all the resources of a larger office.
Architecture is defined by connections: the method and the material by which an assembly is developed to create enclosure. This process results in an active performative connection, one that is specific and definitive producing an architecture that can be built through iterative means. REPEAT asks that you look first at the connection and then – through repetition – define the whole. In brief, by evaluating the design process from this perspective, what emerges?
Repeat
http://tex-fab.net/category/compete/
REPEAT as an international competition is established to foster the creative spirit in the burgeoning field of digital fabrication. We encourage the generation of cutting edge design proposals for a structure of your design with the only caveats being it be generated and conceived digitally, incorporate repetitive elements, be optimized for relocation and transportation and be produced through fabrication technologies available within Houston, Texas.
Within cities with atomized light manufacturing capabilities like Houston, there exists a potential for designers to engage fabrication via direct communication with machines. A culture of making that has its foot in the energy and aerospace industries is ready to be appropriated and applied to architecture. The competition challenges the current exploration of parametric design to engage this latent field of production to explore a meaningful synthesis based on repetition and variation.
The evaluation of all the REPEAT proposals will focus on the cohesion of the design concept to digital fabrication techniques and methods of assembly. Factoring in these two foundational requirements for the competition, the entrant is encouraged to propose a solution that is both formally challenging in the mechanics and aesthetics of the connections, but also speak to the issues of use and performance.
Apomechanes 2010 Studio
Ahylo lab in collaboration with supermanoeuvre and kokkugia are pleased to announce the launch of the apomechanes 2010 studio (seminar and workshop) to be held in Athens this summer, from the 19th of July till the 6th of August.
Apomechanes is an intensive 3-week computational design studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication. Apomechanes brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds and fields of study to discuss, exchange and collaborate on projects that investigate modes of algorithmic and machinic processes in architectural design. The title apomechanes is derived from “από μηχανής”, literally “from the machine”, and refers to the machinic nature of the studio in both an abstract/diagrammatic and a literal fabrication sense.
At present computational techniques are predominantly employed in the optimization, rationalization or surface decoration of more traditionally created wholes. This research instead focuses on the inherent potential of computation to generate space and of algorithmic procedures to engage self-organization in the design process. During the workshop, participants create their own custom algorithms leading to the fabrication of working full-scale prototypes appropriate to their research trajectories. Participants engage closely with computational processes in order to develop an aesthetic and intuition of complexity that resides in a balance between design intent and emergent character.
Along with the apomechanes studio there are four more events that are organized for this summer:
· Karl Chu will lecture on the 1st of June in Athens. Karl Chu is principal of the architectural studio METAXY. Before taking on the professorship at the School of Architecture at the Pratt Institute, he was the founder and director of the Institute for Genetic Architecture at the GSAPP, Columbia University, New York. In addition, he is also a Co-director of the Biodigital Architecture Program at ESARQ, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona. He is involved in the research and development of genetic architecture and the ontology of the architecture of possible worlds. He has taught, lectured, published and exhibited internationally.
· apomechanes is inviting the participants of the studio as well as a curated group of emerging designers to a weeklong sailing symposium around the Greek islands. This initiative is seeking to formalize, through a series of records of proceedings, an on-going dialog around the future of contemporary methodologies in architectural design and fabrication technologies.
· An exhibition with all the working full-scale prototypes from the apomechanes will be held in September in Athens. The exhibition will be supported with projects from the instructors and invited architects and designers.
· A bilingual (Greek and English) publication covering works from apomechanes, supported with articles and projects from the instructors and invited architects and designers will be published in September.
apomechanes is now accepting applications, further information is available at:
http://www.apomechanes.com
The apomechanes Instructors have a wide range of international teaching experience including teaching design studios and seminars in algorithmic design at Columbia University, the Architecture Association, SCI-Arc, Pratt Institute, UPenn, USC, UCLA, RMIT and the University of Michigan.
INSTRUCTORS:
EZIO BLASETTI, registered architect TEE-TCG, was born in Athens and holds a MsAAD from Columbia University after graduating from the NTUA. Founder of algorithmicdesign.net Ezio is a partner at ahylo studio, his recent collaborations include Acconci Studio, Serge Studio, biothing and a|Um studio. He has taught at Columbia University, the Architectural Association, the Pratt Institute.
DAVE PIGRAM is the founding partner of supermanoeuvre, Dave Pigram has taught at Columbia University, the Architectural Association, the Pratt Institute, The University of Michigan and The University of Canberra. He has exhibited and lectured on his work internationally and was formerly a project director for Studio Daniel Libeskind.
ROLAND SNOOKS is a founding partner of kokkugia. He has taught at Columbia University, The University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Sci-Arc, UCLA, the Pratt Institute and the RMIT. Roland was the curator of the Australasian section of the 2008 Beijing Architecture Biennale.
COORDINATORS:
PAVLOS XANTHOPOULOS architect NTUA, MΑrch Architectural Association [AADRL], PhD candidate NTUA. Executive coordinator. Partner at ahylo studio. He was an architect at Zaha Hadid Architects and his work has been published and exhibited internationally.
IOULIETTA ZINDROU architect NTUA, MArchAA Iaac [Institutto de Arquitectura Abancada de Catalunia]. Digital Fabrication Lab coordinator. Partner at ahylo studio, her collaborations include ΑCTAR architecture and Guallart architects in BCN. Invited jury at UPC, Iaac, Pratt Institute.
DIGITAL PRACTICE: SHANGHAI STUDIO
International Summer Program II in Architecture
31 July – 8 August, 2010
http://fac.arch.hku.hk/summer/sh/dp
Introduction
For a successful architectural project, the efficiency of design communication and the control of information-flow cannot be less important than the creativity of ideas. In response to the concurrent digital evolution emerging in the architectural industry world-wide, the Faculty of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong will host a 9 day intensive summer program named Digital Practice at its Shanghai Study Center, which is located at the heart of Shanghai.
Led by professors from The University of Hong Kong, as well as invited practitioners from Hong Kong with expertise in practice of cutting edge digital techniques, the program offers participants opportunities to experience applications of digital technology during different stages of an architectural project, i.e. delivery, management and communication of design information under the team-based working environment. By learning advanced digital techniques through case studies in the context of fast growing metropolis Shanghai, participants are expected to go beyond the conventional perception of technology, considering users and tools as a feedback-based entity instead of a dichotomy. The program, which is taught in English, includes a series of evening lectures related to the program topic, delivered by teaching staff and invited local architects.
Highlights
·Digital tools to be taught include Rhino Scripting, Grasshopper, Digital Project, Generative Components
·Design control through applications of Building Information Modelling
·Rapid prototyping to produce 1:5 CNC models
·Studio to design a series of crossing structures on The Bund at Shanghai
Studio
The studio will be divided into several big teams, each of which will work on a same project led by the teaching staff as if in the team-based practice. Taking Shanghai as not only a venue, but also a site, the program proposes to design a series of adaptable crossing facilities for pedestrian adjacent to The Bund at Shanghai, which was re-opened this March after 3 years of construction. The focus of the design exercise is a non-linear design process comprising site analysis, form generation and, performance evaluation to exchange and management of the design information within the team. The related digital tools will be customized into individual cases as a form of learning new digital techniques, i.e. Rhino GH and Scripting, Digital Project, Generative Components, etc. A big scale (1:5) of CNC model will be produced and exhibited alongside drawings, diagrams and images in the open jury at the end of the program.
Tour
The program will run during the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, which is said to be the largest ever Expo in human history. Participants will have special access to the Expo, as well as visiting the site of the studio project in the heart of Shanghai.
Dates and Venue
The program will take place at the Shanghai Study Centre from 31 July to 8 August, 2010.
Participants should arrive no later than 31 July.
Shanghai Study Center
2/F, 298 North Suzhou Road
Hong Kou District, Shanghai
Enrollment and Eligibility
Applicants who are interested to apply should have design or engineering background. It is also essential for successful applicants to have basic knowledge on digital modeling and drafting. The intensive course is designed to enhance participants’ advanced design knowledge and skills in applications of digital technologies in the professional context. A certificate of completion will be issued by The University of Hong Kong.
Fees
The fee for the program is $650 USD, which does not include flights or accommodation. Accommodation can be arranged at additional cost at an affordable hotel near the Shanghai Study Centre.
Payment Methods
Payment details will be sent along with a letter of acceptance to successful applicants. Payment in the amount of $650 USD can be made via credit card or by Foreign Bank Draft. Any bank charges incurred by The University of Hong Kong will be charged back to the applicant. Should The University of Hong Kong have to cancel the Architecture Studio Shanghai for any reason, you will receive a full refund. Should you have any inquiries about payment, please contact asprog@arch.hku.hk or Ms. Poonam Datta at +852 2219 4405
Application
Deadline for registration is 15 July, 2010
Online registration is required. Please go to
http://fac.arch.hku.hk/summer/sh/dp
for details and application forms.
Applicants should also submit the following documents alongside the application form:
A 200-word statement explaining why you want to apply this program and what you expect to learn.
At least 2 projects demonstrating your knowledge and skills on using the digital technique for architectural projects.
All submitted document should be A4 portrait with the format of pdf landscape.
Questions and applications should be sent to: dpprog@arch.hku.hk
http://fac.arch.hku.hk/summer/sh/dp
programming.architecture by Paul Coates
to purchase please follow the link below
/www.routledge-ny.com/books/ProgrammingArchitecture-isbn9780415451888
programming.architecture is a simple and concise introduction to the history of computing and computational design, explaining the basics of algorithmic thinking and the use of the computer as a tool for design and architecture.
Paul Coates, a pioneer of CAAD, demonstrates algorithmic thinking through projects and student work collated through his years of teaching students of computing and design. The book takes a detailed and practical look at what the techniques and philosophy of coding entail, and gives the reader many "glimpses under the hood" in the form of code snippets and examples of algorithms.
This is essential reading for student and professional architects and designers interested in how the development of computers has influenced the way we think about, and design for, the built environment.