Bartlett International Lecture Series: 2012-13 // Achim Menges

Описание: Material Computation

Computation, in its most basic meaning, refers to the processing of information. In this way, both machinic processes operating in the binary realm of the digital, as well as material processes operating in the complex domain of the physical can be considered computational. While there is a strong bias towards the former in contemporary design, sporadic investigations of the later have also occurred in architecture. What is more rarely explored, though, is the territory where machine computation and material computation potentially overlap, where they not simply co-exist but intensely interact in the design process.

The lecture will introduce Achim Menges' work on computational design approaches that unfold morphological complexity and performative capacity without differentiating between form generation and materialisation processes. His design research, conducted at the Architectural Association, at Harvard University and at his new institute at Stuttgart University over the last ten years, will be presented along a series of constructed prototype buildings.

Find out more about this lecture on The Bartlett website at http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/archite...

This lecture was recorded as part of the 2012-13 season of The Bartlett International Lecture Series at UCL on 31 October 2012.