The Delft School of Design and the International Institute for Asian Studies cordially invite you to attend the international workshop:

Convenor:
Ir. Gregory Bracken (DSD)

Venue:
Oostserre, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft
Julianalaan 134
Delft
The Netherlands
 
The aim of this international workshop is to investigate the state of urban design in an East-Asian context, particularly how cities like Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore interact as nodes in the global city network. The roles of these cities' colonial histories will also be examined to see how they have affected recent urban developments. This workshop is intended as the first in a series of annual events examining the field of urban design in Asia.

Speakers:
M. Christine Boyer (Princeton University), Stephen Lau (University of Hong Kong), Arie Graafland (Delft School of Design), Gregory Bracken (Delft School of Design), M.Sc. students' spokesperson: Singapore Studio (Delft School of Design).

Please visit http://www.iias.nl or http://delftschoolofdesign.eu for further information and the programme.

Information and registration:
Ms Martina van den Haak, M
m.c.van.den.haak@iias.nl
+31 71 5273317

Program
10.00-10.20 Opening address: Prof Max Sparreboom, IIAS.

10.20-10.40 Introduction: Ir Gregory Bracken, DSD.

Coffee break

11.00-12.00 Session 1: Shanghai: Prof M. Christine Boyer, Princeton.

Lunch in Delft

14.00-15.00 Session 2: Hong Kong: Prof Stephen Lau, HKU.

Coffee break

15.30-16.30 Session 3: Singapore: DSD Urban Asymmetries students' MSc2 work.

Coffee break

16.45-17.00 Closing address: Prof Arie Graafland, TU Delft.

This work is an investigation into Shanghai's role in the twenty-first century as it attempts to rejoin the global city network. It also examines the effects this move is having on the city, its people, and its public spaces. Shanghai's intention to turn itself into the New York of Asia is not succeeding, in fact the city might be better trying to become the Chicago of Asia instead. As one of Saskia Sassen's ‘global cities' Shanghai functions as part of a network that requires face-to-face contact, but it has also been able to benefit from links that were forged during the colonial era (1842 to c.1949). In fact, the new global elites who have made cities like Shanghai their home have ended up living much like former ones; with the result that their needs are pushing out the very people who used to call this city ‘home'. These are the people who inhabit what Manuel Castells calls the ‘Fourth World' (what this research refers to as the ‘analogue archipelago').

Manuel Castells's notion of the ‘network society' also shows how recent developments in globalisation have resulted in qualitative social and economic changes because they operate in real time. Globalisation, however, does not necessarily mean Westernisation. In fact, there is a strong neo-Confucian ethos underpinning China's recent resurgence, which in turn has important ramifications for how Chinese people perceive public space. Shanghai's new public space is curiously dead - and while Asians tend to blur distinctions between public and private more than we do in the West (which can render these spaces harder to read for Westerners) - the fault lies more with the fact that some of Shanghai's new public spaces are simply ‘left-over' spaces, particularly in front of the newer skyscrapers. This space has been designed for movement, not for use, and it contrasts starkly with the traditional alleyway houses of the colonial-era city where communal activity, graduated privacy, and organised complexity made for a rich and dynamic street life.

Part II of this thesis deals with colonialism, noting how Shanghai has benefitted from its justly famous colonial history in its attempts to rejoin the global city network. Colonialism is carefully differentiated from imperialism, although it is noted that both were premised on industrial innovations, particularly Britain's, in the nineteenth century. Part II also examines Hong Kong's and Singapore's role in the global city network, the better to understand Shanghai; and a useful comparison has been made between Shanghai's alleyway houses and the Singapore shophouse with regard to public space and the possibilities for rehabilitation and reuse.

Part III is perhaps the most important section of this thesis, particularly its use of Michel Foucault's theories of space and power relations and how these are inscribed in a built environment. This Part also highlights the use that has been made of Foucault's work by other academics, notably Edward W. Said in Orientalism. Said saw some good things as having resulted from Western hegemony over that part of the world he defines as the Orient but generally tends to regard imperialistic influence as debilitating and dangerous. Use has also been made of some critics of Said's work, notably Robert Irwin and Ibn Warraq, who maintain that Said overvalued the role of the intellectual, and, more dangerously, misunderstood the Foucauldian notion of discourse, which is what led him to make some of his most damaging statements about European racism against the Orient. By way of contrast, David Grahame Shane's application of the Foucauldian notion of the heterotopia - to Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City - is an apposite and accurate use of one of Foucault's theories.

Part IV examines China's rich and ancient culture, noting as it does so that cultures are constructed, and, more importantly, asking how they are constructed. Manuel Castells sees the construction of identities as using materials from history, geography, biology, productive and reproductive institutions, as well as from collective memory and personal fantasies, and even from power apparatuses and religious revelation; this thesis's examination of the Chinese mentalité is an important exercise in helping to comprehend what is happening in Shanghai today.

Cities are not about buildings and streets; cities are about people, and their networks of interaction. Any study of a city must take account of the warm life of its inhabitants and not allow itself to be blinded by the cold geometries of stone. This examination of what has gone wrong with Shanghai's new public spaces was greatly aided by an understanding of the Chinese language itself, which in turn led to the conclusion that the Western term ‘public' might be better transliterated into Chinese as chang (which means ‘open-air') rather than the more usual gong (or ‘public'), especially when describing Shanghai's new public space.

[Link to dissertation]

The relationship between space and power in pre-democratic South Africa was deliberately inclusive of some and excluded the other through its nature, location, ordering and limits. The thesis has as its focus this process as it pertains to two projects of the mid-20th century South African urban environment: the Voortrekker Monument and Native Township Model. Conceived in 1938 at the centenary of the Great Trek, the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, designed by Gerard Moerdijk, was inaugurated on 16 December 1949. It was built to serve as a reminder to coming generations of the history and significance of the Great Trek it also served as a shrine of the Afrikaner nation. A year later the Group Areas Act of 1950 became the decisive law to lay down the principle of racial division and isolation and the Minimum Standards of Accommodation were accordingly racialised when, in 1951, they where modified for non-European housing, thereby establishing that a different minimum standard applied to the white and non-white population. In response the National Building Research Institute developed the Native Township Model as a response to the urban native housing problem. Kwa-Thema, developed by the Municipality of Springs, was the first black township based on this model. This thesis aims to define, investigate and understand the elationship between the concepts of space and power through a theoretical framework developed from the intersection of architecture, philosophy, cultural theory and social theory. The reading and representation of the Voortrekker Monument and Native
Township Model as spatial works/histories, when examined through this theoretical lens, allow for their location/re-interpretation. The study puts forward new knowledge on the relationship between conceptualisations of space and power and their practical applications in architecture: how power worked through space within the political period of apartheid and how space was made an object of the exercise of power. It contributes to the post apartheid discourse on apartheid architecture and planning in the South African public domain.

[Link to dissertation]

The DSD, in cooperation with the department of Building Technology is organizing a lecture/seminar and workshop series centered on Architectural Engineering: Performance, Form and Materialization of Buildings. The series will involve world renowned academics and professionals.
 
The format consists of:
-          a series of thematic public lectures + round-table discussions on the theme: architectural engineering - Performance, Geometry and Materials;
-          a series of public design workshops on this theme.
 
This series is set up not merely to let researchers and practitioners present their work, but more importantly, to provide for an engaged and open discussion on recent projects, research issues and design perspectives, with an eye for future research directions.
 
On 12 September the series will start with a three day workshop on Digital Design and Production                                
                       
12-14 September 2007
Workshop on Digital Design and Production
by; Edgar Stach, University of Tennessee
Oliver Tessmann, University of Kassel
Paul de Ruiter, Delft University of Technology
10.00-17.00, DSD space 8th floor
 
To what extent can digital manufacturing methods inform the creation of architecture? What is the effect of architectural systems inspired by nature to be translated and produced using computer controlled machines? To explore these possibilities will become the basis for the Digital Modeling and Fabrication Workshop.
The workshop will instruct participants on designing, modeling and manufacturing architectural surfaces by the means of NURBS modeling applications and digital manufacturing devices.
Research, fabrication and assembly procedures will center on digital fabrication using 2d laser cutter. The workshop attempts to teach at various levels between 'how to' considerations of learning hardware and software, while exploring a deeper understanding of the technological implications on design and digital fabrication
 
The workshop will brake down into three critical phases:

• Phase 1: Modeling: Surface modeling constraint by fabrication techniques
• Phase 2: Scripting: Generation of pattern and fabrication data
• Phase 3: Physical model: Fabrication of model components and cutting, perforating linear slicing, aching different pattern etc.

 
Design Object: Light Modulation Sculpture
 
For registration for the workshop, please email; e.b.tuncer@tudelft.nl. The workshop is open to PhD candidates and staff.

Project Driven Research
Lecture by Hugh Whitehead
Specialist Modeling Group, Foster and Partners
Lecture: 10.30-12:30, DSD space 9th floor (public)
Round table discussion: 14:00 - 17.00, DSD space 8th floor (email Bige Tuncer: e.b.tuncer@tudelft.nl to sign up)
Hugh Whitehead graduated from Liverpool University where he was awarded First Class Honours for a thesis on Optimisation applied in an architectural context. The thesis explored the potential for using mathematical techniques as an aid to design, but also researched the problem of how to educate designers so that they learn to construct a solution space, which can then be explored programmatically.

In 1998 he was invited to join Foster and Partners to set up the Specialist Modelling Group, whose brief is to carry out Research and Development in an environment which is intensely project driven. This challenge has given the original thesis a new significance. Computing technology has come of age and in the digital era the techniques are taking on a new relevance.

In 2002 he was one of the co-founders of The SmartGeometry Group, which is an independent organisation that aims to bring together the worlds of Practice, Education and Research through events and workshops which are both international and multi-disciplinary.

The Specialist Modelling Group operates as an in-house consultancy within Foster and Partners, and supports designers from concept stage to fabrication and site construction. It focuses on the research, development and evaluation of new technologies to support the design process. To date the team has worked on over 100 projects, including the SwissRe tower, the Sage Gateshead, Albion Wharf and the new Beijing Airport terminal for the 2008 Olympics. The group also conducts collaborative research with universities and software companies.

The presentation will show the work of the Specialist Modelling Group and discuss the attitudes of mind which make it possible to provide a consultancy which successfully blends Practice and Research.

Lecture by Jeffrey Inaba
Volume/ SCIFI/ C-Lab/ AMO
16.00-17.30, DSD space 8th floor

Jeffrey Inaba teaches architectural theory and design studios at Columbia University, where he is the founding director of C-Lab, and SCI-Arc (where he and Paul Nakazawa run SCIFI, the Southern California Institute for Future Initiatives).
He heads Inaba Projects and he regularly contributes to a wide variety of publications, not the least of which is Great Leap Forward: The Harvard Design School Project on the City.
Inaba is also a co-editor of Volume, along with Ole Bouman and Mark Wigley. Recently he participated in the International Rotterdam Architecture Biennale which Vedran Mimica and Joachim DeClerk curated on behalf of the Berlage.

1 November 2007, 14:00
"File Under Urbanism: Le Corbusier and his Writings"

2 November 2007, 10:30-16:00
Special Invited Guest in the Ph.D. Seminar from Kavanaugh, Chrono-topologies: Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities

write to dsd@bk.tudelft.nl for the pdf of texts to be prepared for seminar and to sign up.

10:30-12:30 Discussion of text: "Ultramoderne" from Pamela M. Lee

13:30-16:00 Lecture and Discussion with Boyer:
"Kubler's The Shape of Time and Pamuela Lee's Chronophobias"

Lecture by Prof. Dr. José Pinto Duarte
Technical University of Lisbon Faculty of Architecture and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-UT Lisbon)

Tuesday 6 November 2007, 12:00-13:30
DSD Space, 9th Floor 
"From Customized Mass Housing to Flexible Urban Design"
The modernistic approach to the design of a large number of objects, such as a housing estate, was to design a limited number of types and then to repeat it based on market analysis.  This approach led to uniform housing and rigid urban plans. Contemporary processes may overcome such limitations by using rule-based computer-aided design and manufacturing processes.  The goal is to give mass-produced houses some of the qualities associated with individually designed ones and to endow planned environments with the qualities associated with traditional settlements.

The lecture will first focus on research carried out to develop a rule-based framework for customizing mass housing and then explain how such a framework might be reconfigured to enable flexible urban design. Several case studies will be presented, including grammars for existing planned and non-planed designs, such as the one for Siza's Malagueira houses and the one for the Marrakech Medina, as well as grammars for original designs.

José Pinto Duarte (Licenciatura ‘87, FAUTL; S.M.Arch.S '93 and Ph.D. '01, MIT) is Associate Professor at the Technical University of Lisbon Faculty of Architecture (FA-UT Lisbon) and researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-UT Lisbon), where he founded the ISTAR Labs - IST Architecture Research Laboratories. He was Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working on the Changing Places project (former House_ n).
His main research interests are mass customization with a special focus on housing, and the application of new technologies to architecture and urban design in general.  The goal is to use computer aided design and fabrication technologies to provide for mass customized products.

He has authored several conference papers and journal articles on these topics. He also is the author of "Type and Module" (LNEC, 1995) and co-author of "The Lisbon Charrette" (with J. Bento and W.J. Mitchell, IST Press 1999) and "Collaborative Design and Learning" (with J. Bento, M. Heitor e W. J. Mitchell, Praeger 2004).

He was invited speaker at Myiagi University, Japan; Carnegie-Mellon University and Harvard University, U.S.A; and the firm Ove Arup in London.  Articles on his work appeared on large circulation magazines such as A+U, Japan; Popular Science, U.S.A., and New Scientist, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 14 - Friday 16 November 2007
Computational Intelligence for Design Applications
Lectures: 9.45-17.00, DSD space 9th floor
Workshop: 9.00 - 17.00, DSD space 8th floor

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The seminar is intended primarily for PhD candidates and other researchers in the Departments of Architecture, Building Technology, Urbanism, and Real Estate and Housing, in order to familiarize them with some techniques which have had significant impacts in a variety of fields -- including economics, engineering, and the the physical and social sciences (with applications such as knowledge modeling, pattern recognition, control systems, negotiation, and optimization) -- and are now slowly becoming adopted also in our own. Faculty members and advanced Masters students are also welcome.

For an interactive glimpse at one example of an architectural application which will be among the case studies, please follow the link: www.computationaldesign.bk.tudelft.nl. Click on English (top right) and then scroll all the way down. The link to the application is at the bottom of the page and is called Design by Genetic Algorithm. There is also a link for the plug-in that is necessary to run the application.

The seminar is organized flexibly to accommodate participants at various levels of interest and committment, from half a day to three days. We will begin with three one-hour introductory talks on the subjects of Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, and Genetic Algorithms, and it is hoped that these will entice attendees to participate also in the following days' programs, although those who prefer may join only for the lectures on a particular topic of interest. The schedule is as follows (with breaks and question-and-answer periods inserted as time allows) and brief notes about the speakers are below:
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14 November 9.45 - 13.00
Welcome and Introductory Lectures by P. Wiggers, O. Ciftcioglu and L.Caldas
Neural Networks - Fuzzy Logic - Genetic Algorithms
DSD Space 9th Floor

14 November 14.00 - 17.00
Neural Networks Lectures by P. Wiggers and O. Ciftcioglu
Neural Networks: Theory & Fundamentals, Applications, Case Study
DSD Space 9th Floor

15 November 10.00 - 13.00
Fuzzy Logic Lectures by O. Ciftcioglu and C. Jonker
Fuzzy Logic / Commonsense Reasoning: Theory & Fundamentals, Applications, Case Study
DSD Space, 9th floor

15 November 14.00 - 17.00
Genetic Algorithms Lectures by P. Janssen, L. Caldas and M. Bittermann
Genetic Algorithms: Theory & Fundamentals, Applications, Case Study
DSD Space 9th Floor

16 November 9.00 - 17.00
Workshop with practical problems and exercises
(participation limited to 20)
DSD Space 8th Floor

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To help our planning please indicate your interest in attending by contacting Bige Tuncer: e.b.tuncer@tudelft.nl. Note that registration for the Workshop activities (16 Nov) is essential due to limited participation.

On behalf of Bige Tuncer,
Kind regards,
 
Meis de Jongh
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The following are the organizers and/or speakers of this seminar:

Michael S. Bittermann is a PhD candidate in the Design Informatics chair of TU Delft. His research is on Evolutionary Search for performance-based design.

Luisa Caldas is a Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon. Her research work has dealt with design optimization using evolutionary computation, especially applied to environmental design and sustainable architecture.

André Chaszar is a registered engineer and architect, and editor/author of a book about CAD-CAM in A/E/C, currently conducting his PhD research in the Design Informatics chair of TU Delft. His research concerns searching within 3D digital building models, and he is examining the applicability of Computational Intelligence methods to this work.

Ozer Ciftcioglu is a staff researcher in the Design Informatics chair of TU Delft. His specialty is on Computational Intelligence for Performance-based Design.

Sanja Durmisevic is a postdoc researcher in Design Informatics chair at Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. She specializes in knowledge modelling strategies & techniques for design related problems and architectural domain in general.

Patrick Janssen is a Lecturer in Digital Design Modelling in the Faculty of Architecture Building & Planning at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on generative and evolutionary techniques in architecture, and he is currently developing software systems to enable such techniques to be used in practice.

Catholijn M. Jonker is a full time professor in Artificial Intelligence and Man-Machine Interaction at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Delft. She is particularly interested in agent technology, organisation modelling and simulation, and negotiation.

Bige Tunçer is the DSD liaison nestor of the Building Technology Department, and an assistant professor in the Design Informatics chair in the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft. Her research focuses on architectural information modeling and knowledge representation in early design.

Pascal Wiggers is an assistant professor in Man-Machine Interaction Group, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Delft. He is mainly interested in probabilistic reasoning, statistical speech and language processing. 

Thursday 22nd of November,
Emergence
Lecture by Michael Weinstock
Lecture: 10:30 - 12.30, DSD Space 9th Floor
Round table discussion: 14:00 - 17.00, DSD space 8th floor

‘Emergent' is commonly defined as that which is produced by multiple causes, but which cannot be said to be the sum of their individual effects. It has been an important concept in biology and mathematics, in geomorphology, artificial intelligence, climatic studies, the material sciences, and in particular in biomimetic engineering. Commonplace terms such as ‘self-organizing structures' and ‘bottom-up systems' have their origin in the science of emergence.
The presentation will commence with a brief survey of the origins of emergence, including the mathematics of evolutionary and embryological development, and the ways in which biological organisms achieve complex ‘emergent' structures and metabolic performances in self-organized systems that proceed from simple components to complexity. Current work in the ‘Emtech' programme will be presented, including the structural and environmental analysis of several living systems, experiments in algorithmic design processes and in evolutionary computation, and some 1.1 scale prototype constructed material systems.

Michael Weinstock
Academic Head,
Architectural Association School of Architecture
Director, Emergent Technologies and Design
Master of Technical Studies

Michael Weinstock is an Architect. Born in Germany, lived as a child in the Far East and then West Africa, and attended an English public school. Ran away to sea at age 17 after reading Conrad. Years at sea in traditional sailing ships, with shipyard and shipbuilding experience. Studied Architecture at the Architectural Association and has taught at the AA School of Architecture since 1989 as Unit Master and Master of Technical Studies. Conducted Unit programs in Intermediate and Diploma School focused on urban space and architectural design in London, Manchester, Barcelona, Tokyo and Manhattan. He is co-founder and Co- director of the Emergent Technologies and Design Masters program, with Michael Hensel. He is currently lecturing at Yale School of Architecture on Evolutionary Design, and has published widely. Michael Weinstock's research interests lie in exploring the convergence of Biomimetic Engineering, Emergence and Material Sciences. The potential of the convergence for the materialization of intelligent materials, structures, buildings and ultimately, the organization of Cities, provides the motivation and suggests the long term goal.

DSD Ph.D. Seminar Invited Guest
Prof.Dr. Graham Harman, American University Cairo

23 November 2007
DSD Space, 8th Floor

Special Invited Guest in the Ph.D. Seminar from Kavanaugh, Chrono-topologies: Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities

write to dsd@bk.tudelft.nl for the pdf of texts to be prepared for seminar and to sign up.

10:30-12:30 Discussion of text by Bruno Latour: Irreductions and presentation by Isabelle Doucet: "Irreductions: An Introduction to a Philosopher-in-Action"

14:00-16:00 Lecture for Seminar Participants and Discussion with Harman: "Space and Time: An Object-Oriented Approach"

DSD Ph.D. Seminar Invited Guest
Prof.Dr. Antoine Picon, Harvard University

30 November 2007
DSD Space, 8th Floor

Special Invited Guest in the Ph.D. Seminar from Kavanaugh, Chrono-topologies: Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities

write to dsd@bk.tudelft.nl for the pdf of texts to be prepared for seminar and to sign up.

10:30-12:30 Discussion of text: "Architecture and the Sciences: Scientific Accuracy or Productive Misunderstanding?"

14:00-16:00 Lecture for Seminar Participants and Discussion with Picon: "Digital Architecture and the Temporal Structures of the Internet Experience"

Computational Design and Optimization in Building Practice
Computers continue to change the world of engineering and design; increasing the complexity of what can be designed and built as well as sparking our imaginations. In today's competitive global market, new ways to use computing within design processes is key to creating and fabricating innovative designs that expand our boundaries. This talk explores applications of computational design and optimisation research in building practice through a range of examples from small architectural installations to large-scale, complex building projects. The methods and tools presented combine a range of methods including complex geometry generation using shape and structural grammars and optimization of structures, facades and building envelopes using a range of stochastic search methods, including evolutionary optimization. A performance-based approach is used considering structural, cost, spatial, envelope and lighting performance. General benefits realized are improved design quality, enhanced design understanding and reduced design time. In addition, for several projects it is argued that the tools have been indispensable to creating and realizing new complex geometry. In the future, full advantages will only be achieved by consideration of new computational methods and ways of designing earlier in a project to widen the scope for application and achieve tighter collaboration among clients, architects, engineers and tools.

Bio
Prof. Dr. Kristina Shea studied Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (USA) where she completed her B.S. with University Honors (1993), M. S. (1995) and Ph.D. (1997) in the area of advanced CAD and CAE methods for structural design synthesis and optimization. Following, she worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the ETH Lausanne (Switzerland) in the areas of structural optimization and intelligent structures. In 1999 she became University Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Cambridge University (UK) where she led the Design Synthesis Group in the Engineering Design Center (EDC). The research emphasis of her team was the development of new methods and tools for automatic generation of innovative and optimized systems in various domains including structures, mechanical systems and microsystems (MEMS). From 2002 to 2005 she worked at Arup in their Foresight, Innovation and Incubation group and led the computational design and optimization initiative. She has taught collaborative architectural design studios with MIT (Boston), the Architectural Association (London) and Academie van Boukunst (Amsterdam). In November 2005, she moved to TU Munich to take up the new Professorship for Applications of Virtual Product Development within the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Monday 22 October 2007
Managing Complexity
Lecture by Charles Walker
Zaha Hadid Architects
Lecture: 10.30-12:30, DSD space 9th floor
Round table discussion: 14:00 - 17.00, DSD space 8th floor

Charles Walker is a chartered architect and structural engineer. He was born in Toronto, Canada and studied architecture at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. In 1988 he relocated to the UK and worked as an architect before undertaking post graduate studies in structural engineering at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine in 1992. Charles has worked in design based engineering offices Atelier One Ltd. where he helped to build the practices reputation for innovative design engineering. In 1998 Charles joined Ove Arup and Partners where he has worked with several world leading architects. Since 2000 Charles led the Advanced Geometry Unit which he co-founded with Arup Vice Chairman Cecil Balmond. From late 2004 the AGU began to formally practice architecture most notably masterplanning the Battersea Power Station site in London.  In early 2007 Charles left Arup to found from-work projects and to join Zaha Hadid Architects where he is currently employed.

If you would like to join the round table discussion, please contact Bige Tuncer; e.b.tuncer@tudelft.nl

Thursday 10 January 2008
Building for the post - fossil era
Lecture by Klaus Daniels
Lecture: 10:30 - 12.30, DSD Space 9th Floor
Round table discussion: 14:00 - 17.00, DSD space 8th floor

Abstract of the talk
Building for the post-fossil era means to see far back into the past, in order to develop ideas from the past reaching far into the future. Building in the post-fossil era is usually no longer the action of the individual and the satisfaction of one's own vanity, but the development of building and technical structures in a team consisting of architects, construction engineers, and engineers for the supply of the houses. Thus, generalists are demanded that are capable of listening to specialists, who are able to execute the ideas of the generalists.
In this respect the interdisciplinary education of future planners is extremely important, because the use of natural resources not only aims to produce energy from the known resources available on the market, but to lower the energy need remarkably in a smart way. For this attention has to be paid especially to the "new layering" of building materials, in order to develop a "cyclic economy", i.e. to make all building materials recyclable to large degree, since not only the end of the fossil fuels is in sight, but also the end of the resources and materials we are currently using unrestrictedly and are wasting to a large extent.

Biography of Klaus Daniels
Klaus Daniels (Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. e. h.) is the founder of HL-Technik AG, Munich. He was educated as a mechanical engineer for gas, water, heating, air-conditioning, and ventilation. He founded HL-Technik AG in 1969, and he was the president of the board of directors until 2001. He acted as the chairman of the supervisory board of the company between 2002 and 2004. Since 2004 he is the special consultant/chairman of HL-PP Consult Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH.
Klaus Daniels was a professor at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland between 1990 and 2005.
He has special experience in new concepts of ventilation and a/c systems, integrated light-ceiling systems, design concepts aerophysics, building climate and building services engineering. He is an attested and appointed expert for a/c and ventilation systems.
His publications include "The Technology of Ecological Building", "Low-Tech Light-Tech High-Tech", and "Advanced Building Services Engineering". His upcoming publication is "Plusminus 20°/40° Latitude - Sustainable building design in tropical and subtropical regions.

Monday 11 February 2008
Digital architecture: Control or Emergence?
Lecture by Chris Williams
Lecture: 10:30 - 12.30, DSD Lecture Room 13th Floor
Round table discussion: 14:00 - 17.00, DSD Lecture Room 13th Floor

Abstract:
We want to control what computers do and at the same time to be presented with unexpected possibilities that emerge out of the design process. How can architects and engineers work with computers to resolve this apparent impasse?

Short bio:
Chris Williams is a civil engineer. He joined Ted Happold's group at Ove Arup and Partners in 1972 and worked with Ted and Ian Liddell on the Mannheim Multihalle (Carlfried Mutschler + Partners and Professor Frei Otto). In 1976 he left Arup to join Ted Happold at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath.
His research interests are geometry and structural form and fluid-structure interaction. He has written computer software for the geometric definition and structural analysis of projects which include the British Museum Great Court Roof (Buro Happold and Foster and Partners), Millenium Dome Central Show nets (atelier one and The Mark Fisher Studio), Japanese Pavilion Expo 2000 (Buro Happold, Shigeru Ban Architects and Frei Otto), Weald and Downland Museum (Buro Happold and Edward Cullinan Architects) and the Savill Building Gridshell (Buro Happold and Glenn Howells Architects).

20/21 February 2008 // Masterclass
Masterclass by David Harvey
Masterclass; 10.45-17.00, DSD North Wing 13th Floor
Location: Berlageweg 1, Delft, Faculty of Architecture
Reservations required: please write to DSD@bk.tudelft.nl

22 February 2008 // Public Lecture
Public lecture by David Harvey
Lecture:  13.45 - 17.00, DSD 13th Floor
Location: Berlageweg 1, Delft, Faculty of Architecture
Reservations required: please write to DSD@bk.tudelft.nl

The Master Class is open to the DSD MSc2 Urban Asymmetries group & a select group of invited MSc3 students (who have prepared the reading material and have participated in the preparatory morning group meetings), PhD candidates, Faculty staff and external guests.
The Inaugural Lecture is open to the general public. It is advised to arrive at the DSD venue with some anticipation to secure seated space.

The DSD - in collaboration with the recently launched Design/Research Program Urban Asymmetries- is happy to invite you to the Master Class and Inaugural Lecture by Prof. David Harvey that will take place in the new DSD Studio Space, Faculty of Architecture, TU-Delft (Berlageweg 1, 2628 CR, Delft, 13th floor) on February 20, 21 & 22, 2008.
During the Master Class days (February 20 & 21, 2008) Professor Harvey will hold short talks on the relationships between capitalism and neoliberalism on the development of modern/postmodern urbanities. These talks will be followed by round tables and group discussions.
During the Inaugural Lecture Urban Asymmetries on February 22, 2008 Professor Harvey will address the neoliberalization of Latin American cities, placing emphasis on his most recent work on the 'anarchist' communities in Chile in the decades following the collapse of Pinochet's regime.
Please see attached our detailed program. We will also appreciate your confirmation of participation in the Master Class before Tuesday, February 19th, 2008.

Critical social theorist David Harvey, is distinguished professor of Geography at the department of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. Harvey, one of the most influential scholars of post-war culture in advanced capitalist societies, has written on globalization, social justice, urban sustainability, the importance of space and place, environmental transformation, and the new imperialism. Harvey is author of numerous books, including /A Brief History of Neoliberalism,/ which provides examples of divergent practices of neoliberalism since the mid 1970s, and /The Condition of Postmodernity/, which the London Independent newspaper described as one of the 50 most important works of non-fiction published since 1945. Other books include /The New Imperialism/, /Paris, Capital of Modernity/, /Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference/, /Spaces of Hope/ and /Spaces of Global Capitalism/.

Program:

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
10.45 - 12.45 Group meeting: preparation of responses and questions to Prof. Harvey on The Urban Experience (1989) & The Condition of Postmodernity (1990)
The participants are invited to join at the DSD MSc Studio (13th floor, north wing) and review the points and questions that they wish to pose at the Master Class. The group will prepare a short ‘response' to each of these points, which should be formulated in no more than one paragraph per item, question, or point.
12.45 - 13.30 Lunch
13.45 - 15.00 Talk: ‘Marxism and the Development of Modern Urbanity' by Prof. Harvey.
15.00 - 17.00 Master Class: round table and group discussions with Prof. Harvey.
17.00 Informal drinks

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
10.45 - 12.45 Group meeting: preparation of responses and questions to Prof. Harvey on Spaces of Global Capitalism (2006)
12.45 - 13.00 Lunch
13.45 - 15.00 Talk: ‘Neoliberalism and the Development of Postmodern Urbanity' by Prof. Harvey.
15.00 - 17.00 Master Class: round table and group discussions with Prof. Harvey.
17.00 Informal drinks

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
13.45  - 17.00 Inaugural Lecture Urban Asymmetries ‘The Neoliberalization of Latin America' by Prof. Harvey
17.00 Closure and informal drinks

29 February 2008 // Public lecture *
Public lecture by Ben Highmore and Lukasz Stanek
Lecture; 13.30, DSD Lecture Room 13th Floor
Location: Berlageweg 1, Delft, Faculty of Architecture

Dr. Ben Highmore, Reader in Media Studies at the University of Sussex, is a foremost scholar in the field of Cultural Studies and the discourse on the everyday. Among others he published Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City (2005) and Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction (2002). He will be discussing his recent, 2006 publication Michel de Certeau, Analysing Culture.
Lukasz Stanek, TU Delft and recently the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht, will be discussing the concept of every day in Henri Lefebvre and its consequence in post-war French architecture and philosophy.

Program
13:30 - 14:30                       Ben Highmore
                                          "On: Michel De Certeau, Analysing Culture"
14:30 - 15:00                       Lukasz Stanek
                                           "The every day life in post-war French architecture and philosophy"
15:00 - 15:30                       Discussion: Ben Highmore, Lukas Stanek, Dirk van den Heuvel:moderated by T. Kaminer

 * This event has been co-sponsored by the Faculty of Architecture's ‘Dwelling and Public Building' section and organized by Dirk van den Heuvel 

10-12 March 2008 // DSD Architectural Engineering Workshop
Bridge design in a historical setting
Location: DSD, 13th Floor, Berlageweg 1, Delft, Faculty of Architecture
Register as soon as possible by sending an email to Bige Tunçer (e.b.tuncer@tudelft.nl) - limited number of spaces

A bridge has many meanings and symbols. But from whatever point of view we might look at it, a bridge always expresses the strong, audacious desire to "cross a boundary", to overcome an obstacle. Building an imaginary or real bridge is always a challenge, an attempt to fill a gap, to encourage encounters.
In the world of design, there are two schools of thought regarding bridges: those who hold bridges to be infrastructure which are certainly noble but which must simply serve the purpose of solving traffic problems, and, on the other hand, those who believe them to be the outcome of creativeness and inspiration, objects whose shape is both essence and substance.
In this workshop the aim is to build a "bridge" between those two perspectives. To reconcile aesthetics, functionality, inspiration and craft, while achieving a balance between bridge and it's surrounding, in this case a historical setting.
Examples of bridges in a historic setting are the bridge design of Santiago Calatrava of the Fourth Canal Grande Bridge in Venice or the design competition for the new Academia Bridge also in Venice. Another example is the reconstruction of the historic old bridge in Mostar which was destroyed in the Balkan wars of the ninetieths. For all of these examples the bridge is more than just a piece of infrastructure, but also an object of identity and even of pride. This sensitivity and how to design a bridge in this context is the main topic of this workshop. The design task for the workshop will be a new footbridge for the Arsenal in Venice.

The workshop will have the following themes:
-           Architectural expression of the bridge in a historical context
-           Relationship of the bridge to its historical context
-           Materialization of the bridge in a historical setting
-           Cultural meaning of the bridge in a historical setting

The idea is to discuss the issues of bridge design in a historical setting by making several design concepts for bridges in different historical settings and evaluating the results of these designs on there architectural and cultural merits. Physical and virtual models and prototypes will be made of the designs.

The 1st day will start with introductory lectures on the topic, discussion to formulate position on the issues cultural sensitivity of bridge design in a historical content, and exploratory design sessions.
The 2nd day will have more design sessions, model making and prototyping and concluding lectures.
The third day will start with a lecture, continue with design sessions and end with presentations.

The workshop will be tutored by:
Enzo Siviero (IUAV Venice)
Massimo Majowiecki (IUAV Venice)
Tobia Zordan (Tongji University Shanghai)
Andrew Borgart (TU Delft)
Axel Kilian (TU Delft)
Paul de Ruiter (TU Delft)
Bige Tunçer (TU Delft)
Michela Turrin (TU Delft)

A tentative schedule for the workshop is as follows:

Program
Monday 10 March

10:00    lecture by Andrew Borgart (TU Delft)
10:40    presentation of the site
11:00    lecture by Maurice Nio (to be confirmed)
12:30    lunch
13:30 - 18:00 Studio
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Tuesday 11 March

10:00 - 16:00 Studio
16:00    lecture by Enzo Siviero
17:00    lecture by Tobia Zordan
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Wednesday 12 March

10:00    lecture by Massimo Majowiecki
11:00 - 15:30 Studio
15:30    Presentations
17:30    Drinks 

10-12 March 2008 // DSD Architectural Engineering Workshop
Bridge design in a historical setting
Location: DSD, 13th Floor, Berlageweg 1, Delft, Faculty of Architecture
Register as soon as possible by sending an email to Bige Tunçer (e.b.tuncer@tudelft.nl) - limited number of spaces

A bridge has many meanings and symbols. But from whatever point of view we might look at it, a bridge always expresses the strong, audacious desire to "cross a boundary", to overcome an obstacle. Building an imaginary or real bridge is always a challenge, an attempt to fill a gap, to encourage encounters.
In the world of design, there are two schools of thought regarding bridges: those who hold bridges to be infrastructure which are certainly noble but which must simply serve the purpose of solving traffic problems, and, on the other hand, those who believe them to be the outcome of creativeness and inspiration, objects whose shape is both essence and substance.
In this workshop the aim is to build a "bridge" between those two perspectives. To reconcile aesthetics, functionality, inspiration and craft, while achieving a balance between bridge and it's surrounding, in this case a historical setting.
Examples of bridges in a historic setting are the bridge design of Santiago Calatrava of the Fourth Canal Grande Bridge in Venice or the design competition for the new Academia Bridge also in Venice. Another example is the reconstruction of the historic old bridge in Mostar which was destroyed in the Balkan wars of the ninetieths. For all of these examples the bridge is more than just a piece of infrastructure, but also an object of identity and even of pride. This sensitivity and how to design a bridge in this context is the main topic of this workshop. The design task for the workshop will be a new footbridge for the Arsenal in Venice.

The workshop will have the following themes:
-           Architectural expression of the bridge in a historical context
-           Relationship of the bridge to its historical context
-           Materialization of the bridge in a historical setting
-           Cultural meaning of the bridge in a historical setting

The idea is to discuss the issues of bridge design in a historical setting by making several design concepts for bridges in different historical settings and evaluating the results of these designs on there architectural and cultural merits. Physical and virtual models and prototypes will be made of the designs.

The 1st day will start with introductory lectures on the topic, discussion to formulate position on the issues cultural sensitivity of bridge design in a historical content, and exploratory design sessions.
The 2nd day will have more design sessions, model making and prototyping and concluding lectures.
The third day will start with a lecture, continue with design sessions and end with presentations.

The workshop will be tutored by:
Enzo Siviero (IUAV Venice)
Massimo Majowiecki (IUAV Venice)
Tobia Zordan (Tongji University Shanghai)
Andrew Borgart (TU Delft)
Axel Kilian (TU Delft)
Paul de Ruiter (TU Delft)
Bige Tunçer (TU Delft)
Michela Turrin (TU Delft)

A tentative schedule for the workshop is as follows:

Program
Monday 10 March

10:00    lecture by Andrew Borgart (TU Delft)
10:40    presentation of the site
11:00    lecture by Maurice Nio (to be confirmed)
12:30    lunch
13:30 - 18:00 Studio
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Tuesday 11 March

10:00 - 16:00 Studio
16:00    lecture by Enzo Siviero
17:00    lecture by Tobia Zordan
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Wednesday 12 March

10:00    lecture by Massimo Majowiecki
11:00 - 15:30 Studio
15:30    Presentations
17:30    Drinks 

14 March 2008 // Public lecture
Public lecture by Patrick Healy
Lecture on; Joseph Beuys & Social Sculpture
Lecture; 13.45 - 15.30, DSD Lecture Room 13th Floor
Location: Berlageweg 1, Delft, Faculty of Architecture

Patrick Healy,  will present and overview of the development of the 'expanded concept of art'in the work of Joseph Beuys, and examine his architectural intervention in the Tallow work ,as analysed by Lucrezia de Domizio Durini during the recent Eventi Collaterali of the Venice Biennale. The lecture will also provide insight into Beuys' thinking on money, society, sculpture.

18 March 2008 // Public lecture
Public lecture by Jonathan Hill and Yeoryia Manolopoulou
Lecture; 11.00, DSD Lecture Room 13th Floor
Round table discussion; 14.00, DSD Van Leeuwenhoek Room, 13th Floor
Reservations required for round table discussion: please write to DSD@bk.tudelft.nl
Location: Berlageweg 1, Delft, Faculty of Architecture

Dr. Hill and Dr. Manolopoulou are working at the The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. They will visit the DSD in order to present work related to the ‘PhD by Architectural Design' program at the Bartlett, for which Hill is the program director.

Jonathan Hill is a professor of architecture and visual theory and the director of the MPhil/PhD by Architectural Design program at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His research has helped pioneer investigation of the relations between architectural objects and the practice and experience of architecture. It combines historical investigations, material studies and design propositions, and encompasses personal scholarship, teaching, collective projects and public discourse. Dr. Hill's recent publications include: Immaterial Architecture  (2006), Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users (2003), and Architecture: The Subject is Matter (2001). He is the editor of the "Opposites Attract: Research by Design" issue of The Journal of Architecture (2003), and co-editor of Critical Architecture ( 2007).

Yeoryia Manolopoulou is a lecturer in Architecture at the Bartlett, UCL, a founding member of the London based collaborative practice tessera (1999), and now a partner in ay-architects. In 2006 she was short-listed for the RIBA President's Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis with her doctorate Drawing on Chance: Indeterminacy, Perception, and Design (UCL, 2003). Selected publications can be found in The Journal of Architecture (no.3, 2004; no.5, 2005; no.3, 2006); Architectural Design Research (RMIT, 2005); Borden ed. The Dissertation (Architectural Press, 2006); The Unthinkable Doctorate (NeTHCA and  Saint-Lucas School of Architecture, 2007). Dr. Manolopoulou has exhibited work internationally, including the EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, the RIBA, the Royal Academy and DomoBaal, London, as well as in Delft, Prague, Bratislava and New York. 

Thursday 27 March 2008
Bits to Pieces - digital fabrication of complex geometry architecture
Lecture by Fabian Scheurer
Lecture: 10:30 - 12.30, DSD Lecture Room 13th floor
Round table discussion: 14:00 - 17.00, DSD Lecture Room 13th floor

Abstract:
The advent of digital fabrication technologies seems to have opened the doors to ever more complex shapes in architecture. Laser cutters, 3D-printers, and CNC-routers are a common sight in architecture schools and design practices. But in the "real world" the cleft between digital design and digital production is still gaping. On a one-to-one scale "file to factory" requires the integration of design, engineering, fabrication, and logistics into a seamless process. This lecture will explain strategies for digital production chains by example of recent work on projects by Zaha Hadid, SANAA, Shigeru Ban and others.

Short bio:
Fabian Scheurer is co-founder of designtoproduction, a consultancy that supports architects, engineers, and fabricators in realizing complex designs by means of digital production. He graduated from Technical University of Munich after studying Computer Sciences and Architecture and was researching and lecturing as assistant at the CAAD chairs of TU Munich and ETH Zurich. His scientific work focused on the practical aspects of artificial-life methods in architectural construction and has been applied to a number of collaborative projects. He is living and working in Zurich/Switzerland

10 April 2008 // Architectural Engineering Lecture
Lecture by Werner Sobek
'' High-eco-Tech"
Lecture; 10.30 - 12.30, DSD Lecture Room 13th floor
Round table discussion; 14.00 - 17.00, DSD 13th floor
Location; Berlageweg 1, Delft ,  Faculty of Architecture 
 
Short summary of the lecture;
The lecture presents ways of creating truly sustainable structures for the 21st century which unite ecological requirements with first-class design qualities.

Short Bibliography;
Werner Sobek is a professor at the University of Stuttgart and visiting professor at Harvard University. He is founder of Werner Sober Design. Please see the attachment for more information about his bibliography. 
 

11 April 2008 // Public lecture
Public lecture by James Woudhuysen
"Green Dreams & World Wonders"
Lecture; 11.30 - 12.30 , DSD Lecture Room 13th Floor
Location: Berlageweg 1, Delft, Faculty of Architecture

Professor Woudhuysen, as a future forecasting expert, will discuss issues related to environment and visionary cities. His recent  book Why is construction so backward? has been described as "Shock therapy for construction policymakers' in The Architect's Journal.  He will also discuss issues related to global warming and the future of the world's energy supplies in relation his forthcoming publication (May 2008) entitled Energize: why the future of energy is too important to leave to politicians and rock stars.  

James Woudhuysen is a Physics graduate; Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Co-author, Ener!ze: Why the future of energy is too important to leave to politicians and rock stars (Beautiful Books Limited, 2008)  Co-author, Why is construction so backward? (Wiley, 2004) and Homes 2016 (Blueprint Broadside, 2005).  Columnist, IT Week; member of the Board of the Housing Forum. Helped install Britain's first computer-controlled car park, 1968; multi-client study on e-commerce, 1988; recommended Internet TV to a major US telco, 1993. Consulting: AT&T, BA, BAA, Bolton At Home, BP, Brixton plc, Ford, GM, Herman Miller, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Johnson Controls International, Keepmoat plc, Land Securities, London Underground, Microsoft, Nokia, Renault Industries, Shell, Spectris, Wakefield District Housing, Yamaha Motor; cities of Birmingham, Cardiff, Croydon, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Portsmouth. Website: www.Woudhuysen.com

6-7 May 2008 // Architectural Engineering Workshop
Workshop by Holger Techen, Thomas Auer and Ulrich Knaack
The Future Envelope design
Location: DSD, 13th Floor, Berlageweg 1, Delft, Faculty of Architecture
Register as soon as possible by sending an email to Bige Tunçer (e.b.tuncer@tudelft.nl) - limited number of spaces

The building envelope is for a major part responsible for its climate control and energy consumption.  As a result of the energy crisis in the last decades, systems for buildings that respond to environmental changes have made rapid advances. Still, our architecture is very dependent on the supply of energy and water. Not only the energy crisis but also clean water shortage, global warming and environmental pollution are worldwide problems. Understanding the built up areas as dynamic and ever-evolving eco-systems can help us formulate strategies for a sustainable urban future.

In this DSD-workshop, we will imagine a future envelope working as an eco-system on its own. An envelope making a urban area completely autarkic, independent of any supply of energy or water besides the available sustainable resources in the immediate surroundings. To put our envisioned envelopes in a context, we focus on designing three different cabins for a group of 3 ornithologists; researchers studying birds. These cabins need to be suitable for three extreme climates, for the desert, the tropics and the (ant)arctic. The researchers should not only survive these extreme weather conditions, as well they should be able to work in a reasonable level of comfort. We will only focus on the skin of the building as this is our main interest. As coat hanger for our active envelope, we will hand out a pre-designed steel structure.

For designing this future envelope, we need to activate the inert material of the building skin. Instead of using ‘dead' materials, only used for construction and shielding purposes, we should look at the integration of electronics and bio chemical functionalities, creating skins that are ‘alive' and act as membranes to harness energy and to collect and transport light, air and water between the exterior and interior of our biotope.

The workshop will start with the following introductory lectures:
-           Holger Techen - The poetics of the technical object. Jean Prouvé was one of the first architects who thought about the industrialisation of housing projects and façade elements. His ideas and projects were significant for today's façade techniques.
-           Thomas Auer - Designing comfort in uncomfortable areas. How to interpretate climatological data and effectively activate this data to create comfort?
-           Marcel Bilow - Activating the inert material of the building skin. New developments in material technology have widened the spectrum of possibilities to make our future envelope to act as living skin.

The workshop will be tutored by:
Ulrich Knaack (TU Delft)
Holger Techen (Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main)
Thomas Auer (Yale University)
Matthias Michel (Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main)
Marcel Bilow (TU Delft)
Lidia Badarnah (TU Delft)
Daan Rietbergen (TU Delft)
Bige Tunçer (TU Delft)

A tentative schedule for the workshop is as follows:

Program // Tuesday 6 May

12:00    introduction lecture by Ulrich Knaack (TU Delft)
12:15    lecture by Holger Techen
12:45    lecture by Thomas Auer
13:15    lecture by Marcel Bilow
13:45    lunch
14:45  - 19:00 Studio
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Program // Wednesday 7 May

9:00      5 minute snapshot-presentations
10:00    Studio
19:00    Final Presentation

8 May 2008 // Architectural Engineering Lecture
Lecture by Neil Thomas
Title; Liquid threshold between order and chaos
Lecture: 10:30 - 12.30, DSD Lecture Room 13th floor
Round table discussion: 14:00 - 17.00, DSD Lecture Room 13th floor
Neil Thomas is the director of structural engineering practice Atelier One in London known from experimental and innovative designs.

The work at Atelier One is carried out in collaboration with architects, designers and artists and consciously rejects boundaries. It maintains that modernity should encompass the experience of space and time, of the self and others, of life's possibilities and perils. To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy and growth through transformations of ourselves and of our world.
"A something in persistent disequilibrium, a continuous state of surfing forever on the edge between never stopping, but never falling. Homing in on that liquid threshold is still the mysterious holy grail of creation and a quest for all amateur gods".

8 May 2008 // Book Launch
Cladding of Buildings by Alan Brookes and Maarten Meijs
Serie Imagine; "Future Facade Principles"and "Defleteable".
Time; 17.00 - statements, 18.30 - drinks
Location: DSD, 13th Floor, Berlageweg 1, Delft, Faculty of Architecture

The former chairman of Design of Construction, prof.dr. Alan Brooks and the current chairman, prof.dr. Ulrich Knaack are proud to present the 4th edition of "Cladding of Buildings" written by Alan Brookes and Maarten Meijs and 2 books from the serie Imagine titled "Future Facade Principles"and "Defleteable", by Ulrich Knaack, Marcel Bilow and Tillmann Klein.

The book launch will take place on the 8th of May at 17.00 p.m. at the DSD Studio in the building of Faculty of Architecture, located at Berlageweg 1, Delft.

The book launch will start with a brief intruduction by the authors followed with statements from Holger Techen, professor at FH Frankfurt and Thomas Auer, Transsolar Stutgart-Munchen- New York
The dean fo the Faculty of Architecture, professor Wytze Patijn and Neil Thomas, Atelier 1- London, special guest of Architectural Engineering lecture series will be present at this book launch .