sábado, 25 de enero de 2014

CRITICall paper accepted in the I International Conference on Architectural Design and Criticism:

ETSAM, nos volvemos a ver en Junio  
2 de 2 en la evaluación por pares. Comunicación con título " Filones antidisciplinares" aceptada en el Critic|all I International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism
http://masterproyectos.com/criticall-i-international-conference-on-architectural-design-criticism-early-bird-registration-www-criticall-es/


ETSAM, see you soon again 
2 out of 2 in the peer to peer evaluation. Paper entitled " Counter disciplinary veins" accepted for the Critic|all I International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism
http://masterproyectos.com/criticall-i-international-conference-on-architectural-design-criticism-early-bird-registration-www-criticall-es/



Resumen:

Luengo Angulo, Miguel
Departamento de Urbanismo e Historia de la Arquitectura, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, España
Título del resumen Filones anti disciplinares
La arquitectura genuina de nuestro tiempo está, por tanto, a punto de redefinirse ella misma como medio y extendiendo el alcance de los medios que despliega. Muchos campos de estudio fuera del mundo de los edificios invaden la “arquitectura”, así como la arquitectura y los “arquitectos” a cambio abarcan otros campos. Todos somos arquitectos. Todo es arquitectura.
A mediados de los años 60 surgen casi simultáneamente en Europa 3 focos productivos ubicados en Inglaterra, Italia y Viena que desestabilizarán de forma irreversible la práctica arquitectónica y que posteriormente acuñarán el término arquitectura “radical”. El presente artículo se centrará en las herramientas utilizadas por los agentes austríacos en la expansión disciplinar manifestada en sus dos focos principales: Viena y Graz. En un país y un contexto histórico que cortocircuitaba cualquier posibilidad de construir surge un grupo tremendamente crítico con las propias bases de la arquitectura. Desde que en 1967 Hans Hollein publicará el mencionado artículo “Todo es arquitectura” el posicionamiento del arquitecto en la escena cultural se desplazará, como veremos, desde su papel tradicionalmente aceptado de constructor al menos habitual de comunicador de ideas.
Dichas ideas oscilarán entre la construcción de nuevas formulaciones teóricas, el activismo cultural, la militancia política y la permeabilidad artística. En definitiva, una arquitectura menguante como mediación estética y embrionaria de una nueva relación entre el arte y la vida. Como en la clasificación que hace Borges de cierta enciclopedia china el artículo se dividirá entre arquitecturas cosidas, neumáticas, psíquicas, hechas de espuma (como el Soft Space de Coop Himmelblau, una intervención de 10 minutos en la Universidad de Viena. Cada minuto se creaba un espacio de 1200 m3 en forma de espuma), explosivas (o el Hard Space del propio Coop en el que tres personas hacían estallar cada una 60 explosiones con el latido de su corazón. Las cargas explosivas se disponían en 3 líneas de 2 km de largo en el paisaje. Se construía un “espacio” que duraba 20 latidos), rituales (Walter Pichler se paseaba por la ciudad de Viena con un sepulcro), escatológicas, en píldoras y varadas (el inquietante Transatlántico en tierra de Hollein, 1964).
La misma clasificación se utilizará instrumentalmente para localizar la pertinencia de dicho filón anti-disciplinar en un momento, como el actual, donde las arquitecturas ya no se construyen. El presente artículo analiza la vigencia de dicho accionismo teórico en la escena arquitectónica contemporánea.
Parece que tendremos que re-presentarla.
Palabras clave:  disciplina, Austria, radical, accionismo, antiarquitectura
Área de reflexión: 1. Posiciones


Abstract title Anti Disciplinary Reefs
A genuine architecture of our times is therefore on the verge of redefining itself as a médium and extending the scope of the means it deploys. Many fields of study outside the world of building impinge on “architecture”, just as architecture and “architects” in turn encompass extensive realms. Everyone is an architect. Everything is architecture.
In the mid 60s emerged almost simultaneously in Europe 3 productive centers located in England, Italy and Vienna that would irrevocably destabilize architectural practice and later will coin the term "radical" . This article will focus on the tools used by those agents for the disciplinary expansion manifested in its two main foci: Vienna and Graz. In a country and a historical context that short-circuited any possibility of building, a group was extremely critical of the very foundations of architecture. Since in 1967 Hans Hollein published the article " Everything is architecture" the position of the architect in the cultural scene will shift, as we shall see, from the traditionally accepted role of the builder to the less common one of ideas communicator.
These ideas range from the construction of new theoretical formulations, cultural activism, political activism and artistic permeability. In short, a waning architecture as aesthetic mediator and embryo of a new relationship between art and life. As in Borges 's classification of certain Chinese enciclopedia the article be divided in sewn, pneumatic, psychic, made ​​of foam (The” Soft Space” by Coop Himmelblau: A 10-minute installation at the University of Vienna. Every minute you create a space of 1200 m3 in the form of foam), explosive (The “Hard Space” by Coop Himmelblau: Three people popping each 60 explosions with your heartbeat. Explosive charges are arranged in 3 rows of 2 km long in the landscape. They built a "space" that lasted 20 beats), ritual (Walter Pichler walked around Vienna with a grave), eschatological, in pills and grounding (The disturbing Hollein Transatlantic, 1964) architectures.
The same classification is used instrumentally to locate the relevance of the anti -disciplinary reef nowadays, where architecture is no longer built. This paper analyzes the validity of the theoretical actionism in the contemporary architectural scene.
It seems we'll have to re- submit it.

Key words: discipline, Austria, radical, actionism, antiarchitecture
Main topic: 1. Positions

jueves, 9 de enero de 2014

WORKSHOP: Diagrammatic architecture. American University in Dubai (AUD):






Thank you all AUD family!!!


El 19,20 y 21 de Enero, Miguel Luengo estará en la American University in Dubai (Departamento de Arquitectura. Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño)como profesor invitado junto a la (asombrosa) Tala Vaziri impartiendo un workshop de Teoría y Diseño Arquitectónico que hemos llamado: "DIAGRAMMATIC ARCHITECTURE".



Más info en ISSUU


In January '14, Prof. Miguel Luengo will be lecturing at the American University in Dubai with (amazing) Prof. Tala Vaziri in a workshop of Theory and Architectural Design called:  "DIAGRAMMATIC ARCHITECTURE". 

See you there, dear AUD professors and students!!!


PROGRAMME///

A diagram is architecture. Without the need to transform it into something “higher”. Le Corbusier, with regards to abstraction wrote  in 1923 "It appeals to the highest faculties  by its very abstraction. Architectural abstraction is both specific and magnificent in a way that, rooted in brute fact, it spiritualizes it. The brute fact is subject to the idea only through the order that is projected upon it”.

Contemporary architects (such as OMA, SANAA, Ben Van Berkel, MVRDV...) reconsidered the powerful idea of abstraction and transformed it into an architectural tool, a device to visualize, put together and match complex connections or links.

The goal of this workshop is twofold, first to analyze contemporary examples of diagrammatic architecture in order to understand the inner (although controversial) logic and power of this design tool.

A theorethical background of diagrams will also be provided and discussed with the students. From Durand treaty to OMA’s Library in Seattle through Peter Eisenman’s works on the 70’s and 80’s as part of the concept’s big picture.

The second goal ot the workshop will embrace the diagrammatic logic as a design tool.

We’ll use an ongoing international competition for an Architecture School Tower in Dubai that would “offer an alternative environment for studying and traning to become an Architect within this global city” (from the brief of the competition).



For the Architecture School Tower, each group of students

will develop a DIAGRAMMATIC skyscraper that will adress

the International Competition brief. A graphic translation

of the original programme will be provided and each group

will have to add an extra 20% of an original, unusual, even
strange function as a catalyst of the whole proposal.
The site will be located next to AUD facilities as showed
later.

STRATEGY///

Analyse the programme for the building. Make it a vertical (or not exactly) arrangement where the stacking is logical. Make a cutaway sectional model of solid material, for instance wood, polystyrene foam or coloured slices of plasticine. Study  various stacking possibilities by shifting storeys around, rotating them, creating voids, and so forth. Examine any patterns emerging from the vertical routeing and logistics, from the direction of lights and  views, or from the storey height. Keep going until a useful vertical concept emerges. (Neutelings&Riedijk)

WORKSHOP SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ///

A single (1) board horizontal digital image. Image Format: A single zipped or compressed JPG extension file. Dimensions: 3500 width x 2600 height (pixels) or 36.45 x 27.08 inches or 92.6 x 68.79 cm to 96dpi.


CALENDAR///


January 19 th: 
9:00am / Workshop and International Competition 
presentation. General concepts and documents delivery

10:00am-11:00 am / Lecture: Diagrammatic architecture
(or, is a diagram architecture?)_Prof. Miguel Luengo

11:00 am-2:00pm / Class work. First analysis of the program
and diagrammatic intuitions review. _Prof. Tala Vaziri / 
Prof. Miguel Luengo

January 20th: 
9:00am  / Lecture: Translating diagrams. Contemporary
examples of diagrammatic projects_Prof. Miguel Luengo

10:00am-2:00pm /Presentation of Draft diagrams & discussion
_Prof. Tala Vaziri / Prof. Miguel Luengo

January 21st:  
4:00pm / 4:30 Lecture: Strategy vs design. The diagram as design tool

4:30pm-5:00 pm / Class work. _Prof. Tala Vaziri / Prof. Miguel Luengo

5:00pm-6:00 pm / Diagrams presentations, conclusions and Jury