ARCH 177, Cooper Union,
Professor Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa,
Students Board ARCH 177
Spring 2009
ARCH 177
COMPUTER GRAPHICS, IMAGE PROCESSING AND VISION
Structure and Instability: Simulation Laboratory
Professor Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
This
course revisits the contemporary potential for an architecture autonomy through
the reconsideration of architecture canons to find a strategy to redefine
post-structuralism as a continuity of structuralism, bringing
back modern typologies to be displaced through topology. The testing of the structuralist strategies of Wittkower’s Palladian Villas diagrams, Rowe’s
Palladio-Le Corbusier diagram, Hejduk’s Texas Houses and Eisenman’s Houses
series in relation to contemporary post-structuralist canons, may provide an
axis of reference to critique deconstruction.
As a
laboratory, we experimented with a vectorial nine square grid structure
in reference to computer's groundless matrix and
dealt with surface as a “ground” through analog and digital computer assisted
architectural constructions and transformations. This content-oriented
workshop’s intention is meant to critically relate the autonomy of architecture
to the virtual space of the computer, through specific software strategies.
Alternative processes of instability, that brought about contemporary
architecture canons and resulted in an expansion of the discipline, were studied
to inform space by affecting the structure of this organization by enfolding
these canons back as a contraction. Surface writing and parametric design as
algorithms relied both on analog and digital strategies. The exercise was presented
with an animated digital simulation that reworked time-based sequential diagrams
that indexed and edited its constitutional process.
The School of Architecture of The Cooper Union
ARCH 177 Students:
ahn catherine
binder daphne
brostrom lina
chong jaeho
chou chia
chybireva anastasiya
clapham tanner
cortes dionisio
foster christian
hayatsu jun
heyman malin
huber david
kang seung-hyun
levine raye
pounds christopher
saether laura
stulc alexan
vega rolando
wills daniel
wood alexander
yamamoto kinu
