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Creativity at the Edge of Digital Reproduction — from Coop Himmelb(l)au to Deep Himmelb(l)au
New architectural technologies have been developed, and established throughout history, and this continues to be the case today. Looking at the Austrian-based architecture studio Coop Himmelb(l)au’s complex set of avant-garde design processes, this paper reflects upon the implications of recent and continuing advances in technologies within the fields of digital design, robotic fabrication, and artificial intelligence (AI) in the Age of Digital Reproduction, and within that purview, asks how such creativity can remain at the Edge of Digital Reproduction. Accordingly, I look back at such pivotal projects as Rooftop Remodelling Falkestrasse, Groninger Museum – the East Pavilion, BMW Welt, and Pavilion 21 Mini Opera Space; and forward at robotic fabrication processes applied in the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art & Urban Planning Exhibition and the Musée des Confluences, as well as virtual and augmented reality applications and machine learning (ML) tools that are a part of the ongoing Deep Himmelb(l)au research, which we expect to transform certain techniques of the architecture industry, affect aesthetic invention itself and perhaps even bring about an extraordinary change in our very definition of architecture.
Creativity at the Edge of Digital Reproduction — from Coop Himmelb(l)au to Deep Himmelb(l)au
New architectural technologies have been developed, and established throughout history, and this continues to be the case today. Looking at the Austrian-based architecture studio Coop Himmelb(l)au’s complex set of avant-garde design processes, this paper reflects upon the implications of recent and continuing advances in technologies within the fields of digital design, robotic fabrication, and artificial intelligence (AI) in the Age of Digital Reproduction, and within that purview, asks how such creativity can remain at the Edge of Digital Reproduction. Accordingly, I look back at such pivotal projects as Rooftop Remodelling Falkestrasse, Groninger Museum – the East Pavilion, BMW Welt, and Pavilion 21 Mini Opera Space; and forward at robotic fabrication processes applied in the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art & Urban Planning Exhibition and the Musée des Confluences, as well as virtual and augmented reality applications and machine learning (ML) tools that are a part of the ongoing Deep Himmelb(l)au research, which we expect to transform certain techniques of the architecture industry, affect aesthetic invention itself and perhaps even bring about an extraordinary change in our very definition of architecture.
Creativity at the Edge of Digital Reproduction — from Coop Himmelb(l)au to Deep Himmelb(l)au
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Di Marco, Giancarlo (editor) / Lombardi, Davide (editor) / Tedjosaputro, Mia (editor) / Feng, Lei (author)
xArch – creativity in the age of digital reproduction symposium ; 2023 ; Suzhou, China
2024-02-24
7 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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