Abstract
During the 20th century not only distances and scales have changed under the influence of telematic media and machines, but even more so the relation to the location itself: hic et nunc, here and now, here and there have become variable quantities. Location and space as the basic media of architecture are being questioned (refer to Deconstruction). Nonlocation, dislocation, dematerialisation are new radical architectural categories. Individual decision procedures that position the architect as a building artist in the proximity of a traditional understanding of art, based on sculpture and painting, are also being replaced by new planning methods that are based on the complex system theories of the media and machines. Therefore computer-based algorithms can replace data of individual signatures as proved by deconstructivism and primarily by its successor, the metamorphic or biomorphic school of architecture (blob-architecture).
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Peter Weibel & Manfred Wolff-Plottegg, Seminar for Experimental Architecture and Algorithm Design, lecture at Innsbruck University, May 30, 1996. In 1996 Wolff-Plottegg showed me the manuscript for a publication in a book, a collection of essays that I called “Architektur Algorithmen (Architecture Algorithms).” We jointly wrote a preface to this book on which this essay is based.
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“To make the Invisible visible,” Christine Boyer calls “the progressive aspect of technology.” In: Christine Boyer, “Cybercity. Visual Perception in The Age of Electronic Communication.” Princeton Architectural Press 1996, p. 50.
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Weibel, P. (2005). Architecture. In: Flachbart, G., Weibel, P. (eds) Disappearing Architecture. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7674-0_23
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