EAAE no 35 Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design: Advances in Technology and Changes in Pedagogy
- Austrian Avantgarde
We f o l l o w a t r a d i t i o n
which goes back to the
utopias of the 1960'ies
and 70'ies... There where
people who blew up spac-
es - like Hans Hollein or
groups like Haus-Rucker-
Co.... guys who designed
helmets as living rooms
- like Walter Pichler... or
like Eilfried Huth (Huth/
Domenig) who said: "The
house I dream of, is a day-
dream..."
What they all have in
common is that the use the exhibition space of an art-gallery as field of experimenta-
tion before they put to test their designs on the construction site. That is to say, that
an art-laboratory is used as a playground for architectural experimentation of utopian
ideas.
Our favorite def intion of the term "utopia" is from Raymond Ruyer: “Utopias are
thought experiments about dif ferent possibilities”...What we made out of this, are:
Architectural experiments about different possibilities...We consider Experimentation
as the basis for design teaching.
- Experimentation
In the introduction text for our work-
shop there is mentioned that experi-
mentation is directed by objectives
that legitimise innovation: in science
by truth, in art by cultural relevance.
And the question for us has to be: What
is the objective for architectural edu-
cation..? Well, we would like to show
you that architecural experimentation
is directed by exactly the same objec-
tives as you mentioned, because ar t
and science / technology are the main
ingredients for design approaches...
In the following we would like to explain that through our work or better to say at
first through our keywords concerning our project “N’Files – A Space To React”.You will
see that our objectives are partly related to art (cultural relevance) as well as to science
and technology.