CAAD beyond the Grid – Scripting what can’t be drawn.

Introductory lecture by Ludger Hovestadt on advanced CAAD, its potentials for application and its challenges for theory. (3h)

Listen to the lecture here:

MAS10_0M8_grid3_M8k16b part 1

part2

MAS10_0M8_grid3_M8k16b part3

slides: Mzero JDR pdf

A retrospective of the CAAD Chairs experimental and prototypical projects from 2000 to 2009, which clearly shows that we have only scratched the surface of digital technology’s potential for concrete applications in architecture. The related new way of thinking about architectural elements transcends the paradigms of grid-thinking, precision, and efficacy. It is the practical demonstration of a self-conception, which renders digital computation seminal as a basis for a new and productive way to negotiate the idea of architecture. The digitally mediated visibility of the becoming of architecture leads to the possibility of a non-predetermined yet still controllable diversity – one that integrates criteria and plans, processes and built architecture in a superordinate architectonic of continuous specification. Space for individual creativity emerges beyond the structure of the grid elicited by a generative force that tames the power of digital archives, instead of submitting to it.