The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering Architectural Technologies

摘要

Today the convergence of design, engineering and architectural technologies are breeding a new material practice in architecture. In a pioneering theoretical approach, this important shift is fully defined as a highly dynamic synthesis of emerging principles of spatial, structural and material ordering integrated through the application of materialization and fabrication technologies. Providing the foundations for a new theory of structuring in architecture, The New Structuralism has broad implications for the way we both conceive and undertake architectural design, as its impact starts to emanate not only across education inter-nationally, but also through architectural research and practice. The purpose of the lecture is to present the conceptual framework of these emerging relationships between architectural design, design engineering, and fabrication technologies.Proposing these inter-relations and their interdependencies as an important novel paradigm of design, The New Structuralism will provide a conceptual introduction to the theory and its implications for design discourse and digital practice.