we gain surprise and speed. The ease of process control outdoes the procedure of analysis. Fuzzy simulations as antitheses of „correct“ „thought processing“, the Internet as non-goal-focused, collective information generator. The art of design is to plan something unknown and not to determine it but to leave it unknown. Fig.2: „the planning architect“ >>>> „The Binary House“ Architecture information processing IV The Neuronal Architecture Processor 6 - an installation consisting of two digital processors that communicate with each other, the output of each being projected by a beamer – is based on the idea that a sequence of pulses (spike trains) in biological organisms = equals = binary streams of signs (bit strings) = equals = data (coordinates, vectors) interpreted as geometric bodies (solids). Fig.3: ... This equation brings together three spheres of reality that are traditionally consi<strong>der</strong>ed as distinct: - the world in our head: information, imagination and ideas in the way they are actually coded in our brain - the world of digital data processing, represented by binary streams of signs as communication vocabulary between digital processors - the world of generating new images / spaces / architecture. These three spheres of reality are brought together un<strong>der</strong> the common denominator of information processing. Thus the installation demonstrates that the generation of images / spaces / architecture must no longer be 6 Neuronal Architecture Processor by Manfred Wolff-Plottegg & Wolfgang Maass; Prototype 1999 for the exhibition „Real Virtualities“ Künstlerhaus Wien and update 2000 in „Plottegg´s Plots“ Neue Galerie Graz; programming: Harry Burgsteiner / Andreas Gruber (Graz University of Technology) <strong>Telematik</strong> 1/20<strong>02</strong> perceived as anthropocentric / expressionistic. Through the use of the computer it is possible to emancipate oneself from established patterns of behaviour, evaluation and production. Despite the relatively low degree of complexity of this Neuronal Architecture Processor prototype, the results are more differentiated than those arising out of a traditional analogue architectural production (un<strong>der</strong> the same base conditions). This has consequences for our un<strong>der</strong>standing of art, architecture and human versus machine/ digital creativity: it proves our thesis that creativity (in this case production of architectural images) is the result of a „neuronal processor“ and as such can be freed from the brain. Architecture information processing V If architecture wishes to be regarded as a creative process (design process) and as innovative information processing, the condition is that it should first abandon the procedure of visual, objectbased need-responsive architecture mutating into a design oriented process, an architecture of process. Hereby, the subject (planner / user) and the object (architecture) disappear as Fig.4: we are 3 pyramids I am a bit categories. McLuhan (The Medium is the Message) already identified the change in the system of information carrier and information, and this development is heightened by the WWW. Even urban design today is forced to focus on process control today, architecture is no longer a building or an object, urbanism is no longer function but an organ instead. We can specifically promote the aspect of architecture as a medium (very slow) and as a process, by producing an architecture of acceleration. It becomes clear, then, that this advanced architecture has relatively Thema little to do with personal liking (harmonised with one’s gut and brain), but rather with „external“ processes and more global system variables: product > tool > tool machine > program > program control > system control. After cause & effect, co-determination and interaction, basics, paradigms, subsystems, system changes, system planning, open systems, after linearity, control circuits, tree structures, fractals and chaos, now self-generating systems are at hand, above and beyond process control, an architecture of avatars, the vision of autocatalytic components. Architecture information processing VI If architecture exists beyond sequential function <strong>der</strong>ivates, and if designing is no longer methodical (systematic procedure that produces – in a finite number of steps – the answer to a question or the solution of a problem), but acts out autocatalytically, why, then, should we take the brain as a pattern for artificial creations? perhaps the gut is better, after all? or our little finger? or skin? or indeed an infinitely long bit string that is constantly generating itself 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... i.e., not processing something else, after analogue / anthropocentric limitations, after formalisation (styles of architecture), after the limit of algorithms 7 , all „dream home“ clients now become part of a 3D metalanguage. Seen in this way, architecture is no longer a medium, architecture is an information editor. Architectural design programs the editor. PS.: Information architecture processing VII Traditional architecture, of course, gave information, it was a carrier of meaning: I am a church, I am power, I am a sign, ....... 8 Today there is so much information that buildings disappear (as in the jungle of Borobudur), forms 7 M. Plottegg (Architektur Algorithmen 1996;The recipe for recipes, 1998) 8 cf: Venturi Learning from Las Vegas 53
Thema Fig.5: NY / Times Square and functions vanish, architecture is reduced to a framework for surfaces (user interfaces, information interfaces). The paradigms have changed: here, information processes architecture, information determines procedures: acceleration of architecture. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Manfred Wolff-Plottegg, architect and theoretician, Head of the <strong>Institut</strong> <strong>für</strong> Gebäudelehre und Entwerfen at the Technische Universität Wien. Homepage: http://www.gbl.tuwien.ac.at 54 <strong>Telematik</strong> 1/20<strong>02</strong>
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