main conference abstracts & biographies - University of New South ...

including First Prize in the International Architecture and Art Competition of the
State Capital Düsseldorf for the new subway line Wehrhahnlinie Düsseldorf; the
Villa Aurora Artist Grant, Los Angeles; the Goslar Kaiserring Grant; and a work
stipend and a foreign residency stipend from Berlin’s Senate for Science,
Research, and Culture. Klussmann has given numerous workshops and public
lectures, including at the Bauhaus College Dessau, Academy Solitude Palace
Stuttgart, and Bau Munich. Since 2009, Klussmann has headed the
transdisciplinary working group “BlingCrete”, which is devoted to the
experimental development of new materials concepts in the context of art,
architecture, and science.
www.klussmann.org
Thorsten Klooster is an architect in Berlin and the editor of the book “Smart
Surfaces – Intelligente Oberflächen in der Architektur und im Design” (intelligent
surfaces in architecture and design). From 2002 to 2007, he taught design at the
Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus. One of his research areas is New
Materials, with an emphasis on functional surfaces. Since 2009, together with the
artist Heike Klussmann, he has headed the working group “BlingCrete” at the
University of Kassel, which is devoted to the development of new materials
concepts. One emphasis is on the functional design of concrete surfaces. Along
with architecture and art, “BlingCrete” unites expertise from the areas of product
design, materials technology, and nanotechnology.
www.task-architekten.de
Research Partner
Prof. Dr. Arno Ehresmann / Institute for Physics / Experimental Physics IV
www.physik.uni-kassel.de/ehresmann.html
TIM SCHORK
Engaging Material (In)formation
This paper will explore Medium and Materiality, and specifically the notion that
new mediums open up entirely new material, tectonic and spatial possibilities for
architecture.
Historically, an important limitation to what has been regarded as being possible
in architectural design have been the tools, techniques and media employed by
designers to represent 3dimensional form. The fundamental nature of this
relationship is captured in the idea that architects tend to draw what they can
build, and build what they can draw 4. Inventions such as the compass,
perspective drawing, projective geometry and the computer have led to shifts in
the design of buildings and to new theoretical and perceptual ideas and value
systems employed to generate and evaluate designs. So any new tool,
1 see Mitchell, W. J., "Roll over Euclid: How Frank Gehry Designs and Builds", in Frank Gehry
Architect, J. Fiona Ragheb (ed.), New York: NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2001, pp.352-
63.
40