David M Sperling
Universidade de São Paulo, Arquitetura E Urbanismo, Faculty Member
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Diante de um cenário de utilização massiva do computador em processos de projeto, pretende-se apresentar e sistematizar três lógicas gerais do uso dos ambientes digitais no contexto de projeto na arquitetura contemporânea, retomando-se... more
Diante de um cenário de utilização massiva do computador em processos de projeto, pretende-se apresentar e sistematizar três lógicas gerais do uso dos ambientes digitais no contexto de projeto na arquitetura contemporânea, retomando-se definições propostas por Rivka Oxman (2006) e Toni Kotnik (2010). Articuladas a essas definições, estas lógicas são exemplificadas com a explicitação de processos de concepção de obras contemporâneas emblemáticas. Procura-se evidenciar a potencialidade do uso do computador como uma mídia ativa no processo projetual, segundo níveis de computabilidade específicos, os quais trazem possibilidades e desafios distintos para o projeto e a produção da arquitetura.Palavras-chave: Níveis de computabilidade projetual, projeto paramétrico, projetoalgorítmico, arquitetura contemporânea, método de projeto.
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The article presents the pedagogical experience of the elective course “Feel the space: design with tactile models” held at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of USP / S?o Carlos in 2014. From the critique of the primacy of... more
The article presents the pedagogical experience of the elective course “Feel the space: design with tactile models” held at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of USP / S?o Carlos in 2014. From the critique of the primacy of seeing, the experimental activity proposed a housing design process with a visually impaired person, using models, plants and tactile maps. Were investigated and compared the free use of materials and processes with the use of digital fabrication - MDF plates manufactured with a laser cutting machine. As a result, it is presented the tactile representation system developed in the activity.
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The architecture of contemporary museums becomes a powerful agent to the insertion and maintenance of art system institutions. The forces that define the relationships between form and image, and exhibition space and public space, in the... more
The architecture of contemporary museums becomes a powerful agent to the insertion and maintenance of art system institutions. The forces that define the relationships between form and image, and exhibition space and public space, in the architectural projects of contemporary museums undoubtedly bring to the agenda the reflection on the current concepts of museum architecture. This text presents an analysis of the relation between form and space inherent to museum projects by focusing the current context: Bilbao Guggenheim Museum and the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture.
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Conformam o objeto desta investigacao aspectos da teoria de arquitetura de Bernard Tschumi que foram sistematizados pela primeira vez pelo arquiteto em Manhattan Transcripts (1977-1981). Em seguida, alguns de seus desdobramentos na... more
Conformam o objeto desta investigacao aspectos da teoria de arquitetura de Bernard Tschumi que foram sistematizados pela primeira vez pelo arquiteto em Manhattan Transcripts (1977-1981). Em seguida, alguns de seus desdobramentos na arquitetura contemporânea sao comentados.
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This paper reflects, by means of the ideas of the philosopher Jacques Rancière, some possible transitions between the modern and the digital paradigms. It retrieves the notion of vanguard as an element for mediation, and with its... more
This paper reflects, by means of the ideas of the philosopher Jacques Rancière, some possible transitions between the modern and the digital paradigms. It retrieves the notion of vanguard as an element for mediation, and with its re-signification by the term " digital " , intends to discuss about some correlations between the terms technics, aesthetics and politics that inhabit the digital horizon.
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This paper investigates the concept of topological processual diagrams, geometric way of surfaces construction in topology, and the paradigm of homoeomorphism shaping, procedure that keeps topological properties. It explores possibilities... more
This paper investigates the concept of topological processual diagrams, geometric way of surfaces construction in topology, and the paradigm of homoeomorphism shaping, procedure that keeps topological properties. It explores possibilities of using it as a process of architectural shape generation, combined to computer-aided modeling tools and rapid prototyping. It intends to go through two complementary ways of translation between object shape and topology: the making of architectonical objects in topological surfaces and, on the other way, the exploration of topological surfaces as architectonical objects.
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This paper relates the experience of research, organization and construction of a Topology glossary in the www specially destinated to the Architecture and Design fields. The structure of the site links topology's concepts to images... more
This paper relates the experience of research, organization and construction of a Topology glossary in the www specially destinated to the Architecture and Design fields. The structure of the site links topology's concepts to images and animations. Also, projects, ...
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... a crise do humanismo, a crise da racionalidade, a dúvida sobre as interpretações profundas e as visões globais, a crítica ... se radicalmente de um processo de discussão entre o poder público ea sociedade civil, no qual historicamente... more
... a crise do humanismo, a crise da racionalidade, a dúvida sobre as interpretações profundas e as visões globais, a crítica ... se radicalmente de um processo de discussão entre o poder público ea sociedade civil, no qual historicamente os espaços públicos tem preponderância ...
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... um artista que trabalha em interface com a arquitetura, ou a usa como uma interface, como você vê a arquitetura contemporânea e suas ... A arte pode parecer uma atividade elitista, protegida dentro das convenções do espaço da arte,... more
... um artista que trabalha em interface com a arquitetura, ou a usa como uma interface, como você vê a arquitetura contemporânea e suas ... A arte pode parecer uma atividade elitista, protegida dentro das convenções do espaço da arte, isto é, o espaço das galerias e museus. ...
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Tradução para o português de Dummy Text, de Robert Somol, texto de abertura do livro Diagram Diaries (1999), de Peter Eisenman, que explora o contexto da produção teórica e da obra do arquiteto ao longo dos quase 40 anos que separam a... more
Tradução para o português de Dummy Text, de Robert Somol, texto de abertura do livro Diagram Diaries (1999), de Peter Eisenman, que explora o contexto da produção teórica e da obra do arquiteto ao longo dos quase 40 anos que separam a apresentação da sua tese de doutorado em filosofia (Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 1963) da publicação do livro.
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Este artigo, versão ampliada de trabalho apresentado no Graphica 2019, apresenta resultados parciais de pesquisa em nível de doutorado acerca da apropriação de tecnologias de representação gráfica e design digital no ensino de arquitetura... more
Este artigo, versão ampliada de trabalho apresentado no Graphica 2019, apresenta resultados parciais de pesquisa em nível de doutorado acerca da apropriação de tecnologias de representação gráfica e design digital no ensino de arquitetura no contexto brasileiro. Este estudo toma como referências as sistematizações estabelecidas por Oxman (2006) sobre a interação entre o projetista e a representação de um objeto concebido com auxílio de ambiente digital, e as que realizou posteriormente Kotnik (2010) sobre os níveis de computabilidade no processo de projeto. Assim, foi estruturada uma pesquisa correlacional, que busca a sistematização do cenário a partir de dois conjuntos de dados. O primeiro focado em compreender aspectos inerentes aos cursos de graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, e o segundo a partir da classificação de práticas didáticas selecionadas por meio de uma revisão sistemática baseada em handsearching. Apresenta como resultado dados e reflexões sobre as práticas de desi...
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Enquanto espaço de representatividade e, portanto, de lutas entre diferentes grupos e ideais, a forma de se construir e ocupar a cidade é objeto de constante-e atual-disputa. Este trabalho tem como objeto a discussão sobre ações urbanas... more
Enquanto espaço de representatividade e, portanto, de lutas entre diferentes grupos e ideais, a forma de se construir e ocupar a cidade é objeto de constante-e atual-disputa. Este trabalho tem como objeto a discussão sobre ações urbanas empreendidas na cidade São Paulo-A Batata Precisa de Você, Paulista Aberta, e Parklets-em meio a um cenário de debates sobre o direito à cidade, mobilidade urbana, acesso à cultura e lazer no espaço urbano, tomando como marco as manifestações de 2013, passando por formas recentes de gestão urbana e, por fim, apontando contradições inerentes à sua incorporação por lógicas do urbanismo neoliberal.
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In the current context, access to daily realities is becoming increasingly mediated and processed by maps, flooding us with spatial data that appears to be objective but needs to be questioned, or even disputed. On the other hand, there... more
In the current context, access to daily realities is becoming increasingly mediated and processed by maps, flooding us with spatial data that appears to be objective but needs to be questioned, or even disputed. On the other hand, there are some relevant aspects of the urban experience that elude the main maps provided by apps or big data visualizing projects. So this article points out alternative ways of mapping urban information in this context, by means of presenting and discussing the methodology and results of a mapping workshop carried out at a German university in 2017 with interdisciplinary groups of students. The aim was to provide new insights and readings of the contemporary city. We explored and invented the urban with a mix of creative research methods.
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Este artigo tem o propósito de discutir tópicos que circundam a cartografia por meio de práticas que apontam para o sentido inverso das cartografias hegemônicas, e que permitem uma visualização crítica de tensionamentos do atual contexto... more
Este artigo tem o propósito de discutir tópicos que circundam a cartografia por meio de práticas que apontam para o sentido inverso das cartografias hegemônicas, e que permitem uma visualização crítica de tensionamentos do atual contexto hipermediado. Sob o conceito de contracartografia definido por Brian Holmes, apresenta duas práticas artísticas realizadas com o uso de mídias locativas, Meridians, de Jeremy Wood, e Monochromatic Landscapes, de Laura Kurgan. Como parte de um conjunto maior de proposições artísticas contemporâneas que investigam práticas contracartografias, esses trabalhos procuram desnaturalizar as formas com que operam as mídias locativas e os sistemas de geolocalização, assim como colocar em questão a pretensa neutralidade dos mapas. Por fim, indica-se que as modulações de visibilidades e invisibilidades com que operam os meios informacionais e de geolocalização apresentam-se como aspectos relevantes a serem investigados e tensionados com lentes críticas.
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The article presents and discusses the experience of a workshop held online in 2020 as part of the DigitalFUTURES event. The proposal found its starting point in the register of a world in the midst of a pandemic crisis. The general... more
The article presents and discusses the experience of a workshop held online in 2020 as part of the DigitalFUTURES event. The proposal found its starting point in the register of a world in the midst of a pandemic crisis. The general objective of the workshop was the construction of a design thinking capable of acting on the domestic by means of a disobedience projected towards a possible future. In this framework, digital disobedience became an exercise in critically questioning certain ambiguities of digital interfaces in their everyday omnipresence. By adopting a decolonial sight on design through an epistemology from the South, it was possible to achieve at alternative figurations of futures. These figurations led to the design of a series of futuristic domestic devices capable of exploring disobedient scenarios of domestic dwelling.
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O artigo apresenta uma taxonomia de projetos relacionados à aplicação das tecnologias de fabricação digital na arquitetura, design e construção, desenvolvidos no contexto da América do Sul. Como parte de uma pesquisa em andamento, o... more
O artigo apresenta uma taxonomia de projetos relacionados à aplicação das tecnologias de fabricação digital na arquitetura, design e construção, desenvolvidos no contexto da América do Sul. Como parte de uma pesquisa em andamento, o material remete aos temas da apropriação tecnológica, adequação sociotécnica e inovação social. O objetivo é elencar alguns dos experimentos projetuais identificados durante a pesquisa, para apresentar uma perspectiva local das estratégias de produção. Os métodos utilizados englobam a revisão da literatura e revisão sistemática, mapeamento, questionário e estudos de caso. O contexto recente de instalação dos laboratórios de fabricação digital, iniciado em 2007, foi se ampliando nas instituições por meio do ensino e pesquisa, além da consolidação do modelo Fab Lab. Os resultados práticos são muito heterogêneos, ainda limitados em escala e fortemente baseados na articulação híbrida entre o analógico e o digital, devido aos materiais disponíveis, tipo de ma...
Objetivos O trabalho tem como primeiro objetivo a investigação do uso de diagramas topológicos – utilizados por topólogos como meio geométrico para construção de superfícies – como possibilidade de um processo de geração da forma... more
Objetivos O trabalho tem como primeiro objetivo a investigação do uso de diagramas topológicos – utilizados por topólogos como meio geométrico para construção de superfícies – como possibilidade de um processo de geração da forma arquitetônica, associandoos ao uso de ferramentas de modelagem computadorizada e prototipagem rápida. Em segundo lugar, a partir dos diagramas topológicos, investigar traduções entre forma e topologia dos objetos em dois percursos, a síntese de objetos arquitetônicos em superfícies topológicas e, em sentido inverso, a exploração de superfícies topológicas como objetos arquitetônicos.
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in one side, by the philosophical concepts and, in other side, by the current senses in the cultural sphere – oscillating between them, emerge the senses in architecture and art. The event as an unforeseeable and not programmable rupture,... more
in one side, by the philosophical concepts and, in other side, by the current senses in the cultural sphere – oscillating between them, emerge the senses in architecture and art. The event as an unforeseeable and not programmable rupture, central to the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou, is a critic concept to the contemporary context habited by programmed and prescribed events of performance. The emergence of effective evental sites, promoting rupture with the contemporary performing quotidian, is the main challenge to the digital and hybrid artistic/architectural practices, based in operations of regulated (un)foreseeability. Event context. Arquitetura e arte como evento. A questao, central dentro do contexto contemporâneo de expansao das tecnologias digitais e sua insercao nas diversas esferas do cotidiano, mobiliza mutuamente duas variaveis basicas: espaco e tempo o espaco que se temporaliza e o tempo que se espacializa. E e exatamente a partir de um campo comum no...
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This article presents results of a research on spatialities linked to the contemporary concept of experience. The work outlines the meanings that this term has acquired in the Culture of Experience, having two meanings as histo- rical... more
This article presents results of a research on spatialities linked to the contemporary concept of experience. The work outlines the meanings that this term has acquired in the Culture of Experience, having two meanings as histo- rical perspective: that of Walter Benjamin on Modernity and that of the 1960s and 70s countercultural artistic actions. Finally, it analyses thirty five spatialities based on concepts, techniques, and effects, and proposes a critical approach to the strategic experiential modules formulated in recent years to the field of experiential marketing.
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"Homo Faber 2.0: politics of digital in Latin America" Exhibition takes technology and politics as a reflection in Latin America of the consolidation of new technologies in the architectural production since the second decade of the 21st... more
"Homo Faber 2.0: politics of digital in Latin America" Exhibition takes technology and politics as a reflection in Latin America of the consolidation of new technologies in the architectural production since the second decade
of the 21st century - as Gabriela Celani (2016) also pointed out when she reviewed some case studies that were shown in the first exhibition. Although the academy in the region promotes explorations with emerging technology, its progress is the result of the policy of those countries that have the most economic resources and research funding to make
it sustainable in universities and architecture studios (Sperling, Herrera, Scheeren, 2015). For Homo Faber 2.0, the organizing committee selected 37 projects from a total of 61 proposals. They were distributed in three categories:
- 12 projects related to design collaboration processes for changes in society with activities aimed at citizens in particular and strategies of subversion in the use of digital technologies.
- 19 projects related to processes and prototypes of conceptual research using formal and material experimentation, as well as the technological development of new techniques and products.
- 6 projects related to artisan-digital hybridism / neocraft / cultural identity that promotes the mixed use of artisanal and digital techniques for the creation of the artifact.
of the 21st century - as Gabriela Celani (2016) also pointed out when she reviewed some case studies that were shown in the first exhibition. Although the academy in the region promotes explorations with emerging technology, its progress is the result of the policy of those countries that have the most economic resources and research funding to make
it sustainable in universities and architecture studios (Sperling, Herrera, Scheeren, 2015). For Homo Faber 2.0, the organizing committee selected 37 projects from a total of 61 proposals. They were distributed in three categories:
- 12 projects related to design collaboration processes for changes in society with activities aimed at citizens in particular and strategies of subversion in the use of digital technologies.
- 19 projects related to processes and prototypes of conceptual research using formal and material experimentation, as well as the technological development of new techniques and products.
- 6 projects related to artisan-digital hybridism / neocraft / cultural identity that promotes the mixed use of artisanal and digital techniques for the creation of the artifact.
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The architecture of contemporary museums becomes a powerful agent to the insertion and maintenance of art system institutions. The forces that define the relationships between form and image, and exhibition space and public space, in the... more
The architecture of contemporary museums becomes a powerful agent to the insertion and maintenance of art system institutions. The forces that define the relationships between form and image, and exhibition space and public space, in the architectural projects of contemporary museums undoubtedly bring to the agenda the reflection on the current concepts of museum architecture. This text presents an analysis of the relation between form and space inherent to museum projects by focusing the current context: Bilbao Guggenheim Museum and the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture.
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Os trabalhos aqui apresentados - objetos, instalações, imagens, vídeos e performance - são frutos de um workshop desenvolvido no âmbito do Curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo do IAU.USP. A atividade, que contou com a participação de... more
Os trabalhos aqui apresentados - objetos, instalações, imagens, vídeos e performance - são frutos de um workshop desenvolvido no âmbito do Curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo do IAU.USP. A atividade, que contou com a participação de estudantes, fotógrafo, artista multimeios e coletivo de arte, foi dirigida pelo artista Antoni Muntadas (professor convidado do Programa de Artes Visuais do MIT-USA) e professores deste Instituto, pesquisadores do Núcleo de Estudos das Espacialidades Contemporâneas (NEC.USP). O objetivo foi cartografar como alguns processos normalmente associados a grandes cidades e metrópoles ocorrem em uma cidade de porte médio, São Carlos, situada no interior do Estado de São Paulo: crescimento exponencial de novas situações urbanas, emergência de novos modos de vida, zonas de indeterminação entre público e privado, entre formal e informal. Ao trabalhar numa zona liminar entre arquitetura, arte e pensamento urbano, a atividade procurou potencializar a legibilidade de processos e formas de ocupação das cidades nem sempre visíveis ao olhar cotidiano. Ao tornar sensíveis aspectos ainda imprecisos desta realidade, práticas fronteiriças, como a produção artística contemporânea, podem se converter em meios-chave para o seu entendimento crítico.
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Desde la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital SIGraDI, hemos emprendido en el Comité Editorial una nueva construcción colaborativa y temática, con la intención de complementar otras acciones de la sociedad que expresen y consoliden... more
Desde la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital SIGraDI, hemos emprendido en el Comité Editorial una nueva construcción colaborativa y temática, con la intención de complementar otras acciones de la sociedad que expresen y consoliden un cuerpo teórico basado en experiencias y producciones de miembros de SIGraDi y de participantes destacados. Afrontamos la edición de esta nueva publicación, desde la cual nos enfocamos en la presentación de propuestas, procesos y aplicaciones sobre intervenciones pedagógicas innovadoras con inclusión de tecnologías digitales interconectados a la Web. Lo hacemos en los ámbitos de talleres universitarios de Arquitectura y Diseño de la región. Nuestro propósito es presentar un panorama del estado de desarrollo actual, así como para poder compartir, difundir y reflexionar sobre el mismo, y asimismo poder inferir futuras tendencias en esta área de conocimiento. Nos encuadramos en la línea editorial y de características similares al anterior libro Experiencia Digital” publicado en el año 20061. Es bien sabido que el desarrollo constante de las tecnologías digitales hiper y transmediales de la información, la comunicación y la modelización, instalan, reformulan y reactualizan de forma constante, nuevos temas en la agenda del debate educativo. En esta oportunidad lo hacemos explorando los entornos post-digitales, de naturaleza virtual, ubicua e interconectadas a la Web; en interacción entre sistemas digitales, biológicos, culturales y productivos; y desde ambientes alternativos basados en nuevas modalidades de participación y colaboración. En particular, desde los ambientes disciplinares propios de las intervenciones proyectuales de la Arquitectura y del Diseño, la producción y gestión de conocimiento nos resulta impensable sin la intervención y la mediación digital interconectada a la Web. Nos interesa entonces colaborar a visibilizar y reflexionar en estas experiencias. Específicamente nos centramos sobre las vinculaciones entre los conocimientos experienciales, los abordajes disciplinares y las intervenciones inter y multidisciplinares; los criterios que priman en la definición y selección de contenidos académicos y estrategias pertinentes; la colaboración e intercambio de conocimiento e información entre comunidades de aprendizaje presenciales y virtuales. Nos interesa así colaborar a reconocer, de forma amplia, la complejidad de los factores interactivos que facilitan los procesos de construcción de conocimiento y de transferencia desde nuestras investigaciones hacia la docencia, hacia a los campos profesionales y hacia el medio.
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The HOMO FABER exhibition is an event related to CAAD Futures 16th Conference, "The Next City". The exhibition maps, in an unprecedented way, digital fabrication laboratories and other initiatives linked to the architecture field in the... more
The HOMO FABER exhibition is an event related to CAAD Futures 16th Conference, "The Next City". The exhibition maps, in an unprecedented way, digital fabrication laboratories and other initiatives linked to the architecture field in the context of Latin America. As a sample of the recent yet already effervescent scenario of digital manufacturing in the region, the exhibition presents the production of 25 laboratories of universities, research groups, architecture studios and independent researchers. Based on the understanding that manufacturing is to inform the matter, the works exhibited show a range of interests and means, as well as openness to experimentation in processes and results.
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The Public Intervention Project "GRU-111: Contracartografias" is part of the Project Contracondutas conducted by Escola da Cidade - originated from an action of the brazilian justice system within the actions of combat and eradication of... more
The Public Intervention Project "GRU-111: Contracartografias" is part of the Project Contracondutas conducted by Escola da Cidade - originated from an action of the brazilian justice system within the actions of combat and eradication of labor analogous to slavery in the construction of Terminal 3 of Guarulhos International Airport, in 2013. GRU-111: Contracartografias takes the airport as object-icon of the contemporary context of mercadification and globalization to be interpreted and countercartographed; as an epicenter from which one can investigate broader correlations - but, articulated with the overall focus of the Project - between architecture, work, tourism, behavior, infrastructure, financialization, public and private, migrations, international trade, luxury, precarization, desires, exploration, control and flows, among others. The hypothesis is that it is possible to connect the existence of "labor analogous to slavery" to a larger universe of variables that construct the current context, and the airport, in particular.
////Coordination:
David Sperling e Fábio Lopes de Souza Santos
////Invited Researchers:
Cibele Saliba Rizek, Luciano Bernardino da Costa, Marcel Fantin, Ruy Sardinha Lopes
////GRU-111: contracartografias Workshop – participants:
Alessandra Vitti, Aline Sgotti, Ana Carolina Dias Felizardo, Ana Paula Guaratini, Arthur Bignelli, Beatriz Costa, Bruno Henrique Rossler, Caio Jacintho, Daniel Nardini Marques, Eduardo Costa Cordeiro, Giovanni Bussaglia, Jeanne Vilela, João Gonçalves, Kaio Stragliotto, Laura Adami Nogueira, Miranda Zamberlan Nedel, Paul Newman dos Santos, Renan Gomez, Renato Tamaoki, Tiago Hindi (Alunos do Curso de Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo do IAU-USP)
////GRU-111: contracartografias Workshop Organizers:
David Sperling, Fábio Lopes de Souza Santos (coordenadores), Cristina Kiminami, Guilherme Cuogui, Marília Solfa, Paula Pacheco, Rafael Goffinet, Rafael Sampaio, Tássia Vasconselos (alunos do Programa de Pós-Graduação do IAU-USP/pesquisadores do NEC.USP)
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David Sperling, Fábio Lopes de Souza Santos (coordenadores), Cristina Kiminami, Guilherme Cuogui, Marília Solfa, Paula Pacheco, Rafael Goffinet, Rafael Sampaio, Tássia Vasconselos (alunos do Programa de Pós-Graduação do IAU-USP/pesquisadores do NEC.USP)
////Research and cartographic production:
David Sperling, Fábio Lopes de Souza Santos, Marcel Fantin (coordenadores), Cristina Kiminami, Guilherme Cuogui, Marília Solfa, Paula Pacheco, Rafael Goffinet, Rafael Sampaio, Tássia Vasconselos (alunos do Programa de Pós-Graduação do IAU-USP/pesquisadores do NEC.USP)
////Image post-production:
Luciano Bernardino da Costa
////Coordination:
David Sperling e Fábio Lopes de Souza Santos
////Invited Researchers:
Cibele Saliba Rizek, Luciano Bernardino da Costa, Marcel Fantin, Ruy Sardinha Lopes
////GRU-111: contracartografias Workshop – participants:
Alessandra Vitti, Aline Sgotti, Ana Carolina Dias Felizardo, Ana Paula Guaratini, Arthur Bignelli, Beatriz Costa, Bruno Henrique Rossler, Caio Jacintho, Daniel Nardini Marques, Eduardo Costa Cordeiro, Giovanni Bussaglia, Jeanne Vilela, João Gonçalves, Kaio Stragliotto, Laura Adami Nogueira, Miranda Zamberlan Nedel, Paul Newman dos Santos, Renan Gomez, Renato Tamaoki, Tiago Hindi (Alunos do Curso de Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo do IAU-USP)
////GRU-111: contracartografias Workshop Organizers:
David Sperling, Fábio Lopes de Souza Santos (coordenadores), Cristina Kiminami, Guilherme Cuogui, Marília Solfa, Paula Pacheco, Rafael Goffinet, Rafael Sampaio, Tássia Vasconselos (alunos do Programa de Pós-Graduação do IAU-USP/pesquisadores do NEC.USP)
////Editorial production:
David Sperling, Fábio Lopes de Souza Santos (coordenadores), Cristina Kiminami, Guilherme Cuogui, Marília Solfa, Paula Pacheco, Rafael Goffinet, Rafael Sampaio, Tássia Vasconselos (alunos do Programa de Pós-Graduação do IAU-USP/pesquisadores do NEC.USP)
////Research and cartographic production:
David Sperling, Fábio Lopes de Souza Santos, Marcel Fantin (coordenadores), Cristina Kiminami, Guilherme Cuogui, Marília Solfa, Paula Pacheco, Rafael Goffinet, Rafael Sampaio, Tássia Vasconselos (alunos do Programa de Pós-Graduação do IAU-USP/pesquisadores do NEC.USP)
////Image post-production:
Luciano Bernardino da Costa
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This research aims to analyse Topology’s state of the art. Nowadays Topology is a key player in the dialogues that Architecture has historically stablished with other areas of knowledge. This work points out and systematizes contemporary... more
This research aims to analyse Topology’s state of the art. Nowadays Topology is a key player in the dialogues that Architecture has historically stablished with other areas of knowledge. This work points out and systematizes contemporary approximations with Topology made by architects and developes their ideas by means of the concept of topologic processual diagram. This threefold concept (topology, process, diagram) is investigated in different areas such Cognitive Science, Logic (Mathematics and Semiotics) and Philosophy, in order to enrich the analyse of its actuation in the field of Topology. In this analysis, the topologic processual diagram is described as an operative- representational medium of spatial structural relations (the object’s topology), with three variables: thought, space and time. Finally, this concept is investigated within the realm of the project and representation in Architecture, building up a critical dialogue with diagrams, its use and reference, as performed by paradigmatic contemporary architects - Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, Greg Lynn, Rem Koolhaas, MVRDV, Ben van Berkel, Lars Spuybroek and others.
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This thesis reflects over the possibility of the existence of a “mobility field” for architectural critical practice in the contemporary world, defined by agreements in social, economic, politics and cultural spheres. The study takes as... more
This thesis reflects over the possibility of the existence of a “mobility field” for architectural critical practice in the contemporary world, defined by agreements in social, economic, politics and cultural spheres. The study takes as fundamental notions for its propositions the terms “space” and “event” (and the notions that they activate: experience, subject, body, time), and from these aspects the following hypotheses emerged. The first is the notion of “event”, from Alain Badiou philosophy, could open up critical investigations about the design and spatialization practices in contemporary architecture. And the second hypothesis is that the mentioned notion could conduct to the reconsideration of the relation between aesthetics and politics in the field of architecture. The framework of the study assumes as its point of departure the systematization and problematization of the critical theory of architecture from Bernard Tschumi based on the space-event relation. In its second moment, the thesis aims to elucidate how a certain notion of “event” has been apropriated by the contemporary cultural sphere and to present the logics as it operates not only in this sphere, but in a type of architecture that extensivelly has been transformed in its correlate. The analyses of the two previous conceptions of the space-event relation indicate the need for the investigation of other fields for critical action in architecture, and as well for the space-event relation itself. In a third moment, this study proposes the architecture (the spatialization processes and the spatialities that they engender) as evental space, establishing as mediation the thought about the “event” of the contemporary french philosopher Alain Badiou, and more specifically about the political event and the space on which takes place.
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The introduction of digital fabrication technologies in Latin America faces diverse, heterogeneous and decentralized conditions. After several years, there was not a comprehensive perspective on the situation in the region. The goal of... more
The introduction of digital fabrication technologies in Latin America faces
diverse, heterogeneous and decentralized conditions. After several years, there was not a comprehensive perspective on the situation in the region. The goal of this paper is to present a project called ``Homo Faber: Digital Fabrication in Latin America'' and some of its results. The project comprehends the creation of a database that led to researches and exhibitions about digital fabrication in design, architecture and building construction in Latin America. The questions that guide the investigation try to understand which factors contribute and limit the potential of automation in material processes towards 4.0 industry.
diverse, heterogeneous and decentralized conditions. After several years, there was not a comprehensive perspective on the situation in the region. The goal of this paper is to present a project called ``Homo Faber: Digital Fabrication in Latin America'' and some of its results. The project comprehends the creation of a database that led to researches and exhibitions about digital fabrication in design, architecture and building construction in Latin America. The questions that guide the investigation try to understand which factors contribute and limit the potential of automation in material processes towards 4.0 industry.
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This study focuses on the design process that uses the digital environment in the context of undergraduate courses of Architecture and Urbanism, mainly the Digital Architectural Design (DAD). From the author's previous studies that... more
This study focuses on the design process that uses the digital environment in the context of undergraduate courses of Architecture and Urbanism, mainly the Digital Architectural Design (DAD). From the author's previous studies that classified the teaching practice in Latin America, the Brazilian data were analyzed due to its expressive and heterogeneous features. Faced with a scenario that points to institutional characteristics reflect in the teaching approach, a horizontal mapping was performed. A data cross-referencing through correlation methodology was carried out. As a result, there is a prevalence of public institutions that use teaching practice using DAD, most of them located in South and Southeast with a close link between teaching and research.
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Being in tune with the joint eCAADe and SIGraDi conference, this paper systematizes and analyzes data related to the set of papers presented in the history of the conferences of both societies. Which paths traced from eCAADe and SIGraDi... more
Being in tune with the joint eCAADe and SIGraDi conference, this paper
systematizes and analyzes data related to the set of papers presented in the history of the conferences of both societies. Which paths traced from eCAADe and SIGraDi brought us to the ``architecture in the age of the fourth industrial revolution''? This paper describes a bibliometric study focused on eCAADe and SIGraDi papers from 2003 to 2018 retrieved from CumInCad by using an open-source software developed by the team for this research. The most used keywords and most cited authors, cross-citations between societies and time series about this data were synthesized, recovering part of the histories of these societies.
Some similarities and differences between them are pointed out allowing to
understand their past for better drawing their future.
systematizes and analyzes data related to the set of papers presented in the history of the conferences of both societies. Which paths traced from eCAADe and SIGraDi brought us to the ``architecture in the age of the fourth industrial revolution''? This paper describes a bibliometric study focused on eCAADe and SIGraDi papers from 2003 to 2018 retrieved from CumInCad by using an open-source software developed by the team for this research. The most used keywords and most cited authors, cross-citations between societies and time series about this data were synthesized, recovering part of the histories of these societies.
Some similarities and differences between them are pointed out allowing to
understand their past for better drawing their future.
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Este documento presenta y examina los antecedentes más recientes y actuales de la fabricación digital en el contexto de la arquitectura latinoamericana y presenta información actualizada del Proyecto Homo Faber: Fabricación Digital en... more
Este documento presenta y examina los antecedentes más recientes y actuales de la fabricación digital en el contexto de la arquitectura latinoamericana y presenta información actualizada del Proyecto Homo Faber: Fabricación Digital en América Latina. Este proyecto se centra en los laboratorios que exploran la aplicación de las tecnologías de fabricación en experimentos arquitectónicos y objetos de diseño. Los resultados apuntan a un contexto que incluye varias dinámicas que
implican el surgimiento de la artesanía digital en las comunidades, el rediseño de componentes de construcción estándar, la creación de laboratorios móviles, experimentos que conectan tecnologías
bajas y altas, prácticas de hackeo informático, así como estrategias ascendentes para aplicar estas tecnologías en la industria. La conclusión general es que los procesos de transferencia y apropiación de tecnología se siguen realizando en la región.
implican el surgimiento de la artesanía digital en las comunidades, el rediseño de componentes de construcción estándar, la creación de laboratorios móviles, experimentos que conectan tecnologías
bajas y altas, prácticas de hackeo informático, así como estrategias ascendentes para aplicar estas tecnologías en la industria. La conclusión general es que los procesos de transferencia y apropiación de tecnología se siguen realizando en la región.