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EXCESSIVE// studio_hernan diaz alonso
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Official start date for Excessive - 22nd October, 2011_9:00am
**Introduction by Hernan Diaz Alonso**

Thesis & Current Works Presentation- 22nd October, 2011_2:00pm
Excessive Work Session - 23rd October, 2011_10:00am-7:00pm
Excessive Group Meeting - 24th October, 2011_10:00am

Location: Am Heumarkt 27/3a
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WORKSHOPS
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Digital Workshop #1 - 14-16th, 18-19th October, 2011_9:00am-noon
Am Heumarkt 27/3a **Maya Fundermental by Steven Ma**

Digital Workshop #2 - 5-7th November,2011_9:00am-noon
Am Heumarkt 27/3a **Fabrication Technique by Jose Carlos Lopez**

Digital Workshop #3 - TBA
**Maya Advance modeling & Animation Techniques by Nick Kinney**

Digital Workshop #4 - TBA
**Grasshopper Workshop by Alex Karaivanov**

Digital Workshop #5 - TBA
**Processing Workshop by Justin Diles**

Thoery Workshops - TBA
**John McMorrough & Jeffrey Kipnis**

Director Lectures - TBA
**Wolf D. Prix**
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STUDIO
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Design Studio Session w/ Steven Ma - Tues, Thurs & Sunday 2-6pm.
Fabrication Session w/ Jose Carlos - Mon & Wed 7-10 pm.
Theory Seminar w/ Reiner Zettl - TBA
Video Conference w/ Hernan Diaz Alonso - Sun 7:00pm (Every Other Week)
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FALL-TERM DATES
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Fall Semester Part 1 // October 22nd - December 16th
Christmas Break // Decemeber 17th - January 8th
Fall Semester Part 2 // January 9th - January 27th

Presentation week // January 16th-20th

How boring has perfection become?

Every Year the program will focus on a specific topic that would provide means to the advance and mutation of the emerging paradigms of Aesthetics as the main vehicle for the evolution of the autonomy of the discipline. Special workshops and guest will support the effort of the studio.The studio proposes to re-examine the possibilities of form generation as an autonomous entity. In the context of these conditions, the studio will focus in the generation and production of mutant micro behaviors that will accumulate to create species from systems.This program is comprised of three semesters, nevertheless, it is not compartmentalized in three topics, and instead it will be organized as a continuous played out in three acts.

Evidence of this lies in the fact that our contemporary design obsessions are based on an appreciation for the perversity of mutant form, a taste learned from the movies and set to work on architecture. It is produced in the act of design – in the focused sensation of pointing and clicking that is more like painting than engineering. Image-forms are the product of speed up and slow down, slice and blend, fuse and separate – repetitions of scenic rhythms learned from a lifetime of being awed by cinematic affect.

The Strategies of “the EXCESSIVE program” is a 3 semester post graduate course in architectural design. Working in a laboratory environment, students will develop knowledge by investigating and applying the possibilities of emerging theories, as well as testing new design territories such as scripting, biogenetics, genetic codification, new materials, and cellular systems. Studio projects, alongside related design workshops and seminars, will focus on the challenges of developing and expanding the domain of emerging technologies in the design and production of architecture.

Mirco-techniques for combining the thresholds of the horrific-becoming-beautiful and the beautiful-becoming-horrific (grotesque) have imprinted themselves as visual-temporal cues on the current design retina. Monstrosity is the new sex. Lust still rules the empire of desire, only the desires are more elaborate – multiple, complex, intelligent, emotive. The importance of the multiplicity has finally opened the door for mutation as a permanent state of the present. We are becoming monsters – a species aroused by non-perfect images coming from perfect methodologies. Here is where the true transformation is happening. We are subverting the logic of perfection: what used to be about mastering the result of a non-perfect process is now about the production of monstrosity and the grotesque thought the mathematical perfection of an evolutive mechanism.

Being located in Vienna, the studio will take full advantage of the possibilities that such a rich environment offers, at the same time all the classes will highly interact with the seminars at the school at large, the Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien is indeed an ideal environment of design experimentation, where some of the most prominent architect in the world, such as Wolf Prix, Zaha Hadid, and Greg Lynn give the school its unique character and superb design standard.

Course starts October 2011!

Wolf D. Prix << Academic Director

Hernan Diaz Alonso << Head Professor
Steven Ma << Assistant Professor
Jose Carlos << Studio Assistant

Theory // John McMorrough / Reiner Zettl
Engineering // Klaus Bollinger
Digital Workshop 1 // Steven Ma
Digital Workshop 2 // Nick Kinney
Digital Workshop 3 // Joerg Hugo
Digital Workshop 4 // Florencia Pita
Scripting // Nick Pucket
Materials Lab // Marcelo Spina
Program Manager // Angelika Zelisko
Guest Professors // Sanford Kwinter / Eric Owen Moss / Jeff Kipnis / Tom Kovac / Kivi Sotamaa / Francois Roche / Hani Rashi / Emmanuelle Petit / Ali Rahim / Andrew Zago / Kristy Baillet / Matias del Campo...