EXCESSIVE - Hernan Diaz Alonso

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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

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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...

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Many of the ambitions revolve around the topic of excess as a redefinition of beautiful lust and - misfit aesthetics of exuberance and sophisticated conditions of arousal. If design is typically derived from an expertise related to form and proportion, a theory of mutation is possibly an advanced critical stance toward formal traditions. A theory of excessive form is not a rejection of the formal traditions but an extension of them. Further, navigation through the topologies of excessive form can be understood as an intensification of more traditional formal strategies.
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\\ Excessive_Final Projects-2010

san liu

emre icdem

frisly colop

lindsey cohen

cynthia sanchez

mohammad ekhlasi

jose carlos

chi wai chan

xinyu wan

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Video Conference w/ HDA
Tuesday 13th July 2010 @ 7:00pm [vie]
Sunday 18th July 2010 @ 7:00pm [vie]

HDA Visit
26th-31st July 2010

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EXCESSIVE I - FINAL REVIEW

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Excessive Final Review + Essence End Year Show 2010

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Columbia Midterm-Review 04/10

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Marcelo Spina_Workshop_23/03/10-25/03/10

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VC_March 7th 2010 @ 6:00pm[VIE] / 9:00am[LA]

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Schedule

Wednesday
Hernan @ 2:00pm_Studio...[presentation uploaded @ 4:00pm]

Midterm Presentation @ 5:00pm

Dinner @ 9:00pm_Xpedit

Thursday
@11am - noon [post midterm_discussion]
@5pm [florencia's workshop introduction]
@7pm [florencia's silver lecture]

Friday
@10am - 1pm [florencia's workshop]
@1pm [prix studio]
@6pm - 8pm [hda's desk crit]

Saturday & Sunday
@10am - 1pm [florencia's workshop]

@9pm- 12:00am [excessive final meeting]

Part II

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Synthetic Structures

Historically, architecture begins with a concept, an overall strategy or some kind of pre-meaning. This studio proposed a re-examination of the possibility of form generation as an autonomous act. As an extension of this interest, student research focused more specifically on the degree to which autonomous geometrical forms could be interpreted as an accumulative mutation, or as having latent affective potential.

If traditionally, design was derived from an expertise of form and proportion, mutating design is an advanced stance toward that tradition: it cannot escape and is thus an evolution of that tradition. Dynamic topology structuration then becomes a tool that pertains in large degree to the highest control of the manipulations of those formal strategies. If traditional architecture needed to determine the degree to which a particular project had achieved its extent of beauty, these topologies explore the emergent aesthetics as methods of material the structure as a reversed mechanism of a more traditional beauty and the material specify as a will to anguish or a more appalling encounter with the work. Rooting this topological design paradigm within the confines of architecture's aim for proportion and beauty, the ugly and horrific of a new kind of structural organization based on excess are the necessary variations that allow for an escape toward a spatial model of shocking presence.

The studio will translate synthetic organism techniques into formal-topological techniques, creating complex taxonomies of a structure system that generate new species of formal behavior.Is not about the mimetic career of biology and structure into and onto architecture, but of the transference of multiple physilogical scales into the systemic intelligence of the involutes surface-dwelling, and back again.

Foucault's history of medicine is simultaneously a history of vision. The species becomes, in the Modern regime of medical surveillance, an animated corpse, an assemblage of organs into which diagnoses are invested and installed. The inside becomes the outside. Or more precisely, the insides become an interior structural condition to be understood in relation to another exterior structural conditional an epidermal membrane. The design task is deceptively straightforward: a structure for the cathedral replacement in Vienna.

Critical to the discussion of interiority + structure is the conditional understanding of the irreducible 'unit' that composes architecture. Investigating the nature of the new paradigms in structures and what is irreducible to architecture will allow for us to explore the topic of organization and matters.

Architecture’s Artificiality
Architectural form conventionally connotes solidity. It is a limit barrier, concretely fixed, through which flows pass and circulate. The solidity of form gives shape to circulation by internalizing it and channeling its vascular fluidity.
This studio, however, takes syntactic organs as the material of form and formation for the structure. Synthetic matter is not something to fill the structure but the substance of structure itself. In other ways, architecture has produce artificial artifacts though it history. But here, even as artificiality conforms to a designed figure, it is remains a problem of composition, something additional to or incorporated into structure; we will try to develop a sense of speciation for the production of new conditions of structure behavior.Is important to keep in mind that even we are working on the structure we are not architects and not engineers, for that we count with one of the best in word, Klaus Bollinger.

Project
Structure armature for the new Vienna Cathedral. We will analyze the current created species by each of you species, to create news syntactic “structure systems” base on these emerging logic we will produce architecture behavior that will conduct to the production of the project.

Techniques
The studio will increase its research on particle systems, scripting, Cellular systems, Incremental transformations. Fabrication and solid state, the studio will use some of the facilities fabrication lab, which will allow the research to be evolved from the abstract speculation into very specific production experiments:
Assembly strategies, Structure systems, Aesthetic effects, a big amount of physical experimentation is expected.

Klaus Bollinger_Review-Part-001

Excessive

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Excessive-Group 1_Semester 1 Ended ~ September 04, 2009

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EXCESSIVE / Hernan Diaz Alonso

image: Tabakalera New Media Art -Competition 2008

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 end of June 2009!

teaching //

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HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO / PROFESSOR

Principal and founder of Xefirotarch, Based in Los Angeles, considered one of the most influential voices of his generation. For the last several years he has been a studio design and visual studies professor and is the Thesis coordinator at SCI-ARC Los Angeles. He is also design studio professor at the GSAPP - Columbia University, New York and Professor at University fur Angewandte Kunst Wien. He received his Architecture degrees from the National University of Rosario, Argentina and from Columbia University's AAD Program from which he graduated from with honors and received several design awards. In 1996, he worked as a designer in the office of Enric Miralles in Barcelona and in 2000-2001 he was senior designer at Eisenman Architects in New York.

Diaz Alonso has lectured widely in major institutions around the world. His architectural designs have received numerous awards and have been exhibited in both architecture and art museums including // 2006 // London Biennale / Beijing Biennale / Korea Art Biennale // 2005 // Washington National Building Museum / Archilab France // 2004 // Venice Biennale / Metamorphose: Archilab / Beijing Biennale / "Glamour" // 2003 // Artist Space: Rotterdam Biennale: "Beyond Media", Florence Italy. His work has been largely published in most of the major magazines and multiple books, including the Monograph "Excessive". His work has been exhibited in solo shows at the San Francisco MoMa in 2006, the Art Institute of Chicago the MAK centre in Vienna in 2007 and the Pompidou Center in 2008-2009. In 2005 he was the winner of the PS1 MOMA, New York Young Architect Program Pavilion. His work is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC, the San Francisco MoMa, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the New York MoMa.

Design Studio //

Hernan Diaz Alonso << Head Professor
Steven Ma / Reiner Zettl << Assistant Professor
Julia Koerner << Studio Assistant

Theory // John McMorrough / Reiner Zettl
Engineering // Klaus Bollinger
Digital Workshop 1 // Steven Ma
Digital Workshop 2 // Matias Del Campo
Digital Workshop 3 // Joerg Hugo
Digital Workshop 4 // Florencia Pita
Scripting // Nick Pucket
Materials Lab // Marcelo Spina
Program Manager // Angelika Zelisko
Guest Professors // Peter Noever / Sanford Kwinter / Eric Owen Moss / Wolf Prix / Jeff Kipnis / Tom Kovac / Kivi Sotamaa / Francois Roche / Brad Steele / Emmanuelle Petit / Ali Rahim ...

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