Ludger Hovestadt: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2023

Name	Herr Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Lehrgebiet	Digitale Architektonik
Adresse	Inst. f. Technologie in der Arch. ETH Zürich, HIB E 15 Stefano-Franscini-Platz 1 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND
E-Mail	hovestadt@arch.ethz.ch
Departement	Architektur
Beziehung	Ordentlicher Professor

Nummer

Titel

ECTS

Umfang

Dozierende

052-0628-23L

CAAD Theory: Topic

ITA Pool information event on the offered courses: 8.2.23 (10-11 h) ONLINE - link will follow.

2 KP

L. Hovestadt

Kurzbeschreibung

Architecture is already saturated in images. In order to skilfully articulate the digital cosmos of today we need creative writing and code.

The problem addressed in this course is how to allow the digital cosmos to find its voice, and how you as architects can inhabit this voice to speak both freely and carefully, both playfully and seriously, from word-building to world-building.

Lernziel

No creative writing experience is required; you can forget everything you have learned. We will use experimental writing modes, movements and exercises to find ways to develop agility and grace in writing by testing the motility of concepts such as light and matter, gravity and grace, night and day.

Each week there will be a lecture followed by a group discussion. There will be a short text to read each week, and a short writing experiment to do. Readings will be provided online.

You will form your own voices, forms and styles. We will start with the initial theme of SATURATION. The digital cosmos is saturated. Saturation is extreme. Saturation is overwhelming. Saturation is beyond what is required.

The task of the architect-writer here is to inhabit and write with this saturation; to find voices to properly articulate the saturated world. This requires skill and balance; gravity and agility; humour and lightness. During the course you will be guided through the process of writing texts which playfully inhabit the styles of the following: fragments of ancient epic poetry, Renaissance sonnets, modernist avant-garde poems and contemporary voices.

Skript

http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch

Literatur

http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch

Voraussetzungen / Besonderes

ITA Pool information event on the offered courses: 9.2.22 (10-11 h) ONLINE: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/61932735301

052-0630-23L

CAAD Practice: Topic

ITA Pool information event on the offered courses: 8.2.23 (10-11 h), ONLINE: Link will follow.

2 KP

L. Hovestadt

Kurzbeschreibung

The course introduces the interplay between machine learning and the architectural design process. It is about how architects can navigate a probabilistic design space and what kind of questions to ask. It also shows how integrating learning from data to discover patterns and holistically manipulate the data entities with design.

Lernziel

- Students learn an introduction of an applicative perspective of using machine learning in design.
- Students learn how feature engineering can be connected to the design elements and how that improves the quality of results.
- confronting the digital modeling with the “thinking” of machine learning.
- Students can use geometry as an expression to visualize and conceive the machine learning process.
- Connect these geometric expressions with architectural design elements in informational spaces.
- The course starts with introductory lectures with intuitive tools and finishes with individual experiments to design architectural models.

Inhalt

This course shows the complex relativity between the data’s sharp borders and its boundaries, where morphing anything is possible, and anything may be related or connected. Architects can manipulate and design the feature engineering algorithms of machine learning and connect them to the design process to improve the quality of results. Basic introduction of Rhino and Grasshopper will be instructed to use the basic interfaces’ functions. Coded files with examples will be used throughout the course.

- Information Space.
- Read geometry as particles and waves.
- Implicit vs parametric.
- Machine learning aided design.
- Embody values of high dimensional elements.
- Obstacles and distance measurements.
- What is the knowledge of needed tools inside Rhino and Grasshopper for this course?
- Rhino Interface, use basic drawing commands (Point, Line, Surface, Extrude, Solids Boolean operations, Meshes).
- Grasshopper Interface, know basics (connecting components, assign geometry from rhino, basic components, Tree and lists, export).
- Introduction - ANN - Self-organizing map – Principle component analysis.
- Non-linear morph between geometries.
- Generate in-between design alternatives.
- Design a conceptual building form in a probabilistic space.

Skript

To follow

Literatur

http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch

052-0636-01L

Mathematical Thinking and Programming IV

Findet dieses Semester nicht statt.
Title of this course before HS22: "Mathematical Thinking and Programming IV"

2 KP

L. Hovestadt

Kurzbeschreibung

Vertiefung Blender
Vertiefung in den Lambda Calculus und die Programmierumgebung Mathematica

Lernziel

Vertiefte Kenntnisse des CAD Programms "Blender" Blender
Vertiefte Kenntnisse in "Lambda Calculus" und der Programmierumgebung "Mathematica"

Inhalt

Einführung in die einheitliche Bearbeitung folgender Medien per Code: Text, Farbe, Bild, Film, Ton, Graphen, Graphik(2D und 3D), Animation und Web.

052-1110-23L

Architectural Design V-IX: Meteora 08 - Forgetting (Hovestadt)

Please register (www.mystudies.ethz.ch) only after the internal enrolment for the design classes (see http://www.einschreibung.arch.ethz.ch/design.php).

Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 31.3.23, 24:00 h (valuation date) only. Ultimate deadline to unsubscribe or enroll for the studio is 31.3.23, 24:00 h.

14 KP

16U

L. Hovestadt

Kurzbeschreibung

This studio works on the idea that a substantial understanding of
today’s technology (internet of things, big data, machine
intelligence ...) changes the perspective to architectural theory
and will result in different architectural designs and building
constructions.

Lernziel

1) Identification and understanding of the challenges of today’s
technologies;
2) techniques of working within the plenty of the internet;
3) a methodology to design digital architectures;
4) understanding of the shift from hard building construction to soft building applications, and
5) an understanding of the importance of becoming a literate digital persona in order to be an architect today.

Inhalt

METEORA #08

will use artificial intelligence
to write a text to explicate a precise position in today's world,
to create a spectrum of images to reflect this world
and design an architectural artefact which brings things into adequate proportions

Voraussetzungen / Besonderes

Individual work only.

Introduction: 21.02.2023, 09:30, HIB E15.
Intermediate crits: Dates will follow.
Final crits: 30./31.05.2023
No extra costs.

Kompetenzen

Fachspezifische Kompetenzen	Konzepte und Theorien	geprüft
	Verfahren und Technologien	geprüft
Methodenspezifische Kompetenzen	Analytische Kompetenzen	gefördert
	Medien und digitale Technologien	gefördert
Soziale Kompetenzen	Kommunikation	gefördert
Persönliche Kompetenzen	Kreatives Denken	gefördert
	Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstreflexion	gefördert

063-0716-23L

CAAD III: Positionen in der Architektur

2 KP

L. Hovestadt

Kurzbeschreibung

Informationstechnologien für Architekten. Dritter, vertiefender Teil. Informationstechnologien sind heute konstituierender Teil sowohl des architektonischen Schaffens als auch unserer gebauten Umwelt. Hardware und Software sind allgegenwärtig, preiswert und einfach zu bedienen. Herkömmliche Planungs- und Bauprozesse werden beschleunigt und im guten Fall verbessert.

Lernziel

In diesem Kurs stellen wir die qualitative Frage nach neuen Haltungen und Bedeutungen auf dem neuen Plateau. CAAD III behandelt seminaristisch vertiefend eine ausgewählte Anwendung auf diesem neuen Plateau. CAAD III beginnt mit einleitenden Vorlesungen und schliesst ab mit individuellen Ausarbeitungen.

Inhalt

064-0016-23L

PhD Colloquium Theory of Information Technology for Architects

2 KP

L. Hovestadt

Kurzbeschreibung

Information technology plays an increasingly important role in research. To meet this challenging development, it is not only important to acquire respective skills, but also to consider and understand information technology in what sets it apart from other gestalts of technics (like mechanics, dynamics, or thermodynamics).

Lernziel

The aim of this colloquium is to counter an observable tendency, that proportional to the degree in which students master practical skills in computing, they increasingly submit uncritically, in their understanding and framing of problems, to the dictation of schemata and templates implemented by technical systems.

Inhalt

The starting point for this colloquium is to comprehend computing not in terms of skills, but as a literacy which we can experience emerging today. Like in the case of writing as well, computing cannot exhaustively be reduced to either logics, grammar, arithmetics, or analytics. Rather, computation, if comprehended as a literacy, relates to any of the established categories of learning and raises questions of an architectonic kind. This colloquium draws from the principal richness of cultural forms of knowing and learning and thematizes approaches to formulate a theoretical stance on information technology for architects which is driven by and resting on the actual reality of computability today. In this, it is complementary to those theory courses on technology offered by the historical disciplines at ETH.

Voraussetzungen / Besonderes

To benefit from this course, you should have a practical affinity to technics, as well as an abstract interest in information technology in its comprehensive cultural context.