Patrik Schumacher

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  • AADRL Masterstudium: Entwurfsforschung

    Back to Writings AADRL Masterstudium: EntwurfsforschungPatrik Schumacher 2002Published In: Arch+ , Zeitschrift fuer Architektur und Staedtebau, #163 I. Der Entwurf von Forschung Das Design Research Laboratory an der Architectural Association Ð AADRL – in London – ist ein 16 monatiger post-professionelller Studiengang. Wir versuchen im Rahmen dieses Studiengangs eine Form von…

  • The Autopoeisis of Architecture

    Back to Writings The Autopoeisis of ArchitecturePatrik Schumacher 2002Published in: LATENT UTOPIAS – Experiments within Contemporary Architecture. Springer Verlag, Wien/New York 2002 Karim Rashid’s slogan “I want to change the world” works as ironic gesture against all odds. It entertains as a crass contradiction of the all too evident impossibility…

  • LATENT UTOPIAS

    Back to Writings LATENT UTOPIASPatrik Schumacher 2002Introduction to: LATENT UTOPIAS – Experiments within Contemporary Architecture. Springer Verlag, Wien/New York Iintroduction in forthcoming book: LATENT UTOPIAS – Experiments within Contemporary Architecture, Ed. Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher, Springer Verlag, Wien/New York 2002 Latent Utopias focuses on current experiments with radically new…

  • What is an architect in society today?

    Back to Writings What is an architect in society today?Patrik Schumacher 2002Survey appearing in: Hunch Magazine, No.5, The Netherlands 1) What is an architect in society today? The avant garde architect is a radical innovator in the field of spatial organization.  This rather small and particular segment of avant garde…

  • Autopoeisis of a Residential Community

    Back to Writings Autopoeisis of a Residential CommunityPatrik Schumacher 2002From the book Negotiate My Boundary – Mass-customisation and Responsive Environments Ed. by Brett Steele and +RAMTV AA publications, London Negotiate Your Boundary provokes as the attempt to deploy the full panoply of recent 4D modelling techniques and its attendant formal registers…

  • Digital Hadid: Landscapes in Motion

    Back to Writings Digital Hadid: Landscapes in MotionPatrik Schumacher, Birkhauser, London 2004 91 000 characters (with spaces)101 images (13 projects)  Contents Introduction                                                                                                       I. The prehistory of the new digitally based architecture                         The quest for new design media                                                                      Zaha Hadid in her own words                                                 Graphic Space                                                                                                   Post-modernism, Deconstructivism, Folding                                                   Mechanisms of Invention                                                                                …

  • Rome: the eternal city / the vital city?

    Back to Writings Rome: the eternal city / the vital city?Patrik Schumacher, Rome 2003 The notion of sustainability that was orienting the various design interventions formulated during the workshop was a notion of social, economic and cultural sustainability rather than ecological sustainability. However, since the notion of sustainability is usually…

  • Sign as Surface: Meaning Beyond the New Digital Aesthetic Symposium

    Back to Writings Sign as Surface: Meaning Beyond the New Digital Aesthetic SymposiumPatrik Schumacher 2003Afterword for the symposium: Sign as Surface: Meaning beyond the New Digital Aesthetic,Published In: Sign as Surface Catalog, New York On September 9, 2003 the AIA/NY Chapter Technology Committee hosted a special two-and-a-half hour symposium entitled, Sign…

  • Progress beyond the state of the art

    Back to Writings Progress beyond the state of the artPatrik Schumacher 2004Published In: Architettura Magazine The exhibition “AAproject review”, organized by the Architectural Association School of Architecture is a kind of starting point to begin a tour through an emerging architectural debate, exploring a new research field, where a different architecture…

  • Responsive Environments – From Drawing to Scripting

    Back to Writings Responsive Environments – From Drawing to ScriptingPatrik Schumacher 2004The challenge presented by the new level of dynamic complexity in the metropolitan life processes and the opportunity presented by the development of new powerful digital design tools.Published in: 01 AKAD – Experimental research in Architecture and Design –…