METEORA IS THE DESIGN STUDIO OF THE CHAIR OF DIGITAL ARCHITECTONICS [HOVESTADt] AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE OF ETH ZÜRICH. Meteora is never the same, she evolves, grows and changes constantly. She is a mirror of the state of work we do in our studio, and an infinite sum of its sediments. EXPLORE THE PLETHORA OF ITs CHARACTERS, DREAMS, AND VISIONS BELOW.

SEASON 4 - Alienations

SEASON 4

METEORA 04 – ALienations

STUDENTS: Joel Brandner, Lukas Notz, Tatjana Bergmeister, Jan Bauer, Radenka Nikolova, Moritz Maeder, Leonie Huber, Heloise Dussault-Cloutier, Fabio Indergand, Luca Meister, Jierui Yu, Kieran Chapman, Maud Haas

TEACHING TEAM: LUDGER HOVESTADT, JORGE OROZCO, MIRO ROMAN, ADIL BOKHARI
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in the time of corona,
sitting at home,
connected with the world.

we feel like laughing.
sitting at the edge of the world.
we start thinking.

an alien building of the last century
(ludwig wittgenstein house, vienna, 1928)
meets an alien figure of today's media
(lenny belardo aka jude law by paolo sorrentino, 2016)

you look at me
and I look at you.

I'm the world,
I'm the world,
the world in a box.

METEORA #04 is an architectonic exercise
on our cultural heritage
and its challanges of today.

white noise,
beautiful white noise.

in a room without a roof
i'm staring at the ceiling.

METEORA #04  will use artifical 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 proprotions

in the plentiful noise of today
lenny will help us to talk about the world today, and
ludwig will help us to make detailed architectonic arguments.

S4 RESOURCES:

S4E1
S4E2
S4E3
S4 REVIEWS
STORIES S4

THIS STUDIO WORKS ON THE IDEA THAT A SUBSTANTIAL UNDERSTANDING OF TODAYS TECHNOLOGY (INTERNET OF THINGS, BIG DATA, MACHINE INTELLIGENCE ...) CHANGES THE PERSPECTIVE TO ARCHITECTURAL THEORY AND WILL RESULT IN DIFFERENT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS AND BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS.

GOALS

1) IDENTIFICATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHALLENGES OF TODAYS 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.

KICKOFF: February 23, 2021
Zoom Link

final reviews 01-02 June, 2021