We are pleased to share photos of the 2011SP Pratt | Form, Force, Matter Seminar Midterm Review.
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Course Description:
Form, Force, Matter will investigate the conceptual and technical terrain of simulation within architectural design. As a design strategy and a mechanism for analyzing and synthesizing the performative characteristics of the real, simulation is capable of finding stable configurations within complex systems that include temporal, physical, and material pressures. The spatial and organizational effects of this methodology can be traced through the work of Antonio Gaudi, Heinz Isler, and Frei Otto, as well as a multitude of contemporary practitioners. Implemented through a framework of analog computing, digital simulation, and virtual prototypes, such an approach is inherently instrumental because of the direct proportionality to the physical and the capacity to augment the pressures influencing synthetically generated forms. Thus simulation is tangible, to-scale, and non-representational, allowing us to design operatively on the world and effectively for the contingences inherent to thinking and making in architecture.
Student Participants (Images Courtesy of):
Wilson Cheng
Joseph Woo Young Kim
Chelsea Mailler
Paul Scrugham
Erianthe Semerzakis
Gillian Shaffer