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anemptytextllineIt’s Greg Lynn, in conversation with architects of seminal digital projects included in the exhibition Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention. In this episode, Greg talks to Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser.Watch the full series: http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/issues/4/origins-of-the-digital/39907/the-greg-lynn-showRead more about the exhibition: http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/calendar?event=38273Greg Lynn sur scène, en conversation avec les architectes de projets inclus dans l’exposition Archéologie du numérique : Complexité et convention. Dans cette épisode, Peter Testa et Devyn Weiser sont mis en vedette.Regarder la série complète : http://www.cca.qc.ca/fr/issues/4/des-origines-du-numerique/39907/the-greg-lynn-showEn savoir plus sur l'exposition : http://www.cca.qc.ca/fr/calendrier?event=38273 source
anemptytextllineThe CCA presents its second Toolkit for Today, a two-week summer seminar for PhD candidates and Master students from around the world. This year’s seminar is conceived as an important component of the research launched by the CCA on the processes and practices related to digital media in architecture.Guest speakers included Stan Allen, Greg Lynn, Reinhold Martin, Kas Oosterhuis, Antoine Picon, Hani Rashid, Molly Wright Steenson, Peter Testa, and Bernard Tschumi.To learn more, visit https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/58784/toolkit-for-today-archaeology-of-the-digital source- anemptytextllineIn February 2017, the CCA and SCI-Arc organized a discussion on the origins of the digital in architecture, as part of the CCA's ongoing Archaeology of the Digital research program and for the launch of the book When Is the Digital in Architecture? Greg Lynn, Wolf Prix, Peter Testa, and Devyn Weiser addressed the ways they integrated digital tools into their practices for specific projects. The conversation was moderated by Andrew Goodhouse (Editor, CCA Publications).En février 2017, le CCA et SCI-Arc ont organisé une conversation sur des origines du numérique en architecture, dans le cadre du programme de recherche Archéologie du numérique du CCA et du lancement du livre Quand le numérique marque-t-il l'architecture? Greg Lynn, Wolf Prix, Peter Testa et Devyn Weiser ont parlé des conditions qui les ont poussé à intégrer des outils numériques à leur pratique pour des projets spécifiques. La conversation a été animée par Andrew Goodhouse (rédacteur, Publications CCA).source
anemptytextllineJeffrey Kipnis starts the sixth of the Fecundity of a Mossy Climate conversations by differentiating Devyn Weiser and Peter Testa's research-based practice from the culturally-based practices of the previous Mossy Climate participants. In a survey of Testa and Weiser's work, Kipnis stresses how of their research on carbon fiber and robots informs their design sensibility. Greg Lynn praises Testa and Weiser's work for not being focused on optimizing the properties of new materials, but on architecture. Kipnis, Lynn, Weiser and Testa discuss the dialog between material research and design, different ways of being influenced by materials, and the interaction of materials and design.source- anemptytextllineThe first of the Duels +Duets series of talks begins with Greg Lynn discussing the development of his interest in architecture that moves, discussing projects such as the Atlantis Sentosa Resort, the London Olympic Dome, the GF42' high performance sailboat, the RV (Room Vehicle) House Prototype, pavilions for Curbside, the 2016 Architecture Biennale in Venice, and a new business providing machines for buildings--Piaggio Fast Forward.Peter Testa discusses in detail his design with Devyn Weiser for an automated PSA Peugeot Citroën EV Factory, and also discusses studio and seminar work generated by SCI-Arc's Robot House, including. Testa and Lynn discuss machine vision, the role of architects in the development and future of intelligent environments and services. They respond to comments from the audience on staying relevant, technological nostalgia, the aesthetics of machine vision, and exasperatingly compartmentalized aesthetic and intellectual sensibilities.source
- anemptytextllineA new perspective on the CCA's Álvaro Siza fondsTo learn more on Find and Tell: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/56718/find-a...Project financed in the framework of the Montreal Cultural Development grant awarded by the City of Montreal and the Quebec Department of Culture and Communications. source
- anemptytextlline(Note: the wobbling image stabilizes after the 3 minute mark.)Hernan Diaz Alonso welcomes the audience to the launch of Peter Testa’s book, Robot house : instrumentation, representation, fabrication, published by Thames & Hudson, noting the role of the Thames & Hudson architecture editor Lucas Dietrich.Testa argues that the work of the Robot House has been opposed to digital perfectionism (parametric design) and digital positivism (robots as a fabrication platform), exploring a much more contaminated connection between digital and physical. “We broke the robot and broke the computer, and by doing that created a new space.” He stresses new emphasis on the image—especially video and motion capture—as generative structure, with the robots offering different imaging technologies, evolving a new physidigital ethic and aesthetic. On the other hand, he sees these developments as part of the tradition of architects developing new conceptual and visual tools going back to the Greeks’ development of geometry and Alberti’s window. And for the immediate future, he sees a focus on pushing further into the physical.Testa describes the challenges of a book that such a wide variety of work. The three introductions discuss the Robot House in different contexts: Eric Owen Moss discusses it as part of SCI-Arc’s project, Gregg Lynn positions it within the discipline, and Testa’s provides the theoretical framework. The content organized in three categories—Instrumentation, Representation, Fabrication—each broken down into a series of Techniques. The graphic designer Julie Cho of Omnivore created an organization of projects that clarifies links and filiations. Each of the seminars and studios are summarized, and at the end is documentation of the interfaces they have developed.Peter Testa and Hernan Diaz Alonso respond to comments from the audience regarding robots as spectacle, the not-yet-developed Killer App, and keeping the emphasis on architecture rather than robotics.source