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~ SpringerWienNewYork EDITION ANGEWANDTE BOOK SERIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ARTS VIENNA EDITED BY GERALD BAST, RECTOR WHAT IS THE ARCHITECT DOING IN THE JUNGLE? BIORNAMETICS BARBARA IMHOF, PETRA GRUBER (EDS.) ESSAYS BY JENS BADURA, PETRA GRUBER /BARBARA IMHOF, JULIAN VINCENT, DOMINIKA GLOGOWSKI STATEMENTS BY GREG LYNN, ILLE C. GEBESHUBER, GEORGE JEROMINIDIS, WALTRAUT HOHENEDER, GEORG GLAESER, ARNE HOFMAN MATHIAS DEL CAMPO /SANDRA MANNINGER, ERNST J. FUCHS, HERBERT STACHELBERGER ~ SpringerWienNewYork Barbara Imhof, LIQUIFER Systems Group GmbH, Vienna, Austria Petra Gruber, transarch –Office for Biomimetics and Transdisciplinary Architecture, Vienna, Austria The research was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): AR 14-G21 in the arts-based research programme PEEK 2009 This work is subject to copyright. 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The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. © 2013 Springer-Verlag/Wien Springer Wien New York is part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.at Graphic Design: Alexander Schuh Copy editing: Jo Lakeland Cover Photo: Bruno Stubenrauch Pattern graphics: Biornametics 2011 Printed by: Holzhausen Druck GmbH, 1140 Wien, Austria Printed on acid-free and chlorine-free bleached paper SPIN: 86212370 With 51 figures Library of Congress Control Number: 2012955404 ISSN 1866-248X ISBN 978-3-7091-1528-2 Springer Wien New York The acknowledgements of this project go to a long list of supporters at the University of Applied Arts, the Austrian Science Fund and to all others who generously supported the project with their time, thoughts and hard work. Special thanks to the following people: Wolf D. Prix, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna Kristy Balliet, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, USA Justin Diles, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, USA Klaus Bollinger, Bollinger & Grohmann, University of Applied Arts, Vienna August Korischum, Anna Weißkircher, Eduard Julk: Institut für Kunst und Technologie, Metalltechnologie, University of Applied Arts, Vienna Peter Strasser, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna Roswitha Janowski-Fritsch, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna Alexandra Graupner, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna Ulrike Herbig, Institute for Comparative Research in Architecture, Vienna Ille C. Gebeshuber, UKM & UT Vienna, for contributing to the book title One for all and all for one! EXPLORATIVE BIORNAMETICS DESIGN TRANS-DISCIPLINARY PRACTICES RESEARCH ASPECTS ASPECTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION BIORNAMETICS – ARCHITECTURE WE ARE INTERESTED IN YOU HAVE TO ENSURE THERE Gerald Bast Barbara Imhof / Petra Gruber INSPIRED BY NATURAL PATTERNS PERFECT GEOMETRIC SHAPES ARE PARADIGMS 8 12 Petra Gruber / Barbara Imhof Georg Glaeser Greg Lynn 22 46 62 EXPLORATIVE PRACTICES IN DIALOGUE. ART-BASED PROJECT FACTS WE LOOK FOR EVOLUTIONARY HOW TO FIND A BIOLOGIST RESEARCH AT THE INTERFACE OF 32 OPTIMISATION OF STRUCTURES Herbert Stachelberger ARTS, SCIENCES AND DESIGN Arne Hofman 64 Jens Badura TESTING BIORNAMETICS – 48 14 INSTALLATION AT THE SLIVER THE CHALLENGES OF AN ARTIST GALLERY NATURE DOES NOT OPTIMISE – George Jerominidis Waltraut Hoheneder / Petra Gruber NATURE CHANGES 66 36 Matias del Campo, Sandra Manninger, SPAN WE HAVE TO ESTABLISH A 50 COMMON LANGUAGE Ille C. Gebeshuber NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE – 68 WHAT ARCHITECTURE CAN DO Ernst J. Fuchs, The Next Enterprise ON COMMUNICATING PROCESS IN 53 ART-SCIENCE COLLABORATIONS Dominika Glogowski BUILDING BIO-ORNAMENTS 70 Julian Vincent 54 ROLEMODELS 74 BIOGRAPHIES 94 LIST OF FIGURES 98 ON ARTS-BASED RESEARCH 8 PREFACE GERALD BAST Artistic research is a challenging but contro - The decisive factor is a situation which institutional relationship to aesthetic versial subject. There are different views on art universities, colleges, and academies innovation. In any case, it is the art market that what this type of research encompasses. (whatever they are called or might have been has for some time controlled the direction of Some people even doubt whether any such called in the past) must painfully come to aesthetic innovation, and only it can bestow thing as “artistic research” really exists. Some terms with: contrary to scientific universities, value and reputation. The equivalent of a people, both in academia and in the art world, they as institutions play little or no genuine scientific community, which judges quality at oppose the very phenomenon of artistic role in the development of aesthetics. least in basic scientific research and thereby research. Yet at the same time, artistic Although the development of the arts — the guides scientific progress, does not exist in the research is gaining recognition and support – counterpart to the development of the realm of the arts. The situation in the arts in the academic world, in the art world, and sciences — has been anchored in the Austrian when transposed to the sciences would also from government bodies thet are university law and in the service law for suggest that only the chemical industry can supporting this new field of research with teachers and professors for a long time, in decide which new research approaches in funding. The controversies surrounding artistic reality it is, if at all only of marginal chemistry are good and important, or that the research often turn on a problem of importance at art universities. number of works in the natural, social and demarcation. What exactly distinguishes The development of the arts is excessively economic sciences sold in the bookstores artistic research from art practice? And what outsourced to extramural activities or even defines the scientific merit of these works. distinguishes it from scientific or academic more to the artist’s private realm, thus the That art universities have been actively research? Why is whether there is artistic term “outsourced” can indeed be called into working for several years to gain at least a part research or not, or whether it can or may exist, question when one looks at the history of art of the power to define artistic progress is not actually so important? universities, colleges, and academies in their only a question of institutional vanity and 9 PREFACE hunger for power, rather it is a question of quota-dependent museums and art galleries, institutional self-conception within the then this will not go without consequences concert of academic institutions and a for the content. Imagine the situation the question of the significance of art and art sciences would be in today were there to universities in society.Art universities (as be no genuinely independent, state- opposed to art colleges) that act as purely financed, and scientific community-led basic educational establishments, merely delivering research, rather solely industry-financed and human resources to a sector where important application-oriented research. The works of art are produced and where artistic implementa tion of artistic research — or progress and knowledge are generated, suffer art-based research — in the range of tasks in particular in our competition-oriented of art universities has to do with nothing less society from a lack of recognition and low than the future of art and its prospective value. This is not only a psychological position in society. And this book is a very problem; in times of economic tension it helpfull contribution to the current discussion increasingly also becomes a latent danger for of arts-based research. the continuing existence of art universities. But there is a far greater danger behind it for Gerald Bast, art itself and for the social system in which it Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna takes place: if the power to define progress is in the hands of the commercial art market and
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