April 24th, 2007 | 6:30pm | Gebäude 04/114

1, 2 Architectural assemblage. From picture trade to image exchange in modern architecture (1907-1927); From photomontage to information architecture: the development of the Structural Study Association and the trans-atlantic controversy regarding structure, form and style (1921-1941).



May 8th, 2007 | 6:30pm | Gebäude 04/114

3,4 Capturing motion: operational strategies of space-time management in Frank B. Gilbreth’s development of the Chronocyclograph. Re-conceptualisation of architectural space in Vienna and Frankfurt. The “one best way“ and the design of the Frankfurt kitchen.



May 22nd, 2007 | 6:30pm | Gebäude 04/114

5,6 Framing Space – Spacing Frames. The development of space frames between playgrounds and battlefields: building kits, flying kites, bicycles, bridges and tensegrities. Convergence of space-time concepts in the natural sciences and structural inventions in the patterns of energetic fields.



May 29th, 2007 | 6:30pm | Gebäude 04/114

7,8 Building and Fyling (1) The airship as a laboratory of modern light weight structures. Space blindness in engineering and navigation. Repetions in inventing the octet-truss. Space cells and membranes. Skeleton geometries of airships and domes (Schütte-Lanz).



June 5th, 2007 | 6:30pm | Gebäude 04/114

9,10 Building and Flying (2). Flight pioneers as inventors of a “new architecture“ (A.G. Bell). Transfers of experiences: the case of the Lilienthal Brothers. An architectural interpretation of space-time phenomena: Mendelsohn’s “tensed continuity“ and the Einstein-Tower.



June 12th, 2007 | 6:30pm | Gebäude 04/114

11,12 Architecture out of the spirit of projection (1). Dissolution of matter and resolution of pictures by network constructions. The paradigm of net and netting in Bauersfeld’s double invention of the Zeiss Planetarium. Structure, model, image: excurs on the soccer football “Telstar“. The origin of monocoque shell construction in Jena. Cultural responses by the Bauhaus Weimar, A. Warburg, W. Benjamin and other contemporaries.



June 19th, 2007 | 6:30pm | Gebäude 04/114

13 Architecture out of the spirit of projection (2). House and housing derived from a global view. From 4D-Projection to geodesic grids: the unfolding of synergetics in Buckminster Fuller’s experimental architecture and design philosophy.



June 26th, 2007 | 6:30pm | Gebäude 04/114

14 The epistemological problem of modelling. Two Nobel prize-winning discoveries (virus capsides and Carbon 60) and the catalytic power of architecture. The riddle of fivefold symmetry and the question of space. Epilog: The significance of the Jitterbug-Transformation and the critical path of modelability.