Das Architektengesetz

Thoughts on the legal definition in History

In many, but not all european countries there are laws that describe what an architect is and when someone is allowed to call him or herself an architect. This has not always been the case. In germany, the first attempt to describe, and thereby excert control on the profession was in 1934, which was abolished in 1936. The development of legal frameworks for architects in the 20th century shows how the profession moved from an unprotected title to regulated chamber laws, revealing tensions between professional interests

The Dictionary in S,M,L,XL

From Heteroglossia to Unlimited Semiosis

In the ninetees, Donald Trump was photographed with S, M, L, XL on his office desk. The two have something in common. Surfing the wave of capitalism. Playing with the ambigueties of meaning, of non a certain mad man attitude to the factual.

The text analyzis the dictionary in the margins of S,M,L,XL against the backdrop of modernism, ountercultuer of the sixties and the philsophical ideas that accomponied them.

Cybernetic Dreams

„Computation and cybernetics began … with a flourish of romanticism. Rich in exciting ideas, they flourished quickly, unburdened by … excessive caution.“

(Minsky 6 Papert, Perceptron, 4)

Soon after 1945 scientists began to gather around the idea of an interdisciplinary science capable of explaining a wide variety of phenomena across diverse fields, architects too, started to imagine a new kind of architecture: one based on self-learning systems and feedback loops.

Scientific Aesthetics

The traces of early twentieth century ästhetics

At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, the world saw a growing interest in scientific aesthetics—the study of beauty using empirical methods such as experiment and statistics.

Scientific aesthetics caught the interest of modernist architects. It infiltrated both academia and modernist manifestos, and played a special role within the unstable cultural and political milieu of Russia at the time.