Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Professur A. Holtrop

Typ 

Professur für Architektur und Entwurf

Standort 

RIA

Webseite 

www.holtrop.arch.ethz.ch

Assistierende 

Yuiko Shigeta, Arturo López Ayala, Philip Stöcker, Stephan Lando, Grace Prince

Kontakt E-Mail 

shigeta@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

MATERIAL GESTURE: WE THE PEOPLE AND 19 OTHERS

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

This is the last semester of our six years of artistic research titled MATERIAL GESTURE. The research on material gesture wishes to shift the focus towards the processes of working with a material and its resulting gestures in order to define a specific expression and spatial formation of architecture. Roland Barthes in his writings on the work of Cy Twombly, defines the term gesture as the surplus of an action. An action, he writes: “is transitive, it seeks only to provoke an object, a result.” Whereas the gesture is “the indeterminate and inexhaustible total of reasons, pulsions, indolences which surround the action with an ‘atmosphere’.” In this last semester an artwork will be your departure point. We have selected 20 works with a strong material, gestural and ideological character, and each student will be assigned one of the artworks within this selection. As opposed to the white cube approach where the exhibition space is made as neutral as possible, you will research the possibility of making an architecture that is dedicated and specifically built for the artwork. The ambition is to research the work through its material aspects, the gestures and ideas of the artist and to produce an architecture for that work that is as specific as the work itself.

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Handwerk, Visualisierungen

Lernziele 

When we take all aspects of the material into consideration – the geology, the sourcing, the industry, the different properties, the craftsmanship, the specialised techniques and the cultural significance – we can deploy the full potential of the inherent qualities of the material itself and our way of working it in what we call MATERIAL GESTURE. In this design studio, you will define your gestures of making and working with material(s) through research and experiment, and in response to the topic of the studio. You are required to produce an architecture that results from your specific engagement with the material and the spatial condition you construct with it. The architecture that results from this approach does not reference or represent something, but simply attempts to exist as a physical spatial reality in its own right. There is no given program for the space. This can be chosen at any time in the development of your project and should support the spatial and material conditions that you have set out. For the final presentation, you are required to make a physical model of your work, or a fragment of it. The model should show the material and the gestures (the ways of making) and the specific spatial conditions it constructs. This is the key element of your presentation, along with samples of the material research and test models. You are required to display the material gesture research, drawings of the project and photos of the model alongside your model on portrait A2 sheets. The A2 material will be collected in print and digitally in PDF format for the material gesture archive.

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1133-19

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

Unterrichts-sprache 

English

Arbeitsweise 

Group work only

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

5 and 6 November, 2024

Datum Schlusskritik 

17 and 18 December, 2024

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

16 and 18 September, 2023, Avignon France

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 350 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Kosten für Modellbau und Seminarwoche)

Verfügbare Plätze 

36

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)

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