EXP2. The Two Architects

Alisa Andrasek

• Alisa Andrasek was born in Croatia and lives/works in London.
• She is an architect and curator and directs Graduate Architectural Design at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.
• She is an experimental practitioner and research based educator of architecture and computational processes in design.
• She has taught and lectured at a number of universities worldwide.
• She is the founder of Biothing, a cross-disciplinary laboratory that focuses on the generative potential of computational geometry and software development.

Five concepts:

-Deconstruction

-Geometry: network of patterns creates a homogeneous form

-Experimental: attraction and repulsion create dynamic forms

-Repetition: repetition creates a structure

-Nature: No boundaries between shapes creates fluidity

Frei Otto

• Frei Otto was born in Siegmar and studied architecture in Berlin.
• He is an architect and engineer and is the world's leading authority on lightweight tensile and membrane structures.
• He has pioneered advances in structural mathematics and civil engineering.
• He was concerned with space frames and structural efficiency and experimented with inflatable buildings.
• The extraordinary depth and breadth of his research have made him one of the greatest architect-engineers of all time

Five concepts:

-Lightweight: Creating shelters with a limited amount of materials

-Efficiency: empty spaces are nonessential

-Flexibility

-Transparency: openness gives no barrier between the exterior and the core

-Biological: nature has ready design

References:

Alisa Andrasek - Biography. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.egs.edu/faculty/alisa-andrasek/biography/. About Biothing « Biothing. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.biothing.org/?page_id=2.

Frei Otto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frei_Otto.

Architecture 365 days a year: Frei Otto. [ONLINE] Available at:http://architecture365.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/frei-paul-otto-31-may-1925-is-german.html

Organic Architecture Made by Massive Computing – Meet Alisa Andrasek » Axfoundation. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.axfoundation.se/en/organic-architecture-made-by-massive-computing-meet-alisa-andrasek/

How soap bubbles helped Frei Otto win architecture's greatest prize | Art and design | The Guardian . [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/oct/04/architecture.