| Publication type: | Conference paper |
| Type of review: | Peer review (abstract) |
| Title: | The aesthetics of the programmed surface and its potential for ecological urban and landscape redevelopment |
| Authors: | Schurk, Holger |
| et. al: | No |
| Proceedings: | Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory |
| Page(s): | 182 |
| Conference details: | Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, Delft, The Netherlands, 1-3 November 2023 |
| Issue Date: | 2023 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | ETH Zürich |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Zürich |
| ISBN: | 978-94-6384-488-8 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Aesthetics; Programmed surface; OMA; Rem Koolhaas; Yves Brunier; Iconic analysis; Landscape urbanism; Tacit knowledge; Ecology |
| Subject (DDC): | 712: Landscape architecture |
| Abstract: | The concept of the programmed surface experienced its breakthrough within the disciplines of architecture and urbanism during the 1980s, largely initiated through a series of landscape projects by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) under the direction of Rem Koolhaas and with the collaboration of landscape architect Yves Brunier. In parallel to the architects' largely abstract conceptual diagrams and drawings, Brunier used colorful hand drawings, collages, and working models to create a corpus of independent artifacts that played a crucial role in determining the projects' qualities. An aesthetic analysis of these artifacts, the paper argues, allows for a more fundamental and precise understanding of the concept of programmed surface and its performance, which can become productive in the current sustainability discourse on urban and landscape issues. The proposed analysis is based on the concept of "aesthetic thinking" as a "general medium of understanding reality," which, according to philosopher Wolfgang Welsch's definition, focuses primarily on the interactions between the conceptual content and the media perception processes of the visual representations. Therefore, in a first step, the paper undertakes a comparative study of those landscape projects and their representations and tries to break down the "intericonic and interdiscursive events" embedded in them. In a second step, the paper investigates which strategies can be derived from this knowledge of the aesthetics of programmed surfaces to cope with the currently upcoming ecological urban and landscape reconstruction. Sensitization to the visual differences of the projects, it is argued, can offer valuable advantages, for example, within the upcoming discourses on the integration of infrastructures into landscape spaces and of plants into urban spaces. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29220 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Urban Landscape (IUL) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen |
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Schurk, H. (2023). The aesthetics of the programmed surface and its potential for ecological urban and landscape redevelopment [Conference paper]. Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, 182.
Schurk, H. (2023) ‘The aesthetics of the programmed surface and its potential for ecological urban and landscape redevelopment’, in Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory. Zürich: ETH Zürich, p. 182.
H. Schurk, “The aesthetics of the programmed surface and its potential for ecological urban and landscape redevelopment,” in Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, 2023, p. 182.
SCHURK, Holger, 2023. The aesthetics of the programmed surface and its potential for ecological urban and landscape redevelopment. In: Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory. Conference paper. Zürich: ETH Zürich. 2023. S. 182. ISBN 978-94-6384-488-8
Schurk, Holger. 2023. “The Aesthetics of the Programmed Surface and Its Potential for Ecological Urban and Landscape Redevelopment.” Conference paper. In Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, 182. Zürich: ETH Zürich.
Schurk, Holger. “The Aesthetics of the Programmed Surface and Its Potential for Ecological Urban and Landscape Redevelopment.” Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, ETH Zürich, 2023, p. 182.
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