Lecture 10: Aaron Sprecher - The Human Limit of the Human Being

With the advent of the modern sciences and the perception of natural phenomena in terms of indeterminacies, the discipline of architecture has marked a shift from an idealistic expression of the world to the unleashing of performative systems that reflect its instabilities.
This perennial interest in transforming the fixity of the architectural model into a system of potentialities has generated many theoretical assumptions that often referred to the cybernetic nature of living organisms. In a recent conference, French philosophers and theorists Michel Serres, Henri Atlan and Roland Omnes assert the living organism acts similarly to an open system that can only be assessed rather than defined because of its recombinant qualities. This consideration of the living organism as an information system provides a breeding ground, almost literally, for experimental architects who do not hesitate to position the informed architectural object on the same ground. Here, the term “informed” suggests that architecture is more than ever sensitive to its internal and external milieus. This condition prevails in the mutation of the architectural object into a techno-engineered organism. An organism that is profoundly influenced by human limits.
The lecture will address the theoretical and technological consequences of such limits across a series of on-going research at the MTRL Lab, Technion.

Aaron Sprecher is associate professor at the Technion Faculty of Architecture, where he founded the Material Topology Research Laboratory (www.mtrl.tech). His research and design work focus on the synergy between media theories and computational design examining the way in which technology generates transdisciplinary approaches to design processes. Aaron Sprecher is co-editor of Architecture in Formation (2013, Routledge) and Instabilities and Potentialities (2019, Routledge).

For those who are interested in presence, the conferences will be held in Classroom 201 Lingotto, Thursday 02^nd / 13.00-14.30, but it is possible to follow the conferences live streaming on the ACC Lectures YouTube channel.

ACC Lecture Serie 2024 - Limits of architecture. Architecture of limits is curated by DASP Students / Phd in Architecture. History and Project: Federica Joe Gardella, Giulia Montanaro, Paolo Bianco, Hongye Wu, Federico Madaro, Federica Serra, Saurajeeta Bose, Caterina Juric, Marta Rossi. And coordinated by Professor Mauro Berta.

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