Ludger Hovestadt Bücher

Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius ( De architectura ) and Alberti ( De re aedificatoria ),based on the supposition that we find ourselves in a comparablesituation today. Vitruvius and Alberti expressed the meaning ofarchitecture in their Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.Hovestadt has done the same for the present day, incorporatingconsiderations of physics, mathematics, technology, literature, andphilosophy. Books 1 to 3 deal with the role of the architect and the objectivity of architecture. Books 4 to 6 address the modalities of speaking about and encoding the secret, the public, and the private. Books7 to 10 are dedicated to actual digital artificialintelligence, natural communication, gnomonics, and cultural heritage.

Recent developments in computer science, particularly ”data-driven procedures“ have opened a new level of design and engineering. This has also affected architecture. The publication collects contributions on Coding as Literacy by computer scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, cultural theorists, and architects. The main focus in the book is the observation of computer-based methods that go beyond strictly case-based or problem-solution-oriented paradigms. This invites readers to understand Computational Procedures as being embedded in an overarching ”media literacy“ that can be revealed through, and acquired by, ”computational literacy“, and to consider the data processed in the above-mentioned methods as being beneficial in terms of quantum physics. ”Self-Organizing Maps“ (SOM), which were first introduced over 30 years ago, will serve as the concrete reference point for all further discussions.

“SHEAVES” will not describe anything. It will not judge. It will inspire. There are no continuous texts, but a wide range of topics. How to read this book? Take the notions seriously. Search the Internet and they will lose their generalness. They will begin to speak to you vividly. Bundle these riches with the riches of other notions and they will activate each other. Also take the pictures seriously. Photograph or scan them. Use them as an index, while searching the Internet. Again, you will find rich stories. Bundle those riches, concentrate them into new identities that are interesting to you. Let yourself be inspired by the intellectual wealth of our world. You can expand it. It is an exciting adventure, demanding and optimistic.

A path out of the technological and economical excesses in contemporary architecture:A book on research and education in architecture and information technology, conceived of as philosophical interplay between two species similar in kind. The one 2500 years old and dignified, the other just 50 years of age and impatient.