ARCHITECTURES OF SPACE-TIME.

Investigations in the unfolding of structural intelligence.

by JOACHIM KRAUSSE Lecture 1
The lectures were first held in November 2006 at the University of Buenos
Aires, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (FADU) and repeated and
recorded at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Design in Dessau
April to June 2007.
The lectures lead to significant changes in structural thinking, engineering and
architectural design in the modern era which are far from being obvious.
The new ways of figuring out structural behavior correspond more directly
than shape or form-giving with the scientific approaches and discoveries of
the time. Groundbreaking theories of modern science, like Einsteins theory of
relativity and gravitation seemed to have no practical application and no relation to everyday-life.
However, we find tendencies in structural development that correspond more
or less directly with the treatment of problems in physics or the life sciences.

Focusing these correspondences the artifacts of engineering, architecture and

design can be seen by their construction as corresponding corporal members
in theories of architecture and design for a long period of time. It was only in
the development of artificial intelligence that the question of embodiment
became crucial for the unfolding of mind in the implementation of intelligence
in artifacts. The architectures of space-time show changing patterns of understanding corporeality.

The author
Joachim Krausse is known for his research and publications on Buckminster
Fuller. He conceived and co-curated together with Claude Lichtenstein and the
Museum of Design Zrich the international travelling exhibition Your Private
Sky. R. Buckminster Fuller The Art of Design Science 1999 2002. (2 Vols.
Published with Lars Mller, publisher, Baden Switzerland 1999 and 2001).
Academical trained in philosophy, literature and cultural studies he graduated
at the Freie Universitt Berlin and later received an PhD from the University
in Bremen. He researched in the field of the history of building and dwelling,
realized nine documentary films on housing and dwelling for german public TV
(WDR) 1973 1985. Published case studies on key objects of modern technical
culture, e.g. the Einsteintower, the Zeissplanetarium, the bicycle, the Frankfurter
Kitchen.
Teaching since 1970 he is a retired professor for design theory at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, founded 2002 the International Master
Program Integrated Design (MAID) and is member of the staff of Coop Design
Research at the Bauhaus Dessau. Since 1991 he is a permanent collaborator of
the architectural magazine ARCH+.