Bernard Cache - Objectile Tuesday Dec. 4th @ 6:00 PM
Hey you Unit 9er's,
Bernard Cache from Objectile will be giving a lecture the AA. You should all attend.
It takes place Tuesday Dec. 4th @ 6:00 PM!!!
'Classical geometry continues to enable us to do things in architecture that still haven’t been seen. For instance the theorem of Pascal and Brianchon uses configurations that would be done today with fuzzy software.
What is very important for me is that until now the profession has always been based on what I would call a kind of vertical synthesis – that you start a project first with a programme, and then an analysis of the site, followed by foundations, walls, and roof, before putting your flag on the top. But other models of synthesis can exist. The alternative involves the design of just one component across many different scales and building types. The component itself is obviously fundamental, and the software that best implements its design is the more ‘primitive’ approach that you privilege. When architectural debate reaches the stage where we look at the nuances of these components, then, I think, we will have made considerable progress.'
Bernard Cache, 2007
In his first public lecture at the AA since 1999, Bernard Cache, principal of the mythical Paris-based practice Objectile and noted theorist of computational ontology, will share his latest disciplinary insights on Vitruvius’ classic Tower of Winds, the parametric software TopSolid, and other such powerful ‘machines dedicated to the production of information’.
Bernard Cache, born in 1958, developed the concept of ‘non standard architecture’ Earth Moves (MIT Press, 1995), a concept that was given the name Objectile by Gilles Deleuze in his book on Leibniz, The Fold. In 1996, Bernard Cache founded the company Objectile together with his partner Patrick Beaucé in order to conceive and manufacture non-standard architecture components.
