Students of the Faculty of Architecture at the Brno University of Technology and the Florida International University in Miami, under the guidance of Jiří Vítek and Eric Goldemberg, theoretically explored and interpreted the architectural space of Mies van der Rohe through contemporary digital design tools, using his villa in Brno as an example. Their interpretation focuses on understanding the pulsation of Mies's architectural space and the subsequent materialization of the invisible and elusive phenomenon into architectural proto-objects. This creates a new sphere and interface between the old and the new, allowing to bridge innovative thinking from the early 20th century to the present. Within digital design, data obtained directly from the dimensions and concept of the Tugendhat villa's space are abstracted, orchestrated, and applied into a digital program through which entirely new structures and forms can emerge. The methods of digital design are inspired by biology, evolution, physics, cognitive science, sociology, and even art. The results are new radical aesthetic architectural objects. Inspiration from weaving and spinning machines characteristic of Brno during the First Republic is imprinted in the designs and transforms objects into musical instruments. In addition to the exhibition of biomorphic objects printed on a 3D printer, usable garden seating furniture was created in real size, based on Mies's architectural language.
About the authors: Eric Goldemberg and Jiří Uran Vítek led the atelier Biomorphic machines, which connected students from FIU Miami and FA VUT Brno, and together revealed and interpreted the mysteries of fluid space and the pulsating architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Eric Goldemberg - chief designer - studied at the University of Buenos Aires and obtained a master's degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York. He worked for Peter Eisenman as a senior designer for the City of Culture project in Galicia, Spain, and led design teams in several competitions. He was also a project architect at the Asymptote (Hani Rashid & Lise Anne Couture) office for projects in Malaysia, the Netherlands, and the Guggenheim Museum in Guadalajara, Mexico. In Buenos Aires, he collaborated with Clorindo Testa and Estudio STAFF – the latter studio was founded by his parents Jorge Jose Goldemberg and Teresa Bielus, with more than 2,000,000 m2 of social housing projects built in South America. Eric Goldemberg is an associate professor and coordinator of digital design at Florida International University in Miami, where he teaches graduate studies and advanced courses in digital design and production. He previously taught at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, New York Institute of Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the University of Buenos Aires. Jiří Uran Vítek studied civil engineering and architecture at VUT in Brno (2006) and the Faculty of Architecture at VUT in Brno (2009), and further studied at Die Angewandte in the studio of Zaha Hadid in Vienna. He is engaged in design and research in the field of digital/parametric architecture and free artistic creation, focusing on discovering new structures. He teaches at the Faculty of Architecture in Brno, is a co-founder of the architectural platform VašiArchitekti and SUPERLABOR, and leads the Experimental Architecture Laboratory (ELA) focused on education in architecture. In 2019, he founded the studio BiotectArchitects. From 2008 and 2017–2019, he collaborated with Franek Architects. In July 2020, he founded the studio URAN.
The exhibition in the technical floor of the Tugendhat villa is accessible without prior reservation until January 9, 2022, during the opening hours of the Tugendhat villa. The exhibition was prepared by the Study and Documentation Center of the Tugendhat villa and was realized with financial support from the Czech Ministry of Culture.
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