Papers (English) by Kevin Klinger
ACADIA, 2003
We, in ACADIA (the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) believe that the consid... more We, in ACADIA (the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) believe that the consideration of digital technology in architecture is necessary and unavoidable, given its ubiquity and widespread effects on architectural practice, teaching and research. Hence, we respectfully submit this white paper to the NAAB Validation Conference in the hope that by sharing our insights, NAAB authorities will gain valued information to enlighten their discussions aimed at improving accreditation standards.
Healthy disciplines remain tolerant of a state of flux by constantly questioning the inclusion/exclusion, import/export, and collaboration/isolation to/from new ideas, new techniques, new disciplines, and new technology. At the perimeter of this nebulous exchange, an innovative digital discourse is emerging that offers some unexpected new conduits to an attentive discipline of architecture. Topic nodes within this discourse are evolving with a particular set of important distinctions from one another. Thus, we contend that the digital discourse is augmented by further specificity such as: Digital Pedagogy, Digital Tools, Digital Production/ Fabrication, Digital Visualization, Digital Projects, Digital Design, Digital Representation, Digital Thinking, and Digital Practice. While many points of view are represented with these position writings, all stress the immediacy of acting with strong and proactive consideration of digital technology. We urge NAAB to color the rhetoric of its discussions with the immediate issues of digital technology and its impact on architecture. We hope that this white paper will serve as a useful guide for that discussion.
This white paper is organized into 9 brief position writings. Each section covers a different aspect of digital technology and the present state-of-the-art issues as seen by leading experts. A brief biography has been included at the end of this report.
Papers by Kevin Klinger
Collaboration and information exchange are the primary tactics for a globally connected locally p... more Collaboration and information exchange are the primary tactics for a globally connected locally produced design-through-production process. With strategic industry partners, Ball State University students test knowledge through real-world applications. While the open access to knowledge in the global environment is critical, it is also imperative to consider the ethic of production and regionally specific conditions under which work is enabled. To this end, the paper will reveal specific design-throughproduction industry-partner collaborations, while exploring the regional implications of making locally, and consider the role of the university to serve as a local catalyst for change in a shifting global economic climate.
As strAtEgiEs EvolvE using DigitAl mEAns to nAvigAtE DEsign in ArchitEcturE, criticAl ProcEss-bAs... more As strAtEgiEs EvolvE using DigitAl mEAns to nAvigAtE DEsign in ArchitEcturE, criticAl ProcEss-bAsED APProAchEs ArE EssEntiAl to thE DiscoursE. the often complex integration of design, analysis, and fabrication through digital technologies is wholly reliant upon a process-basis necessitating the use of a design feedback loop, which reinforces critical decision-making and challenges the notions of how we produce, visualize, and analyze information in the service of production and assembly. central to this processbased approach is the effective and innovative integration of information and the interrogation of material based explorations in the making of architecture. this fabrication 'ecology' forces designers to engage complexity and accept the unpredictability of emergent systems. it also exposes the process of working to critique and refine feedback loops in light of complex tools, methods, materials, site, and performance considerations. in total, strategies for engaging this 'ecology' are essential to accentuate our present understanding of environmental design and theory in relation to digital processes for design and fabrication. this paper recounts a design/fabrication seminar entitled "constructing information" in which architecture students examined an environmental design problem by way of the design feedback loop, where their efforts in applying digital design and fabrication methods were driven explicitly by material and site realities and where their work was executed, installed, and critically explored in situ. these projections raise important questions about how information, complexity, and context overlay and merge, and underscore the critical potential of visual, spatial, and material effects as part of a fabrication-oriented design process.
Architecture is presently engaged in an impatient search for solutions to critical questions abou... more Architecture is presently engaged in an impatient search for solutions to critical questions about the nature and the identity of the discipline. Meanwhile, evolving digital technology continues to serve as a key agent for prevailing innovations and new ideas in architecture. Still, this feels familiar, as technology has always been a catalyst for new ideas in architecture. A positive digital future in architecture requires a clearer definition of principles and skills necessary to maintain a rigor in emerging digital projects/projections. At the same time, recognition about the significance of the already existing digital scholarship in architecture must be connected with emerging lines of inquiry evolving within the discipline. Healthy disciplines remain tolerant of a state of flux by constantly questioning the inclusion|exclusion, import|export, and collaboration|isolation to|from new ideas, new techniques, new disciplines, and new technology. At the perimeter of this nebulous ex...
This paper will examine the necessity for shifting the discourse towards a more humanist perspect... more This paper will examine the necessity for shifting the discourse towards a more humanist perspective in light of the application of digital design-through-production techniques. It will demonstrate an ethic for production, informing form, and provoke a call to carefully examine the nature of architecting solutions to contemporary problems.
Innovation through digital design in contemporary prac tice has led to completely new ways of des... more Innovation through digital design in contemporary prac tice has led to completely new ways of designing and making architecture. To prepare for these innovative opportunities, students are turning to alternative skill sets than those traditionally gained in an architectural curriculum. This paper ar gues that we must reconstruct our architectural curricula in order to better prepare students for a shifting professional landscape. While current material-based production realities of translating digital design into built form have much in common with modernist traditions, exercises, sequences, and collaborative opportunities in schools should pass through a relevant lens examining the true potential of working with the information age.
Digital output from computer modeling represents a significant new method for visualization and f... more Digital output from computer modeling represents a significant new method for visualization and fabrication of architecture. The ability to move directly from three-dimensional modeling to real three-dimensional output challenges the need for traditional means of representation such as plan, section, etc. Moreover, the necessity for conversion of architectural intentions into a code (construction documents, shop drawings, etc.) to be translated by the contractor will also be tested with these new potentials in fabrication. This subjugation of traditional forms of representation and fabrication has serious implications for architectural design process and production. The intention of this paper is to scrutinize underlying issues inherent in a design process of developing architectural solutions using the computer both as a tool for threedimensional visualization as well as for guiding three-dimensional fabrication. Precedent of historic expressive architectural form (seen through the...
Collaboration and information exchange are the primary tactics for a globally connected locally p... more Collaboration and information exchange are the primary tactics for a globally connected locally produced design-through-production process. With strategic industry partners, Ball State University students test knowledge through real-world applications. While the open access to knowledge in the global environment is critical, it is also imperative to consider the ethic of production and regionally specific conditions under which work is enabled. To this end, the paper will reveal specific design-throughproduction industry-partner collaborations, while exploring the regional implications of making locally, and consider the role of the university to serve as a local catalyst for change in a shifting global economic climate.
ilocker.bsu.edu
Digital architecture contingent upon a conversation between digital visualization and digital pro... more Digital architecture contingent upon a conversation between digital visualization and digital production deploys an iterative and seamless process-oriented design development. Feedback loops are integral to this process/product, and thus require extensive management of complex visual and data related information. While much attention has been paid to fabrication and serial customization of digital architecture, very little discussion has been forwarded about innovations in visualizing and representing the design data integral in this feedback loop. This paper will examine innovative representational devices such as the matrix, sectioning, layering, and bracketing as new forms of organizing and visualizing complex data intent upon communicating multiple levels of operations during the fabrication process.
... Architecture By Branko Kolarevic, Kevin Klinger ... Kevin Klinger is the Director of the Inst... more ... Architecture By Branko Kolarevic, Kevin Klinger ... Kevin Klinger is the Director of the Institute for Digital Fabrication, with the Center for Media Design, and Associate Professor of Architecture at Ball State University in Indiana, USA. ...
Proceedings of the XVII Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - SIGraDi: Knowledge-based Design, 2013
This paper demonstrates the process--oriented decision--making developed through multiple years o... more This paper demonstrates the process--oriented decision--making developed through multiple years of case studies developed in partnership with the Institute for Digital Fabrication at Ball State University in concert with industry partnerships. Crucial steps in the process of developing solutions will be used to illustrate potentials for informing new strategies for future projects. A catalogue of the diverse issues inherent in a design--through--production project will be included to serve as a road map, and enlighten the human decision-making factor in these technological processes.
Digital Fabrication, 2012
Proceedings of the 28th …, 2008
... Jorge Intriago, Nick Satterfield, and Nick Respecki who were students enrolled in the ARCH498... more ... Jorge Intriago, Nick Satterfield, and Nick Respecki who were students enrolled in the ARCH498: Constructing Information at the College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University; Michael Gibson, for the course outline and weekly rigor; Kevin Klinger, Director of the ...
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Papers (English) by Kevin Klinger
Healthy disciplines remain tolerant of a state of flux by constantly questioning the inclusion/exclusion, import/export, and collaboration/isolation to/from new ideas, new techniques, new disciplines, and new technology. At the perimeter of this nebulous exchange, an innovative digital discourse is emerging that offers some unexpected new conduits to an attentive discipline of architecture. Topic nodes within this discourse are evolving with a particular set of important distinctions from one another. Thus, we contend that the digital discourse is augmented by further specificity such as: Digital Pedagogy, Digital Tools, Digital Production/ Fabrication, Digital Visualization, Digital Projects, Digital Design, Digital Representation, Digital Thinking, and Digital Practice. While many points of view are represented with these position writings, all stress the immediacy of acting with strong and proactive consideration of digital technology. We urge NAAB to color the rhetoric of its discussions with the immediate issues of digital technology and its impact on architecture. We hope that this white paper will serve as a useful guide for that discussion.
This white paper is organized into 9 brief position writings. Each section covers a different aspect of digital technology and the present state-of-the-art issues as seen by leading experts. A brief biography has been included at the end of this report.
Papers by Kevin Klinger
Healthy disciplines remain tolerant of a state of flux by constantly questioning the inclusion/exclusion, import/export, and collaboration/isolation to/from new ideas, new techniques, new disciplines, and new technology. At the perimeter of this nebulous exchange, an innovative digital discourse is emerging that offers some unexpected new conduits to an attentive discipline of architecture. Topic nodes within this discourse are evolving with a particular set of important distinctions from one another. Thus, we contend that the digital discourse is augmented by further specificity such as: Digital Pedagogy, Digital Tools, Digital Production/ Fabrication, Digital Visualization, Digital Projects, Digital Design, Digital Representation, Digital Thinking, and Digital Practice. While many points of view are represented with these position writings, all stress the immediacy of acting with strong and proactive consideration of digital technology. We urge NAAB to color the rhetoric of its discussions with the immediate issues of digital technology and its impact on architecture. We hope that this white paper will serve as a useful guide for that discussion.
This white paper is organized into 9 brief position writings. Each section covers a different aspect of digital technology and the present state-of-the-art issues as seen by leading experts. A brief biography has been included at the end of this report.