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introduction |
National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) established the Graduate Institute
of Architecture in 1994 to explore the digital developments in architecture.
The degrees for master of architecture, master of science and doctoral
of philosophy in architecture are offered by the graduate program. The
College of Architecture, which includes five graduate programs in architecture
(digital city, digital design media, digital entertainment and digital
creative industry) has been established in 2002. International professors
that NCTU invited include Peter Eisenman (1999), Tadao Ando (2000, 2003),
Greg Lynn and William Mitchell (2001) and Makoto Watanabe and MVRDV
(2003). Design works by faculty and students were invited by La Biennale
di Venezia 7th International Architecture Exhibition (2001), Japanese
Exhibition of Architecture Design Work (2001) and the 13th
Biennale of Architecture in Santiago de Chile (2002). The college
of architecture had held the Far East International Digital Architectural
Design (FEIDAD) Award since 2000 and published the award projects
by Birkhäuser (http://www.feidad.org). Yu-Tung Liu, Dean |
 Installation at the Stazione Leopolda, Florence (photo by: Omar Cotza) |
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Design Media Studio: Free-form, web-space, and VR-cave for representing
spaces and places Instructor: Yu-Tung Liu |
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Quanta Virtual Museum The course entitled "Digital Design Media Studio: Free-form, web-space, and VR-cave for representing spaces and places" is offered by Yu-Tung Liu and co-taught by Yuan-Zone Lee and Chao-Jen Wang. This course is to provide students with practicing opportunities for digital design developments using updated, cutting-edge digital media from the very beginning to the very end phases. To do so, this "studio" is a forum for working-discussion-working through a design study "a shelter of tomorrow". Within the study, students will learn to incorporate free form, web-space and VR-cave technologies into their own design processes. In other words, students are developing their own new design process/methods in terms of the three kinds of new media, in order to explore new spaces, new architecture and even new cities. The results of this studio is intended to publish locally and internationally as exhibitions, books, and magazine works. The main topic for year 2003 is "A Shelter of Tomorrow: an electronic bus-stop in year 2010 for the digital city Hsinchu". It involves three parts: first, the bus-stop: a free-form structure for NCTU real design and digital media station for Web-space and VR-cave; second, the digital city block(s): consisting the bus-stop and other connecting spaces/media; and finally, the city life of tomorrow: consisting the digital city block to express the year 2010. Seven issues to discuss and explore are included: first, cutting-edge digital design media (technologies for free-form, web-space, camera-matching, 3D video and VR-cave); second, near-future media and concepts on communication, visualization, spatiality, materiality; third, constitution of form/space by using digital media; fourth, constitution of space/place by using digital media; fifth, digital space and digital life in city; sixth, co-existence of virtual and real-physical spaces; and finally the architectural history of tomorrow. This course, initiated by Yu-Tung Liu in 1996, has played as a platform to collaborate with other institutions and corporations. More than 20 projects were completed by this course. Design topics and collaborative groups include: networked design studio with MIT (1996), digital city planning ad design with Osaka university (2000-2003), virtual ancient space and place with Beijing university (2001), digital city design with city of Hsinchu, Taiwan (1998-2001) and city of Qindao, China (2003), museum of digital arts with Eisenman Office in New York (2000), digital arts and digital creative industry with Acer Corporation (1997 and 2003), virtual and digital architecture with Bcom corporation (2001), GreatLink corporation (2002-2004), and Quanta corporation (2002). Students: Yuan-Zone Lee, Chao-Jen Wang, Chor-Kheng Lim, Guan-Ye Chen, Che Wang, Chen-Chi Lin, Chi-Chiang Kuo, Chia-Chun Kuo, Chien-Hung Shih, Chih-Ying Chen, Chung-Yi Chang, Chun-Yu Hsieh, Hzeng-Hong Hsieh, Jia-Yan Tzang, Wan-Ping Gao, Wei-Min Liao, Wei-Yang Hsu, Wen-Way Wan, Shih-Ming Lu, Shih-Pi Hung, Shih-Wei Tsao, Tsung-Hsien Wang, Yen-Liang Wu, Ying-Hsiu Huang, Yueh-Hua Liu. |
Yu-Tung Liu is dean of the College of Architecture at NCTU, Taiwan. He received a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard and has held visiting positions and guest lectures at universities including Harvard, Osaka (Japan), Rangsit (Thailand), Beijing (China) and Oslo. He has authored and edited 18 books including Restructuring Shapes (Proctor, 1998) and Defining Digital Architecture (Birkhäuser, 2002 and 2003). He also established the Far East International Digital Architectural Design (FEIDAD) Award in 2000 and has been the chair of the review committee since then. His design work was invited to exhibit at La Biennale di Venezia 2000 International Architecture Exhibition, the 2002 Biennale of Architecture in Santiago de Chile, 2003 ICSN of France, National Palace Museum, and Taipei Museum of Arts. | |||||
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