Urbanity and the Abundance of Clean Energies
Thursday, 13. September 2012 | 10:30 Uhr
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For Professor Ludger Hovestadt from ETH Zürich there is currently a need for research into im-plementing rapid technological development into the long-term construction industry. According to him, research projects are looking for historic embedding and are not technological experiments such as the virtual reality. He addressed the issue of how cities can be a good and sustainable place to live. There are thousands of sociologists, architects and engineers who want to optimize people’s life. But cities are never sustainable, they generate abundance. According to his assumption, we have entered the so-called “generic city” at the beginning of the 20th century. Since then, the planet has been urbanized and we have been cultivating urbanity. The hypothesis is to turn back every-thing. Identity will become economic again as during Renaissance – with the difference that nowa-days, like-minded people with the same abilities as we have can be found in any part of the world. It is no longer about “this is what I want”, but it is about excluding what you do not want.
Ludger Hovestadt
Ludger Hovestadt was born in 1960 in Gelsenkirchen (D) and studied architecture at the RWTH in Aachen (D) and at the HfG in Vienna (A) under Professor Holzbauer. Upon completion of his Diploma in 1987, he worked as a scientific researcher with Professor F. Haller and Prof. N. Kohler at the Technical University Karlsruhe (D) and received his doctorate there in 1994. Between 1997 and 2000, Dr. Hovestadt was a visiting professor for the department ?CAAD at the University of Kaiserslautern (D).
He has expertise in various disciplines (Architecture, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mathematics, Cognition Psychology) and has carried out research and development in the areas of CAD, Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia, Virtual Reality, Computer Supported Co-operative Work and Intelligent Building. In 1998, he co-founded Digitales Bauen, a company which focuses on internet based building documentation, building programming, computer supported individualised building component production, and the integration of building automation, facility management and eCommerce.
Ludger Hovestadt has been full professor for Architecture and CAAD since July 1, 2000 at the ETH Zurich and partner in the firm Digitales Bauen in Karlsruhe (D).
