Designing United Europe: Data-Driven Architectural Networks

Ziel

Is architecture made of materials or information? While architects often rely on visual data for communication, the project proposes a radical shift: to understand architecture as an information infrastructure. It departs from the observation that, unlike the natural sciences, practices of knowledge classification, data exchange, and metadata production in architecture remain entirely unstudied, even though the discipline depends on effective communication across many stakeholders.

DATAARK investigates the emergence of architectural metadata in post-WWII Europe, at a time when architectural knowledge became textual, encoded, and computable. It will do so through a case study of a universal building classification system, developed by the International Council for Building Research and Documentation (CIB). The system coded architectural elements and construction processes in a new universal language, intended to rationalise construction, unify the European building market, and deliver instant on-demand information via a network of computer terminals. The project pursues four aims: 1) to investigate how architectural knowledge was classified and encoded (as text); 2) to examine how classification empowered computer-based architectural processing (as data); 3) to analyse cultural frictions embedded in global architectural data networks (as information); 4) to trace the evolving design agency (as infrastructure). Methodologically, DATAARK builds on multi-sited archival research of institutional and technical documents, analysed through the lens of architectural history, STS, information theory and infrastructural studies.

Reframing post-war architecture as an international information infrastructure, the project examines the spatial politics of information systems and explores the impact of computer-based epistemologies on construction. The project’s output will include 2 monographs, 6+ articles, and a global network of researchers working on architectural metadata.

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