On 31. March, 2010 Silvan Oesterle will present teaching and research projects from the ETH Zurich as part of the "DigitalCrafting" workshops organized by the CITA in Kopenhagen. He will discuss the relation of today's digital fabrication tools and traditional manufacturing in timber construction. This was an invitation by Christoph Schindler and Martin Tamke.

From the workshop description:

The tectonics of the joint

The seminar introduces key thinking into material conceptualization in architectural thinking. It discusses the history of the term craft and what this has come to mean through the industrialization of building practice. It critically reflects on the idea of optimization and situates the discussion of technological development within a historical frame work. The seminar exemplifies this development in the frame of the wood building practice. Herein it reflects the link between the traditional understanding and practice of wood building and it's current state. A special focus is set on the critical understanding of the interdependence between material, tool and imposed information, such as design intent, assembly strategies and tectonic.