Lecture's IaaC - IaaC Lecture Series 2008 > Peter Trummer

Peter Trummer is an architect and researcher. Since 2004 he is studio professor of the second year research program \"Associative Design\" at the Berlage Institute. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the Berlage Institute on the topic of \"population thinking in architecture\". He was born in Graz, Austria and obtained his university diploma at the Technical University of Graz in 1994. He moved to Amsterdam in 1995, were he finished his postgraduate study at the Berlage Institute in 1997.He was project architect at UN-Studio and was co-founder of Offshore Architects in 2001. Since 2004, he has own practice. He is invited to lecture, teach, publish and as a critic internationally, including at the Berlage Institute and the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam, the University of Applied art in Vienna, the AA in London, the Rice University in Houston, Ucla and Sci Arc in Los Angeles. The lecture will argue for an associative design practice within our contemporary culture of planning. Such practice is based on the design of difference and Methodological it is based on thinking in populations rather then in types. The application of such practice will be presented on two design research projects, one for a new neighborhood in Madrid, the other for a city in the jiangnan river Delta outside Shanghai\'s.