In the first part of the paper the possibilities of glass technology now and historically is discussed. In this theory, the essence of space is to animate the movement and actions, which strengthens the social and ecological or political dimension of architecture. These forms are treated as a city-event per analogies to Bernard Tschumi's theory of "event cities". The paper is deals with Glass Structures, used as a component of nonlinear shaping architectural forms in historical urban environment.
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Their generous support greatly reduced the registration fees and thus helped to attract many more, especially young people to this first conference on Architectural Geometry. Last but not least we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the sponsors of this conference: RFR (Paris) and Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG (Vienna). Furthermore we would like to thank Martina Milletich from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for a very smooth handling of all our requests. We greatly appreciate the important support in early organizational issues by Werner Purgathofer and Anita Mayerhofer.
Special thanks belong to our conference secretary Natalie Klement for her help with all organizational issues and to our conference technician Ronald Haidvogl for his technology support. This event would not have been possible without the help of many friends and colleagues. We are very grateful to them for accepting our invitation and for sharing their most recent research results. Shelden (Gehry Technologies, LA), Charles Walker (Zaha Hadid Architects, London) and Arnold Walz (designtoproduction, Zürich). The variety of research areas and the balance between academia and architectural practice is also reflected in our choice of invited speakers: Konrad Polthier (FU Berlin), Carlo Séquin (UC Berkeley), Dennis R.
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The copyrights remain with the authors and thus publication of the full version of the papers elsewhere poses no problems. Extended abstracts of the 14 accepted oral presentations form the content of the proceedings. At this point, we would also like to thank the members of the Scientific Programme Committee for their excellent and mostly timely reviews which had to be performed during a quite short time span.
We decided to accept only a small number of papers for oral presentation, since a low number of presentations offers sufficient time for discussion, which is essential for this first conference on Architectural Geometry. This made the selection process particularly difficult. The specific cultures in the involved scientific communities often resulted in a high variation of grades the same paper received by reviewers from different areas. AAG 2008 received 56 submissions which have been reviewed by the members of the Scientific Programme Committee. We aim at connecting researchers from architectural practices and academia. Advances in Architectural Geometry 2008 is our first attempt in bringing together researchers from these fields to discuss recent advances in research and practice and to identify and address the most challenging problems. A research area being so interdisciplinary as Architectural Geometry and involving fields as diverse as art and design, computer science, engineering and mathematics, needs scientific exchange. It is situated at the border of applied geometry and architecture. Around these problems the research area of Architectural Geometry is emerging. On the other hand, the architectural context also poses new problems to geometry. On the one hand this opens up new horizons for architecture. Modern geometric computing provides a variety of tools for the efficient design, analysis, and manufacturing of complex shapes. It is omnipresent, from the initial form-finding stages to the final construction. Geometry lies at the core of the architectural design process.
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