GERMANY Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Auditorium Gropiusallee 38 06846 Dessau-Rosslau Germany Contract: Dr Annette Zehnter Tel: 0340 6508 225 Email: zehnter@bauhaus-dessau.de   THE INTELLIGENCE OF STRUCTURES 3rd International Bauhaus Lecture 22/23 May 2008 For the third time the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation host the international 'bauhaus lectures'. The topic of this year's conference is 'The Intelligence of Structures'. Which concepts of structure are valid in the different sciences and the design and building arts and how are they related? Which notion of intelligence is characteristic for each of them? In architecture and design, the scope of activity naturally is situated at the intersections of the sciences, technology, art and media. Therefore, researching the essential structures of these disciplines opens ways for a mutual understanding, especially in those cases in which it might be read as a crystallisation of characteristic operations. Using linguistics as a leading science, structuralism tried to lay open elementary structures of languages and relationships of cultural exchange. However, this cross-sectional approach was limited to the realm of its paradigm: language. No attempt was made however to establish bridges towards structural studies in natural sciences, technology, architecture and other design disciplines.