WS18 Course Catalogue by Architekturtheorie und Technikphilosophie TU Wien

WS 18/19 COURSE CATALOGUE KURSVERZEICHNIS FACHBEREICH ARCHITEKTURTHEORIE UND TECHNIKPHILOSOPHIE

INSTITUT FÜR ARCHITEKTURWISSENSCHAFTEN TU WIEN

WIEDNER HAUPTSTR. 7 A–1040 WIEN AUSTRIA

T + 43 158 80125103 F + 43 158 80125197 ATTP.TUWIEN.AC.AT

BACHELOR

253.568 Orientation course Orientierungskurs 259.287

LECTURES VORLESUNGEN

Gegenwartsarchitektur 259.498 Architecture Theory 2 Architekturtheorie 2 251.017 Wahlseminar

SEMINARS SEMINARE

Current Issues in Architectural Theory

251.071 Wahlseminar Topos in Architectural Theory

251.117 Wahlseminar Architecture Theory Architekturtheorie

MASTER DESIGN STUDIOS ENTWERFEN

259.499 8H Design Studio 8H Entwerfen Ground Grund 259.504 8H Design Studio 8H Entwerfen Levitation

259.505 4H Design Studio 4H Entwerfen The Disquieting Duck: On Dislocation

259.278

MODULE META-ARCH. MODUL META-ARCHITEKTUR

Show

259.509 Talk

259.501 Substitute

259.502 Act

259.337 Supplementary crs. Ergänzungsfach Tame

259.338 Supplementary crs. Ergänzungsfach Screen

259.510 Supplementary crs. Ergänzungsfach Cut

259.503 Supplementary crs. Ergänzungsfach Code

259.500 Supplementary crs. Ergänzungsfach Report

251.041

SUPPLEMENTARY COURSES ZUSÄTZL. LEHRANGEBOT

Architecture: Film Architektur: Film 259.288 Module Wohnbau Modul Wohnbau House Rules

DIPLOMA DIPLOM DOCTORATE DOKTORAT

251.093 Privatissimum Privatissimum 251.092 Privatissimum for Doctorate Students Privatissimum für Dissertanten 259.489 PhD Seminar Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar 251.038 Seminar for Doctorands Doktorandenseminar

251.044

Methodologie fĂźr Doktoranden

PLEASE NOTE: The catalogue might be still subject of change! Further information at the department! Weitere Informationen an der Abteilung!

259.287 VO Gegenwartsarchitektur Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Prof. Dr. Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, PHD Candidate ATTP & Guests

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Mondays 11:00-13:00, AUDI MAX

Jean Luc Godard, Villa Malaparte in Le Mepris (1963).

The Very Many and the Big Plenty: Quantity and the Precious

Das Sehr Viele und das Grosse Reichliche: Die Quantität und das Kostbare

Aim of Course Digital Fabrication, Smart Cities, Internet of Things, Big Data, Rationalisation and the Digital Production Chain, semantic or object-oriented ontologies, parametricism as “the New International Style”: Today, all tends to be interlinked and networked. Graphs afford us an overview. Diagrams incorporate entire typologies. Architects can find thousands of floor plans in the web, programs provide templates and libraries with schemata for solving any kind of problem. Also in architecture, we are being flooded with “information” - information that is, proportional to the extent and accessibility of this information, less and less meaningful. Stripped to the quantitative, such information is less and less capable of making sense.

Ziele der Lehrveranstaltung Digitale Fabrikation, Smart Cities, Internet of Things, Big Data, Rationalisierung und die Digitale Produktionskette, Semantische oder Objekt-orientierte Ontologien, Parametrismus als Neuer Internationaler Stil: Alles ist heute tendenziell mit allem vernetzt. Graphen geben uns Überblick. Diagramme verkörpern ganze Typologien. Architekten finden tausende von Grundrissen im Netz, Programme stellen Templates und Bibliotheken mit Schemen zur Lösung von jeglichem Problem bereit. Auch in der Architektur werden wir überschwemmt von Informationen, die proportional zum Ausmass ihrer Zugänglichkeit und Verfügbarkeit immer weniger Bedeutung haben und immer weniger Sinn stiften können. Diese Vorlesung ist gemeint als eine Handreiche für Architekten, um ihr Fach und ihr Können im prinzipiellen Reichtum des Sehr

This lecture course introduces students to contemporary challenges in architecture. We invite international studios to present their work, to discuss these challenges, and

to report on their strategies of encountering them. It is meant as helping hand for young architects to care, profile and develop their discipline and their mastership within the The Very Many and the Big Plenty which we face today, and which others have exposed as The End of Quality as a Matter of Fact (Archizoom).

Vielen und Grossen Reichlichen – welches andere schon vor einiger Zeit als The End of Quality as a Matter of Fact (Archizoom) herausgestellt haben – zu profilieren und wertvoll zu erhalten. Die Vorlesung führt die Studierenden in aktuelle Herausforderungen der Gegenwartsarchitektur ein, und vermittelt ein Spektrum an Umgangsformen mit diesen Herausforderungen. Es gibt drei Einführungsvorlesungen. Danach laden wir eine Reihe von Architekturbüros zu einer Werkpräsentation mit anschliessendem Gespräch ein.

Subject of course Together with all that may change in architecture: it remains invariant that architecture evolves and develops through treating things quantitatively. Architecture counts things, weighs them, discretises and measures them, it brings elements into constellations, articulates processes in plans, drawings, programs and algorithms, it designs those constellations in their manner of fitting and relating. Thereby, architecture always accounts, recounts, narrates. It demonstrates and draws together, it records and expresses, it manifests something that can be interiorised and remembered. Architecture creates places and organises spaces that are inhabited and animated.

Die Studierenden sollen einerseits einen praxisbezogenen Einblick in das Schaffen junger Architekturbüros bekommen. Andererseits sollen sie lernen können, was interessante Strategien sind, mit denen sich Architekten heute gegenüber den Herausforderungen unserer Zeit zu behaupten wissen. Sie sollen einen Geschmack davon bekommen, dass und wie man solche Strategien erfinden kann und wie man damit nicht nur kritisch sondern auch erfolgreich sein kann.

Nothing is perhaps more challenging for architects – today as any time before – than the apparently pauciloquent talk on pure quantities. For qualities there often remains only vague, dazzling and iridescent words, words which all too often are stripped of their proper weight vis a vis the graspable, measurable, and objective aspects of architecture. How can we learn to have confidence in qualities in the light of the quantitative?

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung Bei allem was sich in der Architektur verändern mag: invariant bleibt immer, dass sie sich über den Umgang mit Quantitäten entwickelt. Die Architektur zählt ab, gewichtet, erwägt, vermisst, bringt Elemente in Konstellation, gliedert Prozesse und Räume im Plan, entwirft sie in ihren Fügungen und Verhältnissen. Dabei aber erzählt die Architektur auch, sie zeigt auf und sie zeichnet auf, sie bringt zum Ausdruck, sie manifestiert etwas das erlebt, verinnerlicht und erinnert werden kann. Sie schafft Plätze und organisiert Räume, die bewohnt und belebt werden. Nichts ist vielleicht herausfordernder für Architekten – heute nicht anders als jemals vorher – als das scheinbar wortkarge und leere Reden über Quantitäten. Für Qualitäten bleiben oft nur

Provisional Program 8. October 2018 Contemporary? Architecture? // Introductory lecture by Vera Bühlmann ATTP TU WIEN, with Visiting Professor Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University NY USA 15. October 2018 Architecture Exhibitions // Lecture by

Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, ATTP TU WIEN

vage, schillernde und flüchtige Worte – Worte die gegenüber den greifbaren, messbaren, und objektivierbaren Aspekten von Architektur allzuoft ohne Gewicht verbleiben.

22. October 2018 NN // Lecture by Vera Bühlmann, ATTP TU WIEN

Wie können wir den Qualitäten gegenüber den Quantitäten wieder etwas zutrauen? Wie können wir ihr Gewicht ermessen, sie in ihrem Profil erkennen? Die Vorlesung schult die Studierenden darin, genau dies zu erreichen indem sie die Quantitäten nicht banalisieren, sondern den Umgang mit ihnen ernst nehmen und sie als kostbar erachten.

29. October 2018 Studio Encounter, Philipp Morel, EZCT 5. November 2018 Digitaler Atlas für Architekten: das Können mit dem Vielen // Lecture by Ludger Hovestadt, ETH Zurich 12. November 2018 NO COURSE 19. November 2018 NN to be announced shortly 26. November 2018 Xenotheca // Lectures by Diana Alvarez-Marin und Miro Roman, ETH Zurich 3. December 2018 Studio Encounter // 300 000km/s 10. December 2018 Architectonic Objects // Lecture by Vera Bühlmann, ATTP TU Wien 17. December 2018 Studio Encounter // WAI THINK TANK 7. January 2019 EXAM Additional Information Readings by Architects that open up the topic (provided on TISS): Yona Friedman, Towards a scientific Architecture, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1975 (original version 1972) Utopia of Quality, Utopia of Quantity, IN, January – February 1971

No-Stop City, Residential Car Park, Universal Climatic System, Domus, n°496, March 1971 Fumihiko Maki, Investigations in Collective Form, Washington University, St Louis, 1964 Le Corbusier, “Statistics”, Urbanisme, Paris, G.Grès, 1925. Hans Hollein, « Alles ist Architektur – Introduction 1 », BAU, 1 – 2, 1968 O.M. Ungers, Morphologie, City Metaphors, Köln, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2017. First publication: 1982.

Examination Modalities Mandatory Presence in the Lecture Course + Written exam (no Multiple Choice): A Short text on “Stairs / Stiege as an Architectonic Object”, as well as Short Reports on the Studio Encounters Short Reports on the Studio Encounters: write a few sentences on each studio encounter, responding to (1) what were the studio’s topics, (2) was there a project that you remember particularly well, which one and what was it about, (3) did you find the manner in how they practice architecture surprising and interesting, and how so (or not so)? Infos on the Short text on Architectonic Objects asap.

259.498 VO Architecture Theory 2 Architekturtheorie 2 Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil. Georg Fassl, Univ.Ass. M.Sc.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Fridays 12:00-14:00, HS7 Schütte-Lihotzsky

Please note: The VO Architekturtheorie 2 replaces as mandatory course in the Architecture Bachelor Curriculum the VO Gender (251.058 as well as 259.481), starting this WS 2018.

Achtung: Die VO Architekturtheorie 2 ersetzt als Pflichtvorlesung im Architektur Bachelor Studiengang ab WS 2018 die VO Gender(251.058 wie auch 259.481).

Examination Modalities Handwritten exam (no multiple choice)

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung VO Architekturtheorie 1 & 2

There will be a reader and a catalog of questions with which you can learn, in addition to your presence in the lectures. In the exam you will be presented with 8 questions out of this catalog, and you are expected to answer and discuss each question on 1 A4 page.

Die Pflichtvorlesungen im Bachelor Studiengang bieten eine Einführung in Architekturtheorie, einmal aus objektbezogenem/wissenschaftlichem Blickwinkel (VO Architekturtheorie 1) und einmal aus subjektbezogenem/sozialem Blickwinkel (VO Architekturtheorie 2). Die VOs befassen sich mit Architektur unter anthropologischen, sozialen, kulturellen, politischen, wirtschaftlichen, technischen, kommunikations- und wissenschaftstheoretischen, sowie ästhetischen, moralischen und genderbezogenen Gesichtspunkten: im Zentrum steht das Nachdenken darüber, was Theorie in der und für die Architektur bedeutet, wie das Verhältnis von Technik, Wissen, Können (Sophistication) in der jüngeren Gegenwart sowie durch die

Geschichte hindurch unterschiedlich gedacht, gewichtet und bewertet wird. Es werden Grundbegriffe der Architekturtheorie vermittelt, sowie allgemeine Prinzipien der Interpretation und ein Verständnis der Bedingungen der Möglichkeit von kritischem Architekturdiskurs. Geübt wird eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte von Architektur (und Architekturausbildung) als Fach, Profession, und als ‘Institution’. Leistungsnachweis Handschriftliche Prüfung am Semesterende (keine multiple choice). Es werden ein Reader und ein Fragekatalog bereitgestellt, mit dem Sie ergänzend zu den Vorlesungen lernen können. An der Prüfung werden Ihnen 8 Fragen aus dem Katalog vorgelegt. Es wird erwartet, dass Sie diese Fragen auf je 1 A4 Seite beantworten und diskutieren.

251.017 SE Current Issues in architectural theory Lecturer Vortragende Kristian Faschingeder, Univ.Lektor Dipl.-Ing. Dr.phil.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesdays 14:00-16:00pm, Seminar room ATTP

Ettore Sottsass, Il planeta come festival, 1973.

the MAP. Machine, Architecture, Politics Aim of the course In 2016, renowned New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman subsumed the accelerating changes in »technology, globalization, and climate change« (especially in the last ten years) as »the Machine«, claiming that »the power of many—that be us—is now the dominant factor shaping and reshaping Earth systems and pushing out planetary boundaries«. As as consequence, »We as a has never been said of humans before the twentieth

Ziel der Lehrveranstaltung 2016 bezeichnete der renommierte New York Times-Journalist Thomas Friedman die beschleunigten Veränderungen in »Technologie, Globalisierung und Klimawandel« (vor allem der letzten zehn Jahre) als »die Maschine« und behauptete, dass »die Macht vieler – das wären wir – nun der bestimmende Faktor bei der Gestaltung und Neugestaltung von Erdsystemen und beim Verschieben planetarer Grenzen« sei. Als Folge sind »Wir als Spezies […] jetzt eine Kraft der, in

century, but starting in the 1960s and 1970s, when the

und an der Natur. Dies wurde vor dem 20. Jahrhundert

Industrial Revolution reached many new parts of the

noch nie vom Menschen behauptet, aber ab den 1960er

globe with full force, particularly places such as China,

und 1970er-Jahren, als die industrielle Revolution viele

India, and Brazil, populations and middle classes started

neue Teile des Globus mit vollem Umfang erreichte,

to expand together.« 1

vor allem in China, Indien und Brasilien, begann zur

species are now a force of, in, and on nature. That

gleichen Zeit die Bevölkerung und die Mittelschicht zu

Friedman hereby echoes Michel Serres, who some decades ago wrote that human societies have grown to a size where »the decisive actions are now, massively, those of enormous and dense tectonic plates of humanity.« Especially »megalopolises are becoming physical variables: they neither think nor graze,

expandieren.« 1

Friedman erinnert hierin an Michel Serres, der vor einigen Jahrzehnten geschrieben hat, dass die menschlichen Gesellschaften zu einer Größe angewachsen seien, »in der die entscheidenden Handlungen jetzt

they weigh.« Thus, »globalization forms a new universe«, as we have created objects of a new scale, thereby putting into question our conception of an object as a distinctive entity:

increasingly so, on things that depend on actions that

massiv sind, jene von enormen und dichten tektonischen Platten der Menschheit«. Vor allem »Megalopolen werden zu physischen Variablen: Weder denken sie, noch grasen sie, sie wiegen.« Damit bildet die «Globalisierung […] ein neues Universum«, in dem wir Objekte in einem Maßstab geschaffen haben, die unsere Vorstellung von einem Objekt als abgegrenztes Gebilde in Frage stellen:

we undertake. Our survival depends on a world that we

»Geben wir Artefakten, die mindestens eine globale

create with technologies whose elements depend on

Dimension haben, den Namen Weltobjekt. [...] Wir leben

our decisions.«

jetzt in diesen Weltobjekten, so wie wir in der Welt

»Let’s give the name world-object to artifacts that have at least one global-scale dimension [...] We now live in those world-objects as we live in the world. As a consequence »we ourselves suddenly depend, and

leben.« Als Folge davon »sind wir selbst plötzlich, und

So the future is up to us! But to understand , and deal with, the changes that are happening now, globally and networked, we need to rethink some of the basic concepts that inform our dealing with what Friedman calls »the Machine«.

zunehmend, von Dingen abhängig, die von Handlungen abhängen, die wir unternehmen. Unser Überleben hängt von einer Welt ab, die wir mit Technologien erschaffen, deren Elemente von unseren Entscheidungen abhängen.« 2

Die Zukunft liegt also an uns! Aber um die Veränderungen, die jetzt, weltweit und vernetzt, stattfinden, zu verstehen, müssen wir einige grundlegende Konzepte überdenken, die unseren Umgang mit dem, was Friedman »die Maschine« nennt, beeinflussen.

We will examine these topics from the point of view of architecture. Our profession regularly deals with objects in which we live, and has a penchant for working on different scales, ranging from the local to the global. We will especially ask for the political and ethical implications of those changes within architecture. To do so, we will read and discuss texts that range from their downright euphoric approval to more substantial and philosophical ones.

Wir werden diese Punkte aus dem Blick der Architektur untersuchen. Unser Beruf beschäftigt sich regelmäßig mit Objekten, in denen wir leben, und sie arbeitet naturgemäß in unterschiedlichen Maßstäben, die vom Lokalen bis zum Globalen reichen. Wir werden auch nach den politischen und ethischen Implikationen dieser Veränderungen fragen. Dazu werden wir Texte lesen, die von der geradezu euphorischen Zustimmung zu substanzielleren und philosophischeren reichen.

[1] Friedman, Thomas L. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations. Penguin Books, 2017.  [2] Serres, Michel. Le contrat naturel. Paris, 1992. http:// www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=515

Subject of course Thus, we might ask the following questions:

[1] Friedman, Thomas L. Thank You for Being Late: An

– what’s new and what’s the new? – are plans intelligent and buildings machines? – do objects bite back? – what’s the future (and past) of the profession?

Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations. Penguin Books, 2017.  [2] Serres, Michel. Le contrat naturel. Paris, 1992. http:// www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=515

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung Wir könnten daher folgende Fragen stellen:

We will discuss the following topics, and how they are presented by some authors: - on the map and on the new - on the machine and on the plan - on the object and on ethics - on work and on exchange

– Was ist neu und was ist das Neue? – Sind Pläne intelligent und Gebäude Maschinen? – Beißen Objekte zurück? – Was ist die Zukunft (und Vergangenheit) der Profession?

The course is bilingual (German/English) and subdivided into three main parts. The units will be detailed further at the beginning of the semester.

Wir werden die folgenden Themen diskutieren, auch wie sie präsentiert werden:

a) Supervised research and formulation of a research question b) Independent research and writing of an academic abstract c) Oral presentation of the state of the art, construction of the argument and writing of the final paper

– über die Karte und das Neue – über die Maschine und den Plan – über das Objekt und die Ethik – über die Arbeit und den Tausch Die Lehrveranstaltung ist aufgrund der Literatur zweisprachig (Englisch optional). Ein Programm wird zu Semesterbeginn bekanntgegeben. Während in der einen Hälfte des Seminars relevante Literatur diskutiert wird, gliedert sich die andere in drei Teile: a) Begleitete Recherche und Finden einer Forschungsfrage b) Eigenständige Recherche und Schreiben einer wissenschaftlichen Kurzdarstellung (Abstract) c) Zwischenpräsentation (in Form eines Referats) zum Stand der Dinge, Konstruktion des Argumentes und Erarbeiten der schriftlichen Arbeit

251.071 SE Topos in Architectural Theory Lecturer Vortragende Isben Ă&#x2013;nen, Dr.phil., M.Arch, B.Arch, Guest-Lecturer

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Mondays 16:00-18:00pm, Seminar room ATTP

Form: An Adventure of the Persistent Mind Spatial and Audial Fieldtrips Aim of the course What? A polycentric and interdisciplinary seminar which settles on the grounds of numerous disciplines, scrutinizing the correlation in between and seeking aspects of creativity within the fundamentals of creative act from ideas to the artifact. It aims to trace a thread through clusters and networks of theory and examples from music and architecture. What was Le Corbusier looking for in Athens? What made Bach walk 400 kilometers north to listen to Buxtehude?

but also those who are by any means involved in creative act to read related texts in music, architecture, philosophy, and art history. Brain-and-earstorming sessions with guest musicians/composers. Generating a discussion based on selected topics in depth which will be finalized with a paper submission. The history of art could be seen as a history of how humanness transformed itself over time. To set creative act as the ambiguous generator of all this change and re-formation but also its expression would be equally valid. This seminar sets sail for the concept of form and its sprawling relation to idea, order, and beauty. The persistence of the creative mind to erect a beautifully ordered structure is worth taking the fascinating challenge

Why? Discovering sideways to interdisciplinary approach, extending perspectives of creative thinking through the musical and architectural domain. How? Allowing not only architecture students

for the transcendental and timeless. It is a confrontation with the boundaries of thinking, embracing its ingenuity and constraints. As the discussion stretches over centuries with examples of sonatas, temples, and an accompanying bulk of theory, the search is for change and its traceability. It is about understanding how concepts that defined the relation of form to order and beauty changed. In other words it is a proposal to look at the history of changing priorities. Could a debate on formal relations between architecture and music lead to a perception of form-in the midst of a creative haze-with unified abstract and material connotations? As the sprawling notion of “ambiguity” of form is as “persistent” as its presence, this tangled whole is the result of an intervening set of disciplines. Philosophy, like an archaic precious object, delivers messages from the past each time brought to the fore. Linguistics on the other hand, plays a significant role, through one of its innate properties: elasticity. Whereas art history and theory with its mighty and overriding presence, augmented with the powers of creativity and imagination and with a transcending in-betweenness of material and idea, artifact and its message, effectively contribute to this sprawling ambiguity. Having its roots in such fertile grounds, this crossover seminar aims to set sail for a “unified form” embracing its abstractness and tangibility in the search for unconventional approaches on creativity.

251.117 SE Architectural Theory Architekturtheorie Lecturer Vortragende Gregg Lambert, Prof. Dr. Syracuse University

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Blocked, 18.09-28.09 - 14:00-17:00, Seminar room ATTP

Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Saline de Chaux (1804)

“What is a Dispositif?” Dispositif Theory and the Philosophy of Technics This Seminar will be taught by Prof. Dr. Gregg Lambert, who will be at ATTP as Guest Professor in the Winter Semester 2018. The course will be taught as an intense two week Seminar with daily meetings (mo-fr) just before the start of the Semester.

machine, and structure. The uniqueness of Foucault’s approach to the nature of power is that he combines both biological and technical forms in explaining its evolutionary path, which becomes more multiple and dispersed throughout modern societies, and which differentiates its concept from the idea of mechanism that belongs to modern science after Descartes. Thus, the major result of Cartesianism was “to rationalize” the idea of mechanism as a knowledge that is particular to the human species, and not as a biological capacity that is found to be present in most living organisms. In turn, this was responsible for anthropomorphizing the relation between machine and organism, introducing a fundamental dehiscence

Aim of the course This seminar will study the genealogy of the concept of dispositif (mechanism, conceptual device) in the biopolitical philosophy of Michel Foucault. Following the influence of biologist and historian Georges Canguilhem, beginning in works and lectures of 1975, Foucault employs this term specifically to avoid three other dominant terms in the history of political philosophy: organism,

between these forms, one that continues to be played out today in determining the relations between humans, animals, and cybernetic (or digitalized) creatures.

consists of a series of short videos of several philosophers, sociologists, and diplomats speaking about peace. Lambert also serves on the Advisory Board of the Histories of Violence project.

In addition to the major works and lectures of Foucault that appear between 1975-1979, from the first volume of The History of Sexuality to the lecture course on The Birth of Biopolitics, in this seminar we will also examine the critical reception of Foucault’s description of power and its biopolitical dispositifs in other thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, and Roberto Esposito.

His most recent book Philosophy after Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) deals with the history of political philosophy’s “conceptual personae” (Deleuze): the friend, the enemy, the stranger, the migrant, and the refugee or survivor. 2017 Philosophy After Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae, ISBN 9781517901004.

Each 3 hour seminars will consist of lecture presentation, in the first hour, followed by close examination and discussion of the assigned readings.

2016 Return Statements: The Return of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy, ISBN 9781474413916.

Gregg Lambert (born 1961) is an American philosopher and literary theorist, who writes on Baroque and Neo-Baroque cultural history, critical theory and film, the contemporary university, and especially on the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. Between 2008 and 2014, he was the founding director of Syracuse University Humanities Center, where he currently holds a research appointment as Dean’s Professor of Humanities.

2012 In Search of a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism, ISBN 9780816678037. 2008 On the (New) Baroque, ISBN 1888570970. 2006 Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari?, ISBN 9781847060099. 2004 The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture, ISBN 9780826466488.

As Co-Founder of The Perpetual Peace Project, a partnership between the European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC), the International Peace Institute (IPI), the United Nations University, Slought Foundation, Syracuse University, Utrecht University, and the Treaty of Utrecht Foundation, Lambert is engaged in bringing together theorists and practitioners in revisiting 21st century prospects for international peace, on the basis of Immanuel Kant’s foundational essay “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch” (1795). He is the producer of a film by the same name, which

2002 The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, ISBN 9780826459558. 2001 Report to the Academy (re: The New Conflict of Faculties), ISBN 9781888570618.

259.499 UE Design Studio Großes Entwerfen Lecturer Vortragende Michael Doyle, Dr. Visiting Researcher Riccardo Villa, Univ. Ass. M.Sc.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Thursdays 09:30-18:30, Zeichensaal 2

Ground Milieux of Differential Settlements Aim of course What is architecture’s relationship to ground? Architecture has a history of exploration, redefinition, and invention of ground, from the systematic approach of the Japanese Metabolists and the futuristic experiments of Archigram, to the concreteness of built projects of OMA, Dominique Perrault and others. Today, architects are faced with an increasing amount of information on the ground and a growing responsibility to account for it. It is not only a question of the

very soil or rock beneath our feet, but also the plethora of data accessible online, from social media to georeferenced urban data. In this studio, we will learn to work with this data as we redesign ‘grounds’ around the city of Vienna. We will look at exemplary projects: What kind of ‘ground’ do they establish, and how? Working in teams and with section perspectives and schematic plans, students will explore, rearticulate and propose alternative designs for particular public places around Vienna. In our studio sessions we will

conduct exercises that help us learn to explore ‘grounds’ as connecting and disconnecting, as characters and as stages for characters, as compositions (of planes, transitions, soils and subsoils), as narrating and as constituted by narratives. Although we will touch on technical aspects, our interest is more on the application of rigorous forms of abstract thinking than on proficiency in technical problem-solving.

sky are not true ‘limits’ anymore, but a further space in which new ground can be settled and found.

Subject of course Architecture not only engages with ground in order to make it habitable, but also makes ground in order to invent new forms of habitability. It contributes to the extension or birth of a milieu, an in-between place. To claim that there is only one ground upon which to build and upon which to live is to settle for a ‘common ground’: the street, the soil, elevated pedestrian paths, the highway, the garden, the plinth, the slab. When such grounds are taken as given, we tend to accept them as necessary and known, as already settled. We forget that there is always a ground that is perpendicular to these, which evolves with our collection of data. We will refer to this as a data ground, which includes everything from traditional georeferenced data to the ‘big data’ constituted by photos, tweets or digitized collections of literature. As the data ground grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to know what to do with the information one can glean from it. The most popular strategy would propose to collapse the data ground to a ‘physical’ or ‘social’ common ground, thereby deciding which information matters for one ground in particular. In this studio, we will challenge this approach by refusing to settle for one common ground. We believe a data ground, in its perpendicularity to the ground our feet rest upon, can help us discover something unexpected in our ‘common’ grounds while inventing new ones. Advancements in engineering have inspired, since the early XX century, alternative ways of engaging with the subsurface and with infrastructure. Earth and

259.504 UE Design Studio Großes Entwerfen Lecturer Vortragende Valle Medina, Guest-Lecturer Benjamin Reynolds, Guest-Lecturer

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Fridays 09:30-17:00, Seminar room ATTP

Levitation Subject of course Suave, mari magno (‘How it is when on the open sea...’) – Lucretius, De rerum natura

But what could be said of a state not at the mercy of swirling atmosphere, nor is arranged in parallel streamlines, that is to say not turbulent; laminar? Is there something that can regulate the degrees to which it is able to resist being swished around in the boil of tubulence and can avoid being made into a projectile in a laminar stream?

Levitation is neither turbulent nor laminar. Turbulence is, what Epicurus and Democritus call the primitive form of the construction of things. Lucretius, in his poem De rerum natura uses “clinamen” to describe the unpredictable swerve of atoms the smallest imaginable form of turbulence, a differental. In his uncertainty of them, he refers to the atom’s inclination. It is as if they were a subject. In the identification of clinamen, Lucretius gives birth to modern physics. Thereafter the mechanics of fluids becomes the preoccupation of physicists and Vitruvius dedicates a book of his treatise on architecture to the flow of water.

Levitation can contend with turbulence and laminae and yet not be either. And yet it may be a strange amalgam of a turbulent condition, in other words a violent or unsteady one (a fire, political unrest, a rough rock, a milling crowd) and a laminar condition (still, a non-deviating vector, certainty, a domesticated garden, safety glass etc.). This amalgam of violence and stillness will be the subject of the studio. Through precise guidance and written

briefs, the studio will explore what the characteristics of a levitating space is; how foreign phenomenon can co-exist in a project. We will explore the characteristics of selected contemporary conditions pertaining to geometry, material, climate, resolution, scales, colors and weight to produce individual large Canvasses-that-Never-Existed (CTNE) of 5000 x 5000 mm each. This will be our first approximation to what we call a “tropopause” (the plane in between a turbulent and laminar condition). Leon Battista Alberti had a preoccupation with the extreme limits of things, with the concept of the orlo or boundary. He defined a superficie or plane as an external part of a body which is known not by its depth but only by its length and breadth and by its quality.’ In the “Canvasses”, decisions will be made with respect to how much an idea “impregnates” the canvas (ie. its depth, its disappearance, its weight, a notion of stillness etc.) that ultimately will carry volumetric infromation that becomes an individual’s space. The broader project (a building) realised in the studio will be composed through the production of dedicated videos, images, plans, sections and models.

demonstrate a continous practice of the software. Introductory Reference List Projects: House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii, 79AD Porch of the Caryatids, Athens, 406BC Paulo Mendes da Rocha e Joao de Gennaro, Club Atletico Paulistano, 1961 Galeries du Bois, 1768 Jorn Utzon, Schauspielhaus, Zürich, 1964 Kenzo Tange, Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, 1964 Texts: Lucretius, De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things), c. 99BC – c. 55 BC Peter Eisenman, Diagram Diaries, 1999 Leon Battista Alberti, De Pictura, 1435 Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics, 2000 In language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Inflection Images: Tropopause folds (https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Tropopause) Thomas Bartholin, Frontispiece of Anatomia Reformata Harry Kellar, “Levitation of Princess Karnac” Harun Farocki, Diagrams, 2014

“[In] the first and empirical approach to matter in space and light, the painter must represent that which he sees with a different matter and with simulated rather than real light.” After acquiring knowledge from our sensory perceptions, Alberti seems to suggest that by firstly choosing, and then creating our own means of simulating, we are able to produce depictions of reality. The task of the studio then is to allow our canvasses to travel between foreign phenomenon.

We are interested in participants that: – want to question the manner and method of generating architectural work; – possess a willingness to convert a scepticism of existing discourse into their own forthright position and ideas; – have an openness to elaborate rich and personalises creative mediums to realise their position and ideas;

*** Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (eg. Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Rhinoceros (Grasshopper is an advantage) is a minimum requirement. We will run workshops on 3d modelling during the semester but you must

Participants must demonstrate: – An interest to develop experimental and conceptual work; an endavour to use the opportunity of the

studio to generate an original wok; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an interest to engage in discursive sessions to develop a theoretical basis of their project. *** Levitation is a studio run by Dom Gross (domgross.com) with Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds (Pa.LaC.E, palacepalace. com) with contributions by Julian Lietzmann and supported by Vera BĂźhlmann (attp.tuwien. ac.at)

259.505 UE Small Design Studio Kleines Entwerfen Lecturer Vortragende Ivan Alexander Kukuljevic, Dr., Guest-Lecturer

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Thursdays 09:00-13:00pm, Seminar room ATTP

Asger Jorn, Le canard inequiétant [The Disquieting Duck], 1959 / Oil on found Canvas / 53 x 64.5 cm / Silkeborg Kunstmuseum, Denmark

The Disquieting Duck: On Dislocation Subject of course The aim of this studio, to borrow a formula from Jean-Luc Godard, is to mark out “the tangible terrain of one’s uneasiness.” Architecture occupies this terrain, which it shares with art, when it touches upon the difference between space and place. Dislocation names the rupture between space and place. A space that cannot be placed becomes disorienting. Let us consider an example, Asger Jorn’s Disquieting Duck(1959), in which he took a found painting and inserted into its edifice a painterly element extrinsic to its tableau that comically disturbs its clichéd dream of peace and quiet, its readymade pastoral fantasy. Here the duck, far from being a comforting feature of the pastoral scene, becomes a disquieting and disruptive element, dwarfing the house with its monstrosity. The duck belongs to the scene like a gash

upon its surface. As if formed accidentally through a violent and uncontrolled smearing of paint, the duck is no longer a duck by being a duck: recognizable as if by chance. It is a duck that has lost its identity. Freed from the signification that places it, it belongs to the scene as a rogue element. If this creature evokes a feeling of unease, it is because its lack of identity becomes something tangible like the hollow of a joint that has become dislocated. It is placed into the space of its absent place. This is perhaps what architecture can do when it too becomes attuned to the dislocated spaces that upset the ease with which subjects can be placed. The aim of this studio is to become acquainted with dislocation as a condition of the subject’s relation to space.

Additional Information In the course of the semester, we are going to consider a number of spaces in detail: the Sadean boudoir, Duras’s The Lover, Duchamp’s Green Box, Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, Louise Nevelson’s open boxes, Kelley’s Educational Complex, Ballard’s novel Highrise. The aim of the course will be to render an architectural apparatus for Ballard’s Highrise, developing a complex model of its form and structure.

259.332 VU Modul Meta-Architecture Modul Meta-Architektur Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil. Georg Fassl, Univ.Ass. M.Sc. Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Techn. Riccardo Villa, Univ.Ass. M.Sc. Sebastian Michael, Writer Admir Selimovic, Guest-Lecturer, ETH Zurich Elias Zafiris, Prof. Dr., Athens University Arturo Silva, Univ.Lektor Mag.

Meta-Architektur Aim of course In this module we think of architecture as personification of spaces and times. We will think and do and do and think to get a rich understanding of what role the public can play in architecture and what position architecture can take in public life. The students will exercise in a special kind of literacy – learning to sign as an architect.

Subject of course This module centers around the relation between architecture and communication via code. As an architect you will want to be able to sign – intellectually – your work with your own name. For this, we need not only be well familiar with forms and formats, with skills and techniques of communication, we also need to “master” them with a certain sophistication. The courses of this module will provide exercises for this.

The module sees architecture as an inventive and critical practice. In order to realize a project, architects need not only convince with their proposals and designs a great number of decision makers. But they must also be able to grasp for themselves, with clarity and articulacy, the ideas and ambitions they pursue. In other words, they must be able to index and code what they are after, in order to communicate it well. The ability to comprehend of oneself as a participant of discourses with a public audience does not come easily, and wants to be exercised. This module presents and trains several skills and strategies for achieving such literacy. It addresses ambitious architects and everyone who wants to learn how to write, talk, research, curate, and critically asses their architectural practice in public: be it in concept work, theory discourse, architecture research, journalism, film, communication and public relation, curation.

** The module is offered in the Winter Semester of each year. Please note that not all the elective courses can be offered every time. ** Core Courses: 259.278 VO Show The lecture course VO SHOW (2h/2ECTS) circulates around forms and formas of public communication in architecture (magazines, manifestoes, blogs, websites, radio, tv, film). We will get familiar with theories in semiotics, with forms of discourse analysis and interaction analysis, and we will gain insights into the local media scene via guest lectures. 259.509 VO Talk The lecture course VO TALK (2h/2ECTS) deals with philosophical approaches to relevant

topics in cultural discourse and architecture theory, and thereby considers also extradisciplinary fields like mathematics, economy, ecology, politics, ethics, art, padagogy, the engineering sciences or the juridical sciences.

Additional Information 1.10.2018, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm Presentation â&#x20AC;&#x153;Modul Meta-Architekturâ&#x20AC;? Seminar space ATTP

259.501 VU Substitute In the VU SUBSTITUTE (3h/3ECTS), students acquire basic familiarity and practice with rhetorics and poetics. They learn how to articulate ideas in language and image. 259.502 VU Act In the VU ACT (3h/3ECTS), all the different angles treated in the courses of the module are to play together: here it is all about translating what has been learnt into a personal articulation that feeds into one thematic frame that is provided by the lecturer. Elective Courses: 259.337 VO Tame The VO TAME (2h/2ECTS) focuses on Robotics and Architecture from a cultural studies point of view. 259.338 VO Screen The VO SCREEN (2h/2ECTS) attends to film theory. 259.510 VU Cut The VU CUT (3h/3ECTS) deals with montage as theory and practice. 259.503 VU Code The VU CODE (3h/3ECTS) provides a rich spectrum of the imaginary worlds around coding, it concerns itself with programming and mathematical thinking for architects. 259.500 VO Report The VO REPORT (2h/2ECTS) offers students to actively participate with a written report on the lectures at the international Sophistication conferences at TU Vienna, organized by ATTP.

259.278 VO Show Lecturer Vortragende Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Techn.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Wednesdays 16:00-18:00pm, Seminar room ATTP

Aim of the Course Show is focusing on all kinds of media introduced in architecture that communicates primarily by means of text. Discussed are various methods and formats of communication in architecture discourse as well as the mutual influence of scientific, popular and architecture discourses.

reproduced through numerous practices: socialisation at home and at school, advertising, TV and film, fashion and music industries, journalism of general interest and of the architecture domain. Guests inquired for lectures: PRINT-MAGAZINE & EDITORIAL Matthias Boeckl, Senior Editor architektur.aktuell

Additional guest lecturers, experts from editing and journalism, from prominent Austrian media will present Architecture communication by media.

www.architektur-aktuell.at PRINT, TV JOURNALISM Isabella Marboe

Examples for media and formats discussed are magazines, newspaper, journals, reports, press text, web representations of all kinds like blogs, wikis, social media, podcasts, videocasts.

www.isabellamarboe.at RADIO David Pasek und Bernhard Frodl, „a palaver“ at Radio Orange

Subject of Course Successful architects typically build their fame not only in doing good buildings, but also by propagating their ideas, creating an image veneering their building practice. With that a public image for the specific architecture is created that in turn serves as a powerful force for this particular architecture. This public image is spread by all kinds of media, whereas text and language have their prominent position within those communications. This appearance of a certain architecture is in turn used to promote the decision processes by legitimising political decisions as well as the marketing of projects.

www.apalaver.com STUDENT MAGAZINE Arian Lehner, Bernhard Mayer, Paula Brücke miesmagazin.wordpress.com ARCHITECTURE THEORY BOOK Michael Doyle www.attp.tuwien.ac.at/michael-r-doyle/ ARCHITECTURE THEORY MAGAZINE Riccardo Villa http://www.gizmoweb.org

The world of architecture and popular debates in Austria are full of such popular images or mythologies, to use the word of Roland Barthes images of ‚home‘, ‚penthouse apartment‘, ‚BIG‘, ‚tower‘, ‚gateway‘ or ‚smart city‘. These images are manufactured and

259.590 VO Talk Lecturer Vortragende Elias Zafiris, Prof. Dr., Athens University Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Wednesdays 14:00-16:00, Seminar room ATTP

The Detection of Silence, Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Japan.

Mathematical thinking and its sociocultural scope of deliberation Subject of course This semesters VO “TALK” will focus on mathematical thinking. Many people believe that in mathematics, one follows only rules, mechanically and with no deliberation. In many ways this is true, of course.

Having an awareness of this sociocultural scope of deliberation that mathematical thinking provides is a basic literacy highly relevant with regard to the capacities of thinking abstractly. It is as relevant for the kind of abstract thinking in which every architect needs to be proficient as being able to master basic grammar or basic arithmetics is with regard to dialectical thinking in general.

It is the invariant and explicit part with regard to mathematical concepts that an architect self-evidently meets daily in her work – such as ‘form,’ ‘rule,’ ‘structure,’ ‘number,’ ‘field,’ ‘group,’ ‘set,’ ‘system’, ‘type,’ ‘proportion’, ‘volume’, ‘area,’ or ‘power’. But at the same time mathematical concepts have a history and are part of sociocultural contexts. We will put special attention also to this philosophical and inventive part that belongs to mathematics too.

This course will be co-taught by Elias Zafiris, a theoretical physicist and professor in mathematics and logics, and Vera Bühlmann, professor for architecture theory and philosophy of technics.

Organization plan and exam: The semester will be structured in eleven meetings ending before Christmas break: An introductory meeting and five thematic modules, each two sessions. Attending the sessions is mandatory, the lectures will be the subject of the exam after Christmas. 0. Introduction // 10. October 2018 1. Module – Cosmos, Earth and Firmament (Arithmetic) // 17. October & 24. October 2. Module – Observatory, Measure and Treasure (Geometry) // 31. October & 7. November 3. Module – Mechanae, Art and Techné (Algebra) // 14. November & 21. November 4. Module – Agriculture, Knots and Fields (Topology) // 28. November & 5. December 5. Module – Meteora, Cycles and Aion (Analysis and Synthesis) // 12. December & 19. December

259.501 VU Substitute Lecturer Vortragende Sebastian Michael, Writer Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Wednesdays 09:00-12:00, Seminar room ATTP

Occasio/Kairos Das Glück beim Schopf packen

Basics of Rhetorics and Poetics for Architects Subject of the Course The principles of rhetoric and poetics revolve (albeit in different ways) around how a ‘unity of place, time and action’ (poetics) can be established or how a ‘demonstration of a case’ can be achieved by means of ‘common topics’ and ‘common places’, involving ‘kairos’ (seizing the moment) and how ‘stasis’ can be countered (stasis originally means that things are utterly unsettled, thus how stasis can be stabilized into a state of stability, the balancing of a force field).

together in ‘a plot’ of which we can think architectonically. The principled treatment of these magnitudes (place, time, and action) are not only central to every text, but also to architecture across all scales (e.g. place making through identification of site, task and context of a project, or time with regard to identifying a style, or a building’s classicality or modernity, and action with regard to the great interest in ‘agency’ at work in the planning and building of our environments). This semester’s VU “SUBSTITUTE” will focus on how the principles of rhetoric and poetics are at work in architecture theory texts – we are going to regard texts as ‘treaties’ (literally

Our interest will be in how these terms are treated (in the traditions of rhetoric and poetics) as separate ‘magnitudes’ that play

“a matter capable of being treated in a great variety of ways and manners”). We are going to ask how a particular architecture theory text is made, what common topics and common places are being displayed in it, how this commonality is being established, who a text is talking to, and against whom or what it is providing pro and con arguments. In short, we are going to look at the situations these texts engender.

or simply one of critique: what will count is not the nature of your judgement, but the articulacy with which you can make your case.

Looking at theory texts as ‘treaties’ helps us to develop the skill of better understanding what they stake, what their overall concerns are. The students will acquire critical skills in how texts treat their subject matters, as well as practical skills in how to be articulate and express their ideas with interest, reason, rationality, and argument.

Primary literature:

The course will consist of two kinds of lectures, as well as exercises: (1) Lectures on the principles of rhetoric and poetics – the students will be provided with a basic vocabulary of concepts. (2) Lectures that teach how to read contemporary architecture theory texts as ‘treaties’; as well as (3) exercises to acquire proficiency in articulation, which all students will be expected to participate in, in every session.

Program:

Examples of projects to write on: John Hejduk, Diamond House James Stirling, Neue Staatsgalerie Leon Krier, School at Quentin-en-Yvelines Daniel Libeskind, Chamber Works

Aristotle, The Art of Rhetorics Aristotle, Poetics Sharon Crawlee & Debra Hawhee, Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, 3rd edition (Pearson: New York 2004).

week 1 Welcome week 2 Oratory & Drama (and Populism) week 3 Stasis – Asking the Right Question week 4 Common Topics – Finding Available Means week 5 Data and Extrinsic Evidence – Evocation week 6 Arrangement - Topics week 7 Imitation - Copiousness week 8 Memory – Treasure House for Invention week 9 Style – Composition and Ornament week 10 Review week 11 Exam

This course will be co-taught by Sebastian Michael, a professional writer of plays, novels, poetry, as well as popular science prose, and Vera Bühlmann, professor for architecture theory and philosophy of technics. Organization plan and exam: The semester will be structured in eleven meetings, ending before the Christmas break. Attending the sessions and participating in the exercises is mandatory. The EXAM will be after Christmas: the students will choose an iconic architecture project and write a text on it that articulates this project’s proper persuasiveness – whether from a stance of appreciation and praise, or one of dislike,

259.502 VU Act Lecturer Vortragende Georg Fassl, Univ.Ass. M.Sc.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Thursdays 15:00-18:00, Seminar room ATTP

‘Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 30 November 2014’, ESA/ Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 (2014). (Rework: Daedalus Observatory)

On the Immobile

Über das Immobile

Aim of course This semester we will take a seat in the ‘Daedalus Observatory’ – our space for observations and speculations; we will explore and invent, and we will give report, an architectonic report, on what it could mean to be immobile in today’s world.

Ziele der Lehrveranstaltung Dieses Semester nehmen wir Platz im ‘Daedalus Observatory’ – unserem Raum für Beobachtung und Spekulation; wir werden erkunden und erfinden, und wir werden Bericht erstatten, architektonischen Bericht, darüber was es bedeuten kann immobil zu sein in der heutigen Welt.

www.daedalusobservatory.net www.daedalusobservatory.net Subject of course “A self […] exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.” Jean-Francois Lyotard (1979, The Postmodern Condition - A Report on Knowledge).

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung “A self […] exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.” Jean-Francois Lyotard (1979, The Postmodern Condition - A Report on Knowledge).

1979 - 2017. Our knowledge has altered and yet life seems to gain in complexity, our world has turned and still the mobility appears to increase in it. And for real, could it even be

1979 - 2017. Unser Wissen hat sich verändert und nach wie vor gewinnt das Leben an Komplexität, unsere Welt hat sich gedreht

und weiterhin scheint die Mobilität darin zu steigen. Und in echt, könnte es denn auch anders sein? Auch wenn uns diese Eigenschaften so offensichtlich, so klar und für unser zeitgenössisches Selbst zweifellos bestimmend wirken, ihre eigener Zustand ist es nicht - bleibt selbst sehr vage, sehr formlos und inhaltlich irgendwie schwer zu begreifen! Wir haben “Über das Mobile” berichtet (WS17) und nun wollen wir Ausschau nach seiner Inversion halten: Was ist das Immobile, und was könnte es für uns sein? Bestimmt nicht weniger komplex!

different?! Even though these conditions seem so obvious, so clear and undoubtedly true for our today’s self, their own actual condition is different – remains actually very vague, very formless and somehow hard to get a grasp on! We reported “On the Mobile” (WS17), and now we wanna look out for its inversion: What is the Immobile, and what could it be for us? For sure not lesser complex! In german language the adjective mobil (eng. mobile) forms the etymological root for the concept Möbel, whereas its english equivalent furniture leads us contrarily to the act of supplying or providing. Its linguistic opposite, immobil (eng. immobile), in turn informs our understanding of real-estate, which itself, conceptually, partners the german Immobilie with a rightful owner. Having a look into property law then, we can find the movable and the immovable as the basic division of things. Movability here is proofed when one can transport a thing without losing its substance. Which was also emphasised by Immanuel Kant in his ‘Philosophy of Law’ (1797, Die Metaphysik der Sitten), where he tells further: “The first acquisition of a thing can only be that of the soil” and “by the soil is understood all habitable Land. In relation to everything that is moveable upon it, it is to be regarded as a Substance, and the mode of the existence of the Moveables is viewed as an Inherence in it”. Astronomically instead, our ground counts as mobile itself since Copernicus (1543, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium) and physically, since Newton (1687, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica), motion and rest are anyhow conditions of one and the same body… Bodies exist in the play of forces, are understood as being in negotiation - as in Vilem Flusser’s formulation (1993, Dinge und Undinge): “A country is apparently an immobile thing, but poland has moved towards the west. A bed is apparently a mobile thing, but my bed has moved lesser then poland did.” Lets ask again today: How can we think the Immobile, measure and calculate with it? Yes, architectonically!

Das Adjektiv mobil (eng. mobile) bildet in der deutschen Sprache die etymologische Wurzel für das Konzept der Möbel, wohingegen sein englisches Equivalent furniture uns zur Handlung des Versorgen oder Bereitstellen führt. Sein sprachliches Gegenüber wiederum, das Wort immobil (eng. immobile), informiert das englische real-estate, welches jede Immobilie mit einem rechtmäßigen Besitzer verkoppelt. Werfen wir dann einen Blick ins Recht finden wir das Bewegliche und das Unbewegliche als die wichtigste Differenzierung von Sachen seit dem antiken Griechenland. Beweglichkeit ist hier hergestellt wenn jemand ein Ding transportieren kann ohne dabei seine Substanz zu verlieren. Dies betont auch Immanuel Kant in seiner ‘Rechtslehre’ (1797, Die Metaphysik der Sitten), und spricht weiters: “Die erste Erwerbung einer Sache kann keine andere als die des Bodens sein. Der Boden (unter welchem alles bewohnbare Land verstanden wird) ist, in Ansehung alles Beweglichen auf demselben, als Substanz, die Existenz des letzteren aber nur als Inhärenz zu betrachten.” Astronomisch gesehen gilt unser Boden wiederum seit Kopernikus (1543, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium) auch selbst schon als mobil und physikalisch sind seit Newton (1687, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica) Bewegung und Ruhe ohnehin Zustände ein und desselben Körpers… Körper sind im Spiel der Kräfte, in Verhandlung begriffen - sowie in Vilem Flussers Formulierung (1993, Dinge und Undinge): “Ein

Taking Daedalus’s perspective we will fill the concept with new energies and put it into play within our contemporary cosmos. We will think with our architectural tools and work together to articulate an understanding, a formation, of a possible Immobile. A thing or non-thing; absolute, relative or relational; planned or selforganising…

Land ist doch anscheinend ein unbewegliches Ding, aber Polen hat sich nach Westen verschoben. Ein Bett ist doch anscheinend ein Möbel, aber mein Bett hat sich weniger als Polen verschoben.” Fragen wir heute erneut: Wie können wir das Mobile denken, messen und damit kalkulieren? Ja, architektonisch! Mit daedalischer Perspektive werden wir das Konzept mit neuen Energien laden und es in unserem zeitgenössischen Kosmos ins Spiel bringen. Wir werden mit unseren architektonischen Werkzeugen denken und gemeinsam daran arbeiten ein Verständnis, eine Formation, eines möglichen Immobilen zu artikulieren. Ein Ding oder Unding; absolut, relativ oder relational; geplant oder selbstorganisierend…

This course is part of the: Mobile Yet Immobile Series

Dieser Kurs ist Teil der: Mobile Yet Immobile Series

259.337 VO Tame Lecturer Vortragende Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Techn.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesdays 11:00-13:00, Seminar room ATTP

Aim of course In architecture discourse the classic modernist questions on the relations of form and function got enriched by postmodern questions on media and technology. The lecture Tame introduces aspects of the development of this discourse(s) focusing on techniques. It aims to allow students to gain insight and develop their own questions for both, projects in design as well as in theory.

towards both, how, at different times those ideas got turned into concepts of architecture, and, how these processes generated the sources of their own poetics and how they reshaped established meanings.

Subject of course Nowadays new developments in longer existing technologies have an astonishing influence on the everyday. Hence, we will look into and at robotics and artificial intelligence. We will familiarize with both, where they came from and why they got influential. The aim is to explore what consequences those may have in Architecture in the widest scope, what techniques they might foster. In general technologies and techniques are inseparable from Architecture. Moreover, at any time some Architects dared to evolve their ideas according or in resistance to the latest, at the time most complicated technologies, the most advanced media, or tried to develop so fare unknown techniques. One may say those people culturalised or tamed technology in making them constitutively for their architectural idea. The resulting architectural diversity is stretched out in the course of the lecture. By polarizing and at the same time fusing architecture topics such as, ‘Encapsulating & Adaption’, ‘Organism & Network’ or ‘Psyche & Apparatus’, to name a few. Projects from 20th to the beginning of 21th century will be discussed. They get analyzed

259.338 VO Screen Lecturer Vortragende Arturo Silva, Univ.Lektor Mag.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Blocked, Mondays 13:00-16:00, Seminar room ATTP

Edie Sedgwick in Outer and Inner Space (1966) by Andy Warhol

“These Jellied Orbs: A Cleansing” Experimental Cinema Aim of course Cinema/Film is, could be, a technology and an art of infinite possibility. Narrative films and even documentary are only small parts of that possibility. The weirdest idea of all is that film is necessarily a story-telling medium. (“Cinema was born to tell stories.”) Why would anyone ever think that? What is film, after all but sequential photographic images that are then processed, manipulated, and arranged. Images of/in Time. Not necessarily stories (and all the genres). Thus, the films we will see possess no “narrative arcs,” no psychological character development, and no pandering sentimentalism.

made fresh, like new, and ready for anything. This brief survey will present a number of films that demonstrate some of the possibilities of a counter or different cinema: personal, abstract, symbolic, imaginative. Films that are made without a camera; found footage films, that is, films that the filmmaker did not shoot him/herself; films that are scratched, painted, exposed to the elements. These films can be, ecstatic, obscene, visionary, dreamlike, meditative, polymorphously perverse, and quite often v-e-r-y, v–e–r–y s—l—–o—w. Of paramount importance are the Idea, the Material, the Image, and Time. We will begin with some films of the European AvantGarde: Dadaist, Surrealist, Abstract; and then jump forward to the USA of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s: Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger and Stan Brakhage, and then Andy Warhol, Hollis Frampton, and others. Finally, a return to Europe—Austria.

We are always learning to see – and film is an especially keen route to Vision! (“I see through the eye, and not with it.” – Blake) But even before learning to see we need to make sure that our seeing apparatus – those “jellied orbs,” our eyes – are purged and cleansed,

What to call it? Avant-garde cinema? Experimental film? Expanded cinema, Underground film? Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s call it Infinite. Special feature! Sleep, by Andy Warhol. Only five-and-a-half hours long!

The rules: Attendance at the first class is essential. No one admitted after the first class (donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even ask). Class limited to 30 students.

259.503 VU Code Lecturer Vortragende Admir Selimovic, Guest-Lecturer, ETH ZĂźrich

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Fridays 14:00-16:00, Seminar room ATTP

Mathematical Thinking and Machine Intelligence representation, and symbolic manipulation.

Aim of course The objective of the course is the introduction to mathematical and computational thinking and modeling.

To code is to separate. It is also to compose. Lectures are accompanied by assignments and lab exercises. No previous experience in the subject is required.

Subject of course CODE looks into the principle of mathematical and computational thinking and their reflections in architecture and in machine intelligence. The course is neither in doing mathematics (that is what mathematicians do) nor in programming (that is what programmers do), but innthe artistry of abstraction, symbolic

259.500 VO Report Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr.phil Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Techn. Georg Fassl, Univ.Ass. M.Sc. Riccardo Villa, Univ.Ass. M.Sc.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Blocked, 08.10-10.10, Seminar room ATTP

SOPHISTICATION CONFERENCE #2 IN »LIEU« OF STATEMENTS, »ARTICULATION« Aim of course How can we find a novel understanding of human intellectuality in co-existence with artificial intelligence? The Sophistication Conferences are dedicated to a basic kind of literacy in how to think about coding in the terms of a geometry of spectra and communication. At the core of such a literacy is a different relationality of time, nature, subject, and object. Our interest is in a philosophy of the transcendental objective, at whose core resides the question of »how to embrace what presents itself as an obstacle« rather than how to make it »go away«. We see in such a »digital gnomonics« a powerful framework for addressing computational modeling, machine learning and algorithmic reasoning in a manner that does not stage an antagonistic competition between human and artificial intelligence.

Technics ATTP and the laboratory for applied virtuality at the chair for CAAD ETH Zurich, where we invite distinguished as well as young scholars from different fields to think about how such »architectonic intellectuality« affects our relations to the world at large – our institutions, as well as our ordinary daily lives. The documentation of the past conferences are published on our YouTube channel ATTP TU VIENNA. Examination modalities Students who sign up for this course are to hand in a written report on the different lectures they have heard at the Conference: What is the overall topic of the conference and how do you understand it? Which lectures have you attended and what were they about? What will you remember especially from the conference program?

The Sophistication Conferences are organized once a year at the Technical University Vienna, as a cooperation between the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of

251.041 VO Architecture: Film Architektur: Film Lecturer Vortragende Djamel Zeniti, Univ.Lektor Dipl.-Ing.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Information soon on TISS!

Aim of course In 1928 Sigfried Giedion claimed that film alone can make modern architecture understandable.Nowadays architecture has even grown closer to new media and film technique. What implications does this have for architecture in general? Can we learn something from the movies in order to understand recent architectural developments better?

Ziele der Lehrveranstaltung Nur der Film kann die neue Architektur verständlich machen, behauptete Sigfried Giedion im Jahr 1928. Heutzutage ist die Architektur noch viel enger mit den Entwicklungen der Medientechnik wie des Kinos verbunden als damals. Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung Diese LV besteht aus einer Reihe von theoretischen Einführungen mit anschließenden Filmvorführungen und Diskussion.Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt dem Umgang mit Raum und den architektonischen Implikationen der Filmtechnik.

Subject of course The class will start with a number of theoretical introductions followed by the presentation of movies and /or film clips. We will take a look at the spatial representation in genral within the movie, and architectural means within the medium film.

259.288 VO House Rules Lecturer Vortragende Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Techn. Kristian Faschingeder, Univ.Lektor Dipl.-Ing. Dr.phil. Mathias Mitteregger, Univ.Lektor Mark Gilbert, Univ.Lektor

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesdays 14:00-16:00, Seminar room 1

Aim of course This course explores mechanisms of power as they are inscribed in our buildings, which determine the way we behave. The goal is to realize that architecture is never really neutral but rather has a strong impact on social behavior.

Ziele der Lehrveranstaltung Diese Vorlesung erkundet die sozialen Mikrostrukturen der Macht, die sich einerseits in die tatsächlichen Räume unserer Gebäude einschreiben und die dann, in der Umkehrung die Art und Weise prägen wie wir in diesen Gebäuden wohnen, arbeiten oder leben, in diesem Sinne also uns selbst formen.

Subject of course The course will look at various anthropological, social, psychological and philosophical theories to explain how different cultures produce different social relations and architectures. Special focus is directed on issues such as privacy and publicity, identity and space.Issues discussed include Hillier’s Social Logic of Space, Lévi-Strauss concept of house -socitey, terriotality, personal space and other topics.

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung Anhand diverser Theorien, die der Anthropologie, Soziologie, Psychologie, Architekturgeschichte und Philosophie entstammen, untersucht die LVA, inwiefern differente Lebensweisen andere Arten von sozialen Beziehungen hervorbringen. Innerhalb dieser sozialen Strukturen konstituieren sich Oppositionen des Privaten und des Öffentlichen und konfigurieren sich, in Abhängigkeit von Alter und der geschlechtlicher Identität, Rollenverteilungen. Die Vorlesung diskutiert in der Folge u.a. anthropologische Theorien über den Beginn der ersten Siedlungsformen; Lévi-Strauss’s Begriff der Haus-Gesellschaft; Hillier’s soziale Logik des Raumes in Bezug auf die Debatte des Globalisierungsprozesses; Territorialitäten und persönlicher Raum; Die Kunst des Handelns und die Konstruktion von sozialen und gender-bedingten Identitäten; alternative Wohnkonzepte vom 19. Jh. bis heute; und die Herausforderung der neuen Technologien im Bezug auf das Häusliche (mobile Heime, elektronische Kommunikation).

251.092 PV Privatissimum for Doctorate Students Privatissimum für Dissertanten Lecturer Vortragende Vera Bühlmann, Univ.Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt, Univ.Prof. Dr.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesdays 09:30-12:30, ATTP Main space

Instead of Statements: Remembering what we cannot grasp AT STAKE: CAPITAL AND CONTINUUM

Logarithmic Vulgarity, Scalar Proficiency, and Intellectual Excitement

1. Friedrich Kittler: The City is a Medium 2. Jean-Yves Girard: The Ghost of Transparency 3. Jens Schröter: Analog / Digital – Opposition oder Kontinuum, Alexander Galloway: Against the Digital

Aim of course The joint PhD colloquy CAAD ETH Zurich & ATTP TU Vienna is looking comparatistically at how the notion of the digital features in today’s dicourses. Our stance for such a comparatistic is: a Technology always embodies a promise. Technique always embodies an “abledness“ (ein Können).

CASTING OUT WHAT IS AT STAKE: NEITHER CAPITAL NOR CONTINUUM 4. Theodor Adorno: Dialectic of Enlightenment. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception Walter Benjamin: The Artwork in the Age of its Reproduction Francis Fukuyama: The End of History 5. Alain Badiou: Logic of Worlds (Being and Event II), Preface, and Book 1 6. Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science (Introduction)

Notions like continuum, discretness, generic, transparency, neutrality, immediacy, mediacy, determination, destiny, spectra, ghosts, identity, union, record, data ... abound in contemporary theory – thereby capitalizing, in many diverse ways, on the ancient legacy of metaphysics, and a certain ‘conspiration’ between mathematics, theology, and logics that is inherent to this legacy. This happens, largely, in the name of “techno-science” – we want to better understand what is happening thereby, and how it is happening.

PROFICIENCY: ACCOMODATING THE MONUMENTAL IMPULSE 7. Blaise Pascal: Pensee (On Mind and Style) Benedict Spinoza: Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect

(Improvement of Understanding) Francis Bacon: On the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human 8. Charles S. Peirce: How to Make Ideas Clear Charles S. Peirce: What is a Sign? Charles S. Peirce: A New List of Categories Charles S. Peirce: Architecture of Theories

14. Erwin Panofsky: Perspective as Symbolic Form 15. Lev Manovich: Database as Symbolic Form FIGURATIONS OF LOGARITHMIC BASENESS 16. 17. 18.

LIGHT-WEIGHT CLAIMS AND HEAVY GATES 9. George Boole: The Claims of Science. Especially as Founded in its Relations to Human Nature George Boole: Mathematical Analysis of Logics 10. Claude Shannon: Mathematical Theory of Information Theodore Hallperin: Boolean Algebra is not Boolean algebra

WITHIN LONGING MINUTESIMALITY 19. 20. 21. 22.

Giuseppe Longo et al: Biological Organization and Negative Entropy Erwin Schrödinger: What is Life? Léon Brillouin: Information Theory Jaques Monod: Chance and Necessity

THE GREATNESS OF DURATION: INTERIORIZATION OF ALGORITHMIC REASON

MANAGING THE SHORT TERM HORIZON: PRAGMATISM

23. Gilles Dowek et al: Le Temps des Algorithms Serge Abiteboul: Terra Data. Qu’allons nous faire des données numériques ? 24. Michel Serres: World Objects

11. Charles S. Peirce: What Pragmatism Is Emile Durkheim: Pragmatism & the Question of Truth Richard Rorty: Consequences of Pragmatism ENGLOBING THE SHORTNESS OF TERMINOLOGY: SOCIAL SCIENCE 12.

Ernst Cassirer: Mythical Thought Susan Langer: Philosophy in a New Key Eric Voegelin: Equivalents of Experience and Symbolization Allan Turing: On Computable Numbers

Wilhelm Dilthey: Introduction to the Human Sciences Max Weber: Definition of Sociology Oswald Wiener: Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Introduction)

LONGITUDINALITY: SYMBOLIC FORM OF GLOBAL SCALE 13. Ernst Cassirer: The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

259.489 SE PhD Seminar Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar Lecturer Vortragende Kristian Faschingeder, Univ.Lektor Dipl.-Ing. Dr.phil.

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Mondays 18:00-19:30, Seminar room ATTP

Longform Aim of course ‘’Longform’, ‘Longread’ – these are dedicated pages on the net which, to the urgency of short messages, oppose long, selected texts. And as Rem Koolhaas stated in “Bigness and the Problem of Large” sheer size can already be a program in itself. Long research papers, some of them known as Dissertations, often seem like a literary genre in their own right: they are somehow unknown, difficult, but also holding a particular reward. Their accomplishment is associated with an enormous amount of work. Its anticipated result is a paper that is serious, readable and comprehensible – no easy task. Difficulties arise not only in connection to methodological problems in the narrow sense, but also in relation to the structure of the paper and the organization of a workflow, which is a method in its own right. These are some of the aspects that will be covered in the seminar. The course provides the opportunity to apply different scientific methods in practice. We will focus on various research methods and their application in relation to a particular problem.

Ziele der Lehrveranstaltung Longform‘, ‚Longread‘ – das sind Seiten im Netz, die der Gedrängtheit kurzer Nachrichten lange, ausgesuchte Texte gegenüberstellen. Schon Rem Koolhaas stellte in „Bigness and the Problem of Large“ fest, dass bereits die schiere Größe ein Programm für sich sein kann. Lange wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, worunter bekanntlich auch Dissertationen fallen, erscheinen oft wie ein eigenes literarisches Genre: unbekannt, schwierig, aber auch sehr bereichernd. Ihre Bewältigung ist mit einer enormen Kraftanstrengung verbunden, als dessen Endprodukt eine (zugleich) ernsthafte, gut lesbare und nachvollziehbare Arbeit erwartet wird. Offene Fragen entstehen dabei nicht nur hinsichtlich der Forschungsmethoden, sondern auch in der Strukturierung der Arbeit, sowie in der Organisation einzelner Arbeitsschritte und Argumentationsweisen, die eine Methode für sich bilden. Ausgehend von unterschiedlichen methodischen Ansätzen wird ein spezifisches Thema selbständig ausgearbeitet, wobei wissenschaftliche Methoden und die Organisation der Arbeit im Mittelpunkt stehen. Dabei sollen praktische Erfahrungen in der Auswahl und im weiteren Umgang mit wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsweisen für eine konkrete Problemstellung erlangt werden. Die Übung wendet sich primär an DissertantInnen und steht auch DiplomandInnen offen.

The course is basically open to everybody. It is especially addressed to doctoral candidates and also to graduate students. New: The seminar offers an organisational framework within which the participants have the opportunity to invite independent experts to workshops. the workshops will take place towards the end of the semester. The funds for this are provided by the invite program, which also feeds other corresponding courses on the faculty. For the time being, this format is only

NEU: Das Seminar bietet einen organisatorischen Rahmen, innerhalb dessen die TeilnehmerInnen die Gelegenheit erhalten, selbstständig Fachleute zu Workshops einzuladen. die Workshops sollen gegen Ende des Semes-

planned for the coming winter semester.

ters stattfinden. Die Mittel dafür werden aus dem invite-programm der Fakultät zur Verfügung gestellt, das auch andere, entsprechende LVs speist. Dieses Format ist vorerst nur für das kommende Wintersemester geplant.

Subject of course Note: the focus will be on practicing exercises, therefore the length of the appointments might vary (in accordance with the participants).

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung Nachdem der Fokus besonders auf dem Praktizieren von Übungen liegen soll, wird die Länge der Termine den Anforderungen entsprechend gestaltet.

Practical excercises in: – finding a research question – finding the appropriate method for a particular problem – applying that method in a short research thesis – organizing a workflow – organizing a (long) text and (short) passages – presentation and defense

Praktische Übungen zu: – Relevante Fragestellung – geeignete wissenschaftliche Methode für eine spezifische Fragestellung – Anwenden der Methode(n) im Rahmen eigener Ausarbeitungen – Organisation von Arbeitsschritten – Organisation von (langen) Texten und (kurzen) Absätzen – Präsentation bzw. Verteidigung

251.038 SE Seminar for doctorands Seminar for doctorands Lecturer Vortragende Michael Doyle, Dr., Visiting Researcher

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesdays 18:00-20:00, Seminar room ATTP

Three Musicians, Pablo Picasso, 1921

Technics and Invention Excercises in Methodical Thinking Aim of the Course “You can always find a needle in a haystack, if you have the time of patience and a nostalgia for the lost needle. There’s little chance on the contrary of finding a straw of hay in the hay of the stable. […] I know of no other figure of hope than this straw that sparkles alone in the indifferent, the mixed, the ordinary, the disorderedness of the stable. […] My hope does not lie in that straight route, a monotonous and dismal method which newness has fled from the beginning; my hope

is the interrupted path, broken, drawn at random, at every halt…” — Michel Serres, Rome This seminar seeks to apply and practice with a general framework for approaching research methods as technics. Upon completing this course, participants should be able to better situate their own method(s) within those applied by fellow researchers or practitioners in their own field as well as those in other fields who share the same object of research. The skills developed here will be particularly

useful, not only for one’s own dissertation, but also for writing for and applying to academic conferences or journals, as well as peer-reviewing and situating the methods employed by other researchers. The language of instruction and of semester work will be in English. The course will be organized around biweekly discussions and in-class exercises. Participants will read a selection of published studies or scientific articles applying different research methods employed in architecture and urbanism. Particular attention will be given to the way in which methods are employed to ‘process’, in a formalized and systematic way, a ‘reservoir’ of data (or accounts, axioms, texts, etc.). Rather than focus on methodology—the conventions by which particular methods are to be adopted and employed—the seminar will address how the methods are applied in different research contexts as technical tools of discovery. The seminar will also be devoted to short in-class exercises by which participants will practice communicating in writing about different aspects of their research project, which are often required for writing abstracts or grant applications (e.g. problematic or object of research, state of the art, methods, social or scientific relevance). Note: This seminar is a companion course to Technics and Invention: Research Methods in Architecture and Urbanism. Although participation in this lecture course is not obligatory, the two are complimentary, with weekly lecture topics corresponding to the methods covered in the seminar course. Each course will alternate weeks and be held in the evenings. Language of discussion and semester work will be in English.

251.044 VO Methodologie für Doktoranden Lecturer Vortragende Michael Doyle, Dr. Visiting Researcher

Time & Place Zeit & Ort Tuesdays 18:00-20:00, Seminar room ATTP

Guitar, Sheet Music and Glass, Pablo Picasso, 1912

Technics and Invention Research Methods in Architecture and Urbanism Aim of the Course “Everything we know derives from language, where this latter derives from music. Nothing surprising, therefore, in finding this latter at the origins of geometry or of arithmetic. … From noise emerges the music from which emerges the language from which knowledge emerges. … A canonical genealogy, preserving the monopoly of the sayable, whose line follows the soft, in the direction of the little energies.” — Michel Serres, Rome

This course seeks to obtain an overview of methods employed by scientific research conducted on buildings, cities and their inhabitants. Although an exhaustive overview is outside the scope of this course, participants will acquire a general sensibility for how methods ‘operate’ as technical tools of discovery and learn to apply a general framework that will allow them to decipher the workings of any method, independent of methodological tradition or convention. The

skills developed through the semester work will aid in the writing of the state of art of one’s own method(s) and in examining other methods that are commonly applied to their object of research. This bi-weekly lecture course will combine an hour of lecture with an hour of discussion on a selection of methods employed by research in architecture and urbanism. These include methods from both qualitative and quantitative traditions as well as those that are somewhat novel in their fields of application—Digital Humanities, Research as Design and Urban Data Sciences. The course will thereby focus less on such conventions and the types of judgments they produce about inventive modes of inquiry and more on addressing any method as a technic, which constitutes a ‘reservoir’ of data (or accounts, axioms, measurements etc.) and ‘processes’ its contents in a formalized and systematic way. Each lecture will profile a different method or series of methods, presenting some of the trends apparent in their application in architecture and urbanism, while also picking up on larger questions they pose for adjacent disciplines or the philosophy of science.