IKA Summer 2015 by IKA Institute for Art and Architecture

IKA – INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE SUMMER 2015

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1 New Babylon, Constant, from 1956 to 1974. 2 conducted in 1963 by the Amsterdam-based newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad 3 Le Jeu de Cartes des Situationnistes, by Thierry Paquot. 4 Henri Lefebvre on the Situationist International, interview conducted and translated in 1983 by Kristin Ross, printed in October 79, winter 1997.

DESIGN STUDIO SUMMER 2015

WOLFGANG TSCHAPELLER / WERNER SKVARA

Babylon 3 The Reconstruction of the Future Constant © Aart Klein / Nederlands Fotomuseum

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In 1974 Constant began his retrospective essay »New Babylon, a nomadic town«1 with an excerpt from an interview 2 with Vaida Voivod, President of the World Community of Romani People: »We are the living symbols of a world without frontiers, a world of freedom, without weapons, where each may travel without let or hindrance from the steppes of Central Asia to the Atlantic Coast, from the high plateau of South Africa to the forests of Finland«. This quote set the tone for Constant´s city of the future that would span the globe as a structural network twenty meters above the surface of the Earth. In Constant’s scenario all land would be collective property and all work would be done by machines so the inhabitants could devote themselves to creative games. Constant had planned to name his ambitious project for a global city of the future »Deriville« 3: the city of drifting, the city of unplanned journeys. However, it was Guy Debord who persuaded him to drop the original name in favour of »New Babylon«. The cursed city – as Henri Lefebvre commented – was to transform into the city of the future. 4 By suggesting a name in reference to a city that no longer existed for Constant’s city, which did not yet exist, Debord likens the problem of depicting »New Babylon« to the archeological problem of the old buried Babylon. Babylon would first have to be unearthed before it could be (re-)constructed as New Babylon. In fact, despite all models and descriptions, »New Babylon« never really became tangible. Every attempt at an elucidation of its original intentions resulted in another fiction being buried again. Here, we start our project for the »Reconstruction of the Future«. Constant’s drawings, descriptions and models are to be studied from the perspective of an architect or engineer in training, not from the perspective of a visionary. The ambition is to reconstruct a fragment of the city; an element of the architecture of the future. Babylon 3: New Babylon as a shell, a frame, a technological fact, a meteorological continuum. New Babylon as a framework for infinitely varied environments and a realm for learning and study.

DESIGN STUDIO SUMMER 2015

HANNES STIEFEL / LUCIANO PARODI

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On Stage Processing Reality

» Das Theater, angesiedelt in dem Riss zwischen der Zeit des Subjekts und der Zeit der Geschichte, ist eine der letzten Wohnungen der Utopie.«

The goal of this studio is to develop comprehensive design proposals for buildings in which, or through which »a unique intersection of aesthetically organized and everyday real life takes place«.1 We will design a theater, the place where »heterogeneous performances are translated into one another«. 2 The programmatic base for the project is the competition brief for the Haus der Musik in Innsbruck (2014). A theater shall be conceived for a site east of the medieval city center of Innsbruck, an area that has accommodated theaters since the 17th century. The plot is characterized by its neighborhood of landmarked buildings from diverse epochs (amongst others Hofkirche 1553–1563, Hofburg 1766–1773, Landestheater 1844–1846). On the northern side towards the river Inn stretches the Court Garden (Hofgarten). During its 600 years of existence, this landscaped area has undergone transformations from a floodplain to a Renaissance- and Baroque-Garden, to its present layout as an English landscape garden. The steep ascending mountain range of Nordkette forms as a scenic background for the area. The historical context of the site positions the project to be developed in our platform’s topic of Cultural Heritage. We understand the task of Cultural Heritage as transformative practice rather than as a duty of conservation. Theater can be considered as a space of translation, intersection and negotiation. We see theater as a model for staging societal relations beyond the theatrical. In the early sixties Arthur Miller complained that the dramatists of his generation could not write the pieces they write the pieces they want or must write, because the New York theaters of the time could not provide the required spaces for contemporary formats. What kind of theater space is required by the complex, dynamic forms of contemporary societies? What is the function of a theater — as art form, as institution, as building? What is the function of its corresponding architecture? We are interested in the processing of reality. It happens that the exchange between stage and audience in contemporary theater leads to an inversion of the relation between actor and spectator, between stage and auditorium, beHans-Thies Lehmann: Postdramatic tween inside and outside — an inversion of spatial and societal relaTheatre, London / New York 2006, p. 17 Jaques Rancière: The emancipated tions. This studio aims to translate the reflective and transformative Spectator, London / New York 2009, practice of theater today into a particular urban context.

Oscar Niemeyer: Maison de la Culture du Havre © Funda ??o Oscar Niemeyer

Trisha Brown: Roof Piece, 1973 © Babette Mangolte

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DESIGN STUDIO SUMMER 2015

HANNES MAYER / DANIELA HEROLD

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Vienna 3000 Can you see the Superfuture? You once said, you want to create an antidote to the reality with your fashion. What is the venom of reality? Viktor & Rolf: The mediocracy.* Until the year 2000 projects related to future developments were often labelled as 2000. Still in the Nineties, the millennium meant future. Since then, much has changed. Little time passed and the new millennium showed serious signs of teething troubles. 9/11 exposed the vulnerability of the superpower of the 20th century, marking an end to experimentation and irony according to many theorists. The financial crisis put further pressure on many Western countries. More recently, promising signs of a turn towards more liberal societies in the Arab world were replaced by civil wars and political oppression. Even the gold-rush in China and the Emirates has lost its strong appeal, Russia has tumbled into isolation. In Europe, German Sparsamkeit and English austerity have set the tone while the southern countries are still on the brink of bankruptcy. While architecture is highly dependent on money, conceptualising both architecture and the city within an academic realm should allow for freedom and optimism as an alternative to the outer gloom. However, obsessed with the idea of turning our thoughts into buildings quickly, the reality of restrictive budgets permeates the criteria for design reviews. Thus, a condition no one welcomes starts to define the future. »Adequate« and »appropriate« become words of appraisal and design excellence without clarifying their reference. We should ask: If we judge our thoughts by the condition of today, are they adequate for the condition of tomorrow? The City of Vienna defines its future of the built environment on two levels: Its urban master-plan called Step 2025 and its overarching strategy Smart City Vienna with its target year 2050. Development and change is frequently defined by targets and percentages. Therefore, is 2050, being only 35 years ahead of us, too close to break from the thinking in increments? Whether 3% or 15% of all cars are electric and therefore emit neither noise nor pollutants make a difference for the environment but little difference for the built environment. But should all cars suddenly fall silent, the city will change. While we can debate whether this will happen until 2050 we can be certain that the world will be a different one in the year 3000. Vienna of the far future will always remain hidden to us. Yet, if we start to speculate, no one will proof us wrong for the next 984 years. A smart calculation and enough freedom to go and make the most out of our creative energy.

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*Interview with Viktor& Rolf, die Zeit, 11.5.2010

DESIGN STUDIO SUMMER 2015

MICHELLE HOWARD

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Prospekthof SemperdeportCMT Rundgang 2012 Frei Otto: Measurement Model of the Olympic Stadium Munich © Frei Otto

Upside Down – Inside Out A 1:1 Prototype

The possible inter-relationship of two spaces in the vicinity of the Academy have fascinated me for many years, the trapezoidal Semper Depot building and the similarly shaped piece of land behind the Secession building. Their inter-activation is the subject of the Studio in the Winter Semester. Contrary to most other design professions built architecture is almost always a one off or prototype. To control the outcome we make models, digital models (said to be 1:1 but bridled by the size of the screen), and analogue models using analogue or digital means such as 3-d printers, similarly bridled by scale. The final product is thus destined to surprise since it, for the first time, reveals qualities of the work which could only be represented 1:1. This studio proposes that the Prospekthof in the Semper Depot could be used to design a space 1:1 for the trapezoidal site behind the Secession building. Using their projected inter-relationship, the studio will address two further interrelated areas of research, the first which explores the strengths, weaknesses and contradictions of modelling methods, the second which, following last semester’s studio, continues to address fabric in architecture. Frei Otto and the Model The architect and engineer Frei Otto is responsible for some of the most important examples of fabric Architecture existing, from the tensile roof structure for the Munich Olympics in 1972 to the Gridshell of the Pavilion for Mannheim Multihalle of 1974. Those complex structures were made without digital means, but with the aid of large scale models, many of them hanging, and cameras which through Stereophotogrammetry fixed points in space. Fabric Architecture Fabric remains in our lexicon as a material normally used for interiors and is still used sparingly to compose building structures and skeletons. It is sorely under-used. Gottfried Semper argued that Architecture is like a garment because it shares the same root and meaning in Germanic languages (wand = wall, gewand = garment). Just as in last semester we will continue to explore the possibilities of using fabric to make architectural prototypes, but this time in Gottfried Semper’s Prospekthof. Right way up? The students are asked to develop and construct a 1:1 prototype which will hang upside-down in the void of the Prospekthof. Using incorporated sensory points of reference a corresponding interactive digital model will be generated, which will then, using virtual reality, be placed right way up on the trapezoidal site behind the Secession. The prototype will need to resemble a complex fishing net where knots represent sensory points and the whole structure can be cast and drawn in from the great void of the Prospekthof with ease. The space thus created will house an exhibition derived from a text Semper wrote while exiled in London entitled »The Ideal Museum« and permit a connection to the Secession.

DESIGN STUDIO SUMMER 2015

KATHRIN ASTE

R208

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Ready for Occupancy [48° 11 5,2 N, 16° 18 44,2 O]

Jan Brueghel the Elder: Paradise Landscape with Animals

We start where it all began, in the garden

Scattered Landscape by laac © laac architects + Plan of the Garden of Schoenbrunn Palace by Franz Boos, 1780

The baroque garden is a geometrically structured artificial construct with major and minor axes, formed by channels, basins or paths. The central visual axis is most often surrounded by a system of parallel and perpendicular and star-shaped intersecting paths. The greatest emphasis is placed on regularity and symmetry. The baroque garden is part of an overall architectural scheme that also often features orangeries, parterres, fountains, ruins, pools, palm houses and menageries — aesthetically tied together by a common decoration scheme usually derived from Greek and Roman mythology. The Schönbrunn Palace as an exemplary model of Baroque design can be understood as a composition of organic and inorganic components. Not restricted to architecture and plants cut into shape the park included a menagerie which later turned into the Tierpark Schönbrunn1 . Being open to the public since 1779 it is the oldest active zoo in the world and home to 8392 animals.

The historical circumstances around the time a structure was created cannot be recreated neither can they be preserved. In that way it seems as if the garden of Schönbrunn bears a potential it does not use.

Designing a landscape means formulating cultural visions. The studio will explore the landscape as a complex dynamic system and versatile sphere where diversity can flourish. The aim of the studio is to liberate the components of strict Baroque order and isolation and to re-configure them in such way so they can interact with each other more dynamically. First and foremost, this requires an act of liberation. We will use collages and montages to describe this first act. The landscape we will discover in our work is not only a landscape of scenes but also one of ideas, operations and strategies. The focus is on what landscape could do, widening its scope, expanding its efficacy. Using 3d render The term menagerie comes from the Fpurench engines and grasshopper we will scatter and populate fields and was used as a term for a courtly livestock rendering them more diverse and enabling than ever before. since the 17th century. The Encyclopédie méthodique from 1782 defined Menagerie as »établis- Architecture once again becomes the operational tool to desement de luxe et de curiosité«. sign landscape as a built reality.

DESIGN STUDIO SUMMER 2015

ERNST FUCHS

R205

SimCity

Middle part of the Triptych ìGarden of Earthly Delightsî Hieronymus Bosch, 1500 + Constant: Symbolische voorstelling van New Babylon, 1969 © Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

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Atmospheric Fiction designing the mental infrastructure

In his novel »The Baron in the Trees«1 , Italo Calvino tells the story of a baron who decides to leave the ground in order to live in the trees: »Cosimo rises from the family dining table, climbs up into a tree and never puts his foot on the ground again.« As a result of this change of perspective, Cosimo is able to overcome everything that previously held him back. He enters a new sphere of life. This story manifests many aspects of what architecture can do. Where does architecture begin? How is it to be defined? What are the parameters upon which it is based? Architecture is a three-dimensional expression of a society and its particular views. This expression acquires its vitality and identity primarily through atmospheres, which we call the »mental infrastructure« of a location. This mental infrastructure has no scale and is the immanent accompaniment of the space we inhabit. It is our belief that its quality and variety depend upon our ability to rigorously question habits we have grown attached to. In his treatise »KybernEthik« 2 , Heinz von Foerster characterizes western culture’s infatuation with foreseeable (thought) systems as hostile to all innovation. Hence, experiments constitute an important field for our society, providing the possibility of delving into worlds of thought that are »out of alignment«. They open up new perspectives. The program of the semester, »Atmospheric Fiction«, observes social patterns and investigates their capacity for change through means of atmospheric interventions in space. The program starts with an analysis of the relation between two urban visions that will subsequently be developed into a spatial structure. The first vision, Constant’s New Babylon (1956–1974), defines the city as »an open city without boundaries that has the ability to expand in all directions like liquid, a city for ›playful‹, mobile people.« Extending the notion of playful, the computer game SimCity (1989–2013) with its imperative slogan »construct the city of your dreams« is selected as the second vision. In SimCity, you are the mayor of your very own city. You are the one who draws roads, designates zones and manItalo Calvino: Der Baron auf den Bäumen, München: DTV 1999. ages everything from health and safety to education, Heinz von Foerster: KybernEthik, Berlin: Merve Verlag 1993. Ausschnitt aus dem Triptychon »Garten der Lüste« Hieronymus industry and beyond. Bosch, 1500

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

MILENA STAVRIC

R203b THU 5-TIMES

Geometry II

16—19 45 H

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In order to use complex geometrical forms in the design process in the age of advanced digital technology and parametric design, the mastery of its geometry is required. The students will be gain a thorough understanding of drafting principles in shadows, perspectives or intersections of volumes. In order to model complex 3d models this course will introduce the students to NURBS geometries and to Rhinoceros as a software. Students will develop logical reasoning, sequential thinking and methods for analysing complex free form models in order to solve complex geometrical modelling problems. The problems related to the translation of 2d drawings and pictures into 3D models will be elaborated through assignments about modelling real objects. Further information: https://iam.tugraz.at/milena/akbild/dg

PROJECT LECTURE SUMMER 2015

WERNER SKVARA

ADP CMT ESC GLC TUE 9 30—12 45 HTC R203a

»Read« — »Create Edit« — »Write« 3D Modelling and Animation I

The course covers the fundamentals of 3D-modelling in computer-aided design. It provides students with an understanding for different types of modelling techniques and will focus on essential fields related to the production of digital models: READ — We will examine different methods to digitize geometries based on a set of initial data like 2D vector drawings, 2D pixel graphics and point cloud scans. CREATE I EDIT — Depending on the complexity of the given geometry and the design intention we will learn to work with Low Polygon Modelling (Maya), NURBS-models (Rhino) and component models (Grasshopper). The prerequisites and advantages of these techniques will be tested with a focus on accuracy and a logical structure of the modelled geometry. WRITE — We will explore the possibilities of rapid prototyping with the machines available at the institute: unfolding, laser cutting, milling, and 3D printing. The course is closely integrated with the ADP design project.

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

PETER BAUER

R203a THU

14—15 30 H

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3D Modeling and Animation III

The best starting point for designing load-bearing structures is to ask for the underlying, fundamental concepts of an architect’s work. For a start it is not necessary to calculate the structure, however, it is essential to know the demands of the chosen design parameters. This lecture exercises the parametric investigation of structural systems using Rhino, Grasshopper, Kangaroo and several more extensions. To begin with fundamentals like mass, velocity, acceleration and forces will be modeled. From these initial concepts, form-finding processes for truss, cable and membrane structures will be developed and the internal as well as external forces of the resulting geometry will be analyzed. Finally, a special chapter will be dedicated to double-curved surfaces in relation to planar — best fitting — elements.

PROJECT LECTURE SUMMER 2015

ADP CMT ESC WED GLC BI-WEEKLY 9 30—12 30 HTC R203a

EVA SOMMEREGGER

City Symphonies

Interactive Design, Film Editing and Sound Scripting

This seminar explores how moving images establish spatial relations, which only exist in film. Unlike other tools of architectural communication, time-based media produce a fluid and genuinely dynamic space. Through video we will capture the characteristics of a variety of locations in Vienna — locations of transit, markets, recreational spaces and places of historic layering — with a special focus on hitherto invisible spatial qualities. Describing the city as the subject, we will explore the fine line between documenting space through raw footage and constructing a spatial narrative through its editing process. We will exercise the recording of both audio and video in order to explore the richness of both pre-determined and interactive time-based media as a way of expanding the limitations of twodimensional representations. 1 City Symphonies are »montage-based films without human leads where the city is the subject« — See Urban Cinematics, Ed: A.Lu and F.Penz, Intellect, Bristol 2011; p.10

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

DANIEL KERBLER

Parametric Modeling and Digital Fabrication

R203a TUE

9 30—11 H

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Kerbler © Daniel Kerbler

Drafting has always been an integral skill architects have to master in order to develop and convey their ideas. Today this discipline has shifted from the analog use of pen and paper to the digital processing of data streams. A once sequential and linear process that made use of simple tools is now an interactive and generative one emerging from a set of rules. This Seminar is designed to help students develop a personal approach towards rule based tools. The course focuses on redefining the skill of drafting within the field of software applications. Two challenges have to be addressed: How to avoid the permanent distraction caused by predefined interfaces and how to recreate the simplicity of working with pen and paper in the digital realm. By exploring the new possibilities of drafting in the context of parametric data processing we start to understand new concepts of logic and interactivity enabling us to update the way we design.

LECTURE SUMMER 2015

PETER BAUER

R211a THU

Building Structures II

16—17 30 H

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In this lecture we learn about structural concepts which are appropriate to cover large areas. Extending our knowledge on linear elements like beams and cables (the subject of Building Structures I), we develop two-dimensional load-bearing structures, e.g. shells and membranes. Several (digital) form-finding methods will be studied, improving our command of Rhino and Grasshopper. These tools will be used to investigate structural fundamentals by method of parametric-modelling. Furthermore, the lecture examines design-strategies for the optimization of building structures. Lastly, the structural behavior of air-support structures, pneumaticconcepts and bionic-concepts will be presented.

LECTURE SUMMER 2015

CHRISTOPH MONSCHEIN

R203a WED

13—14 30 H

Construct Architecture

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Building Technologies I

»The Architect« © Christoph Monschein

This course offers an introduction to the history and theory of basic building technologies and material tectonics. From material to building archetypes of construction, from subsoil to foundations, from basements to roof structures, from the basic elements to the non-quantifiable elements of architecture, the course provides an overview of different systems and the assemblage of building envelopes. It promotes a synthetic understanding of building construction and trains a heuristic approach to the field. Another part of construct architecture is to learn about drawings and its respective standards. This course will equip you with the basic knowledge and skills for work or further study and your future as an architect.

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

R211a

LUCIANO PARODI

THU

10 30—12 H

In Detail: Pavilions

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Building Technologies III

A seminar focused on new building materials as well as on new and future possibilities using traditional materials and building technologies. This semester we will analyse the construction details of paradigmatic pavilions with a special regard to details that result from the ephemeral nature of this building category. Details which allow for a quick assembly and dismantling. Furthermore the seminar aims to foster an understanding of the design strategy in relation to the production process encompassing manufacturing, transportation, dismantling, disposal and strategies of recycling as well as reuse. Pavilions often act as prototypes for new construction or spatial principles. The origin of the word pavilion derived from the French word for butterfly papillon hints at an intrinsic quality of lightness and movement. These intended nonpermanent architectures open a critical gap through their a-territorial relationship with the site. Inspired by Pierre Menard the author of Don Quixote a short story written by J.L. Borges students will first explore, re-draw and re-design an assigned pavilion and continue with introducing the concept of temporality to a detail of an existing building.

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

R210

THOMAS SCHWED

THU

9 30—11 H

Project Evolution

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Professional Practice

»Construction of the European Central Bank« © Thomas Schwed

The lecture introduces the professional and legal foundations necessary to the practice of architecture. With a focus on the planning phases we will analyse the complex process of project evolution from the preliminary design stage to the planning application and building permit followed by the technical design for construction in conjunction with the required project management. By looking at examples we will understand the process of design development. Informative site visits and the possibility to talk to experienced architects at various offices will further add to the understanding of the design and building process and how it is structured and managed. In addition we will discuss the objectives of the planning phase, of building laws and regulations, building standards and various required calculations in relation to the design process.

PROJECT LECTURE SUMMER 2015

MAX RIEDER

R211a WED BI-WEEKLY

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

meta eco – revision, 17—20 palimpsest, transcription for the future H

Ecology II: Ecology is everything.

Architecture as an act of both designing and building relates to both the biosphere and the mental sphere. We are not interested in targets and standards as defined by European policies on energy efficiency. We are interested in the spatial and cultural milieu. Our individual way of life is what defines the design of our longings and their subsequent transformations into spatial as well as material constructions. This stands in contrast to the often simplistic standardised solutions of in the field of sustainable construction. Whether low-energy, zero-energy or plus-energy, rarely does the energy label certified architecture, energetically pimped by building services convince the creative minded in our profession. We therefore want to look back to move ahead. Using some of my own projects as test-cases we want to move them from the past into the green future, practicing the design for culture- and climate change. Our ambition is to formulate a new holistic view and aesthetic whilst also being highly specific to different cultural as well as climatic zones. To allow for a smooth running the necessary external input will be provided. Have a look of the past program (summer term 2014) http://kooperativerraum.at/2014/03/13/ecology-sustainability-2014/

PROJECT LECTURE SUMMER 2015

HANNES STIEFEL / JOSEF FRÖHLICH

R211a WED BI-WEEKLY

17—20

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Sustainability from A-Z / Sustainability and Complex Systems Sustainability I

Nachhaltig ist, was anhaltend Wirkung zeigt. Sustainability means sustained impact. The first part of this course led by Hannes Stiefel discusses the subject of sustainability from A-Z – from »accessibility« to »zero energy« – in an essayistic format, with particular regard to cultural and social aspects of sustainability. This introductory part of the course offers a broad understanding of a term far too often misused in architectural discourse. The second part of the course led by Josef Fröhlich is dedicated to the relationship between sustainability and complex systems. The development of a building as well as the design of public space means an intervention within a complex social and ecological system. It is therefore of critical importance to understand the structure, features and dynamics of complex systems in order to be able to conceptualise a proposal that addresses the underlying goals of sustainability. This implies both an understanding of the impact of a specific intervention within the described complex systems as well as the ability to govern such systems orienting them towards desired directions.

LECTURE SUMMER 2015

GOGO KEMPINGER

R211a THU

Attractions of the Unfinished Conservation II

12 30—14 H

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The course will focus on practical and technical aspects of dealing with the built environment while continuing the discussion on theoretical and historical features of conservation and cultural heritage. There will be an introduction to the principles of conservation management for projects of various scales and to methods of analysis, evaluation and implementation of a project from beginning to the final stage. We will look into the causes of decay, the management of environmental conditions and structural conservation. Usage of Materials as well as reasons for their deterioration or failure will be explained and methods of repair and conservation will be discussed. The role of Conservation in the regeneration of derelict urban areas and abandoned industrial sites of our post-industrial society will be reviewed. Through case studies we will get a more direct understanding of the processes. Excursions to sites, visits to exhibitions and occasional guest lecturers will complete the course.

LECTURE SUMMER 2015

THOMAS PROKSCH

Sustainability II

SITZUNGSSAAL

WED BI-WEEKLY

17—20

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Contributions to Sustainable Architecture

Sustainable design is an approach of designing buildings and cityscapes to comply with the principles of social, economic and ecological sustainability. Starting point of the lecture is the experience of a landscape architect and landscape ecologists, who as a consultant has worked for many years with architects and urban planners on urban design and architectural solutions. Social and environmental aspects are the focus of work. The reference to the site and its respective urban, landscape and socio-spatial conditions are central priorities. On the basis of concrete reference projects it will be discussed, whether the consideration of principles of sustainability can contribute to an improvement of the planning results. Amongst others the adherence to natural factors, climatic aspects, water management and green planning aspects but also the interactions between urban space and social structure will be discussed. A day excursion to Graz is scheduled to complete the program.

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

PETER LEEB

Well-Tempered Environments

ANATOMIESAAL

THU

16—17 30 H

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Countless technological inventions have widened the field of possibilities for shelter production. For coping with heat and cold, protecting from wind and humidity, regulating sunlight and shade, the new tools have been helpful and inspiring in order to push the limits of architectural imagination. Yet economic and ecological considerations of resources as well as their relationship with thermal comfort and mobility have raised questions with far ranging implications for architecture. These questions, relating to the history, the methods and the scale of providing comfort within buildings, have moved to the center of our discipline’s attention. In the course of the seminar the interdependencies between technology, environment and human expectations for comfort will be portrayed as essentials for architecture both conceptually and constructively. Historical and contemporary examples will be introduced and the perspectives into future developments will be considered in a critical fashion.

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

LISA SCHMIDT-COLINET

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R211a

Documentation and 10—11 30 Representation in Geographies, Landscapes, Cities FRI

The seminar focuses on the description of urban fragments and territories. The visual representation, as a projects itself, has the potential to reveal and uncover surprising realities of places. The complexity of a site obliges one to make decisions and select information, but more importantly, it requires inventive interpretations of and a position towards the observed terrain. The technique of representation, the selection of material and the intentions of a site’s description are strongly interrelated. This seminar explores gradual differences between common tools of representing architecture as built form and modes of representation of intricate interdependencies of a city fragment. It opens the range from small-scale observation towards the complexity of an urban terrain, focusing on the forces and processes that are the basis of urban form. Students will discover how the site influences and effects the larger scale of a city and experiment with the visualization of underlying processes – starting from phenomenological observations moving towards an understanding of effects, describing the territory as a network, a complex set of relations. Input lectures will formulate a genealogy of urban representations.

LECTURE SUMMER 2015

MARIA AUBÖCK

SITZUNGSSAAL

FRI

11—13 30 H

Landscapes and Gardens

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

To learn to differentiate types of landscape and approaches towards landscape architecture, to understand the function of open space and to become knowledgeable about materials as well as plants is the goal of this lecture series. The disciplines covered range from the design of open public space to landscape design and garden design and are all understood as powerful design disciplines that interact with and complement architecture. The lectures cover the preservation, planning and design of open space in which we all move. This also requires an understanding of the planning procedures and its methods. The lectures will present a range of realised projects from all over the world and focus on their implementation within the landscape and the city. Each lecture builds upon the knowledge of the previous. An excursion is scheduled.

LECTURE SUMMER 2015

BERND VLAY

SITZUNGSSAAL

FRI BI-WEEKLY

10—13

Infrastructure & Networks

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

»Hardly anything is more depressing than going straight to the goal«. Cedric Price The course (ab-)uses the concepts of infrastructure in order to discuss the potential of urban and architectural design. Cedric Price questioned how things are and should be related to each other, addressing the framework itself as a fundamental issue of architectural intervention. Infrastructures are infamous for FRAMING architecture: they have to be there BEFORE architecture may start its operation. The architect usually has to navigate through conditions already there, predetermined by the infrastructural elements. In our class we will explore and question this hierarchy, looking at different phenomena of infrastructure and networks. We will look at very different networks and infrastructures, revealing their influence on the power, responsibility and limitations of architectural thinking and making do. Two micro-field-trips will take place as part of the lecture.

PROJECT LECTURE SUMMER 2015

CHRISTIAN TECKERT

SITZUNGSSAAL

WED BI-WEEKLY

16—19 30 Rethinking Urban Futures of the Recent Past H

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Urbanism II

The analysis of discursive formations within contemporary urbanism stands at the core of the lectures series. This will comprise insights in related fields like sociology, art, media theory, philosophy, or critical geography, all of which have been decisive for the current debates. Facing a situation where no hegemonic method or unitary approach in urbanism can be detected and being confronted with claims that urbanism as a discipline is facing irrelevance, this lecture series will be based on a critical discussion of the crucial theoretical debates and key terms in contemporary urbanism like network urbanism, tactical urbanism, bigness or the city of exacerbated difference. At the same time it will consider new methodological approaches in the realm of urban research, analysis and mapping, which increasingly represent an urbanistic practice in its own right.

PROJECT LECTURE SUMMER 2015

MARKUS VOGL

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

AKTSAAL

Strategies for Cities

FRI BI-WEEKLY

9—13

Every panel on urban development legitimizes its own existence by the fact that today more than half of the world’s population live in metropolitan areas. The topic remains a major challenge throughout the 21 st century. Yet, we should question, why do societies need the »city« as such? What are the underlying principles of a city? What strategies do planners, designers and politicians employ when faced with the challenges of urban development? What tactics do the »urbanites« cultivate to organise their life in contemporary urban agglomerations? We may also ask: what happens to the periphery? Strategies for Cities will open the urban debate by introducing social geography as a scientific discipline. The lectures act as an introduction to urban design principles as well as the social production of space within the GLC platform. As the urban geographer Edward Soja put it: »Let cities be first!«

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

ANTJE LEHN

R203a FRI

9 30—11 H

Mappings

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Topology Topography and Surface

This course discusses cartography and mapping in history and contemporary culture as media to describe and understand patterns and forms of organization in society at large. It differentiates between intensive and extensive cartography, provides an insight into topology and addresses issues related to topography and city planning. In cooperation with the research project Atlas unsichtbarer Räume we will firstly explore how knowledge of place is accessed using maps. Secondly, how a heterogeneous group constitutes a collective map of an urban space. Our site will be the urban context of a school in Vienna´s 15th district. We will analyze maps as representations of surface and space and expose their ability to show time based and topological relationships. Filtering information and choosing formal as well as strategic parameters will help us to develop strategies of representation. Taking into account phenomena like social behavior, orientation, public and private territories, students will develop their own map showing the richness of city landscape.

LECTURE SUMMER 2015

AUGUST SARNITZ

Architecture History II

ADP CMT ESC GLC WED 15 15—16 45 HTC R211a

This course is key to the teaching of history within the school in that it tries to trace various practical and theoretical changes within the past one hundred years. The following position is to be discussed: Architecture is a semi-autonomous discipline aiming to design and enhance our built environment. The term »semiautonomous« reflects the different parameters the production of architecture is depending on, e.g. cultural, socio-economic and technological aspects. In addition, there will be a historical and theoretical discourse on the aspects of historiography. The aim of the course is a profound understanding of relevant background history as an introduction to modern and contemporary architecture.

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

AUGUST SARNITZ

R211a WED

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Writing about Architecture, Landscape and Cities 13 30—15 H

The question of »notation« in teaching history and theory of architecture is of great relevance: In a rapidly changing environment, where the pace of modernization never decelerates, historical studies are of crucial importance to the architect in that they enable a broader sense of cultural judgment with regard to one’s own time. This seminar addresses the classic themes of architecture and urbanism in the 20th century. Reading authentic texts — different positions of early modernism, classic modern, post-modernism and other »-isms« are discussed. Some seminar sessions will revolve around selection of texts, books or will be concerned with the production of exhibitions. Readings include among others: Camillo Sitte, Georg Simmel, Erich Mendelsohn, Lewis Mumford, Kenneth Frampton and Peter Eisenman. The aim is to present various positions of »notations« of architecture as a basis for an interdisciplinary discussion.

LECTURE SUMMER 2015

ANGELIKA SCHNELL

R211a WED

10 30—12 H

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Histories and Theories of Cities

Starting chronologically with prehistoric and ancient cities the lecture will give both an overview about the history of cities and about the history of theories on cities until today. In an alternating rhythm the lecture will explain the historic/social/built reality of cities by means of selected examples and the theories that have determined or used them. The lecture discusses not only standard theories of architects and urban historians such as Leonardo Benevolo, Lewis Mumford, Ernst Egli etc. which describe the structural development of the cities, but also theories and narratives that are based on their social, political-economic and narrative aspects. The lecture aims at showing that theories on cities (even architectural theories on cities) always imply a political vision of the society. The aim is to foster a basic knowledge on the historical development of cities; furthermore, to understand what theories of cities are and to raise awareness for the theories of the society we live in. An understanding that finally enables us to challenge the theories of architecture.

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

ANDREAS RUMPFHUBER

ADP CMT ESC WED GLC BI-WEEKLY 9 30—12 30 HTC SITZUNGSSAAL

Housing Unit Erzherzog Karl Stra e, Vienna / Design: O. and P. Payer (Montagebau, Ges.m.b.H.), 1962 / Image taken from: Peter Marchart: Wohnbau in Wien, Compress verlag Wien, 1984

Contemporary Debates on Architectural Theory The Housing Question

This year’s seminar will trace the transformation of housing as an emancipatory and political project since the 1960s. We will be acknowledging (1) that housing evolved with the introduction of wage labour, ultimately triggering the radical transformation of the European city during the industrial revolution, (2) that housing has always been an instrument of governmentality of the masses, (3) that housing, as the focal point of reproduction, was always inside of capitalist production and that (4) various different labour movements have used the societal status of housing in order to express their emancipatory and political project. Yet what relevance does housing have in a »society after labour«? What happens to housing whose economy is driven by a new spirit capitalism, whose dirty industry got outsourced to far away countries and immaterial labour has become the dominant form of production – that is: what happens to the emancipatory and political project of housing when the working class disappears?

ELECTIVE COURSE SUMMER 2015

HANNES MAYER / TILL EXIT

SEMPERDEPOT

WED

16 30—18 H

(In)visible Spaces

Syzygy II

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

An experimental laboratory investigating the contemporary understanding of space from two perspectives (architecture and scenography) in parallel. Not bound to predetermined results the laboratory seeks to explore the nature of space and its perception in an age where the real and the virtual collapsed into a single sphere and space stopped being nothing as the opposite to matter. Building upon the specific sensibilities of the professions involved the laboratory asks how the invisible can be »constructed« at the intersection of pragmatic functional and theatrical qualities.

ELECTIVE COURSE

MATTHÄA RITTER

SUMMER 2015

R211a

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Innovations from A glance into female participative the Kitchen innovative communal homes THU

18—19 30 H

Subject of the course are recent housing projects built for women and by women. Understanding women housing projects as all residential projects targeting women and their specific interests and needs. Nine projects from Austria, Germany and Switzerland will be discussed; focusing especially on project ambitions, historical origins, interrelationships with the housing market, architecture and urban planning. The innovative character of these projects often appears hidden at first glance though we can learn much about process-oriented workflows and soft skills (team spirit, communication and organization). In political terms these projects triggered new policies in social housing and opened up discussions on social issues within families. More specifically, the spatial organization of the selected housing projects were developed in a participatory process putting the resident and their specific needs at the center and therefore questioned ordinary ways of living and housing. In the light of the renaissance of participative housing projects, we will look at the current state of these projects and their historic relevance.

ELECTIVE COURSE SUMMER 2015

ANGELIKA SCHNELL

R211a MON

9 30—12 H

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Scientific Methods in Architecture Theory and Architecture History

Open for Bachelor and Master students this elective course introduces different ways of scientific writing and working – with a focus on scientific methodologies in architecture theory and architecture history. Starting with an overview about relevant methodologies of the last decades (mostly) in the humanities and the social sciences – different historical interpretations, theoretical approaches, visual analysis methods – students will choose one of them and work with it throughout the whole semester. The goal is to produce a synopsis as a starting point for a fictional (or even real) doctoral thesis. As an objective students should learn how to balance rigidity and experimental freedom of scientific thinking and working. The course prepares for any subsequent study in the field of architecture theory and/or history (for example writing a dissertation). It is planned to involve all students in the international doctorate symposium in May 2015. (see page 29 / Doctoral Studies)

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

CHRISTINA CONDAK

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R210

11—12 30 Preparation of the Design Thesis Proposal (Proseminar) FRI

This seminar guides a semester long independent research, culminating in a written thesis proposal that clearly defines a research topic, a line of relevant inquiry in the field of architecture, presents argumentation and methodology for the thesis project to come in the following semester. Students are asked to take an active role in the seminar in assessing what makes a good thesis proposal. Students must argue on the basis of which they make their claims and assumptions; they must prove why their speculation is relevant and find a method of work that compliments and defends the hypothesis. Four pieces of writing will be expected, structured by the following process: The first phase concentrates on the discussion of what qualifies a thesis topic in the field of architecture. It will end in an individual statement situating the student within the debate of that particular topic. The first draft is important and keeps the topic open and general. The second phase of the seminar focuses on research, gathering information and finding a position. It is suggested not to explore a territory that is totally new to the student, but to build on prior experience and knowledge. In this phase, the students are asked to focus on a particular aspect of their research, zooming in and explain what is relevant, detecting a small part of what could become very important. During the last phase of the seminar, a position is taken and a longer text is elaborated. The student clearly defines the thesis topic, the context, and the proposed method of working. The final piece of writing (c.750 words) synthesizes all thoughts and writing into a single thesis proposal.

SEMINAR SUMMER 2015

CHRISTINA CONDAK

R210 MON

14—15 30 H

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Thesis Seminar / Thesis Documentation

As a continuation of the pre-thesis seminar, this is a required course for master students in their last semester of study. Through an emphasis on representation and documentation this course supports the intellectual foundation of the thesis and helps to formulate and organize the structure of the project. The research material together with the process of production and the project itself critically reviewed and compiled into a book format. A copy of which will be archived in the library of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. This course tutors students in synthesizing and concluding their thesis project and turning it into a coherent written and graphic document. Throughout the course, books made by architects, such as Venturi’s Complexity and Contradition, Koolhaas’ Delirious New York, and more recent books, i.e., Atelier Bow-Wow’s Echo of Space and others, will be discussed for how architects position themselves through the making of books.

DOCTORAL STUDIES

Doctoral Studies (Dr. techn.)

Architecture as a discipline, situated in-between the Arts and Sciences, finds itself in a special position. Even if classified as scientific program of study by statute, the design process and therefore creative-artistic thinking and acting is core subject of the education. For this reason architecture cannot be understood as mere applied science. At the same time architecture cannot be considered as a purely artistic discipline since the architectural practice involves a wide range of scientific aspects that require a rational-analytic and/or interpretive approach. These aspects are prerequisites to, as much as immanent societal obligations of the discipline. Making research visible by means of a PhD program at the IKA emphasizes the particular position of the discipline giving rise to a distinctive, highly original concept of research allowing for both strict scientific research formats â&#x20AC;&#x201C; i.e. within the field of architectural history or material technology â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and artistic research at the intersection with design practice. Consequently, Doctoral theses may include and focus on theoretical, historical, technical as well social subjects. Design-by-research equally qualifies as a research path. Since 2011 the IKA offers a doctorate study program in architecture (Dr. techn.) open to students holding an appropriate university degree in architecture (master, diploma) . Candidates who want to apply for the program are required to write a synopsis of their proposed dissertation project and are encouraged to approach a professor at the institute who could act as a supervisor for the intended doctoral thesis. Once a supervisor is found the program stretches over six semesters. There is no application deadline and no admission fee.

Further information on the program: https://ika.akbild.ac.at/school/admission/Dr_techn For queries concerning the program, please contact: arch@akbild.ac.at

DOCTORAL STUDIES

Current Dr. techn. candidates at IKA

Anamarija Batista: KlangkünstlerIn als RaumplanerIn – ein Blick auf die Kooperation zwischen künstlerischer und urbaner Praxis (supervisors: Diedrich Diederichsen, Angelika Schnell)

Waltraud Indrist: Hans Scharoun – Eine humanistische Entwurfsmethode? (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) Solmaz Kamalifard: Human, Climate and Architecture (supervisor: Michelle Howard) Michael Karassowitsch: The Goal in Architecture: The Essential Mutual Claiminf of One Another of Architecture and Spirituality (supervisors: Wolfgang Tschapeller, Elisabeth von Samsonow) Esther Lorenz: The City as Mass Media Angelika Schnell)

(supervisor:

Mahsa Malekazari: A Skin Made of Architecture Michelle Howard)

(supervisor:

Holger Schurk: Theorie, Form und Geometrie im Entwurf. Die Projekte von OMA/Rem Koolhaas zwischen 1989 und 1992 (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) Eva Sommeregger: Ways in which to Draw where Eye Am? Performing Topography (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) Christian Tonko: Engineering the creative process. A Comparison between the office work of OMA/AMO and Olafur Eliasson (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) Jie Zhang: The Interpretation of Renaissance in the Postwar Italian Modern Architectural Discourse (supervisor: Angelika Schnell)

On 7th and 8th of Mai 2015 the first Vienna PhD in Architecture symposium will take place at the Semper Depot, bringing together for the first time PhD candidates from all three Viennese Architecture Schools – Academy of Fine Arts, University of Applied Arts and Technical University.

LISA EXCURSION SCHMIDT-COLINET / DATE: 14.5.— LUCIANO PARODI / 29.5. HANNES STIEFEL / EXTERNAL EXPERT: ALEXANDER SCHMOEGER

EXCURSION SUMMER 2015

FIRST R211a LUNCH LECTURE: 10.3. 13—14

Havana Excursion

With a series of lunch-time lectures we will collectively prepare the excursion and provide students with insights into Cuban film, art, literature and architecture. The lectures form the prelude to the evening seminars that will take place regularly on site in Havana throughout the period of the excursion.

LECTURESERIES CONFIRMED LECTURES: SUMMER 2015

CJ LIM ARCHITECT (UNITED KINGDOM) MARIA FRANÇOISE PLISSART, PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER (BELGIUM) PAOLA VIGANÒ ARCHITECT AND URBANIST (ITALY)

23.3. 8.6. 22.6

R211a ADP CMT ESC MON GLC 19 HTC H

Into the city, Into the territory Lecture Series

The lecture series will focus on the question of representation and description of landscape, territory and the city. At what point does the description through drawings and other media become a project on its own? For many years the various discourses on landscape urbanism have called for the dissolution of the dividing line between the city as densely built fabric and the territory as the surrounding landscape – promoting an understanding of our living environment as a continuous milieu. Movements have developed in two directions: Into the city, as constructed artificial nature, as buildings evoking land formations or as intense verdure overgrowing the city fabric. Into the territory, as projects of extensive mapping describing the environment and it’s geological, hydrological or biological phenomena in order to reveal potentials of the site and to cautiously integrate human settlements and infrastructure into the natural habitat. At the same time, European cities like Vienna seek to further densify the existing city fabric while looking for new strategies for spaces to breath. Yet they continue to understand the relationship of buildings and open space as binary conditions in opposition. The forthcoming Institute for Art and Architecture lecture series continues the exploration of the relationship between city and landscape, focusing on the role of descriptions and representations in our understanding of territories and the urban realm.

32 IKA CALENDAR

SUMMER 2015

22.—23.6. 9.6.

SUMMER SEMESTER 2015 CONTINUING REGISTRATION: GRADUATION CEREMONY (SCHLUSSFEIER):

16.2.— 31.3. 26.6.

APPLICATIONS: BARCH ENTRANCE DATES ONLINE REGISTRATION: HANDOUT OF EXERCISE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR EXERCISE WORKS AND PORTFOLIO ENTRANCE JURY / SELECTION OF CANDIDATES PERSONAL INTERVIEWS

27.5.—16.6. 17.6. 25.6. 29.6. 6.—7.7.

MARCH ENTRANCE DATES ONLINE REGISTRATION SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR PORTFOLIO ENTRANCE JURY / SELECTION OF CANDIDATES PERSONAL INTERVIEWS

4.5.—22.5. 27.5. 2.6. 6.—7.7.

for more information about courses and updates see: https://campus.akbild.ac.at for general inquiries please contact: Academy of Fine Arts Wien Schillerplatz 3 1010 Vienna Austria www.akbild.ac.at/ika Office: Ulrike Auer

R213 2nd Floor +43 (1) 588 16—5101 / u.auer@akbild.ac.at Gabriele Mayer +43 (1) 588 16—5102 / g.mayer@akbild.ac.at

2.3. 23.3. 13.4. 27.—28.4. 14.—29.5.

Institute for Art and Architecture – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Summer 2015 Head of Institute: Wolfgang Tschapeller Editor: Hannes Mayer Design: cyan berlin Printed in Austria by REMAprint

KICK OFF / SEMESTER START: LECTURE SERIES: CJ LIM DIPLOMA PRESENTATION: MIDTERM REVIEWS: HAVANA EXCURSION: LECTURE SERIES: MARIA FRANÇOISE PLISSART 8.6. LECTURE SERIES: PAOLA VIGANÒ 22.6. FINAL REVIEWS: DIPLOMA PRESENTATION: