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Poissy Galore Insects Museum and Observatory, 2017. AWP+HHF Photo: Iwan Baan

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Alessandra Cianchetta is the leading architect and founding partner of AWP, an architecture practice based in London and New York (formerly in Paris). Cianchetta works across scales and genres – from the 160 ha strategic masterplan for the Paris CBD to buildings, pavilions, landscapes, interiors, exhibitions and publications. Born in Italy, Cianchetta studied architecture at La Sapienza in Rome, ETSA Madrid and ETSA Barcelona, before setting up her practice in 2008. Her recent projects include Poissy Galore, a museum and observatory (pictured) which is part of a 113 hectare park on the Seine near Paris; the masterplan for ParisLa Défense, a grand-scale public realm project; an arts district in Liverpool and exhibition designs worldwide. Cianchetta has taught architecture and urban design at Cornell University, University of Virginia, Columbia University, The Berlage and The Cooper Union. Her work has been presented at venues worldwide such as MAXXI, Cité de l’Architecture, MoMA, the Storefront for Architecture & Art and has been featured in NY Times, Le Monde, PIN UP and The Guardian.

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Unsere Wohnung wird mobiler denn je: … Das Vaterland verfällt. Wir lernen Esperanto. Wir werden Weltbürger. Hannes Meyer, Die neue Welt, 1927

Zwischen 1928 und 1930 lud Bauhausdirektor Hannes Meyer Vertreter des Wiener Kreises ans Dessauer Bauhaus, um den Dialog zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft im modernen Zeitalter zu stärken. Die einmalige Begegnung von Künstlern und Philosophen bzw. Wissenschaftlern hinterließ jedoch offene Fragen. Die Konferenz widmet sich von verschiedenen zeitgenössischen Blickwinkeln der Beziehung zwischen Wiener Moderne und Bauhaus-Moderne.

INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE Internationale Konferenz zur Begegnung Bauhaus und Wiener Kreis Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien in Kooperation mit der Universität Wien

Idee und Organisation: Károly Kókai, Universität Wien / Angelika Schnell, Institut für Kunst und Architektur, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

16. Mai und 17. Mai 2019

DER DIALOG ZWISCHEN WISSENSCHAFT UND KUNST AM BAUHAUS Atelierhaus der Akademie (Semperdepot), Prospekthof Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien 9:30 Eva Blimlinger / Friedrich Stadler

Begrüßung

9:45 Angelika Schnell / Károly Kókai

Einführung

12:00-12:30 Maria Auböck / Carl Auböck

Von Wien nach Weimar. Über die Beziehungen von Wien und Bauhaus

10:00-10:50 Anne Siegetsleitner

Vom Geist des Wiener Kreises und dem Lebensgefühl des Bauhauses

13:30-14:20 Károly Kókai

Rezeption der wissen schaftlichen Weltauffassung des Wiener Kreises am Bauhaus

11:10-12:00 Hans-Joachim Dahms

14:20-15:10 Peter Bernhard

13:00-13:50 Detlev Schöttker

Rudolf Carnap, László Moholy-Nagy und der Raum

10:00-10:50 Christoph Wagner

Johannes Itten und die Kunstwissenschaft als Global Art History 11:10-12:00 Angelika Schnell

Bauhaus-Moderne vs. Wiener Moderne

Die zu spät gekommene Unterstützung. Philipp Franks Bauhausvorträge 15:30-17:30 Maximilian Aelfers / Joseph Eckhart / Christina Ehrmann / Elisabeth Fölsche / Gloria Hinterleitner / Naomi Mittempergher

Wiener Bauhauskreis Eingang zu Moritz Schlicks Mathematisches Seminar in der Boltzmanngasse 5, wo sich zwischen 1924 und 1936 der Wiener Kreis traf. Eingang zum Bauhaus in Dessau, Foto: Angelika Schnell

Reduktion als universelles Prinzip. Von der Denkökono mie zur Designökonomie 14:20-16:00 Schlussmoderation: Philipp Oswalt

Was bleibt von der Weltbürgermoderne?

NUTZLOSIGKEIT: DAS WERT VOLLSTE WERKZEUG DER MENSCHH EIT? Die Nutzung von Werkzeugen wird oft als entscheidende Eigenschaft dar gestellt, die uns zu unserer derzeitigen Stellung an der Spitze der Rangord nung der Tiere verhalf, indem sie uns zu aufrechter Haltung und aufrechtem Gang veranlasste. Die exponentielle Entwicklung des menschlichen Gehirns als unmittelbare Folge befähigte uns, Gedanken auszudrücken, Geschichten zu erzählen und Gegenstände herzu stellen, deren Nutzlosigkeit uns bis heute verwirrt. Nutzlosigkeit entspricht selten unseren Erwartungen und wirkt zuerst enttäuschend, kann aber auch faszinierend und befreiend sein, da sie der Logik der Gleichsetzung von Nutzen und Wert zuwiderläuft. Eine Ansammlung von unbeachteten Ideen kann auch eine Fundgrube sein, eine umgekehrte Büchse der Pandora, die unsere Kreativität freisetzt und unsere Vorstellung beflügelt. Seit Anbruch der

Moderne sind wir ganz von Nützlichkeit und Beschäftigungsfähigkeit einge nommen, ob nun im Hinblick auf Raum, Energie oder Produktion, sogar Bil dung. Historiker prophezeien, dass mit dem Aufkommen von künstlicher Intelli genz eine „nutzlose“ Klasse entstehen wird, die nicht nur arbeitslos, sondern erst gar nicht beschäftigungsfähig sein wird. Karl Marx schrieb in seinen „Öko nomisch-philosophischen Manuskrip ten aus dem Jahre 1844“, dass „die Produktion von zuviel Nützlichem zuviel unnütze Population produziert“. Nutzlo sigkeit ist ein weitgehend unerforschtes Phänomen, das uns zu einem besse ren Verständnis unserer gemeinsamen Werte führen und auf eine neue Zukunft vorbereiten könnte. Wenn unsere Zu kunft durch unsere Nutzlosigkeit geprägt sein soll, dann ist es an der Zeit, diesen Zustand und unser Urteil darüber zu überdenken. Diese Vortragsreihe führt Vortragende mit sehr unterschiedlichen Annäherungen an Nutzlosigkeit zusam men und versucht zu beleuchten, was uns die neue Zukunft bringen könnte.

Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien IKA Forum / 1. OG, Kern N www.akbild.ac.at/ika Alle Vorträge beginnen um 19 Uhr. Die Vortragsreihe wird kuratiert von Michelle Howard und Luciano Parodi, CMT Plattform für Tragkonstruktion, Material und Technologie.

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Lecture Series 2018–2019

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18 MAR 2019

Eva Buchinger / Sociologist

Photo: Claudia Rohrauer

Uselessness? From the “Unemployed of Marienthal” to the robotic age Uselessness is a possible, but not at all necessary consequence of unemployment. This has been taught by the famous Marienthal sociography among others. So maybe the “rise of robots” together with a (possible) jobless future is nothing to worry about?

13 MAY 2019 Sonia Leimer / Architect, Artist

Dear Werner Herzog During a trip through Peru last year I read your book Conquest of the useless. Your diary of the time you spent in Peru shooting the film Fitzcarraldo and my personal impressions during my journey through the Andes overlapped.

08 APR 2019 Photo: Maximilian Pramatarov

Diedrich Diederichsen / Author, Critic

A Romanticism of Use-Value and a NonInstrumental Reason

03 JUN 2019

What happens when your ideals are taken seriously. (This Lecture will be in German) Photo: Petra Vogt

Ruth Sonderegger / Philosopher

29 APR 2019 Kerstin Meyer / Economist, Activist

The Provocation of the Standstill

On the central norms and imperatives of Western aesthetics My lecture will focus on the emergence of uselessness, purposelessness and dis interestedness as central normative concepts of Western aesthetics; of norms, that is, which came into existence during the 18th century in tandem with capitalism and its emphasis on purpose, use and interest.

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Tempelhofer Feld, a former airfield in the centre of Berlin, is now an open space for the public to use for leisure. It may neither be sold nor built on nor designed. The story of the political fight over the city’s most valuable asset and how the public assumed its right to legislate standstill.

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The lecture series is curated by Michelle Howard and Luciano Parodi, CMT platform for Construction, Material and Technology. supported by

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Lecture Series 2018–2019

USELESSNESS: IS THIS HUMANKIND’S MOST VALUABLE TOOL? Our use of tools has often been portrayed as the definitive attribute that led to our current position at the top of the animal hierarchy by provoking us to stand upright and walk. As a direct result, our brains developed at an exponential rate, allowing us to express ideas, tell stories and make objects whose uselessness still confounds us today. Uselessness rarely matches our expectations and disappoints a priori, but it can also fascinate and liberate because it contradicts the logic of use equals value. A depository of neglected ideas can also be a treasure trove, an alternative Pandora’s box that can trigger creativity and free the imagination. Since the advent of modernism, we have been preoccupied with useful-

ness and employability, be it in terms of space, energy, production or, indeed, education. Historians predict that the rise of artificial intelligence will produce a “useless” class that will not only be unemployed, but unemployable. Karl Marx, in his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts written in 1844, said that the production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Uselessness is an uncharted phenomenon that may lead us to a better understanding of what our common values are and prepare us for a new future. If our future will be defined by our uselessness, then it is time for this state and our judgements of it to be reappraised. This lecture series brings together people with very differing approaches to uselessness and attempts to shed light on what our new future could hold.

15 OCT 2018 Ebru Kurbak / Artist, Designer

Lost Skills, Lost Potentials, and Fiberpunk The biggest threats to the limits of what we can imagine are our assumptions. This lecture explores confronting dominant assumptions about values of skills, knowledge and technology as a critical and artistic strategy.

19 NOV 2018

Guta Moura Guedes / Curator, Strategic Designer

Useless Design?

Photo: Ebru Kurbak

Design is the operational tool for the 21st century and from its very beginning exists to serve humankind. Useless design is a paradox, unless the lack of use is non-existant. Some observations from a design curator’s point of view and some notes from a strategic designer’s perspective.

07 JAN 2019 Owen Hatherley / Author, Journalist This talk will be about the in-between spaces of post-war housing estates, large open green areas which are traditionally treated as “useless” space with no obvious programmed purpose, and what in those spaces is attractive and valuable precisely because of their lack of clear function.

Photo: Sven Tränkner / Senckenberg

Superfluous Space

10 DEC 2018 Friedemann Schrenk / Palaeoanthropologist

Photo: Agata Pyzik

7 Million years of Uselessness in Human Evolution

Major transitions in early human history include upright walking and the earliest material cultures. Triggered by originally useless responses to environmental change, these transitions depict uselessness as the underlying cause for human biocultural evolution and diversity.

WHAT BEINGS ARE WE?

LECTURE SERIES SUMMER 2018

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“On Symmetry: In Temples …”1 – thus began the cycle of the quantified, designed, constructed, planned and imagined “… Human Body”2 some 2000 years ago. Bosch’s figures in the Garden of Earthly Delights follow as phantasmagorical precursors of Constant’s New Babylon; then, in 1924, Vertov’s “I am kino-eye, I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the world as only I can see it”; in 1951, Corbusier’s Modulor; in 1961, Lem’s Solaris, an intelligent being that breaks the human mould, shapeless and boundless, a swaying mass; in 1968, a woman and a man set on a blanket by Ray and Charles Eames; in 1984, A Cyborg Manifesto by Haraway; in 1993, Kwinter’s Figure in Time; in 1999, MAKEHUMAN – a software; in 2000, L’Intrus by Nancy; in 2003, From Cyborgs to Companion Species, Haraway again; in 2012, The Building of Bodies by Alex Schweder La. The lecture series is curated by Christina Jauernik and Wolfgang Tschapeller. 1 Vitruvius, Ten Books On Architecture, book III, chapter 1, point 2. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 2 Ibid.

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Getting to the Heart of the Matter – a Scientist’s Try

Identitecture

Johann Wojta

Johannes Paul Raether Chair: Gabrielle Cram

Chair: Eva Horn

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Michael J. Black

The Digital Body: Capturing, Modelling and Animating Realistic 3D Human Avatars Chair: Robert Trappl

MAY 27

12 noon Movie matinee at Filmmuseum Augustinerstraße 1, 1010 Vienna

Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival Directed by Fabrizio Terranova Talk: Fahim Amir

MAY 28 Lucia Melloni

Perception as Controlled Hallucination: On How We Construct Reality

Esther + unknown-2 and Christina + snapPose Skeleton-6, INTRA SPACE, 2017

Chair: Vera Bühlmann

AFTER THE LECTURES

Beyond Speech – Oral Communications All lectures are accompanied by culinary interventions by Christoph Fink and Christian Mezera

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HISTORY THEORY CRITICISM

Anfang der 1970er Jahre kam der neo-marxistische Architektur historiker Manfredo Tafuri zusammen mit Kollegen vom Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia nach Wien, um das Rote Wien zwischen 1919-1934 einer ideologiekritischen Analyse zu unterziehen. Ihre Veröffentlichung Vienna Rossa kritisierte die tradi tionelle Architektursprache der Gebäude und besonders die Tatsache, dass die großen Blöcke durch ihre scheinbare typologische Integration ins Stadtgewebe ihre

INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE HTC VORTRÄGE 19. MÄRZ 2018 JOHAN HARTLE Manfredo Tafuri und die Ideologie der Form im Roten Wien 17. APRIL 2018 MARCEL BOIS Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky: Von der Akteurin des Roten Wien zur Kritikerin des Austromarxismus 15. MAI 2018 WOLFGANG MADERTHANER Das Rote Wien und die Wiener Moderne. Zur ‘Veralltäglichung’ der Utopie alle Vorträge beginnen um 19 Uhr

WIE MARXISTISCH IST DER KARL-MARX-HOF?

tatsächliche politische und öko nomische Isolation verbargen. In einer kapitalistischen Gesellschaft, so war offenbar die Schlussfolge rung, scheint Architektur unfähig, soziale und politische Widersprüche zu überwinden. Obwohl inzwischen viele andere Studien zum Roten Wien erschienen sind, bleibt Tafuris „Attentat“ auf die Architektur bis heute ein ungelöstes Problem. Begleitend zum MArch HTC Studio am IKA beschäftigen sich drei Vorträge mit dem marxistischen Kontext des Roten Wien. Programmkuratorin: Prof. Dr. Angelika Schnell. In Kooperation mit dem Architekturzentrum Wien.

16 OCT 2017, 7PM

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FRANÇOIS ROCHE IKA Visiting Professor 2017/18 personal secretary of s/he

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…Experimental architecture has shifted toward a new corpus of instrumentations, made out of tools, computation, mechanization, as well as of fictions and lines of subjectivity, synchronous with our symptoms of fears and fantasies of escape from the here and now. The purpose of this 1993-2050 flashback is to explore correlations and interdependencies between attitudes and the forms they underpin. It is to discover a postdigital, post-human, post-activist, postdemocratic, postfeminist world … a queer, androgynous, carnal, disturbing, disenchanted, pornographic, transient, transactional world … where scenarios, mechanisms, misunderstandings, and psychological and physiological fragments are what make up walls and ceilings, cellars and attics … schizoid and paranoid, between the lines of operative and critical fictions … the androgynous folds and recesses behind which … he/she/they … hide(s), trigger(s) confusion and gut reactions, hostili ties, fantasized idealization, and even premeditated oblivion. We must use paradoxical postures and aesthetic mechanisms to highlight biopolitical challenges, the potentials and disorders of contemporary techno logies, from their early stages to their merchandising, and suspect them of not being so harmless, beyond conventional discourses and self-conscious aesthetics …

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S/He consider architectural identity as emanating from uncertainty principles, defined through provisional processes and forms in which animism, vitalism and mechanism become vectors of dynamic mutations. S/He critically engage contemporary technology in experiments, alchemically mixing Eros and Thanatos to develop deliberately ambiguous scenarios that fuse realities that would seem immiscible. Her/His synthetic devices work out possibilities somewhere between attractions and aversions, mixing obstacles and possibilities, waste material and efflorescence, threats and protections, mechanical powers and natural forces. Here everything is intertwined and knotted, in the process of becoming, in a movement of becoming. “Let yourself slip through their work and feel its silky and strange texture as it terrifies and caresses you.”

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A SENSE OF CRISIS all lectures start at 7pm and take place at Schillerplatz 3 or Lehargasse 6-8 (May 22) 1010 Vienna www.akbild.ac.at/ika

Without a doubt – crises have always existed. However, it seems that currently the crisis is booming again. As a spatial and temporal turning point in a phase of transition, crisis always also means change. Consequentially, if it is considered as a productive state, the resulting consciousness of crisis produces a motivation to act that can be the foundation for the redesigning of concrete constellations. The lecture series A Sense of Crisis appeals to the critical zeitgeist of architecture and questions its relation to the crisis. Fundamentally, architectural projects encompass a great spectrum of critical

potential due to their complex contentrelated, spatial and temporal make-up. Still, the question remains: Can spatial concepts and strategies in architecture act as a decisive field of societal negotiations and changes? Or has architecture’s ability to criticize lost its vision? In order to steer these changes positively, the ability to speculate in the sense of a creative, open thought process seems to be crucial. Hypotheses such as, for example, Bloch’s concrete utopia innately stem from the field of theory and speculation. “But, instead of looking for knowledge about what is, as the actual theory does, it is an exercise or a game with the possible

extensions of reality. Intellect becomes the capital of concrete thought exercises in the utopian way of thought, depends on primary knowledge about reality, and contributes to a better understanding itself. The epistemological options of the utopian game then relate the concrete utopia to reality in an indirect, but very effective way.”1 The lecture series tries to explore the consciousness of crisis in architecture and its potential with emphases on geography, landscapes and cities by considering eight positions from different fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, cultural studies and art. 1: Raymond Ruyer

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IKA Visiting Professor Michael Hansmeyer 2016/2017

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IKA CULTURES OF CULTURAL HERITAGE NOV ITALIAN 10—18 POSITIONS WINTER TERM 2016

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Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italy, Giovanni Michelucci, Bruno Sacchi, 1973–83 [Photo: Martin Feiersinger]

Sustainability and cultural heritage in the field of architecture serve to guarantee continuity and the development of values that shape architectural cultures in their particular historical, geographical and societal contexts. We look at Italy, a region that has one of the richest legacies of architectural history. What are the current practices of cultural heritage in contemporary Italian architecture? Five protagonists of Italian architectural culture present their views on understanding the role of cultural heritage as an influential transformative practice, in contrast to a duty of conservation.

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10 Introduction 10 15 Giulio Polita: Neoliberty: the Italian Definition of Architectural Context 11 00 Martin Feiersinger: Reflections on Italomodern 11 45 Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo: Loose Ends 12 30—14 Lunch break 14 Renata Codello: Il Contemporaneo a Venezia 14 45 Maria Alessandra Segantini: Future Heritage 15 45 Discussion 16 45 Aperitif with students and visitors 18 End H

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Platform ESC — Ecology Sustainability Cultural Heritage The symposium is hosted by the IKA platform ESC. Lectures are held in German, English and Italian — translation from Italian to German or English will be provided. concept and organisation: Gogo Kempinger-Khatibi Hannes Stiefel

IKA TOM AVERMAETE CONSTRUCTING THE OCT COMMONS: ANOTHER NOV APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURE NOV AND THE CITY INSTITUT FUR KUNST UND ARCHITEKTUR

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Historically, the »commons« refer to natural resources that are available to all but no individual property: air, water, earth. Today, the concept has received new impetus in economic, social, and political theory. New activism and pioneering research that focus on »the commons« gain momentum. This lecture series explores how ‘the commons’ can radically alter the ways we conceive of the role of the architect and the architectural project, as well as result in more inclusive and equitable forms of city-making. Tom Avermaete holds the 2016/17 Endowed Professorship for Research on Visionary Cities at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, which is funded by the City of Vienna.

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The Architecture of the Commons

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PM Inflating Nadar’s »Le Géant«, Amsterdam, 14 September 1865, [Photo: Pieter Oosterhuis and Jan D. Brouwer, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Public Domain.]

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Architectures of Learning— Learning Architectures Discursive Practises—Discursive Spaces Summer 2016—Lecture Series

This year’s summer lecture series will discuss modes of teaching and learning that have been practised at various schools of architecture, from Black Mountain College and Bauhaus to recent teaching programmes.

In this series aimed at students, teachers and anyone interested alike, we will focus on the question of how notions of process and discours shape the ways in which “learning architecture” is thought, taught and practised.

curated by Anamarija Batista, Waltraud Indrist and Eva Sommeregger

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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger 04th April, 7pm

Josef Dabernig 23rd May, 7pm

Eva Díaz

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Supported by the Academy of Fine Arts, MA 7 | Wissenschaftsfonds der Stadt Wien and Students Union (Section: Architectural Students and Doctoral Students) and .

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When discussing Science Fiction and Architecture it is usual to look at the architecture »in« Science Fiction and in particular the architecture in Science Fiction films. In this series of five lectures that relationship will be reversed and it will be the Science Fiction in Architecture that will be discussed. The lectures will map out an alternative reading of a number of architectural movements and projects where the work will be viewed explicitly »as« science fiction. Nic Clear holds the 2015/16 Endowed Professorship for Research on Visionary Cities at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, which is funded by the City of Vienna.

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Science Fictions of the Avant Garde

Post War Utopias

The Industrial City and Its Antithesis

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The lecture series focuses 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 greenery. Into the territory, as projects of extensive mapping describing the environment in order to reveal potentials of the site and to cautiously integ-

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rate human settlements and infrastructure. 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. From the perspective of the Platform Geography, Landscapes, Cities we continue 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. Curated by Lisa Schmidt-Colinet.

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Lecture Series Summer Term ‘15

CJ Lim 23.03.15

Kathrin Aste 20.04.15

Pascal Amphoux 11.05.15

Marie-Françoise Plissart 08.06.15

Paola Viganò 22.06.15

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Ecology, Sustainability and Cultural Heritage (ESC) in interaction create a frame of reference in which architectural culture is dynamically embedded: Ecology is the correlation of all organisms and their environments while Sustainability and Cultural Heritage guarantee the continuous evolution of diverse value systems. Thus the central themes of the Institute of Art and Architecture’s platform ESC also determine the coordinates of architectural design and its genealogy. Our 2013/ 2014 lecture series explores the poten– tialities of these themes regarding architecture and its wide range of socio–cultural, political and economical impacts on and within society— seen from the particular perspective of a School of Architecture as part of an Academy of Fine Arts.

This includes a critical questioning of the inflation– ary use of these keywords and their often limited interpretation in regard of technological means (ecology and sustainability) or strictly conservational intentions (cultural heritage), as well as the attempt for a new or different positioning of these terms within the architectural discourse. Ten Informants from various disciplines (History of Science and Ecology, Synthetic Biology, Visual Arts, Ecological Urbanism, Climate Engineering and Architecture) will present broader or other views on these ubiquitous topics Ecology, Sustainability and/or Cultural Heritage—terms that seem to be familiar for far too long. The diversity of positions and opposing ideas reference the complexity of the themes that are up for discussion here.

Questions shall be provoked if, how and why the presented positions and methodologies can or shall be translated into an appropriate reflecting architectural practice—toward an architecture that mirrors its complex relation with nature and the built environment as well as its not–static position within (contemporary) history. Ten Informants Another View on Ecology, Sustainability and Cultural Heritage Lecture Series 2013/ 2014 Summer Term 2014

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Parallax Views on Architecture

Parallax is the displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object caused by a new line of sight. We all use this difference to gain depth perception. Astronomers use it to define the distance and outline of far away objects. Meanwhile Slavoj Zizek argues that the parallax gap causes not only an “epistemological” shift in the subject’s point of view, but always reflects an “ontological” shift in the object itself, as subject and object are inherently mediated. In seeking the oscillation between focus and productive indeterminacy, this year’s lecture series at the Institute of Art and Architecture examines the production of space from multiple points of view. And as nearby objects have a larger parallax than distant ones, we invite artists and researchers working in our immediate proximity–artists and researchers within the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna–who look at the subject of architecture and urbanism implicitly or explicitly in their work. As a result the lecture series will offer an array of alternate positions coexisting within the Academy and create a platform for transdisciplinary discussions at the intersection between art and architecture.

18.03. 15.04. 25.04. 27.05. 10.06.

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Theorist

Scenographer Sound Artist Artist

Parallax Views on Architecture Lecture Series 2013 Monday 7pm, Room 211a, 2nd Floor Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna www.akbild.ac.at/ika

Elke Krasny Andreas Spiegl Nicole Timm Franz Pomassl Moira Hille

Curator

The lecture series „Theories on History“ will be covering selected topics and events of architecture history. However its main focus is on methodological approaches of historical research or design methods that are directly or indirectly based on historical investigation and knowledge. Architecture schools are increasingly under pressure to combine design with research and produce a higher output of dissertations. Therefore the IKA invited historians, scientists and architecture theorists from various fields and disciplines. They will address more fundamental issues of the practices of a historian. About Hermann Czech’s lecture: As Deleuze and Guattari wrote, to have something stand up doesn’t mean having a top and a bottom. One can draw a monument, but one that may be contained in a few marks or a few lines. The lecture attempts a brief history of the line, from William Hogarth’s “line of beauty”; John C. Loudon’s “ugly line”; Henry van de Velde’s line as a force; František Kupka’s curved ribbons; Wilhelm Worringer’s abstract, northern line; Wassily Kandinsky’s errant lines; Paul Klee’s inflected lines; up to the topology of splines used in 2D/3D modeling. Today, a question remains: how topological concepts have been introduced in architecture? Perhaps a particularly fine topology is needed to describe the formation of spirals and vortices, or nomadic, smooth spaces, which are formed by sets of haptic relations. As Deleuze and Guattari evoke, hacceities are to be found along intersecting lines: “Climate, wind, season, hour … Haecceity, fog, glare. A haecceity has neither beginning, origin nor destination; it is always in the middle. It is not made of points, only lines. It is a rhizome.” The nomadic line is defined by the becoming-line of the point, which unfolds in a trajectory. As an outcome, no-

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Thomas Freiler Anette Baldauf Mona Hahn Sasha Pirker Wolfgang Baatz Eduard Freudmann

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Lecture Series 2012/13 Monday 7pm, Room 211a, 2nd Floor, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, www.akbild.ac.at/ika

big! bad? Modern: A research project of the Institute for Art and Architecture

lectures

conversations

Presentations

Exhibitions

th 14 MAR mon

th 01 apr fri

th 19 MAY THU

th 11 APR mon

Stripping, Filling, Lifting Stefan Gruber, Prof. IKA Architect | Vienna

Lecture Activist Map — Maps between Art and Politics Philippe Rekacewicz | Paris Cooperation with Centre for Art & Knowledge Transfer, University of Applied Arts Vienna Lecture hall R211 | 2nd floor

Project Presentations Big! Bad? Modern:

19:00

Big Heavy Beautiful Nasrine Seraji, Architect, Professor, Head of Institute IKA | Vienna | Paris

th 09 May mon

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing — the FIX building Conversion into a Museum Kalliope Kontozoglou Architect | Athens

th 06 JUN mon

th 23 may mon

Die Großsiedlungen: Planung und Realität oder der Umgang mit dem Erbe der Moderne Sabine Kraft Author, Editor | Berlin

Symposion Wohnbau Regional In the course of Wiener Wohnbaufestwochen 2011 Cooperation with Austrian Architects Association Lecture hall R211 | 2nd floor

19:00

15 JUN WED

Space, Time and Comfort Peter Leeb, Prof. IKA Architect | Vienna

th 30 JUN THU

In Dialogue with Gravity Shelley McNamara Architect | Dublin

19:00

th 04 apr mon

16 –20:00

th 28 MAy sat

In Memoriam Timo Penttilä Cooperation with AlumniClub of the Academy Lecture hall R211 | 2nd floor

th 22 jun WED

Award Plischke Prize Cooperation with Plischke Society Anatomiesaal | Souterrain

17:00

19:00

09:50

19:00

Presentation Big! Bad? Modern: Industriebauseminar “Refurbished Future” Cooperation with Institute for Industrial Building and Interdisciplinary Planning Kuppelsaal TU Wien Karlsplatz 13 | 1010 Wien Presentation “die bildende” Akademiezeitung Lecture hall R211 | 2nd floor

29th + 30th JUN

Lecture hall R211 | 2nd Floor Final Show Big! Bad? Modern:

OCT 2011

Admis sons NOW !

Venue Institute for Art and Architecture Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Schillerplatz 3 | 1010 Wien

Lectures Venue Lecture hall R211 | 2nd floor Foto: Dagnija Smilga | Gestaltung: Novamondo Design, Berlin

www.akbild.ac.at/ika

big! bad? Modern: A research project of the Institute for Art and Architecture

lectures

conversations

exhibition

Lecture hall R211 | 2 nd floor Institute for Art and Architecture Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Schillerplatz 3 | 1010 Wien

Prospekthof Atelierhaus Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Lehargasse 6 | 1060 Wien

11 oct mon th

19:00

8mon nov th

19:00

The City as a Construction Site Luis Feduchi Roland Rainer Chair Architect, Berlin

11 oct mon

Research on Beauty. Roger Anger’s response to high-rise housing trends in post-war Paris Anupama Kundoo Architect, Berlin

18 oct mon

Discussion Planning and building the AKH Roland Moebius Architect, Vienna

29 nov mon

Film screening Destiny of les Halles Frédéric Biamonti Film director, Paris

6month DEC

Lecture and film screening Beton Andreas Bunte Artist and film-maker, Berlin

th 13 DEC mon

Discussion Alt Erlaa Harry Glück Architect, Vienna

th 10 jan mon

Demolitions, Empty Lots, Wastelands Lara Almarcegui Artist, Rotterdam

th 24 jan mon

Plus: Large-Scale Housing Developments – An Exceptional Case. Jean Philippe Vassal Architect, Paris

19:00

16:00

19:00

16:00

www.akbild.ac.at/ika

Big! Bad? Modern:

Foto: Angelika Schnell | Gestaltung: Novamondo Design, Berlin

Discussion Roland Rainer and the ORF Eva Rubin, Jürgen Raddatz Architects, Klagenfurt / Vienna

21stjan – 13 th feb Opening

20 thjan THUR 18:00 Project presentations and debates

21stjan – 22 NDjan

Architects build Cities, how? | Can we reduce the city as simply a collection of buildings, or do we need to distinguish between architecture and urbanism? | How can we ignore one if we are conceiving the other? | Is the city a system of buildings or is it a complex system, which allows for buildings to be arranged in an orderly or chaotic manner? | Some cities are more desirable to live in than others, why? | Some cities are more expensive than others, why? | Some cities are easier to get around, why? | Some cities are models for others, why? | Some cities are greener than others, why? | Some cities are dormitories, why? | Some cities are struggling with their glorious past, why? | Some cities are grounds for experiments, why? | Some cities are divided by war, why? | Some cities are automobile cities, why? | Some cities are exploited by politics, why? | Some cities are more public than others, why? | Some cities are… The lecture series 0809 will explore the question of urbanity, and what makes the city of the 21st century a ground for another urbanism: We will debate the future possibilities of the metropolis. If Manhattan was the model of a retroactive manifesto, what could be the future of our urban living? And who is to build it?

30|03 19:00h › lecture hall

WE BUILT THIS CITY...

lecture series

summer term 2009

tales from 3 cities london rotterdam moscow Rients Dijkstra

director of maxwan architects and urbanists b.v | rotterdam

20|04 19:00h › lecture hall

aldo rossi’s città analoga: legend of a legend Jean-Pierre Chupin

architect, professor and chair of laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle (l.e.a.p) | université de montréal

27|04 19:00h › lecture hall

urban entropy and socio-natural temporalities in post-apartheid johannesburg Jeremy Foster

assistant professor of landscape architecture | cornell university

18|05 19:00h › lecture hall

we build this city… yes, it ’s us (all) ! ppag architects

architects | vienna

08|06

04–06|05

mid-term studio reviews

09–10 |06

master of architecture final reviews

23–25 |06

final studio reviews final exhibition

WE BUILT THIS CITY ... 19:00h › lecture hall

the revolution of learning from ... Valéry Didelon

IKA, 2nd floor

architecture critic and historian | paris

IKA, 2nd floor

Gestaltung: Novamondo Design, Berlin

IKA, Aula / Auditorium

23.03.2009 9:29:13 Uhr

Architects build Cities, how? | Can we reduce the city as simply a collection of buildings, or do we need to distinguish between architecture and urbanism? | How can we ignore one if we are conceiving the other? | Is the city a system of buildings or is it a complex system, which allows for buildings to be arranged in an orderly or chaotic manner? | Some cities are more desirable to live in than others, why? | Some cities are more expensive t han others, why? | Some cities are easier to get around, why? | Some cities are models for others, why? | Some cities are greener than others, why? | Some cities are dormitories, why? | Some cities are struggling with their glorious past, why? | Some cities are grounds for experiments, why? | Some cities are divided by war, why? | Some cities are automobile cities, why? | Some cities are exploited by politics, why? | Some cities are more public than others, why? | Some cities are… The lecture series 0809 will explore the question of urbanity, and what makes the city of the 21st century a ground for another urbanism: We will debate the future possibilities of the metropolis. If Manhattan was the model of a retroactive manifesto, what could be the future of our urban living? And who is to build it?

03|11 19:00h › lecture hall

WE BUILT THIS CITY...

renate banik-schweitzer

lecture series

15 |12 19:00h › lecture hall

urban historian | vienna

Städtebau — Blinder Fleck der Stadtentwicklung

10|11 19:00h › lecture hall

12 |01 19:00h › lecture hall

architecture historian | tokyo

Tangled up in Green — The Tapestry of Japanese Modern Architecture and Cities

17|11 19:00h › lecture hall

thomas madreiter head of department ma18 | vienna

Stadtplanung in Wien: Ordnen und Entwickeln — ein scheinbarer Widerspruch [City Planning in Vienna: Sort and develop—a contradiction?]

24 |11

gabriele reiterer architecture historian and researcher | vienna

Europa urban — Architektur und Urbanismus in Südosteuropa

[Urban Form — Blind Spot in City Development]

norihito nakatani

winter term 2008 | 2009

irénée scalbert architecture critic | london

Cities and Markets

23|01 18:00h ›Aula / Auditorium

roundtable

«The strategies of Vienna´s city-planning: Flugfeld Aspern» with: Renate Banik-Schweitzer, Rüdiger Lainer, Erich Raith, Werner Rosinak, Rudolf Schicker, Reinhard Seiß, Wolfgang Tschapeller; Moderation: Ute Woltron (to be confirmed) in cooperation with oegfa / Österreichische Gesellschaft für Architektur

peter trummer

WE BUILT THIS CITY ... 19:00h › lecture hall

berlage institute | rotterdam

Associative Design & the Regimes of Urbanism

20 | 10 scott chaseling glass artist, aus ... | 11 workshop 15 | 12 mitsuhiro kanada

on the city of vienna MA18, ma19, ma20

Gestaltung: Novamondo Design, Berlin

ove arup/london

29.10.2008 16:25:32 Uhr

Ecological issues give back credibility and expertise to architecture and urbanism; Why? Perhaps because they are scientific, measurable and evaluative. Ecological topics raise awareness, win competitions, and attract large investments, as reports on CO2 emission and climate catastrophes capture worldwide news. Thus it is time to reflect on ecology: what is the “reality of ecology”, as opposed to current “images of ecology”? And how many realities are there anyway? This winter term’s lecture series aims at challenging common stereotypes of eco-architecture and questions the actual performance of preconceived “solutions”: let’s move beyond merely wrapping our houses in ever-thicker insulation and applying solar panels to our roofs and overcome the myth of passive houses. How can we rethink sustainability on organisational, programmatic, political, urban and regional levels? We are inviting a series of speakers and thinkers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, who promise to tackle the questions at stake from fresh, yet critical viewpoints.

architecture after tomorrow

lecture series

winter term 07 | 08

architecture after tomorrow 10 | 12 | 07

07 | 01 | 08

21 | 01 | 08

19.00 h | aula

jeff kenworthy

walter stelzhammer

tilman latz

professor in sustainable cities, murdoch university, perth | visiting daad teaching fellow fh, frankfurt am main

architect | vienna

latz und partner landscape architecs | munich

The World oil production peak and its impact on cities.

High density, the future of housing?

26 | 01 | 08 18.30 h | aula

introduction to the platform ecology, sustainability and conservation

towards a welltempered architecture

with: Carlo Baumschlager (architect, Austria), Françoise Fromonot (historian, France) Gabu Heindl (architect, Austria), Jochen Käferhaus (consulting engineer, Austria), Nasrine Seraji (architect, France)

Roundtable Institute for Art and Architecture | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | www.akbild.ac.at/ika

Gestaltung: Novamondo Design, Berlin

Aula | Hauptgebäude | Schillerplatz 3 | 1010 Wien

lecture series

summer term 2007

21 | 05 | 07

19.00 h | eg nord

carme pinós architect | barcelona

Recent Work otto wagner lecture sponsored by ZUMTOBEL

23 | 04 | 07

04 | 06 | 07

19.00 h | aula

georg schöllhammer

chiba manabu

19.00 h | aula

author and curator | vienna

architect | tokyo

Modernity? Life! Education

Restructuring Tokyo

07 | 05 | 07

11 | 06 | 07

19.00 h | room 211

19.00 h | aula

hiromi hosoya markus schäfer

françoise fromonot

hosoya schäfer architects | zürich

Maps Scripts, Prototypes

architect, critic and associate professor ensa paris-la villette | paris

Virtues and Paradoxes of Sustainable Living: The Architecture of Glenn Murcutt

25 | 06 | 07 19.00 h | aula

scott c. wolf

professor for history theory and criticism sci-arc | los angeles

Sprawl: The Adolescent City Gestaltung: Novamondo Design, Berlin

While society and culture is subject to accelerating change, our modes of living have always resisted evolving. In fact, the act of settling as a longterm investment is inherently conservative. Meanwhile, our living environments have become inadequate for our contemporary and future lives: Global mobility and the fragmentation of social structures supersede our notions of domesticity, while free markets and communication technologies have redefined our understanding of public and private. Greying demographics require inventing new models of cohabitation,

while climatic changes force us to reconsider our environments on a large-scale. This term’s lecture series asks: How are we to live? Rather than seeking biographical responses, the questions calls for broad views and foresight on the matters of living. We have invited critics and thinkers and asked them to address the question through the lens of others: Other people, other places, or other moments in time. The otherness is an attempt to provide the required distance for evaluating whether architecture has the capacity to support our projections of life.

how to live?

lecture series

winter term 2006 | 2007

how to live? 06 | 11 | 06

11 | 12 | 06

15 | 01 | 07

19.00 h

nasrine seraji

kathryn findlay

joachim krausse

On Living – Paris vs Vienna

On Drivers, Generators and Parameters

On Buckminster Fuller

architect, professor and dean, institute for art and architecture | dean ecole nationale superieure d’architecture paris malaquais

architect, professor and chair of architecture and environment, university of dundee

professor of design theory and director of master program integrated design, anhalt university of applied sciences

Dundee Vienna | Paris

Dessau

20 | 11 | 06

18 | 12 | 06

29 | 01 | 07

19.00 h

alan colquhoun

peter sloterdijk

wouter vanstiphout

On Le Corbusier

Spheres – On humanly-generated Islands

architect, author and professor emeritus, school of architecture, princeton

professor for philosophy and aesthetics

On New Town experiences from Baghdad to Rotterdam

Karlsruhe | Vienna

architectural historian, member of crimson architectural historians Rotterdam

Gestaltung: Novamondo Design, Berlin

London

Curated by Stefan Gruber, Erhard An-He Kinzelbach and Antje Lehn Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | Aula Schillerplatz, 1010 Vienna

www.akbild.ac.at / ika

Following the winter term lecture series that began a multidisciplinary dialogue on advanced geometries, this term’s lectures will focus on the Geometries of Emergence. Emergent phenomena build spontaneously from interactions among individual parts and their adaptive learning through environmental feedback. The resulting whole is smarter than the sum of its parts; it is robust and its complexity irreducible. As developments in neuro-science and biomathematics fundamentally change how we conceive of emerging systems, their self-organizing principles figure into artificial intelligence and bottom-up computational models as analytical and generative tools. Applications have transformed digital interfaces from online dating services to computer gaming, financial markets and daily weather forecasts. But while self-organizing systems produce intelligent behavior in natural organisms and computational simulations, architectural application awaits.

Emergent behaviors generate patterns of material organization, complex structures and multi-layered networks—the very tools architects use to design and build environments at various scales, ranging from urban morphologies to envelope skins. Understanding emerging geometries will help develop control over these tools, thereby realizing the forces that act on buildings and cities as local, self- Professor, UCLA, Los Angeles form-finding processes. The talks will investigate how to generate design, evolve forms and structures in morphogenetic processes within a computational environment. Which criteria and parameters are used for the breeding and selecting of the ’fittest’ architectural species? Can we rethink architectural history and the evolution of building typologies as an emergent organization of matter?

geometries of emergence lecture series summer term 2006

geometries of emergence 24 | 04 | 06

19.00 h | aula

ulrich königs

professor bu wuppertal and architect Cologne

22 | 05 | 06

19.00 h | aula

19.00 h | atelierhaus eg Otto Wagner lecture sponsored by

michael weinstock

yona friedman

London

Paris

professor aa and architect

Gestaltung: Novamondo Design, Berlin

08 | 05 | 06

architect

12 | 06 | 06

19.00 h | aula

26 | 06 | 06

19.00 h | aula

michael speaks

bill hillier

Los Angeles

London

professor sci_arc critic and theorist

director of space syntax laboratory architectural and urban theorist

Curated by Stefan Gruber, Erhard An-He Kinzelbach and Antje Lehn

aula | Hauptgebäude, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna atelierhaus | Lehárgasse 6 (Prospekthof), 1060 Vienna Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria www.akbild.ac.at/ika