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How are our Cities sexist? Stadtspaziergänge. Photo: Christina Ehrmann, 2021
Courses
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ADP ESC GLC
More Notes on House, Kitchen, Brain, Body and Gastro-esophageal Vestibule
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Urban Scotoecologies II
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City of Beds
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ADP CMT HTC
Taking the Waters
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Building/Learning Resilience
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Housing
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Electives / Others
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Research at IKA
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Monday / Tuesday / Friday 14.00–18.00
Design Studio BArch2 Wolfgang Tschapeller Valerie Messini
Grassi B. and Sandias A. - Constitution and development of the termite society. Atti Accad. Gioenia Sc. Nat., Catania, 1893
What can be disclosed about house and kitchen so far? In the end, a house is nothing more than a brief moment in an infinite chain of metabolic reactions of a material economy, a short moment in a continuous transformation of planetary figurations, as a kitchen is nothing but a gastro-oesophageal vestibule and, in turn, human intestines are not different from a house’s plumbing installations. In Ancillary Justice1 (2013), sci-fi writer Ann Leckie reports on the fall of an empire of galactic size thousands of years in the future. It is the Imperial Radch, where enormous starships function as the empire’s brain. They, the starships, are the empire’s artificial operative intelligence. But then, such a starship is not only one, it is always many. It seems to be metallic, a machine; then again, it has thousands of bodies, human bodies, so-called human ancillaries, all of them part of the starship, the brain, the artificial intelligence. Until the empire falls and the starships break apart. What remains, among others, is the soldier Breq, a multilayered entity who was once a human body, then a fraction of a starship, a fraction of the empire’s brain, a she and a body of thousands of bodies. All of this is Breq. Thousands of times she has been in thousands of places at the same time. She has looked through myriad pairs of eyes onto myriad worlds, and still she has felt the bitter chill of vacuum outside her metallic hull. Thousands of years earlier, on July 8, 2013, the Brazilian newspaper O Globo and the Australian Sydney Morning Herald published details on the spy software XKeyscore based on documents revealed by E. Snowden2. In Permanent Record (2019), Edward Snowden says
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about XKeyscore, “It was, simply put, the closest thing to science fiction I’ve ever seen in science,”3 adding a description that suggests that as a spying entity, one would literally sit in the chair of any desired target entity, look through the eyes of the observed onto the live screen of the observed, making an ancillary of the observed, intruding into the ancillary’s body leaving neither trace nor wound nor suture. Slipping in and out of any selected target of observation at any desired moment, looking at the worlds someone else is seeing. Not intruding into a human body, but rather developing an updated silhouette of his own body by superimposing himself onto a literary figure is Bruno Latour’s intent in After Lockdown4 (2021). With Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis5 (1915) of Gregor Samsa as an excavation plan, After Lockdown lays bare, sentence by sentence and shovel by shovel, the author’s own transformed body. Surprisingly for both reader and author, a strange, alien body with a long, dragging tail hindering any habitual mobility is revealed. On top of that, the subtitle A Metamorphosis is uncovered next to the alien’s body. As if the author wanted to make sure that Gregor Samsa’s doubts and hopes should not be reiterated: that the first visible traces of a bodily transformation would go away somehow, would disappear again. No, they will not go away anymore! It is a metamorphosis! It is a mutation! Now … what does the house look like now? And who lives with it, and how?
1 Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, Hachette Book Group (New York), 2013 2 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore (14/01/2021) 3 Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, Metropolitan Books (New York), 1st English edition, 2019, p. 276 4 Bruno Latour, After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis, Polity Press (England), 1st English edition 2021 5 Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung, Kurt Wolff Verlag (Leipzig), 1st edition 1915
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There is something positive about it. While light space is eliminated by the materiality of objects, darkness is ‘filled’, it touches the individual directly… Anthony Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny2
Darkness this good was hard to come by, and so much darkness in one place lit up the sky. Richard Powers, Bewilderment3
Urban Scotoecologies is born out of the necessity and the will to study the possibilities and impact of darkness in the daytime city. The neologism Scotoecology3 derives from Scotobiology , the branch of biology dedicated to the study of living organisms in darkness and the biological need for periods of darkness. We extend this notion not only to living organisms but also to inert matter, thus allowing architecture to play an active role in the chain of metabolic exchanges. When the lights are off, environments, including all entities/actors/specimens etc., confuse and interact. A series of case studies, developed in the first half of this year-long design studio, gave us first insights into a complex phenomenon: darkness as a medium and design tool. Partial aspects and activities of life in a city, like production, transportation, dwelling, recreation, healing, cultivation and socializing, were individually situated and tested in dark situations generated during daytime.
In most cases, it turned out that architecture imploded, and what was thought of and perceived a priori as negative space - because of its darkness - contracted and transformed into boundary-less interior spaces. Not because of infiniteness, but because of the merging of the subjects with their immediate environment. Darkness has shown itself to be of a less mouldable and malleable nature than light. It has neither a source nor a surface for projection. It won’t be absorbed, and it won’t be emitted. Darkness is neither fluid nor static. It is easier to perceive than to grasp. In darkness, sharp edges become blunt, space is diluted and expands or contracts, our senses sharpen. Temperature descends. In this regard, darkness has become a twofold program for our studio and research: on the one hand, it is our object of study, and on the other, a speculative design tool to generate and implement Urban Scotoecologies - ecologies whose aim is to explore new ways of dealing with overheated cities. Whether the city is partially submerged in darkness only during the night, tempered by many illumination sources and light pollution, or darkness only dwells in the city’s underground constructions and infrastructures, with the upcoming second part of our Scotostudio, we will pursue questions of how to live together in darkness in broad daylight. Luciano Parodi
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri Series, Plate XIV. Etching on white laid paper, 1745
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Monday / Tuesday / Friday 14.00–18.00
Design Studio BArch4
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Hannes Stiefel Luciano Parodi
ESC
ECOLOGY SUSTAINABILITY CULTURAL HERITAGE
With light, we know, comes darkness. Lebbeus Woods, The Light, the Dark
You have heard the stories. Stories of rising waters, of crumbling towers in intertidal zones that have advanced from former seashores into the midtowns of capitals of once unlimited prospects4. Stories of heavily falling waters that can no longer be swallowed by relentlessly exploited grounds. Stories about airborne toxic events that not only tell us about the impact of consumer culture and fear of death on the forms of social cohabitation in Western technological civilizations, but satirically depict the function of academia in the skidding course of the world5. Further, stories of silent springs6, of practices of vast deforestation for centuries7, of the inconceivable extent of desertification not only in the Global South; reports of a recent major tornado in the Czech-Austrian borderlands, etc. For many, the regular occurrence of such phenomena, caused by environmental imbalances on a vast scale, seems to be becoming the new normal. In contrast, for millions of terrestrials such a reality is not so new at all. The resultant increase in environmental migration will unavoidably lead to super-densified urban areas also in
the Global North. And yet, there is hardly any sign that architectural practice and planning is willing to establish an urgently needed new relationship with drastically changed environmental conditions and alternative forms of living together. Out of the 18,716 residential buildings that were newly erected in Austria in 2020, 15,964 (or 85.3%) contain only one or two apartments8. In Switzerland, out of the 1.77 million residential buildings counted at the end of 2020, more than a million were single-family houses – 47% of which were inhabited by only one or two persons9. These numbers bear witness to pure ignorance and cynicism, and to a general will to prolong the destructive current epoch of frivolity. We call for a radically new and different approach to building design10 through a proposal for Vienna’s deepest, most populated, most dense, most diverse, and most vibrant future urban area, where the dark is also the new light. Hannes Stiefel
1 See also the first introduction to ESC’s annual theme: Urban Scotoecologies, IKA Preview Winter 2021, ESC MArch Design Studio Winter 2021/22, pp. 12-13 2 Vidler (The Architectural Uncanny, MIT, London 1992, p. 175) is quoting Roger Caillois, Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia. 3 The term Scotobiology was coined by Roger Grafton Shelford Bidwell, a botanist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in 2003. 4 See e.g. Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140, Orbit, London 2017 5 See e.g. Don DeLillo, White Noise, Viking Press, New York NY 1985 6 See e.g. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin, Boston MA 1962 7 See e.g. Annie Proulx, Barkskins, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York NY 2016 8 Source: Statistics Austria 9 Source: Swiss Confederation, Federal Statistical Office 10 Frederick Kiesler, On Correalism and Biotechnique – Definition and Test of a New Approach to Building Design, in: Architectural Record, 86/3, September 1939
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In the book The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow, we find new ideas about the archaeological notion of megasites. It refers to urban aggregations that are not yet formed as cities and do not yet include elements of power. The authors refer to these urban constructions as a positive part of humans’ distant past – of the late Palaeolithic or Neolithic era – when proto-urban formations hosting human communities did not include traces of hierarchies or constructions meant to protect from conflicts or wars, nor central, sacred architectural remains. These mega-sites are seen as homogeneous architectures that occupied big surfaces. The writers project a positive, shared human life onto them that seems forgotten and inactive in our contemporary imagination.
The current state of affairs on an urban level produces a new type of city where the old urban concepts, like centrality or separation of functions, seem to belong to the past. The decline of the department store and the office building has indicated a total transformation of city centres; a new type of suburban area seems to be replacing the notion of the city, something like a large, extended sleeping area where deliveries via the Web can be effected directly from the beds of users. We could argue that a system of beds can better describe the new vision of the future city than any other imaginary construction.
This image of a self-sufficient “autonomous bed set” that accumulates to the scale of a city goes hand in hand with hidden efforts to make this “autonomy” possible. Furthermore, this fake autonomy of the new city cell – structured as an extended bed – can only be pronounced in tandem with the booming of a new service industry. This description of an urban future transforms the traditional concepts of a city into a new mega-site typology, which is under examination in this upcoming semester. If the traditional city model is transformed into a systematic, multi-part and homogeneous construction where the city hierarchy is only visible from our individual point of view, then we have a new typology of an imaginary city. The studio will focus on a comparison of such developments of societal change towards a homogeneous multitude of independent beds in the USA and Europe based on selected examples. Furthermore, the task will be to design a new typology of permanent hotel life in independent beds. The work will extend to different scales: the cell itself, and the environment that is produced by its multiplication and repetition.
No-stop-city, Archizoom, 1970
EXTENDED MEGA-SITES
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Monday / Tuesday / Friday 14.00–18.00
Design Studio BArch6 Aristide Antonas Daniela Herold
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GLC GEOGRAPHY LANDSCAPES CITIES
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Water, a necessity of sustenance … Water gives life … Water for ablution of body and of soul … Water for reflection, both visual and intellectual … Light and sound are palpable materials of architectural containment and are simultaneously the principal forms of its occupation. Traditional spatial composition has relied on surfaces of resistance and reflection; space can be understood as the dissolving and blurring of the visual and the aural at the limits of perception and tactility. Discussions in the academy and in experimental practice are focused on responsive architectures and interactive interfaces; this work posits the concept of generative architectures in terms of materials, hybrid systems, and controls through improvised and scripted tenancies as acts of invention and innovation. There are many thresholds of concern: interior to exterior, architecture to landscape, forest to garden, public to private … Movement through liquid Water serves as a lens to manipulate and to understand both light and sound. In glass, we find ourselves moving ever so slowly, almost at a standstill, yet still we sense depth and thickness of surface, and return to the idea of matter and materiality. Mater or mother, material, materiality, matter The performative qualities of materiality take precedence over the physical or nominally substantive qualities of firmness, of softness, of weight and impermeability, impenetrable in their resistance to emotive qualities and the ability to transform. The project for this term is an urban natatorium. Be it a bourgeois indulgence, an amenity for the advantaged citizens of the city, the natatorium is a broadly based descriptor for a variety of water-based facilities in the constructed landscape of the contemporary city, embracing a range of possibilities: – a public fountain or well, – a public bathhouse, – a swimming pool(s), – a spa as a traditional place of healing and health, – a water treatment or sewage plant, – hydroponic gardens or fish farming, productive agricultures.
Monday / Tuesday / Friday 14.00–18.00
Design Studio MArch David Lieberman
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Still from within the sounds of these waves, David J. Lieberman
The research and the project provide an opportunity to explore different cultural traditions, spaces of community engagement, and both personal and collective identity. The optimistic and somewhat idealistic ambition and intent is that the future might offer unknown experiences. If architectural composition is the creative synthesis of programmatic logic, it requires an artisan’s sensibility for materials and details. The poetic concerns for colour, light and texture choreographed in spatial sensibilities of sensual delight reside in the eloquence of built form. To imagine necessitates the aspiration to build. Architects must build with an understanding of the body of the project, the skeleton, the musculature, the tendons and ligaments, the flesh and the skin, not to mention the veils of revealing and concealing in the garments that clothe. Materials are to be selected for their visual, aural, and tactile acuity with the precision and clarity of an instrument maker seeking to find the voice within a piece of wood, carefully selected for its weight, its colour, and its feel. Emerging technologies, hybrid materials, digital composition and fabrication, and the management and sequence of processes of assembly have greatly expanded the possibilities of building, offering opportunities for invention and innovation. Building is an act of argument and debate, not resignation and compromise. There are many ways to think and many ways to build. What, then, is the promise held by the aspiration and invention in the act of “making”? To build is, indeed, the question.
Geological Map of Malawi. Keith Bloomfield, T. P. R. Mason, Malawi Geological Survey Department, 1966
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Design Studio MArch
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CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY
Michelle Howard
How would we practice architecture if we were separated from the supply chains (the internet and data, manufactured and imported materials, etc.) that we have become accustomed to in the Western world? How could this separation foster innovation and perhaps even lead us to a better practice of architecture?
CMT
These questions are at the heart of the CMT project this semester. We will work in partnership with the University of Mzuzu in Malawi, who are planning the first Bachelor’s programme in architecture in Mzuzu and the second in Malawi. With the resources of the University of Mzuzu in mind, we seize this opportunity to rethink current practices of architecture and describe ideas for how to: – Have an intricate knowledge of place, what it can provide and produce. – Trace the materials we use, and the processes needed to manufacture them. – Know the materials a place can produce within a radius of 20 kilometres. – Use less energy, use architecture, not electricity for climate regulation. – Create places, not just buildings. – Create places not dependent on large infrastructure networks. – Know the ground and soils in a place and react accordingly. – Know what the ground is capable of, buildings, shade, plant life, and food. – Be innovative and inventive with the simplest of tools and materials. – Make buildings that are suited to and benefit local environments. – Make buildings that store more carbon than they emit. – Accommodate other organic life and encourage organic diversity. – Maintain, repair and regenerate our existing buildings. – Combat gender bias more actively in education and in practice. – Use more waste and devise methods to enrich our environment with it. – Reduce our dependency on engineered and placeless solutions. – Increase self-reliance in architects and the communities they serve. To be continued…
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Design Studio MArch
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Andreas Rumpfhuber
Visualisation of the Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung Ost (Bauteil III), Oskar and Peter Payer, 1967 [altered by grafisches Büro]
The studio embarks to challenge the all too familiar topic of housing. It will question prevailing ideologies, research contemporary business models, learn about mythicised ideas of how we are supposed to live (together), and problematise contemporary debates about communities (of whatever kind). The studio will identify and revolve around symptoms of contemporary housing, in order to come up with a multitude of approaches for contemporary urban living and dwelling, leading to concrete proposals that envision an architecture for the contemporary city and all its societies. The hypothesis of the studio is that housing (as the typology invented vis-à-vis the factory) needs to be conceived in relation to contemporary labour paradigms, production modes and finance models. For the past five decades, Western industrialised countries have experienced an unprecedented transformation of the labour paradigm and the financial market. The outsourcing of dirty industries to faraway countries, the introduction of digital automation into work processes, and the rise of the communication, creative and financial industries have turned the entire city into a factory. This has triggered the continuous decay of the “wage labour” society with its secure employment and its concept of a stable nuclear family. The “creative destruction” of existing forms of economy with contemporary forms of peer-topeer and sharing economies are merely consequential developments, intensifying society’s upheaval. This will be acknowledged in the studio’s design proposals in relation to (1) the living conditions of the people they will house, and (2) to the production and construction of housing itself. The studio will be split into (1) an analytic phase where studio participants will research specific topics, allowing each student to develop and explicate their own perspective and focus. The subsequent phase will be dedicated (2) to the development of a concrete design proposal (for housing understood in the widest sense) for the city of Vienna. The accompanying seminar will feature a series of inputs from national and international scholars designed to introduce and inform the studio’s participants about the complex of housing. The seminar will be structured around the following topics: History and Criticism; Post-Fordist Production Modes and the Financial Industry; Co-housing and Cooperatives; Care, Gender and Privacy; Representation and Organization.
HTC HISTORY THEORY CRITICISM
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ADP 3D MODELLING AND ANIMATION I
ADP INTERACTIVE DESIGN, FILM EDITING, SOUND AND SCRIPTING
ADP 3D MODELLING AND ANIMATION III
Project Lecture BArch2 Werner Skvara
203a_CAD-Lab Thu 9.30–12.45
The course covers the fundamentals of 3D modelling in computer-aided design. It provides students with an understanding of different types of modelling techniques and the skills to construct virtual models, extract two-dimensional visualizations and design basic animations. The course is closely connected to the BArch2 design studio.
Project Lecture BArch2 Eva Sommeregger
203a_CAD-Lab Fri bi-weekly 11.00–14.00
We will dive into the world of interactivity and investigate cybernetics, the science of interaction. By exploring scripts and scores, we will examine the constructs necessary to realise time-based spaces and circular relations. Ultimately, different tools will be employed to produce fluid interactive spaces: Their genuinely dynamic characteristics will be captured by students, resulting in spatial and time-based drawings, i.e. audio and video artefacts, that expand the limitations of two-dimensional static architectural representations.
Seminar BArch6 René Ziegler
203a_CAD-Lab Thu 16.00–17.30
In this course we will add live physical properties to our digital Rhino with Grasshopper models. The course will introduce Kangaroo, a live physics engine for interactive simulation, form-finding, optimization and constraint solving. We will apply the solver library and a set of
Grasshopper components to model structural properties. Furthermore, we will use Ladybug to import and analyse standard weather data in Grasshopper, draw diagrams such as sun-paths and run basic radiation analysis, shadow studies, and view analysis.
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Seminar MArch2 Daniel Kerbler
203a_CAD-Lab Wed 13.00–16.00
PARAMETRIC MODELLING AND DIGITAL FABRICATION
think parametric
parametric concepts can be applied to the architectural design-process. Such research will also extend the boundaries of our intellectual approach, of our way we think.
What impact could a parametric process have on the way designing architects think? In this seminar we will investigate this question by taking the parametric approach out of the box it has been originally conceived for. We will use software that is not exclusively streamlined to solving a predefined set of problems as found in building construction but that is equipped to process a much wider scope of input data. The student will have a chance to research how
Parametric modelling means to “think parametric”. Eventually the parametric concept provides us with a new mindset, that has the potential to remove certain barriers from our thought processes. It can empower us to tackle problem definitions that previously seemed to be inconceivable.
Midterm presentation, ADP MArch, summer 2021, Brandstetter, Stainer. Photo: Marcella Brunner, 2021
Masterthesis presentation, Christopher Gruber. Photo: Marcella Brunner, 2021
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Project Lecture BArch2 Franz Sam
211a Wed 15.30–17.00
BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES I
Construct Architecture
essential knowledge about basic structure and technologies, as well as about their architectural relevance in a broader sense.
The course offers insight into fundamental aspects of the construction of a building, materials and technologies. It starts from a basic range of materials and their various roles in building construction in its different historical contexts. Students will explore the relationship between material properties, technology and form as a defining principle. In this, the aim is to develop
CMT BUILDING STRUCTURES II
Lecture BArch2 Rene Ziegler
We will discuss historically important applications and put them in relation to contemporary and cutting-edge technologies. In doing so, we will reflect on building practices and architectural construction, providing a comprehensive overview of construction technologies.
211a Thu 14.00–15.30
The course develops the students’ understanding of structural and material behaviour. Here, the teaching of building structures is integrated into the design process. This allows students to apply this knowledge directly to their design and receive professional advice for their specific projects.
CMT
Seminar BArch4 Luciano Parodi
BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES III
In Detail
211a Thu 12.00–13.30
Building Technologies III aims to consolidate students’ knowledge of materials, construction and planning. The courses subjects of discussion are the production of details and the reciprocity between construction and detailing processes. Details and its presence or necessity for the production of buildings have been uttermost discussed in architectural discourse, but so far only on a visual level. Thus remaining the discussion on the surface of things. We intend therefore to explore the genesis of ideas and architectures departing from the very core and intrinsic characteristics of the discreet detail.
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Seminar MArch2 Thomas Schwed
211a Thu 10.00–11.30
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE I
Project Evolution
By looking at examples, we will understand the process of design development. Informative site visits and the opportunity to talk to experienced architects at various offices will further add to our understanding of the design and building process, and of 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.
Midterm presentation, BArch3 CMT. Photo: Dila Krimizitopark, 2021
The lecture introduces the professional and legal foundations necessary for 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.
Head in the Clouds, section, Paul Böhm. MArch CMT, summer 2021.
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Project Lecture BArch4 Franz Sam
211a Wed bi-weekly 17.15–20.15
The course Sustainability I is set up in a holistic way. It starts with aspects of materials, technology and expected form, and leads to questions of social behaviour and its impact on the sustainable development of structures and construction.
cerned with recycling and upcycling. This will help students understand interactions and processes of negotiating between social, functional and structural requirements. Developing sustainable solutions under specific, social and technical conditions encourages flexibility and creativity in making use of formal possibilities, materials and technologies.
It provides an overview of aspects of and motives for sustainable behaviour by looking at projects con-
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Project Lecture BArch4 Thomas Matthias Romm
211a Wed bi-weekly 17.00–20.00
ECOLOGIES II Sufficiency, efficiency and resilience are those aspects of sustainability that we will rethink in terms of architecture in this course: cogitamus. Sufficiency – what is essential? Less is more durable. Durability means robustness. What are the basic needs behind the task, what are its adequate means of construction in the Anthropocene? Efficiency – does a circular architecture mean optimizing input and output, or the effective regeneration of resources? 70% of the total material flow and 70% of all waste is due to construction. Only 10% are closed
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loops. A circular economy is not just based on even more intelligent technologies to become a purpose economy. Are we headed for an architectural culture with artificial intelligence at its end point? Resilience – climate change is putting existing structures under stress. The importance of various regions and cities is shifting, even vanishing after global peak oil. Millions of people’s lives are affected by this change. A one-world architecture needs parameters enabling us to act so as to affect the universal setting of our collective existence (Bruno Latour).
Lecture BArch5 Golmar Kempinger-Khatibi
209 Thu 13.30–15.00
The lecture course Cultural Heritage II deals with theoretical and practical aspects of modern conservation. They explain the meaning and importance of cultural and natural heritage today, the fields they cover, and the values and definitions they relate to. The course will provide an overview if the field’s history, its significant movements and international guidelines and institutions. The practical part looks at the interaction between the building systems, materials, their surroundings and causes of deterioration. It discusses sustainable retrofitting and looks at management issues. The application of theory in practice will be shown by analysing case studies, short excursions and visiting exhibitions. Occasional guest lectures will round out the program.
Oaxaca Sanatorium, Techo en Mexico, Tercer Piso Arquitectos, Oaxaca/MEX, 2004, sketch. Charlotte Beaudon-Römer, BArch4 ESC, summer 2021.
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Lecture BArch6 Thomas Proksch
209 Wed bi-weekly 17.00–20.00
Models of Sustainability – Sustainable Urbanism and Architecture between Claims and Reality
many years, I have been contributing – as a consultant for landscape design and together with architects – to urban designs and architectural solutions regarding the site of a project, the specificities of its urban structure, its landscape situation and its socio-spatial conditions.
“At the beginning of every project there is maybe not writing but a definition in words – a text – a concept, ambition, or theme that is put in words, and only at the moment that it is put in words can we begin to proceed, to think about architecture; the words unleash the design [...].” – Rem Koolhaas
ESC WELL-TEMPERED ENVIRONMENTS
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The starting point for the lectures is my experience as a landscape architect and ecologist. For
By means of reference projects, we will discuss whether incorporating the principles of sustainability into the planning process can contribute to improving planning results. The lecture will be conversational, and will be accompanied by excursions and city walks.
Seminar MArch2 Peter Leeb
211a Thu bi-weekly 16.30–19.30
Countless technological inventions have expanded the field of possibilities for shelter production. For coping with heat and cold, protection from wind and humidity, and regulating sunlight and shade, the new tools have been helpful and have inspired us 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-reaching implications for architecture. These questions, relating to the
history, the methods and the scale of providing comfort in buildings, have moved to the centre of our discipline’s attention. In the course of the seminar, the interdependencies between technology, environment and human expectations of comfort will be portrayed as essentials for architecture, both conceptually and constructively. Historical and contemporary examples will be introduced, and perspectives on future developments will be considered in a critical fashion.
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Lecture BArch2 Angelika Schnell
209 Fri 9.00–10.30
The lectures Architectural History I (winter term) and Architectural History II (summer term) build on each other. Under the title Genealogy of Modernity, they trace the direct and indirect origins, roots and antecedents of architectural modernity. Consequently, they are not structured chronologically, because that would imply a linear and causal historiography. Instead, they start
from the present and look back from there along significant lines of development. In so doing, they respond to the methodological criticism of modernism and its simple model of progress, which ignores bridges, gaps, detours and one-way streets, but at the same time, they acknowledge the special significance that architectural modernism continues to have today. Thematically, the lectures essentially cover the European region and reach back to antiquity.
Students should gain comprehensive knowledge of European architectural history. They should learn to understand connections and contradictions, and at the same time develop their own points of view through in-depth historical knowledge.
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Seminar BArch4 Angelika Schnell
209 Fri bi-weekly 11.00–14.00
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY II Genealogy of Modernity II
WRITING ON ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPES AND CITIES
HTC HISTORIES AND THEORIES OF CITIES
The seminar addresses the use of written and spoken language in architecture. Texts dealing with architecture will be produced, read and analysed together. Small exercises will therefore also be given. The aim is to strengthen the students’ ability to express themselves precisely and independently about architecture. The languages used will mainly be German and English.
Lecture BArch6 Andreas Rumpfhuber
S15a_Anatomiesaal Fri 12.00–13.30
This year’s lecture series will outline a history of the development of the city and its possible alternative narratives. Drawing from contemporary findings in archeology, ethnography, anthropology, political science and sociology, the lecture offers not only a history of human settlements, but also a discussion of social theories in relation to architectural projects and theories. The lecture series aims to shed light on concepts that are important in contemporary discourses, such as labour, housing, inequality, gender, care, cooperation, participation.
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Seminar MArch2 N. N.
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ON ARCHITECTURAL THEORY
The seminar discusses selected topics of contemporary architectural theory. It questions the mythic and heroic role of architecture, and reconceptualizes architectural strategies as lasting moments of intervention.
HTC
Seminar MArch3 Christina Condak
210 Fri 11.30–13.00
The Thesis Seminar offers seminars and guidance for independent student research, which should result in the comprehensive development of a thesis proposal. The course provides general instruction in the definition, programming and development of a thesis project. Students will prepare their thesis proposals by specifically defining a question, developing a working knowledge of related research in that
field, and producing an architectural hypothesis. The collected work of the seminar will provide the necessary materials for the subsequent semester’s design experimentation, testing, critical appraisal of the hypothesis and eventual thesis project. The thesis argument will ultimately couple the specific resolution of an architectural proposition with the response to a larger question within architectural discourse.
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Animation background from Flagrant Délit, Madelon Vriesendrop, 1979 [altered by grafisches Büro]
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GLC DOCUMENTATION AND REPRESENTATION IN GEOGRAPHIES, LANDSCAPES, CITIES „The map is positioned between creating and recording the city. It is this dual function, that release the imaginative energy of mapping, and which has consistently attracted the attention of artists as well as technicians to urban mapping.“ Denis Cosgrove, CartoCity, in Janet Abrams, Peter Hall (Eds.): Else/Where: Mapping: New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 2006
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Visual representation, as a project in itself, has the potential to reveal and uncover surprising realities of places. The complexity of a site obliges us to make clear decisions and rigorously sort information, but more importantly, it requires inventive interpretations of and a position towards the terrain observed.
pendencies of a city fragment will be investigated. The course opens the scope from small-scale observation to the complexity of the urban terrain, focusing on the forces and processes that are the basis of urban form. Students will discover how a small site influences and affects the larger scale of a city. They will experiment with the visualization of underlying processes – starting from phenomenological observations and moving towards an understanding of effects, describing the territory as a complex set of relations. In addition, lectures will formulate a genealogy of urban representations.
This seminar explores how techniques of representation, the selection of materials and the intentions of a site’s description are strongly interrelated. Gradual differences between tools of representing architecture as built form and modes of representing intricate interdeLecture BArch4 Maria Auböck
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This modul offers a lecture series about landscape architecture and garden art and a field trip in Vienna. I want to offer students insight into the conceptual quality and materiality of landscape architecture and landscape design in public spaces and private sites. In time of climate change students shall train their creativity for a global context as well as learn about environmental qualities of local sites and how to select vegetation and material structures fit for use. Moreso the main goal of this unit is to acquire knowledge for issues of urban
design, landscape architecture and garden history. The lectures inform about cultural history, natural science and project relevant issues, including relevant recent landscape projects. The quality of vegetation as wells as of selected materials for use in open spaces f. i. steel, glass, stone and wood will be presented and discussed. Christopher Alexander wrote: „the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature as you make it.”
Horts Urbans in Jardins del Doctor Pla/Armengol, Barcelona, 2022. Photo: Maria Auböck
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GLC Airfield, De-Icing-Operation, Schwechat. Photo: Bernd Vlay, 2022
INFRASTRUCTURE AND NETWORKS “Hardly anything is more depressing than going straight to the goal.” Cedric Price
This course uses (and abuses) the concepts of infrastructure in order to discuss the potential of urban and architectural design. Cedric Price fundamentally questioned how things are and should be related to one another,
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Lecture BArch4 Bernd Vlay
211a Fri bi-weekly 10.30–13.30
addressing the framework itself as a fundamental issue of architectural intervention.
different phenomena of infrastructure and networks. We will study the intricate relationships between physical and virtual conditions, revealing their influence on the power, responsibility and limitations of architectural thinking and doing that is at the very heart of architecture.
Infrastructures are infamous for FRAMING architecture: they have to be there BEFORE architecture can start its operation. The architect usually has to navigate through conditions already present, predetermined by the infrastructural elements. In this class, we will explore and question this hierarchy, looking at
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The course explains the constituting elements of cities, providing an understanding for notions of private and public space, accessibility, urban typologies, and their origins and effects. The course then reveals how these elements produce different types of city and living environments.
Project Lecture BArch6 Christian Teckert
209 Thu bi-weeklyly 10.00–13.00
The analysis of discursive formations in contemporary urbanism will be at the core of the lecture series. It will include fields like sociology, art, media theory, philosophy and critical geography, which have been decisive for the current debates.
In a situation where no hegemonic method or unitary approach can be detected in urbanism, and after it has been claimed 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,”
the “city within the city” or the “city of exacerbated difference.” At the same time, it will consider new methodological approaches to the realm of urban research, analysis and mapping, which increasingly represent an urbanistic practice in their own right.
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Seminar MArch2 Antje Lehn
209 Wed 9.30–11.00
URBANISM II Rethinking Urban Futures of the Recent Past
MAPPING The focus of this course is to discuss historical and contemporary cartography and mapping as tools to describe and understand spatial patterns and forms of organization in society at large. It gives an introduction to intensive and extensive cartography, as well as issues related to topology, topography and city planning.
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Seminar MArch Christina Condak Lisa Schmidt-Colinet
210 Mon 17.00–18.30
The course focuses on the representation and documentation of the thesis project. It challenges the students to develop their theses through a continuous process of oral articulation, writing, drawing and documenting, and enables them to formulate and structure their proposals. As the final synthesis of the graduation project, students submit their thesis documentation in the form of a book putting forward their thesis. It presents their hypotheses and methodology, includes research materials, the process of production and documentation of the final thesis project.
Seminar Elective Damjan Minovski
K7/203a_CAD-Lab Wed bi-weekly 10.30–13.30
We will create and work with 3D scans, analyze and apply techniques borrowed from the film, vfx and game industry. Furthermore we will establish a solid foundation on the topics of image synthesis, pointcloud/image/video capture and physics of lights and materials.
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This seminar offers students the opportunity to performatively explore language as an artistic medium at the scene of its gap, its difference and ambiguity in a clearly defined spatial-medial setting. An “Expanded Cinema” as an experimental laboratory that enables students to investigate the correlations between image and text, body, space and projection, language, voice and action. In the course of the seminar, installation-performance scenes will be developed on this basis. Particular attention will be given to the off-voice as “voice-without-a-body”. The division of body and voice opens up a sphere that allows for questions on topics such as gender, identity, power, space, language, etc., in order to create intersections of real and medial spaces that allow for ambiguity.
Useless (This is not an EPS Shredder). Photo: Benjamin Grabherr, 2020
STAGING LANGUAGE – ACQUIRING AMBIGUITY
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DOCTORAL STUDIES (DR. TECHN.)
There is no application deadline and no admission fee. Further information on the program: ika.akbild.ac.at/school/ admission/Dr_techn For queries concerning the program, please contact: arch@akbild.ac.at
Architecture, as a discipline situated between the Arts and Sciences, finds itself in a unique position. Even if classified as scientific program of study by statute, the design process and therefore creative-artistic thinking forms the core of its education, thus architecture cannot be understood solely as an applied science. Architecture cannot be considered as a purely artistic discipline either since its 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 emphasises the particular position of the discipline. This has given rise to a distinctive, highly original, concept of research which allows for both strict scientific research formats – i.e. within the field of architectural history or material technology – and artistic research at the intersection of design practice. Consequently, Doctoral theses may include and focus on theoretical, historical, technical as well social themes. Additionally, Design based research equally qualifies as a research path. The IKA has offered a doctorate study program in architecture (Dr. Techn.) since 2011 which is open to students holding an appropriate university degree in architecture (master, diploma). Candidates who wish 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 their intended doctoral thesis. Once a supervisor is found the program normally stretches over six semesters.
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Current Dr. Techn. Candidates at IKA
ANAMARIJA BATISTA ‚Krise‘ als Denkfigur und Ihre Manifestation im städtischen Raum: Ein Blick auf die künstlerische, architektonische und urbane Praxis. (supervisors: Diedrich Diederichsen, Angelika Schnell) SONY DEVABHAKTUNI Dancing Through Architecture: The Impact of Collaboration in Practice. (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) OLIVER DOMEISEN The four elements of architectural ornament – foundations for a contempoary ornamental practice. (supervisor: August Sarnitz) NIKOLAS ETTEL The Architectural Parallels, Film-making as investigation method for urban oddities. (supervisor: August Sarnitz) ADAM HUDEC Epidermitecture: An exploration of the potential of the facades outermost skin. How patina, the shallow layer of deposits on their surface can be of benefit to the building and its environment. (supervisors: Michelle Howard, Katja Sterfinger)
SOLMAZ KAMALIFARD A Study of Natural Lighting in Interior Spaces as a Human-Space Interaction Stimulus. (supervisor: Michelle Howard) BERTAN KOYUNCU Re-reading Henri Lefebvre Through Inside and Outside the Refugee Camps in Lesvos. (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) JAE HYUN LIM Synthetic History: Unmasking the History of Tange and Isozaki. (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) ESTHER LORENZ The Corporeal City. (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) MAHSA MALEKAZARI Dancing to the Tune of Light. An investigation into ascertaining discrete visual conditions through the active behaviour of the occupants. (supervisor: Michelle Howard)
WALTRAUD INDRIST 5 Häuser. 5 Familien. 5 Freundschaften – Der photographische Akt im Werk des Architekten Hans Scharoun zwischen 1933 und 1945. (supervisor: Angelika Schnell)
PAULA STRUNDEN Simulating Atmospheres: Digitizing embodied design and decision-making processes in architecture. (supervisor: Angelika Schnell; part of research project Communities of Tacit Knowledge)
CHRISTINA JAUERNIK The figure is not with herself. Entanglements of the digital, technical and physical self in the artistic research project INTRA SPACE, the reformulation of architectural space as a dialogical aesthetic. (supervisor: Wolfgang Tschapeller)
MARA TRÜBENBACH A Loom’s Influence: Handcraft and the Role of Contemporary Aesthetic Education in British Architecture. (supervisor: Tim Anstey, Oslo School of Architecture; second supervisor: Angelika Schnell; part of research project Communities of Tacit Knowledge)
RESEARCH PROJECT Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing1 2019–2022 Angelika Schnell Eva Sommeregger Paula Strunden Mara Trübenbach For further information www.tacit-knowledge-architecture.com
Ambivalences of Modernity The architect and City Planner Roland Rainer Between Dictatorship and Democracy2 2021– Angelika Schnell Ingrid Holzschuh Waltraud Indrist Monika Platzer
1 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 860413. 2 Stand-Alone Project, Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) P 34938-G
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LECTURE SERIES WINTER 2021/ SUMMER 2022
The title and theme of the research project, and consequently of the lecture series, derive from the idea of “tacit knowledge”, which was introduced by Michael Polanyi and Gilbert Ryle starting in the 1950s. They addressed the fact that there is a whole range of forms of knowledge that we learn and apply implicitly, mainly through immediate physical implementation, without being able to explain them precisely. For Polanyi, this meant that, “we know more than we can say”. Architecture, and especially the architectural design process, fits well into this thesis. For although many architects make great efforts to explain and (post-) rationalise their design approaches, the actual process remains unknown, even when working in a team. The physical activity of sketching, drawing, building working models, etc. is individual and collective at the same time, since in addition to the subjective choice of forms and structures, there is also recourse to the familiar, because it is easy to communicate: processes, images and jargon, which in turn also promote habitual prejudices. The annual lecture series at IKA in the academic year 2021/2022 will be organised in partnership with the EU research project Communities of Tacit Knowledge (TACK): Architecture and its Ways of Knowing, in which we are involved as one of ten academic partners.1
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Christoph Grafe, Bergische Universität Wuppertal Peg Rawes, Bartlett, UC London
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Margitta Buchert, Leibniz Universität Hannover Gennaro Postiglione, Politecnico Milano Gaia Caramellino, Politecnico Milano
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Tim Anstey, Oslo School of Architecture Helena Mattsson, KTH Stockholm Jennifer Mack, KTH Stockholm
COMMUNITIES OF TACIT KNOWLEDGE: ARCHITECTURE AND ITS WAYS OF KNOWING 1 The research project is an Innovative Training Network for doctoral students, as part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of the European Framework Programme Horizon 2020. The research project has received funding since March 2020 and will run for three years. The project involves ten doctoral students at ten European universities, along with nine architecture firms, three cultural institutions, and an advisory board consisting of six renowned academics in the fields of architecture and urbanism.
The lectures will be organised as “TACK talks”, as discussions between the partners in a hybrid format, and streamed via YouTube. www.tacit-knowledge-architecture.com This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860413.
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CONSERVATION ARCHITECT AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA
Taragaon-Hostel, Kathmandu, 1970-1972; Global Liner, 1963
When Carl Pruscha left the mountains of Tyrol, found his way to Vienna, and continued his education in the United States, he had long left the beaten path and embarked on an unsettled life. It is fully out of the ordinary when, on top of that, dreams and long-held plans are called into question overnight, for instance by an offer to take up a career representing the exact opposite of one’s own perspective. Usually, people will find good reasons to decline such a proposal, regardless of its singular appeal, to forego adventure and stay on the safe and narrow path. Not Carl Pruscha. Having set up shop fairly successfully in cosmopolitan New York and cultivating the image of a dandy, he decided on the spur of the moment to relocate to Kathmandu as an architect on assignment by the United Nations. Kathmandu? The contrast to New York could not have been greater—the same goes for the challenges the young architect had to overcome.
Life at the foot of the Himalayas meant freedom and a curse, the city was both a Moloch and a hippie paradise. Pruscha found his way around, explored, inventoried, drew up development plans for the valley and brought architecture in the form of a distinctive type of building that wedded tradition with Modernism. After ten years, Pruscha settled down in Vienna again. Not so much as a homecomer, more as a repeat newcomer. His unusual experience gave him the perfect background to become a teacher who shakes up conventions, shows young people the world as well as their options, and exerts influence on academic institutions. At the same time, it gave him the ability to see the potential in existing conditions or structures and realize remarkable architectural projects in a historical context. Pruscha enriches the species of architects with his opinionated personality and encourages them to deviate from seemingly preordained career paths.
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Christoph Grafe, Peg Rawes Margitta Buchert, Gennaro Postiglione, Gaia Caramellino Tim Anstey, Helena Mattsson, Jennifer Mack
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Book launch INTRA! INTRA! Carl Pruscha Michael Hirschbichler Ernst A. Plischke Study Prize
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MArch online registration MArch portfolio submittal BArch online registration BArch portfolio submittal + exercise works MArch + BArch Interviews
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Office: Room 213, 2nd floor Gabriele Mayer +43 (1) 58816-5102 g.mayer@akbild.ac.at Ulrike Auer +43 (1) 58816-5101 u.auer@akbild.ac.at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna Institute for Art and Architecture www.akbild.ac.at/ika arch@akbild.ac.at
Analogue Model Workshop: General machine hours (380 Volt) Mon–Thu, 2pm–6pm For individual support, please contact: Günther Dreger g.dreger@akbild.ac.at Rüdiger Suppin r.suppin@akbild.ac.at
Chair / Deputy: Wolfgang Tschapeller, Lisa Schmidt-Colinet Editor: Linda Lackner Proofreading: Judith Wolfframm Design: grafisches Büro
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