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Desert Theory
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Shadow, Wind and Mirror Tales
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Book of Hitze
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The Good Life
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DESIGN FROM THE INSIDE OUT Out of the new self-consciousness of spatial restrictions comes a topic in the here and now of our lives that questions our ways of being in space. The registration of the body, still and in movement, with objects and other beings passing in transition from one place to another in time, has always been central to making architecture. Living during lockdown has raised many questions, including concern for the capacity of our private and public spaces to adapt to the demands of immediate needs. These drastic situations open us up to a new awareness of our environment, giving us a chance to rethink the way things should be – allowing us to observe the ordinary from a new perspective. In the public sphere, we see spatial divisions that mark forms of physical control and limitation. We become aware of measuring. At first, we notice subtle changes, transparent face shields or ground markings for distancing. Some of the restrictions now implemented will disappear when this pandemic flattens, but some of them might remain, and transform the way we act and live for a long time. The title of the project indicates a certain abstract starting point and criterion necessary for studying how to live and work in limited space. Does form follow the body, the performance, the use? Where does the body end and the enclosure begin? Focusing on small spaces, even extremely minimal conditions, will provoke a necessary discussion on what do I really need? And what is at the core of architecture?
By considering different people doing things, beyond the standard positions of standing, sitting and lying down, we can challenge norms, and explore more dynamic actions and capabilities of the body. This helps us think about design from the inside out. Perhaps nothing remains the same from day to day. There may be constant adjustments, like the process of design itself, with constant revisions and iterations. Further along, the topic of health and architecture returns as soon as we consider an architecture that enhances body movement and reciprocal engagement between building, body and environment. The exploration of the third dimension will play an essential role – how to get from here to there, how to move in cramped spaces, considering inside-outside relationships, and so on. Through a series of playful ongoing exercises, processes and architectonic operations, we can explore the design of live-work units, as a series of extensions from the ground. These units may develop spatial sharing and interaction with neighbours. The five platform positions probe the project from different views and angles, while toggling between analogue and digital drawing assignments structures the output.
Domino Park, James Corner Field Operations, New York, 2020. Photo: Marcella Winograd, courtesy of Domino Park
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Butter Tower, southeast side of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Rouen, 1886, Photo: Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement. Courtesy of Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l’architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP
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Design Studio BArch3 Michelle Howard Luciano Parodi
SMASHUP perceives all entities as elastic, exchanging mutual influences and energies, and exerting attractive powers. SMASHUP supercharges argument to bounce against taste, preconceived ideas, prejudices and laissez-faire politics. Savageness, Changefulness, Naturalism, Grotesqueness, Rigidity and Redundancy: These were the terms that, in 1852, John Ruskin used to lovingly describe The Nature of Gothic architecture in the second volume of The Stones of Venice.1 It was the first time in nearly three centuries that the buildings that sprang from this movement were celebrated by a recognised tastemaker of the 19th century. Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy; and whenever it finds occasion for change in its form or purpose, it submits to it without the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty, – subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer. And it is one of the chief virtues of the Gothic builders, that they never suffered ideas of outside symmetries and consistencies to interfere with the real use and value of what they did. 2 What you call Gothic architecture was, at the time it was first practised in the 11th century, most probably referred to as modern. It ushered in a similar, if not more profound revolution in built space to what you call Modern architecture today. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) probably coined the term in his Lives of the Artists3, using it in a derogatory way, likening it to the common misconception of the Visigoths4 as barbarous. Vasari, a Florentine painter, writer, architect and historian, preferred the perceived purity and regularity of classical architecture. The assumption that purity and regularity is a positive attribute is one that has proven particularly tenacious and, indeed, nowhere more so than in what you call Modern architecture today.
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The CMT studio in winter 2020/21 is the first part of a year-long project that will look more closely at the savage, changeful, natural, grotesque, rigid and redundant qualities of what you call Gothic architecture. They could enable a more connected approach to our critically endangered environment. SMASHUP is not aggressive or threatening, it confronts strong propositions with one another and asks them not only to coexist, but to improve; SMASHUP is antifragile.5 SMASHUP wears the badge of imperfection with pride. SMASHUP is a dialogue between balance and awareness, flying buttresses, custom-made tools and stereotomy … 1 The Stones of Venice, the second volume of three, entitled The Sea Stories, published between 1851 and 1853, Smith, Elder & Co., London 2 Page 44 of the 1890 edition of The Nature of Gothic, printed by William Morris and his Kelmscott Press 3 Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari, 1550, Florence 4 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/80335/11-rome-sacking-facts-about-originalgoths (05.08.2020) 5 Term coined by Nassim Taleb: Antifragile. Things That Gain From Disorder, Penguin Random House Trade, 2014
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The studio is based on a theory of the desert that could be related to the structure of the modern-day social sphere. This connection between the desert and the current urban situation is the working hypothesis of the studio, seen as a challenge for alternative definitions of the desert itself and, at the same time, as an open question that drives to island-like schemata negating the different principles of the desert. The desert is seen here as a yet unclearly defined element of urbanity. The studio deals with the investigation of desert conditions, opening the field of research to concepts such as the oasis; the oasis is not seen as an exception to the norm But rather as introducing the possibility of a network of desert negations, creating an archipelago of practically non-articulated entities of the same character. With the text Desert Islands by Gilles Deleuze1, the studio sets narrative re-beginnings as the starting point for its agenda. The narrative power of “being together” is tested with examples of new social microstructures in the small world of a deserted island. The multitude of narratives that belong to the rich history of islands will be doubled by the narrative history of archipelagos that will also form part of this semester’s research. Deserts are understood as the black seas of these multiple archipelagos, created by a great silence in the narrative process. The silence of this negative narration is projected to the silence of the social sphere. The social silence that guarantees all possible normalities is related to texts of the history of modernism. Art as Technique by Viktor Shklovsky2 is considered as a gateway to the concept of the everyday and its modern constitution.
The social sphere, operating as a strange inhabitation of the infrastructure, gives an indication of its power as a controlled set of repetitions to silence the strong canonical rhythms of the everyday. We could argue that modernity was set up as the invention of the everyday. And in a second move, we can argue that the everyday is defined and increasingly organized as a function of the infrastructure. In this sense, the negation of the everyday operates as the constitution of time as a series of events. A quick look at Badiou’s concept of the Event3 will help orientation in this regard. The studio is not restrained to the field of a simple theoretical investigation, but rather orients all research towards simple architectural conclusions, with different types of examples formed. A film understood as a reading process, an archive of selected entries, and different designs of landscapes or buildings will be the material results of the semester. 1 Deleuze Gilles, Desert Islands and Other Texts. 1953-1974, Los Angeles, 2004 2 Published in: Shklovsky Viktor, The Art of Prose, London, 1991 3 https://ceasefiremagazine. co.uk/alain-badiou-event/ (05.08.2020)
Deserted Island With Cave and Infrastructure, 2019. Aristide Antonas
Hidden Room and Hall in Deserted Island, 2019. Aristide Antonas
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Design Studio BArch5
Aristide Antonas Eva Sommeregger
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Georges Bataille: The Absence of Myth, in André Breton, Marcel Duchamp: Le surréalisme en 1947, Maeght, Paris 1947 (translated from English by Michael Richardson)
‘Night is also a sun’, and the absence of myth is also a myth: the coldest, the purest, the only true myth.
Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1977
STUDIES ON POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF SHADOWS, WINDS AND MIRRORS IN THE URBAN WILDERNESS OF NEARBY FUTURES
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
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This text, entitled Des espaces autres (Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias), and published by the French journal AMC. Architecture mouvement continuité in October 1984, was the basis of a lecture given by Michel Foucault in March 1967. Although not reviewed for publication by the author and thus not part of the official corpus of his work, the manuscript was released into the public domain for an exhibition in Berlin shortly before Michel Foucault’s death (translated from French by Jay Miskowiec).
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Design Studio MArch Hannes Stiefel Damjan Minovski
First there are the utopias. Utopias are sites with no real place. They are sites that have a general relation of direct or inverted analogy with the real space of society. They present society itself in a perfected form, or else society turned upside down, but in any case these utopias are fundamentally unreal spaces. There are also, probably in every culture, in every civilization, real places – places that do exist and that are formed in the very founding of society – which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted. Places of this kind are outside of all places, even though it may be possible to indicate their location in reality. Because these places are absolutely different from all the sites that they reflect and speak about, I shall call them, by way of contrast to utopias, heterotopias. I believe that between utopias and these quite other sites, these heterotopias, there might be a sort of mixed, joint experience, which would be the mirror. The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it is a placeless place. In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not, in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface; I am over there, there
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where I am not, a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent: such is the utopia of the mirror. But it is also a heterotopia in so far as the mirror does exist in reality, where it exerts a sort of counteraction on the position that I occupy. From the standpoint of the mirror, I discover my absence from the place where I am, since I see myself over there. Starting from this gaze that is, as it were, directed toward me, from the ground of this virtual space that is on the other side of the glass, I come back toward myself; I begin again to direct my eyes toward myself and to reconstitute myself there where I am. The mirror functions as a heterotopia in this respect: it makes this place that I occupy at the moment when I look at myself in the glass at once absolutely real, connected with all the space that surrounds it, and absolutely unreal, since in order to be perceived it has to pass through this virtual point which is over there.
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Design Studio MArch Angelika Schnell
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Heat and global warming also challenge the concept of architecture. HITZE TAKES COMMAND was a one-year research and design project at the IKA, in which students were tasked with going beyond the role of architecture as providing mere technical solutions for better living. Their design experiments, plans and strengthened self-reflection challenged familiar standards and comforts, even the very basis of architectural thinking and design. The results definitively deserve a BOOK. It will consist of heterogeneous micro-ingredients – various ideas, plans, projects, essays by different authors, talks and lectures – which will be arranged according to the macro-layers of the Earth’s “critical zone”: from the inner core of the Earth to the outer atmospheric layers and the surface of the sun. Every single project, every single text demonstrates and discusses what Bruno Latour called for in the search for “a maximum number of alternative ways of belonging to the world.”2 Given that any notion of “belonging to the world” is in essence philosophical, architecture has to be considered as a philosophical issue as well.
2 Bruno Latour, Down to Earth. Politics in the New Climatic Regime, Polity Press, Cambridge 2018, p. 15
The making of the book will be an intellectual journey. During the winter, a small number of students will become members of the editorial team. They will write the introduction to the book, and will be involved in all aspects of editing and producing it. In the end, there will be a book that might be more appealing than chocolate.
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Alessandra Cianchetta
GLC GEOGRAPHY LANDSCAPES CITIES
The 58th Venice Art Biennale 2019, curated by Ralph Rugoff, was titled – presciently – May You Live in Interesting Times. Significant crises are currently shaking the world. Geopolitical shifts, global political and civil unrest, increasing uncertainty and volatility, unprecedented migrations and diasporas, climate crises, health crises, and last but not least, looming recessions and depressions are all colliding in this moment in time.
We are also experiencing a state in which the tangible reality that surrounds us is being invisibly organized by Big Data and Big Tech, simultaneously producing the impression of an endless flow of information (hence of opportunity) marketed as fully and neutrally accessible, and a state of potentially permanent surveillance in a borderless environment of algorithms yet to be fully regulated by laws.
In such complex and menacing times, oversimplification, populism, fear and a semi-permanent state of exception, to put it with philosopher Giorgio Agamben or with controversial political theorist Carl Schmitt – Ausnahmezustand – might prevail. A state in which the law is suspended for an indefinite time, but not abrogated. If the power of law is to distinguish political beings, citizens from “bare bodies” (ζωή)1, recent events show the notion is too often overlooked.
Increasingly scarce resources – from the biosphere to the economy – and (perhaps too) extreme imbalances in their distribution call for a global, swift and, importantly, a coordinated plan of action. Yet we observe the resurgence of new nationalism marketed on promises to close borders – either temporarily or less temporarily – and to restore societies to a past, nostalgic, pre-global sameness and uniformity. The delusional promise of a Better Life. Paradise Lost. The ongoing pandemic exposes the crucial need for access to nature, landscapes, health, (decent) housing, civil rights, shelter, safety and opportunity, in short, to the εὖ ζῆν2, the Good Life, meant as a political project. If crises are opportunities to discern and examine, what is the Good Life now? Under the current, rapidly changing conditions, one question is how architecture and territory may (or may not) be able to evolve and gain relevance in a global arena. How can architecture not only contribute to a critical understanding of reality, but also, importantly, advocate for new models of praxis? This research driven studio, culminating in projects exploring alternative media, will explore all of the above issues and propose solutions for a Good Life.
1 See Giorgio Agamben, The Omnibus: Homo Sacer, 2017 2 See “Good Life” in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
towards sharpness, 2020. Photo: Rüdiger Suppin
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ADP DRAWING, 3D MODELLING AND GEOMETRY
Project Lecture BArch1 Rüdiger Suppin
AU_1.16A Thu 12.00–13.30
Toward sharpness – the project lecture is meant for making the first steps in architectural drawings, and understanding their spatial and temporal dimensions, which are communicated through abstractions.
Throughout the semester, this course will simulate a workflow from measuring, 3D modelling and representation to ultimately materializing geometrical ideas with CAM.
Based on an introduction to a CAD drawing tool, the craft of producing artefacts for explicit communication between recipients, humans as well as machines, will be learned.
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Seminar BArch3 Werner Skvara
The course will tackle the participants’ project-specific challenges and require proactive contributions during that process.
AU_1.16A Thu 9.30–11.00
The course aims to significantly advance the students’ digital modelling skills. It introduces them to advanced modelling techniques for the development of complex geometries. Focusing on image processing and rendering, it explains relevant principles of human perception and cognition and the implications of abstraction versus photorealism.
Seminar BArch3 Damjan Minovski
AU_1.16A Thu 15.30–17.00
developed. The main focus of the course will be on applications that feed on numeric information and create forms through assigned rules. Students will manoeuvre between top-down (preconception) and bottom-up (generated, manipulated, simulated) operations. They will learn how to analyse different physical performances (e.g. structural be-
haviour, or light impact) and simulate self-emerging events in a digital environment by means of parametric models. The digital experiments will result in a series of 3D printed structures that capture the topics of the seminar. The general aim of the course is to understand the performative properties of models in digital space.
ANALYSIS, SIMULATION AND SCRIPTING Architecture is a dynamic discipline that has tended to increasingly merge with others such as mathematics, programming, engineering or fabrication and has the potential to become a more speculative and experimental field encouraging prototypic explorations. Students will explore how new digital approaches to architectural concepts can be
Daniel Kerbler, 2018. Think Parametric
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ADP VISUAL AND VERBAL COMMUNICATION
ADP ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO ANALOGUE PRODUCTION, DIGITAL PRODUCTION
Seminar BArch5 Marlene Rutzendorfer
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The course trains students in effective visual and verbal communication as well as presentation techniques. In discussing the IKA lecture series, current exhibitions, films and events both in class and through text production, students will develop methods for structuring clear arguments and compelling narratives for a variety of situations and audiences. Furthermore, students will communicate their own designs and ideas. The course teaches skills for visual explanations and for envisioning information as communication, as well as analytical and generative tools. We will look into research and analysis, sketching project ideas and materializing project proposals. Lecture MArch1 Werner Skvara
AU_1.16A Wed 9.30–11.00
The course introduces state-of-the-art modelling applications and advanced animation. It gives students an understanding of simulation techniques, new tracking technologies and fabrication methods. The fluid transition from one software application to another is a central concern.
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Seminar MArch3 Dominik Strzelec
AU_1.16A Wed 13.00–14.30
ALGORITHMS IN ARCHITECTURE
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encapsulation [A. Witt: A Machine Epistemology in Architecture] and collective intelligence.
Articulating nothing in particular might seem pointless at first, yet how else should we embrace what is not yet there? What if, instead of desperately trying to project ideas into the world, we started to listen carefully instead? This semester, we are going to study the topic of knowledge
Algorithms are going to become our rhetorical devices, working behind the scenes of interactive, immersive, networked apps of our own design. And we are going to play. A lot!
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CMT BUILDING STRUCTURES I
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CMT BUILDING SERVICES I
Project Lecture BArch1 René Ziegler
AU_1.15A Thu 14.00–15.30
The course teaches the fundamentals of building structures. Students learn about the different forces, which influence the planning of building structures, from gravity to wind, heat, mass and size. It introduces students to different construction systems and their structural logic, as well as basic calculations and dimensioning.
Project Lecture BArch3 Franz Sam
AU_1.15A Wed 15.00-16.30
This course deals with interior finishes, building envelopes and technologies. Through the analysis of architectural precedents, students learn to develop a culture of detailing and obtain an understanding
of the logic of technical problems. By exploring basic architectural elements students learn about the interdisciplinarity of architecture, a skill essential for the implementation of an architectural idea.
Project Lecture BArch3 Jochen Käferhaus
AU_1.16 Fri 9.00–10.30
Building physics – often considered a dry course by architects – is a fascinating scientific investigation into how materials transfer heat, air, noise and light. The lectures explain how to protect against humidity, heat loss, unwanted noise and, importantly, against fire in a building. Every architect should have basic knowledge of a building’s physics in order to create them and to treat their inevitable deterioration.
Project Lecture BArch3 Jochen Käferhaus
AU_1.16 Fri 10.30–12.00
The quality of a building is determined, not only by its design, but also by its services. They supply the building with fundamental resources such as water, air, or electricity and help to dispose of a building’s waste. They are an integral part of the architectural planning process. In order to achieve a useful, functioning and sustainable building, services need to be considered in the design
process from the very beginning. Knowledge of both recent technological developments and tried and true older systems is vital in order to evaluate the best system for the given task. Only in this way can low investment and running costs of buildings be achieved – an aspect that nowadays is more important than ever in the design process.
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Saint-Ouen Abbey in Rouen, France, 2011. Photo: Michelle Howard
ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY “In ancient and modern times the store of architectural forms has often been portrayed as mainly conditioned by arising from the material, yet by regarding construction as the essence of architecture we, while believing to liberate it from false accessories, have thus placed it in fetters.” Gottfried Semper, The Four Elements of Architecture, 1851
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Seminar BArch5 Jochen Käferhaus
AU_1.16 Fri 12.00–13.30
Building services are an integral part of sustainable buildings. These discussions deepen students’ knowledge of intelligent housing services and electronic systems. They demonstrate how one can increase comfort in a building while reducing the consumption of energy and ma-
terial. The seminar will focus on smart planning strategies for office buildings and low energy consumption buildings and will discuss different kinds of ventilation systems as well as the latest developments in the field of integrated housing services.
Lecture MArch1 Michelle Howard
AU_1.16 Tue 10.30–12.00
The Shaping of Constructions, Materials and Technologies
Which factors will determine how we use, and most importantly re-use, materials and building systems in the future? How could we introduce a culture of manufacturing that would be kinder to the world we live in? How could this knowledge enable us to use less material and contribute not only to the sustainability, but also to the regeneration of the built world?
Keeping this warning by Gottfried Semper in mind, we examine works of architecture, ancient, modern, and contemporary, and discuss the ideas that enriched their construction and determined their materials. By looking closely, we will attempt to unearth the potential inherent in the rediscovery of older practices seen through the lens of new technologies. We will explore how shaping and forming influences the shape and form of our constructions. We will discuss the practical, technical, historical, cultural, political and social factors that formed the background for the eventual form and standardisation of constructions, and the relevance of these factors today.
Seminar MArch3 Thomas Schwed
AU_1.16 Thu 10.00–11.30
The lecture introduces professional and legal topics relevant to the practice of architecture with a focus on the construction phase. We will analyse the complex process of the implementation of a building including the detailed planning of construction work, construction supervision, and the project management of the construction phase. We will investigate the process of construction work by means of concrete examples and site visits. Furthermore, we will discuss the objectives of a building phase, building laws and regulations, building standards and building calculations in relation to the design process.
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ESC TIME IN ARCHITECTURE This lecture course introduces the subject of time in architecture with regard to the design, life and use of buildings. Time is discussed in terms of a building’s relationship to its environment, climate, site, and program. Why do some buildings last and what does it mean for a
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Project Lecture BArch1 Christina Condak
AU_1.15A Fri 11.30–13.00
building to be “robust” or “resilient”? We have almost always considered buildings to be permanent while maintenance and adaptability have become crucial issues in order to preserve them. Should we design buildings for their future lives or an orchestrated death?
he or she seeks to solve. Buildings, important examples past and present, so called successes and failures, existing and extant, will be discussed theoretically and practically in order to build up a more complete picture of the factor of time at all stages of planning, constructing, inhabiting and maintaining.
A building is a complex endeavor and an architect should invest energy in seeking the essential problem that Lecture BArch3 Hannes Stiefel
AU_1.15A Wed 11.00–12.30
ECOLOGIES I Ecology is about the interplay and the reciprocities of all organisms and their environments – in which architectural culture is dynamically embedded. Thus, the topic of ecology generally determines the coordinates of architectural design and its genealogy. This course discusses the subject from A-Z, from “air” and “atmos-
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phere” to “zone” and “zoology” in an essay format. It seeks to guide towards a broader understanding of the complex environmental function of architecture and subsequently towards an architectural practice of multidirectional ecological awareness.
Lecture BArch5 Golmar Kempinger-Khatibi
AU_1.16 Thu 12.30–14.00
The lecture courses Cultural Heritage 1 explores theoretical and practical aspects of dealing with the built environment.
“The paradox of conservation is that nothing can ever be truly preserved nor handed down if it remains static and stagnant.”
CULTURAL HERITAGE I “Buildings and towns enable us to structure, understand and remember the shapeless flow of reality and, ultimately, to recognise and remember who we are. Architecture enables us … to place ourselves in the continuum of culture …” Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin – Architecture and the Senses, 2005
The meaning and status of tangible and intangible heritage, and the values and definitions related to them, are explained. The course provides an overview of conservation history, international guidelines and institutions. The practical section looks at buildings and materials, and their passage through time. Possibilities of continued use of structures by maintenance, repair, reduction, addition and sustainable retrofitting are considered. The application of theory in practice is demonstrated by analysing case studies, and a new format for visiting sites and exhibitions will replace group excursions.
Salvatore Settis, If Venice Dies, 2014
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Lecture MArch1 Peter Leeb
AU_1.15A Thu bi-weekly 16.00–19.00
Ecology, Sustainability, and Conservation are an important part of a humanistic groundwork of architecture and this course presents issues currently debated in the field. It introduces contemporary lines of thought to issues such as, nature, energy, mobility, economics, community, food, material, construction, life style, resilient practices and cultural heritage. Their influence on architecture, in theory as well as in practice, will be subject to critical
reflection. Strategies of adaptation and mitigation will be discussed and supported by references to current conceptualised and built examples, publications and case studies. The course provides the students with a deeper understanding of our systemic predicament and suggests methodologies for detecting such interrelated problems. It also provides a means of evaluation of this complexity, and indicates future potentials.
Lecture MArch3 Alessandra Cianchetta
via Zoom Time to be announced
LANDSCAPE URBANISM
Excursion to the Secession, winter term 2019. Photo: Gogo Kempinger
Collapse and Recovery This seminar explores the radical transformation of landscapes, territories and cities in the context of global art collections and contemporary art production. It develops as a dialogue and collaboration between the Swiss art gallery Hauser & Wirth and other agents, institutional or otherwise, operating in the art world. It considers interrelations with less explored territories, and the many opportunities and transformations that may be triggered and generated by contemporary art (and its market). In these complex and menacing times, as Ralph Rugoff, the curator of the 58th Venice Art Biennale (2019), puts it, oversimplification, populism and fear might prevail. The seminar focuses on the role of contemporary art in providing and revealing a critical understanding of the multilayered and intricate context we live in.
In 1955 the Kassel based documenta established as its leitmotif the notions of “Zusammenbruch und Wiederaufbau” (collapse and recovery) by attributing to art the ability to alleviate the traumas of WWII and wars as such. Documenta’s first artistic director, Arnold Bode, wrote that the aim of the event would be to “reveal the roots of contemporary art in all areas”, including – importantly – non-Western ones. This design and research led seminar will examine such precedents and focus on the role of art as a tool for revealing complexities, contradictions and, ultimately, healing. The seminar will consider a series of conceptual bodies of work and artwork by a diverse range of contemporary artists whose focus is primarily connected to specific geopolitical and socio-economic conditions worldwide.
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AU_1.15A Fri 9.30–12.30
These lectures provide a basic introduction to the history of architecture and in so doing expose the many paths, ideas, projects, theories and inventions of modernism. They avoid a rigid chronological order to better discuss the evolution of building styles and discourses. Starting in the 17th century with the notorious “Querelles des anciens et des modernes” in Paris the lectures will travel through the centuries from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome via the architecture of the Enlightenment and Romanticism until the late 19th
century. These journeys will consistently follow the theoretical paths of “pre-modern” architecture. Hence, the lectures will also discuss the term modernism itself and its career in architectural history, architects’ struggle for the correct interpretation of ancient architecture and its language, the notion of history itself, autonomy, the Picturesque, polychromy and historicism, the first social utopias and the beginning of the modern issues of functionalism and rationalism.
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Lecture BArch3 Luciano Parodi
AU_1.15 Thu 13.00–14.30
HISTORY, THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY
Vestiges of Ideas and Material Reflections
ARCHITECTURE HISTORY I – PREMODERNISM
The course surveys the history of construction technology, highlighting the reciprocal relationship between cultural development and technological innovation, and their respective effects on architecture. The lecture delves into the history of the use of a series of exemplary materials (glass, wood, metal, plastic, etc.) and production techniques (solid, layered, etc.) in architecture. Upon closer examination of constructed details, the potential knowledge, history and ideas beyond their materiality will be explored, compiled and displayed, thus depicting a speculative genealogy of their creation. In addition, topics such as the history of technical drawings and construction books will provide insight into the influences of other disciplines, such as medicine, on the development of a common language of architectural construction and into the close relationship between technology, culture and society. The point of departure will be construction and education drawings from 18th century Central Europe: the Analytiques. These complex plans were considered models for the planning and production of buildings, infrastructure and machines. However, they actually contain almost no written instructions, and important information concerning construction remains veiled or neglected. They disassemble the object of study through a series of representations, the complementariness of which aims to reconstruct the entire original object in all its facets, mostly on a single sheet of paper.
Excursion Paris, 2019. Photo: Lisa Schmidt-Colinet
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HTC HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ARCHITECTURE
HTC HISTORY OF THEORY
HTC ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, CRITICISM
HTC THESIS SEMINAR
Project Lecture BArch5 August Sarnitz
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AU_1.17A Forum Wed 14.00–15.30
Historiography is discussed as a differentiated notation of historical realities and developments. Institutions, theories, and authors are presented within their social-economical-cultural context as a basis for an architectural discourse and the various contexts for architectural development will be discussed.
Project Lecture BArch5 August Sarnitz
AU_1.17A Forum Wed 15.45–17.15
This course discusses how architectural theory is related to the production of the built environment. Different theories – mainly of the 19th and 20th century – will be discussed and put into relation with discussions which will take place concurrently in the HTC studio to which the course is linked.
Lecture MArch1 August Sarnitz
AU_1.17A Forum Wed 12.00–13.30
Paul Feyerabend’s critical positivism offers a differentiated reflection on relevant architectural topics. Taking up his school of thought, we will re-evaluate positions by means of reading, analysing, and discussing a wide range of 20th century architects and their theories: Adolf Loos, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi, Peter Eisenman, Aldo Rossi, Frank Gehry, and Bernard Tschumi among others.
Seminar MArch3 Wolfgang Tschapeller
AU_1.15A Fri 18.15–19.45
The Thesis Proseminar offers seminars and guidance to independent student research, which should result in the comprehensive development of their thesis proposal. The course provides general instruction in the definition, programming, and development of a thesis project. Students will prepare their thesis proposal 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 Proseminar 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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GLC URBAN FORM AND ANALYSIS “Built environments have live of their own: they grow, renew themselves, and endure for millennia. Conservations may serve to freeze works of art in time, resisting times effect. But the living environment can persist only through change and adaptation.” John Habraken, Jonathan Teicher (ed.), The Structure of the Ordinary. Form and Control in the Built Environment, MIT Press, 2000
GLC URBANISM I
Project Lecture BArch1 Lisa Schmidt-Colinet
AU_1.15A Wed 9.30–11.00
How and through which means did cities took shape and how are they continuously changing? The lecture investigates cities on a morphological and physiological level, following its development and the process of constant transformation.
A continuous shift of perspective is essential to this course: The view from the distance, understanding the fabric of cities, is as important as perceiving the city by moving through.
It explores urban form as an outcome of complex consolidating forces by untangling economic, political, social and climatic processes.
Further we are discussing historical and contemporary methods of analysis and representation of spatial urban elements and their performance.
Relating to the year’s topic of HITZE we will look at urban form as the generator of microclimates within cities and further the interrelation of urban form and organization of natural resources. How is space in the city related to topics of access and distribution?
Lecture BArch5 Christian Teckert
AU_1.15 Wed bi-weekly 10.00–13.00
The Rise and Decline of Urbanism as an Agenda in Architecture The lectures will address the emergence of urbanism as a science and discourse, and will focus on the role of the architect as an actor in this discipline, which was historically contested. What will be crucial in this will be the shift from scientific and functionalist approaches in modernism towards a critique of modernist urbanism (and specific forms of utopias and dystopias) – coming from within the discipline, and relating to discursive shifts in arts and philosophy. Urban space is considered as an epistemological set, in which the interweaving of social and political paradigms is given an indicative function. The course aims to providing tools for understanding and analysing the discursive formations in the history of urbanism. It will include discussions from fields such as sociology, media theory, philosophy or critical geography, which in turn have been crucial to the current debates in urbanism.
Excursion Paris, 2019. Photo: Marcella Brunner
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Lecture MArch1 Christian Teckert
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AU_1.15A Thu bi-weekly 10.00–13.00
ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY, LANDSCAPE, CITIES Cities as Urban Laboratories between Research, Intervention and Utopia In the lectures, the city will be considered as a dispositive, in which the interweaving of social, cultural and political paradigms is given an indicative function. We will analyse the evolution of specifically selected cities and read them as symptoms of urban concepts, which in turn represent crucial contemporary strategies in urbanism. Facing a situation where no hegemonic method in urbanism can be detected, the lectures will focus on concepts that help us understand the complex urban realities and might lead to new strategies for intervention. Addressing key discourses of recent spatial theory, the topics will continuously shift from questions of materiality, boundaries and limits to the urban implications of the immaterial dimensions of computation, algorithms and surveillance capitalism.
The cities and symptoms we will discuss include:
BARCELONA The city as a project of modernist urbanisation BERLIN Negotiating boundaries of the urban archipelago
SHENZHEN The city of exacerbated difference LOS ANGELES The post-political city as cityscape The Zone – Urbanism as states of exception
TOKYO The metabolizing polycentric network
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Seminar MArch3 Gabu Heindl
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CITIES, GROWTH, POLITICS AND POWER Thinking Social Justice and Climate Justice Together After years of growth-issues dominating discourses in urban planning, today´s urban debates focus on heat. As an experience heat makes no difference as to whom it hits and bothers; yet possibilities of protecting against it are not equally available. Vulnerable social groups bear more burden of heat. Heat is closely related to uneven urban development and unjust infrastructural/ spatial distribution, to relations of class (who owns gardens?), race (‘white heat’ suffered by migrants in unlivable shelters) and gender (women expected to stay ‘at home’).
So let´s take heat as a filter – to study power relations within urban planning and its politics; discuss paradigm changes to stop cities from heating up; conceptualize the future of good city life with chances for everyone, independent of incomes and origins. The seminar centers around close readings of texts on climate-change, climate justice, social justice, urban cars, trees & water, on well-tempered environments, on speculated futures and utopian concepts. Requirements: individual in-class presentation based on reading; students also choose a case study to analyze impacts of climate change in a final essay.
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ALTHANGRUND MAPPING THE GROUND The course follows up on the seminars Mapping and Documentation and Representation in GLC, taught by Antje Lehn and Lisa Schmidt-Colinet in the summer term of 2020. Together with students from the BArch and MArch programmes, the area of Althangrund, where the
IBIZA?! A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON AUTHENTICITY AND INTIMACY IN PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS Taking the 2019 Ibiza scandal as a starting point, this seminar aims to locate and deconstruct crossover and distinctions between the spheres of artistic and political performance from a feminist perspective. This perspective aims to foreground the
CAMERA, LIGHT, PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FOR ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS I
BArch, MArch Antje Lehn Lisa Schmidt-Colinet
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IKA is temporarily located, was closely studied to read and better understand the complex correlations between property, rights of use and actual usage. Interpretative mappings were produced by the students and will be displayed as a special feature of the exhibition “Boden für Alle”, curated by AzW Vienna.
In the course, students will develop and prepare the display for the exhibition, as well as a side programme including guided walks in the Althangrund area.
BArch, MArch Denise Ackerl
AU_1.16 Wed 15.00–18.00
power structures that underlie the works/images that will be analysed in the seminar. Potential questions to be answered in the seminar are: What connection can we draw between two big scandals in art and politics – Untitled by Andrea Fraser in 2001 and Ibizagate in 2019 – and how are they distinct? What do Kim Kardashian and Norbert Hofer have in common? And how can we make sense of two successes: Matteo Salvini campaigning in swimming shorts on the beaches
of Italy in 2019, and Anne Imhof’s performance of Faust winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2017? The focus on authenticity and intimacy embeds this process of analysis and deconstruction in the contemporary era, as these two categories are crucial to determining one’s artistic and political career in the age of social media. Who allows us into their private life to the greatest extent? And who looks the most authentic while doing so? And who is “allowed” to do what, and why?
Seminar BArch, MArch Damjan Minovski
AU_1.16 Wed bi-weekly 10:30–13:30
In collaboration with Architekturzentrum Wien (AzW)
Techniques of Analogue Photographic Equipment, Digital Photography and Video 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.
Still Life, 2020. Martina Jole Moro, Kateřina Kunzová
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GEOMETRY I
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Seminar BArch Werner Van Hoeydonck
AU_1.15A Tue 11.30–13.00
Connections in space
endeavour to express its fascination with spatial connections in buildings and ornamental art. Geometry again provides essential combinatorial possibilities culminating in the fascinating world of polyhedrons. The Platonic, Archimedean, Catalan and Johnson solids, their intrinsic relationships and transformational, combinatorial potential offer an interesting area of study, providing reference points for understanding and studying space. Seizing and transforming the reference points of these highly symmetric solids in accurate drawings and 3D models enables us to probe unexplored spaces, connecting what was previously geometrically unconnected.
Descriptive geometry may seem antiquated due to computers’ ability to capture spatial forms in perfectly photorealistic simulations. Unsurprisingly, an architect’s ability to communicate space by means of artistic, sensitive, freehand perspective drawings that open up the observer’s imagination has become a rare and sought-after skill. Architectural education in fundamental geometrical principles – whether hand-drawn or mouse-clicked – will always be crucial for any formal expression. Geometry is not only the abstract constructive framework of both microcosm and macrocosm, but also the catalyst of humankind’s
WORKSHOP
BArch3
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THESIS DOCUMENTATION SEMINAR
Seminar MArch Antje Lehn
AU_1.15 Wed 13.30–15.00
This course focuses on the development of a thesis project. A continuous process of oral articulation, writing, drawing and documenting enables students to make their research productive for a design thesis, to take a stance within a selected field of interest and to formulate a clear hypothesis. As the final synthesis of the graduation project, students submit the thesis documentation putting forward their position in book format. It presents their hypotheses and methodology, and includes research materials, the process of production and the documentation of the final thesis project.
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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 rationalanalytic 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) OLIVER DOMEISEN The four elements of architectural ornament - foundations for a contemporary ornamental practice. (supervisor: August Sarnitz) WALTRAUD INDRIST 5 Häuser. 5 Familien. 5 Freundschaften – Der photographische Akt im Werk des Architekten Hans Scharoun zwischen 1933 und 1945. (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) 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) 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)
RESEARCH PROJECT Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing1 2019–2022 Angelika Schnell Eva Sommeregger Paula Strunden Maria Trübenbach For further information https://tacit-knowledge-architecture.com/
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) MAX MOYA Adolf Loos — a reflected, constructed narrative. (supervisor: August Sarnitz) SIGRID PRINZ Das Phänomen SPLITTERWERK. (supervisor: August Sarnitz) ACHIM REESE Architektur nach dem Subjektverlust. Zum Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Architektur bei Charles W. Moore und O.M. Ungers am Beispiel ihrer Konzepte zum “Haus im Haus”. (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) 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)
1 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 860413.
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DRAWING PERSPECTIVES AND PROFILING FIGURES IN ARCHITECTURE What if seeing with the eyes is accomplished or substituted by cameras that provide data for algorithms to profile patterns and figures? What if the visualization of these figures and patterns is no longer related to the realms of visibility and perception? What if the production of data-based images masks the very disappearance of visual qualities? Architecture structures space and its perception, not least on the basis of the points of view and perspectives that it offers. Architecture is and always has been a viewing machine that wants to be looked at as well. Yet the issue of seeing and the capacity of the (human) eye is challenged by processes of digitalisation and artificial intelligence that offer new perspectives – or, to put it in more radical terms: a mode of perception that is related less to seeing than it is based on the recognition of patterns and quantifications. The (visual) perspective is substituted by an algorithmic process of reading data. The results are perceived as (visual) images to a lesser extent, even if that is what they look
LECTURE SERIES WINTER 2020/ SUMMER 2021
Mondays All lectures start at 7pm*
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Reality doesn’t need me, 2020. Fabian Puttinger
like, because the identification of objects or situations is based on (ir-)regularities of and in patterns. The (earlier) notions of view and perspective thus appear redundant. What is left of perspective is the point of view that reality and presence appear as a thread. The question of forecasting and planning is not so much a political issue as a task of programming and tinkering with data. Out of the Eye looks at politics out of the political. The presence of (surveillance) cameras and the tracking of (social) media use constantly produce data and feed databases. Genetic algorithms tinkering with data to find patterns (of individual interests, social contacts, traces of mobility, etc.) produce profiles that are based on figures. The volume of data, and the production or finding of patterns and relations between them, exceeds human capacity and depends on technical support and performance. In the context of calculating risks and pre-emptive measures against threats, it is the logic of (algorithmically) programmed figures that fuels the fields of imagination and predictions. Your personal history is waiting to be profiled and summarized. Biometric data and the traces of personal information produced by the individual use of media create a constantly synchronized and continually updated portrait that is evaluated and rated on the basis of indices and indicators. Emerging patterns are subsequently decisive for jobs offered or denied, proposed sets of (private or professional) relations, or the fact that you are identified as solvent or suspicious. There are infinite images and perspectives to see and to choose from, and yet the actual production of patterns and profiles remains invisible because it is based on data and figures. The narration (or narrative structure of a biography) is substituted by mined possibilities beyond the classical structure of cause and effect. Yet we can be confronted with effects without a (reasonable) reason – or because of a reason based on (randomly or contingently) emerging patterns. At the same time, genetic algorithms can also provide solutions for problems we have not been aware of, or optimize tools beyond human capacity. The lecture series wants to reflect on the concept of perspective in the context of media technologies that substitute the actual performance of seeing and looking with the recognition of patterns that only algorithms can “see”, which they do by “profiling (e-merging) figures”. The lecture series winter 2020/summer 2021, a collaboration between IKA and IKW, is organized and curated by Christina Jauernik, Andreas Spiegl and Wolfgang Tschapeller. * Dates and locations will be announced during the semester in accordance with the applicable assembly regulations.
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LECTURE SERIES OUT OF THE EYE
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GLC Hearings Diploma presentation Diploma salon Diploma presentation Diploma exhibition Midterm reviews Diploma 2/3 Final reviews Diploma presentation Rundgang
5–6 October 12 October 28 October 9 November 13–22 November 16–17 November 7 December 18–19 January 20 January 21–24 January
Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth Jutta Weber Wendy Chun Philippe Parreno
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OTTO WAGNER LECTURE
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Exhibition Hitze Takes Command
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Temporary premises of IKA: Augasse 2–6, 1090 Vienna www.akbild.ac.at/ika ika@akbild.ac.at
IKA spaces: Admin: 1st floor, core A / Studios, seminar & lecture rooms, computer lab: 1st floor, core N / Doctoral students’ room: 1st floor, core C / Media lab: basement floor (UG) 1, core B / Model workshop: basement floor (UG) 2, core A
Office: Room 1.3.11, 1st floor, core A Ulrike Auer +43 (1) 58816-5101 u.auer@akbild.ac.at Gabriele Mayer +43 (1) 58816-5102 g.mayer@akbild.ac.at Postal address: Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria
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ANALOGUE MODEL WORKSHOP General machine hours (380Volt) MON – THU 2pm – 6pm For individual support, please contact: Günther Dreger g.dreger@akbild.ac.at Rüdiger Suppin r.suppin@akbild.ac.at
Institute for Art and Architecture Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Winter 2020 Chair / Deputies: Wolfgang Tschapeller Lisa Schmidt-Colinet Werner Skvara Editor: Linda Lackner Proofreading: Judith Wolfframm Design: grafisches Büro