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GLC DOCUMENTATION AND REPRESENTATION IN GEOGRAPHIES, LANDSCAPES, CITIES In collaboration with the course Mappings. Participation in the exhibition “Boden für Alle” at the AzW. Opening 18.11.2020.
“The map is positioned beween 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.”
Seminar BArch2 Lisa Schmidt-Colinet
AU_1.15A Wed 9.30–11.00
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.
Denis Cosgrove, CartoCity, in: Else/Where Mapping
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 interde-
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Lecture BArch4 Maria Auböck
AU_1.15 Thu 15.00–17.30
LANDSCAPES AND GARDENS
Bliss and Beauty for All
As Christopher Alexander wrote, “the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.”
This module offers a lecture series about landscape planning and landscape architecture, including a field trip to relevant recent landscape projects in Vienna. The main objective of this unit is to understand the design of private and public spaces. I want to offer the students insights into the structure and conceptual quality of landscape architecture:
In a global context, we have to consider the qualities of local sites, and learn how to select vegetation and material structures. The lectures inform about cultural history, natural science and project-relevant issues. Selected materials i.e. steel, glass, stone and wood, and their application in open spaces, will be discussed. We have to learn from today’s issues in order to project future landscapes.
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Lecture BArch4 Bernd Vlay
AU_1.15 Fri bi-weekly 10.00-13.00
Cedric Price fundamentally questioned how things are and should be related to one another, addressing the framework itself as a fundamental issue of architectural intervention.
In this class, we will explore and question this hierarchy, looking at different phenomena of infrastructure and networks. We will consider very diverse networks and infrastructures, revealing their influence on the power, responsibility and limitations of architectural thinking and doing that is at the very heart of architecture.
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.
Infrastructures are infamous for FRAMING architecture: they have to be there BEFORE architecture can start its operation. The architect usually has to navigate conditions already present, predetermined by the infrastructural elements.
