GLC

DOCUMENTATION AND REPRESENTATION IN GEOGRAPHIES, LANDSCAPES, CITIES GLC

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.” Denis Cosgrove, CartoCity, in: Else/Where Mapping

LANDSCAPES AND GARDENS GLC As Christopher Alexander wrote, “the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.”

INFRASTRUCTURE AND NETWORKS GLC

“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. Seminar BArch2 Lisa Schmidt-Colinet

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.

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 interdeAU_1.15A Wed 9.30–11.00

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.

Lecture BArch4 Maria Auböck

Bliss and Beauty for All

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:

Lecture BArch4 Bernd Vlay

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.

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. AU_1.15 Thu 15.00–17.30

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.

AU_1.15 Fri bi-weekly 10.00-13.00

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.

STRATEGIES FOR CITIES GLC

Challenging from Within Project Lecture BArch6 Gabu Heindl

By looking at different cities and through the close reading of contemporary projects, competition briefs and urban situations, we will try to understand the embeddedness of urban developments in their specific historical, political, economic and ecological circumstances. Can these conditions be challenged from within? Can we as planners use rules and regulations to other ends, find gaps in between areas of responsibility, 29

AU_1.16 Mon 9.00–12.00 IKA S2020

misinterpret expectations precisely by taking them seriously? Through knowledge and understanding of the factors and actors, the laws and contracts determining our cities, perhaps we can find the means to shape the urban fabric and the ways in which people are allowed to inhabit it. In this context, a specific focus will be put on the question of housing, as the main “mass” of city building, regulated and controlled by manifold forces outside the realm of planning.

URBANISM II GLC

Rethinking Urban Futures of the Recent Past

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. Project Lecture BArch6 Christian Teckert AU_1.15 Thu bi-weekly 9.30–12.30

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.

MAPPINGS GLC

Seminar MArch2 Antje Lehn AU_1.16 Wed 9.30–11.00

Mapping the Image of the City

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.

We will analyse maps as representations of surfaces and space, and expose their ability to show timebased and topological relationships. Filtering information and choosing formal and strategic parameters will help us to develop strategies of representation taking into account social behaviour, orientation and territories.

In collaboration with the course Documentation and Representation in Geographies, Landscapes, Cities. Participation in the exhibition “Boden für Alle” at the AzW. Opening 18.11.2020. Photo: Christian Teckert