IKA Winter 2017 by IKA Institute for Art and Architecture

winter 2016

What is I K A ?

Wolfgang Tschapeller

ESC GLC HTC

Geography Landscapes Cities History Theory Criticism

IKA is the Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Its rooms

are situated below the Academy’s roof, above all the other things the Academy has to offer. The picture gallery is directly underneath the IKA , and beneath the picture gallery is the library, and a painting master class below the library. We could then ask if what is below us – below the IKA – is the substrate for what we do. Are we growing on and out of the library and the picture gallery? And how do other schools work with what is below them, or how do they construct a base? In its temporary building, Bartlett created a substrate throughout the entire lower floor, a massive base of machines, equipment, fans, dozens of different printers, and enclosures where they keep acrobatically gesticulating robots, which will doubtless begin to speak to us sooner or later. The Cornell School of Architecture has reinterpreted its existing buildings by adding new buildings or wings. In recent years, they created a new studio building, called the »Plate«, and Rand Hall will shortly be transformed into a workshop and library complex. As is the case at Bartlett, workshops and machines will be situated below, in a flat base layer, and the weight of 230,000 books will be suspended in the very high space of the superstructure layer. Such an unexpected juxtaposition – a building that is a synthesis of noise and quiet, of workshops, machines and library – is certainly a manifesto. While Columbia University’s School of Architecture appears as if built into a library, and Bartlett is set on an arena of machines, Cornell merges both workshops and library in an independent building, which is placed at the shortest possible distance – 14cm, to be precise – from the studio building, the »Plate«. The institute of architecture at the University of Liechtenstein shares a building with the department of economics, with which it also cooperates in some areas. Of course it would be worth a try to practice architecture and business as counterparts on a radically equal footing. That is only partly the case in Liechtenstein. The true counterpart, however, is only visible when the fog lifts. It is the soaring mountain face, that part of the landscape on which the university is mounted as if on a lever – perhaps inviting associations with Taliesin, which was also mounted into the landscape, but in such a way that the university suffused the surrounding area, and that the area itself became university, laboratory and field for experimentation. Tokyo’s Tama Art University can be experienced as a communal model: every discipline, every field is accorded an important role, and every building, every discipline is so open and accessible that a walk across campus becomes an interdisciplinary discussion. At the pottery, the flames of the furnace can be seen directly from the path; passing the school of sculpture, you can learn how the skin of a pygmy elephant is constructed from thousands of nails; and likewise, the library functions as a unity of reflection and production, where people resting, sleeping and reading can be seen among books and screens. So what, then, about IKA? Could we imagine it without the ceilings, walls, floors and beams, conceptually making one space out of library, picture gallery and IKA? Should we imagine IKA as a stratification of layers – a library, an art collection, and a zone where we experiment, do research and discuss architecture using the knowledge of the layers below? Do we want further layers? Do we want additional atmospheres? What are they?

B2 m1

Analog Digital Production IKA – Institute for ADP Art and Architecture Construction Material Technology CMT winter Ecology Sustainability Cultural Heritage 2016

bachelor master semester

Design Studios Bachelor

B1 INHABITING LANDSCAPES Bus Stops for B3 cmt The Fabric of Place — Six Sankt Valentin for what B5 htc What kind of housing kind of city?

Design Studios Master

M M M

ADP Tools of Imagination II esc THE NATURAL AND THE DESIGNED glc Countably Infinite

10 12 14

Courses

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC Elective + Thesis

16 18 20 22 24 26

Doctoral Studies

CULTURES OF CULTURAL Symposium: HERITAGE – ITALIAN POSITIONS

Constructing the Commons – Another Lecture Series: Approach to Architecture and the City 30

Calendar / contact / Imprint

4 6 8

What is I K A ?

Wolfgang Tschapeller

ESC GLC HTC

Geography Landscapes Cities History Theory Criticism

IKA is the Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Its rooms

B2 m1

Analog Digital Production IKA – Institute for ADP Art and Architecture Construction Material Technology CMT winter Ecology Sustainability Cultural Heritage 2016

bachelor master semester

Design Studios Bachelor

B1 INHABITING LANDSCAPES Bus Stops for B3 cmt The Fabric of Place — Six Sankt Valentin for what B5 htc What kind of housing kind of city?

Design Studios Master

M M M

ADP Tools of Imagination II esc THE NATURAL AND THE DESIGNED glc Countably Infinite

10 12 14

Courses

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC Elective + Thesis

16 18 20 22 24 26

Doctoral Studies

CULTURES OF CULTURAL Symposium: HERITAGE – ITALIAN POSITIONS

Constructing the Commons – Another Lecture Series: Approach to Architecture and the City 30

Calendar / contact / Imprint

4 6 8

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

Christina Condak / Eva Sommeregger

ADP CMT MON ESC TUE GLC FRI 14—18 HTC h

Inhabiting Landscapes In the 6 minute film SWAMP by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, the artists explore the constraints of documenting a site, a swamp terrain, through the limiting lens of the camera, the finite length of the 16mm film reel, and their own physicality when walking through the harsh reeds and wet ground. We hear Smithson in the background giving directions to Holt about how to move forward, which she cannot easily follow. As Robert Smithson puts it, »It’s about deliberate obstructions or calculated aimlessness.«1 Holt has said that Smithson gave her directions as she held the camera, and the film deals with the limits of her perception in seeing and following his instructions. »Verbal direction cannot easily be followed; as the reeds crash against the camera lens, blocking vision and forming continuously shifting patterns, confusion ensues,«2 Holt says. The film creates an immediate awareness of an interior space in the landscape through the bodily experience. Boundaries are tangible, yet shifting. There is a play on the notion of site and sight. In this setting, we are not allowed to see the horizon, which would give us a vantage point for orientating ourselves. Something is made out of nothing, a situation is constructed. It is an anti-picturesque landscape; there is no vantage point here. Here we are within. In another attempt to connect the body with the greater forces, Holt places her sun tunnels on the axis of the equinox, as a way of at once connecting man to the stars and making the interior space communicate the changes of the sun and seasonal time. Shadows, sun lines, movement etc. — these are our first ingredients of architecture. This primary aspect of inhabiting the landscape is our work for the semester. How do we touch down and take off? How do we position ourselves, how do we view things? How do we work with gravity? How do we move physically in space? The architect works in and between the ground and the sky. This space can be understood as deep and shifting, created over time and by different forces, whether in urban territory as landscape, or what we know of as landscape. 1 Robert Smithson, »...The Earth, Subject to Cata- Architects seek to mediate in this depth and make it hospitaclysms, is a Cruel Master,« interview by Gregoire ble to life’s activities. In this first semester, we will explore the Müller (1971), in Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam (Berkeley, Los Angeles: notion of territory, landscape and site. By zooming in, interUniversity of California Press, 1996), p. 261. preting and scaling different archetypal landscapes, we will 2 Experimental Television Center, Electronic Arts Intermix, accessed August 3, 2016, http://www. look at how we represent them, and by doing so, invent sites eai.org/title.htm?id=11675. to inhabit.

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

Christina Condak / Eva Sommeregger

ADP CMT MON ESC TUE GLC FRI 14—18 HTC h

Soviet Bus Stops (Pitsunda, Abkhazia), Christopher Herwig, 2015.

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

Michelle Howard / LUCIANO PARODI

ADP CMT MON ESC TUE GLC FRI 14—18 HTC h

Atmospheric Impressions in Silk — CMT Studio, Ella Melina Felber and Patricia Vraber, 2016.

The architect’s garb, Nicolas de Larmessin, 1695, CC-PD .

The Fabric of Place — Six Bus Stops for Sankt Valentin

Following on from the previous two Construction Material Technology (CMT) studios, we will continue our investigation into woven architecture. The Four Elements of Architecture, by the architect Gottfried Semper (1851), posits that the woven mat, and its use interchangeably as floors, walls, and draped over frames, constitutes where architecture begins. Semper argued that architecture is like a garment; it shares the same root and meaning in Germanic languages (Wand = wall, Gewand = garment). For many years, this treatise was seen as fanciful and antiquated, but as is often the case, all it needs to become relevant again are the corresponding materials and technology. We will experiment with the exciting new technology of textile concrete, which replaces steel and its associated corrosion problems as reinforcement. Woven reinforcement permits extremely strong, thin skins, the free movement and integration of data, and myriad possibilities through folding and shaping. With it, we will construct the fabric of place in Sankt Valentin. The City of Sankt Valentin in lower Austria has asked the CMT platform to design, build prototypes and submit construction documents for 6 bus stops. Their positions in the city and their programme (social, environmental, technological) will be determined by the students attending the free elective workshop there in September. The workshop moves individual characteristics into focus, reveals new potential for these stops as places, and generates new opportunities for the urban community. The new places will be strongly connected to the social and climatic environment, providing shelter from or immersion into the elements and opportunities for connectivity. Sankt Valentin, although the wealthiest city of the region, manifests as a collection of diverse and disparate areas lacking in centre and space. At the same time, it has an important train station with direct connections to both Vienna and its airport. It is home to many historic manufacturing firms that have reinvented themselves and flourished, just as the foremost manufacturer of textile reinforcements is an historic scarf maker. In a city where most people use cars to move around, and buses are underused, unearthing new usefulness is paramount to these new bus stop structures, just as a great manufacturer must reinvent itself to remain pertinent, survive and flourish.

Soviet Bus Stops (Pitsunda, Abkhazia), Christopher Herwig, 2015.

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

Michelle Howard / LUCIANO PARODI

ADP CMT MON ESC TUE GLC FRI 14—18 HTC h

Atmospheric Impressions in Silk — CMT Studio, Ella Melina Felber and Patricia Vraber, 2016.

The architect’s garb, Nicolas de Larmessin, 1695, CC-PD .

The Fabric of Place — Six Bus Stops for Sankt Valentin

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

ADP CMT ESC GLC 14—18 HTC

Lisa Schmidt-Colinet / Daniela Herold MON TUE FRI

SAAL movement, Portugal, 1975 [Photo: Alexandre Alves Costa, Archive of Centro de Documentação de 25 de April, University of Coimbra]

Housing Complex, Paris, 2010 [Photo: Michaela Wonisch]

What kind of housing for what kind of city?

Like no other programme, housing articulates the intersection between architecture and the city. This semester, the design studio in History Theory Criticism (HTC) will work on the relationships between city planning and housing production, domestic and urban life, and between the retreat of the individual and the articulation of a collective. This year, the City of Vienna launched the process for developing the IBA Vienna, the International Housing Exhibition that takes place in 2022. The IBA addresses Vienna’s population growth, as well as the economic developments that affect the relationship between income and cost of living in our society. In this context, the city is asking for more, faster, cheaper and sustainable models of living. Does this mean that we have to minimize living spaces even more than current regulations and rules require? Is sharing spaces for certain activities that have so far belonged to the private realm an alternative model? Or does this mean that individuals will be granted more responsibility in the processes producing their homes? But can the proposal of optimizing every aspect give an appropriate answer to the question of how our heterogeneous society should live in the future? The volume of housing planned by the city will have a significant impact on the urban fabric. Within the ongoing process of IBA Vienna, we seek more leeway to formulate different positions of housing vis-à-vis the city. To explore these correlations, we will focus on settings and architectural elements that provide room for the collective — shared spaces, or entities within, connected to or between housing complexes. Any communal space in housing, as well as its relationship with the city, is shaped by different ideas on living, which are driven by larger economic and political interests. Comparing historical and contemporary housing projects by tracing the transitions between individual living and collective spaces — the relationship of the most intimate unit with spaces of negotiation, with the city — reveals how differently such communal spaces are formed: pocketed within built enclosures or shifted into the city (be it Henri Sauvage’s Rue des Amiraux, or the Communal Villas proposed by Dogma + Realism Working Group). Questions to focus on: What kind of shared spaces? What ideas of collectivity? By which means and to what extent can these spaces leave room for differences and conflicts? How do they contribute to a transition between private life and the city, or do they instead reformulate boundaries and limits? These research questions will guide us when we start to confront one of the challenges of today: affordable living space. Installations will be our device. Spatializing the questions outlined and our findings will give us an opportunity to speculate on what kind of living and what kind of city we want to propose for the future.

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

ADP CMT ESC GLC 14—18 HTC

Lisa Schmidt-Colinet / Daniela Herold MON TUE FRI

SAAL movement, Portugal, 1975 [Photo: Alexandre Alves Costa, Archive of Centro de Documentação de 25 de April, University of Coimbra]

Housing Complex, Paris, 2010 [Photo: Michaela Wonisch]

What kind of housing for what kind of city?

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

Michael Hansmeyer MON TUE FRI

14—18

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Tools of Imagination

Housing, Dadun, Hainan, China, 2013 [Photo: Reuters]

CMOS Rom-based Microcontroller die, 2013, ZEPTOBARS, CC-BY- 3.0

In just the short span of our lives, kilobytes have turned to megabytes, megabytes to gigabytes, gigabytes to terabytes. For the past five decades, ever-increasing growth in processing power was the new normal. Each leap changed the way we communicate, and the way we live. Yet now, after five decades, this exponential growth no longer holds: Moore’s law is dead. For many applications, speed is no longer increasing. Memory growth has slowed. Where does this disruption leave us? It leaves us in the unique position to ask not only how we can do something with technology – how to use the latest iteration of some application – but also gives us space to understand the more fundamental mechanisms at play. It allows us to adjourn the how and to contemplate the what, and ultimately the why. As Cedric Price presciently stated in 1966, »Technology is the answer. . . but, what was the question?« This studio explores the relevance and the potential of digital technology in architecture. It goes beyond CAD applications in which the mouse emulates the movements of a pen, and beyond applications that incorporate a series of initially interesting – but ultimately constraining – parametric mechanisms. Instead, we will take the luxurious approach of developing our own digital tools – a new series of design instruments. We will develop tools for searching and exploration, rather than simply control and execution. These new tools should be simultaneously open and systematic, striking a balance between causality and chaos. They require a design language without the need for words and labels, as they are intended to create the previously unseen. These tools must ultimately redefine the process of design: the designer will work in an iterative feedback loop with the machine, moderating processes, and incorporating feedback, surprises and proposals. Knowledge and experience are acquired through searching, which demands heuristics that work in the absence of categorization. As of now, we have countless tools to increase our efficiency and precision. We already have more processing power than we can reasonably use. Why not rethink the man-machine relationship so that the computer is a productive partner in the design process? Why not also create tools that serve as our muses, inspire us and help us to be creative? Tools to draw the undrawable, and to imagine the unimaginable. Tools to produce knowledge, tools for learning architecture. An architecture that embraces and celebrates the unforeseen.

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

Michael Hansmeyer MON TUE FRI

14—18

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Tools of Imagination

Housing, Dadun, Hainan, China, 2013 [Photo: Reuters]

CMOS Rom-based Microcontroller die, 2013, ZEPTOBARS, CC-BY- 3.0

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

hannes stiefel / kathrin aste

MON TUE FRI

14—18

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The Natural and The Designed Critical Environments lll / Exchange l

The Ecology Sustainability Cultural Heritage (ESC) master studio is held in cooperation with the Geography Landscape Cities (GLC) master studio. Hannes Stiefel in dialogue with Kathrin Aste.

The only justification for sacrificing an animal is to cook it well.

Rhônegletscher 2 2004, Walter Niedermayr [courtesy: the artist and Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin / Stockholm ]

Raimund Abraham

1 I recall Marguerite Duras speaking about the sublime desert of an immigrant ground at the sight of the bleak hills of Beauce. She says: Astonishing, how the earth wants to invert its structure. Everywhere. That its inside now becomes reciprocally its outside... You find yourself in an as yet hardly visible motion that has just begun.1 This revolving motion seems to have accelerated over the years, and it may be worthwhile to investigate the role of architecture in the process. 2 What sort of forces are at work here? 3 We ask about the function of architecture within and beyond our societies. We anticipate a project’s impact on the various environments involved and their reciprocities. 4 In fact, the notion of static ground fell apart a long time ago. What’s the relationship between ground and site? Where does a site start and where does it end, and how is it formed and settled in space and time? Vastly extended, vertical and horizontal sections trough a particular place may trigger a discussion about the tremendously varying scales of nature (and nature of scales) that impact and define our designed environments – and vice versa. 5 We process reality. 6 We no longer design individual buildings. We design processes and structures that reflect and convert the dynamic interplay of those natural and human forces that shape the constructions of the crust of the earth. 7 From Learning Architectures2 we’ve learnt that education cannot be awarded, but must instead be seized. 8 We understand the formulation and development of a project’s basic mission as a question of design. 9 In architecture, questions of design are questions of space. 10 We study relational spaces, we design sites in the form of topographical, architectural and urban structures, and we construct their poetic condition. 11 The studio structure experimentally explores new relationships and linkages across platforms. 1 Marguerite Duras, Le Camion (Paris: Les Éditions des Minuit, 1977), p. 19. 2 See the IKA semester booklets of winter term 2015 and summer term 2016.

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

hannes stiefel / kathrin aste

MON TUE FRI

14—18

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The Natural and The Designed Critical Environments lll / Exchange l

The Ecology Sustainability Cultural Heritage (ESC) master studio is held in cooperation with the Geography Landscape Cities (GLC) master studio. Hannes Stiefel in dialogue with Kathrin Aste.

The only justification for sacrificing an animal is to cook it well.

Rhônegletscher 2 2004, Walter Niedermayr [courtesy: the artist and Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin / Stockholm ]

Raimund Abraham

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

kathrin aste / hannes stiefel

MON TUE FRI

14—18

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Countably Infinite

Critical Environments lll / Exchange l

Film shooting of »A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe« (1968) [Charles and Ray Eames, © Eames Office, LLC] Still from »A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe« (1968) [Charles and Ray Eames, © Eames Office, LLC]

The Geography Landscape Cities (GLC) master studio is held in cooperation with the Ecology Sustainability Cultural Heritage (ESC) master studio. Kathrin Aste in dialogue with Hannes Stiefel.

12 It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine R.E.M Do you feel a vague sense of unease when you hear those lyrics from the REM song? — Good, that means we have some common ground. Stagnation and impotence may be common patterns of behaviour, but they can certainly be overcome. As architects, we should feel directly challenged by this to question the relevance of what we do. Earth and its ecosystem are undergoing massive and irreversible changes that are partly man-made. Maps and images can make the extent of these changes clear, but abstract as they are, they do not tell us anything about manmade changes and their dramatic consequences. 13 The scale illustrates magnitudes — not just in terms of size; it is also a social measurement. For the architectural discipline this raises the question if thinking in terms of proportions and relationships makes it possible to create new standards. The film »Powers of Ten« by Charles and Ray Eames and the book »Cosmic View« by Kees Boeke are impressive depictions of a voyage to the ends of the universe along a vertical spatial axis. Throughout the voyage, our gaze penetrates diverse spheres, depicting the structures, beings and things that influence them in various magnitudes. The film and the book can serve as methodological models for expressing such universal processes through a multitude of animated drawings and plans. 14 In general, it is not space itself that is depicted, but those elements that seem to define its boundaries. This is probably related to the preconception that space has shape, but no matter. However, if we understand space as a product of shape and matter, it is a synthetic concept that defines space as substance, and thus makes it possible to depict it. Geodata offer a good means of describing matter, and thus space itself. Geodata, collected in satellite images, can convey enlightening information on ecological processes. 15 »Powers of Ten« is a reframing technique that supports a process-oriented perception of space. The surface of the Earth is marked by thousands of acres of destroyed land and contaminated spaces. How must we reprogram processes in order to transform these disposal sites of our society into creative terminals that have a future? 16 The studio brief, the accompanying workshops, the students and their projects are part of a dialogue across studio boundaries and of an interdisciplinary exploration.

DESIGN STUDIO winter 2016

kathrin aste / hannes stiefel

MON TUE FRI

14—18

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Countably Infinite

Critical Environments lll / Exchange l

The Geography Landscape Cities (GLC) master studio is held in cooperation with the Ecology Sustainability Cultural Heritage (ESC) master studio. Kathrin Aste in dialogue with Hannes Stiefel.

PROJECT LECTURE winter 2016

Dominik Strzelec

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R203a wed

15—16 30 h

Common Denominators

Drawing, 3D Modelling and Geometry

The range of forms of plans is as diverse as the tasks the architecture they represent is confronted with. In this seminar, students will establish an overview of different kinds of plans and will learn to understand the basic requirements a plan has to meet. Discussions will focus on questions of what it is that makes a plan significant and whether terms like clarity and attractiveness are the common denominators that can be found in every successful example of a plan. Through weekly exercises students will become familiar with the digital production of plans. Ultimately, the combination of practice and analysis will help them to question a plan’s qualities and anticipate potentials during the drawing process. seminar winter 2016

Moritz Heimrath / Adam Orlinski

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R203a thu bi-weekly

15—18

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 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 behaviour, 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.

seminar winter 2016

Werner Skvara

R203a thu

9 30—11 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

3D Modelling and Animation II

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 winter 2016

Waltraud Indrist

ADP CMT ESC wed GLC bi-weekly 9 30—12 30 HTC R203a

Visual and Verbal Communication

Visual and verbal means of communication are a vital part of our culture and this seminar will work with several means and methods while studying a selection of related writings and theories. Within the framework of »editorial meetings« we will develop a base of theoretical knowledge which will then enable us to explore different possibilities of presentation until we finally design our own magazine.

lecture winter 2016

Werner Skvara

R203a block

5.—7.10.

2016

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Advanced Introduction to Analogue Production, Digital Production

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.

Seminar winter 2016

Dominik Strzelec

ADP CMT ESC GLC wed 13—14 30 HTC R203a

generativehand-made Algorithms in Architecture h

The creative digital design process is like a conversation with oneself mediated by the design environment. Ideas emerge at the intersection of individual imagination and such environments, a duel with inspiration, desire and the resistance of the medium. The »generative-hand-made« is an ordering principle and design method which embraces immediate, intuitive decision-making within a generative domain. It borrows from surrealist iterative drawing techniques and gains consistency by strategically constraining certain parameters within a playful spectrum. The main goal of the seminar is to challenge the understanding of a tool-user-object relationship by conceptualising and developing custom interactive generative design apps.

Seminar winter 2016

MILENA STAVRIC

Geometry I

R203a wed bi-weekly

16—20

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

In a time of advanced digital technology and proliferation of parametric design, design processes are based on complex geometrical forms. Therefore, the mastery of geometry and presentation methods is indispensable to the education of architects. Learning to solve 3D engineering problems, students will explore the fundamental concepts of geometry using analogue and digital tools and 2D techniques. Students will work on problems related to the translation of 3D objects into 2D graphical descriptions by solving practical tasks in design, engineering and manufacturing.

PROJECT LECTURE winter 2016

Dominik Strzelec

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R203a wed

15—16 30 h

Common Denominators

Drawing, 3D Modelling and Geometry

Moritz Heimrath / Adam Orlinski

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R203a thu bi-weekly

15—18

Analysis Simulation and Scripting

seminar winter 2016

Werner Skvara

R203a thu

9 30—11 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

3D Modelling and Animation II

Seminar winter 2016

Waltraud Indrist

ADP CMT ESC wed GLC bi-weekly 9 30—12 30 HTC R203a

Visual and Verbal Communication

lecture winter 2016

Werner Skvara

R203a block

5.—7.10.

2016

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Advanced Introduction to Analogue Production, Digital Production

Seminar winter 2016

Dominik Strzelec

ADP CMT ESC GLC wed 13—14 30 HTC R203a

generativehand-made Algorithms in Architecture h

Seminar winter 2016

MILENA STAVRIC

Geometry I

R203a wed bi-weekly

16—20

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

project LECTURE winter 2016

PETER BAUER

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R211a Thu

Building Structures I

14—15 30 h

In these lectures we learn about fundamental structural concepts. We study simple linear elements like beams and cables, and derived structures like frames, truss-works and cable-beams. We investigate actions on these design elements, the materials of which they are made of, and discuss the need of safety-concepts. Further, we will study several digital methods of analysis, improving our command of the Rhino and Grasshopper modelling programs. These tools will be used to examine structural fundamentals by means of parametric modelling.

project LECTURE winter 2016

Jochen Käferhaus

Building Physics I

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R209 fr

9—10 30 h

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 winter 2016

Jochen Käferhaus

Building Services I

R209 fr

10 30—12 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Seminar winter 2016

Workshop

Christoph Monschein

R209 wed

9 30—11 h

Building Technologies II

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

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.

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

tba tba

tba

The focus of this workshop lies on the analysis of the professional and legal foundations of current projects in the metropolitan area of Vienna. We will look into the process of planning and construction work based on concrete examples. To this end, field trips to selected projects and construction sites, as well as discussions with architects, builders and authorities will be conducted. seminar winter 2016

Jochen Käferhaus

R209 fr

Building Services II

12—13 30 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

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 material. 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 winter 2016

Michelle Howard

R209

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The Shaping of Con- 9—10 30 struction and Technology by Materials tue

Advanced Introduction to Construction, Material, Technology In these lectures we explore how constructions and technologies are influenced by the materials that constitute them and will discuss the following questions. How does the shaping and forming of materials influence the shape and form of our constructions and how are they influenced by the systems of construction themselves? Which should be the deciding factors for the shaping and forming of new and old building materials and systems today? What are the possibilities for the transformation of materials for reuse and how do the recycling processes involved influence them? What are the practical, technical, historical, cultural and social factors which formed the background for the eventual form and standardisation of the most important building materials and what is their relevance today?

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. project LECTURE winter 2016

Thomas Schwed

Seminar winter 2016

Thomas Schwed

R209 thu

10—11 30 h

Professional Practice II

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

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.

project LECTURE winter 2016

PETER BAUER

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R211a Thu

Building Structures I

14—15 30 h

project LECTURE winter 2016

Jochen Käferhaus

Building Physics I

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R209 fr

9—10 30 h

project LECTURE winter 2016

Jochen Käferhaus

Building Services I

R209 fr

10 30—12 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Seminar winter 2016

Workshop

Christoph Monschein

R209 wed

9 30—11 h

Building Technologies II

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

tba tba

tba

Jochen Käferhaus

R209 fr

Building Services II

12—13 30 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

lecture winter 2016

Michelle Howard

R209

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The Shaping of Con- 9—10 30 struction and Technology by Materials tue

Thomas Schwed

Seminar winter 2016

Thomas Schwed

R209 thu

10—11 30 h

Professional Practice II

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Christina Condak

Time in Architecture

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R211a fri

12 30—14 h

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 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? A building is a complex endeavor and an architect should invest energy in seeking the essential problem that 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.

LECTURe winter 2016

Hannes Stiefel

Ecologies I

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R211a tue

11—12 30 h

Ecology, in this course, is understood as the interplay and reciprocities of all organisms and their environments. Architectural culture is dynamically embedded within this comprehension. Thus the topic of ecology generally determines the coordinates of architectural design and its genealogy. This course discusses the subject from A–Z, from »Animal« to »Zoology« in an essayistic format. It seeks to lead towards a broader understanding of the complex environmental functioning of architecture and subsequently towards an architectural practice of a multidirectional ecological awareness.

winter 2016

GOLMAR KEMPINGER-KHATIBI

R211a THU

12 30—14 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Forever Young? 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 lecture courses Cultural Heritage I & II deal 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 courses provide an overview of 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 also 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. Office and housing complex, Milano, Italy, Luigi Moretti, 1955 [Photo: Angelo Piccolella, CC BY-SA 3.0]

LECTURE

LECTURE winter 2016

R209

Peter Leeb

thu bi-weekly

16—19

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Advanced Introduction to Ecology, Sustainability, Cultural Heritage

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.

SEMINAR winter 2016

ADP CMT ESC GLC tue 11—13 30 HTC R209

Kathrin Aste

Observing — Absorbing — Composing

Each sensory organ has a limited area of perception. With the support of suitable apparatus and Landscape sights instruments, it is possible to exceed these limits. This, in turn, opens up new perspectives and inthat were previously not detected. The new perceptual space can appear like a hallucinaand expand our imagination. Part I »Observing« of the seminar series also dealt with the Urbanism tion subject of observation. Techniques and ways of observing were analysed and collected in a small catalogue. Based on this catalogue, part II »Absorbing« of the seminar will explore their potential for the architectural design process. The seminar aims to absorb hidden qualities of spaces by a variety of illustrations, which are supported by different technical instruments. Architectural knowledge is produced, communicated and organized in images and visualizations, making it relevant to question and expand human perception.

Mucor sp. im Lichtmikroskop bei 400-facher Vergrößerung [http://www.schimmel-schimmelpilze.de]

project LECTURe winter 2016

Table of Opticks from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, Volume 2, CC-PD

Christina Condak

Time in Architecture

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R211a fri

12 30—14 h

LECTURe winter 2016

Hannes Stiefel

Ecologies I

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R211a tue

11—12 30 h

winter 2016

GOLMAR KEMPINGER-KHATIBI

R211a THU

12 30—14 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Forever Young? Cultural Heritage I

LECTURE

LECTURE winter 2016

R209

Peter Leeb

thu bi-weekly

16—19

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Advanced Introduction to Ecology, Sustainability, Cultural Heritage

SEMINAR winter 2016

ADP CMT ESC GLC tue 11—13 30 HTC R209

Kathrin Aste

Observing — Absorbing — Composing

Mucor sp. im Lichtmikroskop bei 400-facher Vergrößerung [http://www.schimmel-schimmelpilze.de]

project LECTURe winter 2016

Table of Opticks from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, Volume 2, CC-PD

Project lecture winter 2016

LISA SCHMIDT-COLINET

R211a fri

10—11 30 h

Urban Form and Analysis

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

»Built environments have lives of their own: they grow, renew themselves, and endure for millennia. Conservation may serve to freeze works of art in time, resisting time’s effect. But the living environment can persist only through change and adaptation.«John Habraken, The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment. Jonathan Teicher (edit.), MIT Press 2000 How and by which means did cities take their shape, and how are they continuously changing? The lecture explores urban form as a product of the complex interactions of consolidating forces and conditions. It investigates cities on a morphological and physiological level, explaining their development and the process of constant transformation, their different organizational layers, and the scale and grain of urban fabrics. We will study the city in relation to its environment and surrounding territories. How were boundaries defined in different eras? How does their definition change when physical and visible borders are dissolving? The view from a distance, discovering the fabric of cities, is as important as perceiving it by moving through them. Discussing historical and contemporary examples of city analysis, the course offers students tools for the analysis and representation of spatial elements of the city and their performance. Sessions of directed »fieldwork« will serve to apply this knowledge.

LECTURE winter 2016

Christian Teckert

R211a thu bi-weekly

16—19 30 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The Rise and Decline of Urbanism as an Agenda in Architecture Urbanism I

The lectures will address the emergence of Urbanism as a science and discourse. It will focus on the role of the architect as one actor in this discipline, which was historically contested. Crucial 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 at providing tools to understand and analyse the discursive formations within the history of Urbanism. It will include discussions from fields like Sociology, Media Theory, Philosophy or Critical Geography, which in turn have been crucial for the current debates within Urbanism.

LECTURe winter 2016

Christian Teckert

R211a wed bi-weekly

16—19 30 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Cities as Urban Laboratories between Research, Intervention and Utopia

Advanced Introduction to Geography, Landscape, The city will be considered as an epistemological system in which the interweaving of social, culCities tural and political paradigms are given an indicative function. We will analyse the evolution of specifically selected cities, read them as symptoms of urban concepts and discuss the influence of

fields such as Sociology, Media Theory, Post-Colonialism or Critical Geography, which form an inherent part of current urban debates. Alongside the central terms of urban theory of the 20th century, key discourses of contemporary debates in Urbanism will be examined in relation to new methodological approaches to research, analysis and design. Facing a situation where no hegemonial method in Urbanism can be detected, the lectures will focus on concepts that help us understand the complex urban realities and discuss possible strategies of intervention.

seminar winter 2016

Gabu Heindl

R209 wed bi-weekly

18—21

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Cities, Growth, Politics and Power The Neoliberal City

The seminar Cities Growth Politics Power focuses on the relationship between cities and power: Who is and has been in charge of making cities? What are the crucial aspects of today’s neoliberal urbanization, and what planning tools are there to resist it? How is architecture confronted and involved with strategies of surveillance, exclusion and gentrification? What is public space? It will be crucial for our discussion to look at the concept of spatial justice and urban spaces of conflict, as well as historical and contemporary, actual sites of the constant negotiations between different parties claiming access to space. This involves discussing practices and possibilities of »city-making« that are non-hegemonic, such as projects of deviant usages or aesthetics of resistance. As an audiovisual impetus for the reflection upon city politics and power structures, some seminar sessions will be kicked off by screenings of historical or contemporary short films. We will base our discussions on close readings of seminal texts by authors such as Pier Vittorio Aureli, Scott Campbell, Susan Fainstein, David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, James C. Scott, Manfredo Tafuri, Sharon Zukin etc. [Photo: Gabu Heindl]

Project lecture winter 2016

LISA SCHMIDT-COLINET

R211a fri

10—11 30 h

Urban Form and Analysis

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

LECTURE winter 2016

Christian Teckert

R211a thu bi-weekly

16—19 30 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The Rise and Decline of Urbanism as an Agenda in Architecture Urbanism I

LECTURe winter 2016

Christian Teckert

R211a wed bi-weekly

16—19 30 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Cities as Urban Laboratories between Research, Intervention and Utopia

seminar winter 2016

Gabu Heindl

R209 wed bi-weekly

18—21

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Cities, Growth, Politics and Power The Neoliberal City

Lecture

Luciano Parodi

winter 2016

R209 thu

13—14 30 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Vestiges of Ideas and Material History, Theory of Technology Agnosticism

Antoine Vercoutere, 2015

The course surveys the history of construction technology, highlighting the reciprocal relationship between cultural development and technological innovation, and their respective impact on architecture. It traces the process of material innovation to the development of prototypes and the implementation of norms. As our point of departure, we will take construction and education drawings from 18th century Central Europe. These complex plans were considered as models for the planning and production of buildings, infrastructure and machines. They actually contained almost no instructions, and much important information concerning construction was ignored or neglected. Our intention is to question, assemble and display the knowledge and history behind the drawings and construction details. Moreover, we will focus on the production of details and their immanent discourse. Details will be used as a source of knowledge and as historical documents about the framework in which the production of architecture took place. The links and metamorphoses between details as imagined, drawn, constructed and published will therefore be closely scrutinized.

project lecture winter 2016

August Sarnitz

R209 wed

14—15 30 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Historiography of Architecture

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 winter 2016

August Sarnitz

History of Theory

R209 wed

15 45—17 15 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

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 winter 2016

August Sarnitz

R209

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

12—13 30 Advanced Introduction to History, Theory, Criticism wed

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.

Perspective sketch for Centro Direzionale, Florence, Aldo Rossi, 1977 [Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal]

Lecture

Luciano Parodi

winter 2016

R209 thu

13—14 30 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Vestiges of Ideas and Material History, Theory of Technology Agnosticism

Antoine Vercoutere, 2015

project lecture winter 2016

August Sarnitz

R209 wed

14—15 30 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Historiography of Architecture

project lecture winter 2016

August Sarnitz

History of Theory

R209 wed

15 45—17 15 h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

August Sarnitz

R209

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

12—13 30 Advanced Introduction to History, Theory, Criticism wed

Perspective sketch for Centro Direzionale, Florence, Aldo Rossi, 1977 [Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal]

Seminar winter 2016

Wolfgang Tschapeller

Thesis Seminar

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R210 mon

18 15—21 15 h

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.

seminar winter 2016

Antje Lehn

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R210

Thesis Documentation 10—11 30 wed

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 proposal. As the final synthesis of the graduation project, students submit the thesis documentation in the form of a book, putting forward their thesis. It presents their hypotheses and methodology, includes research material, the process of production, and documentation of the final thesis project.

ELECTIVE COURSE winter 2016

Tom Avermaete

Common Grounds:

R210 mon bi-weekly

10—13

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The Pleasures, Politics and Perils of Engagement

In contemporary architectural design practice, important experiments occur that can be understood as practices of ›commoning‹. Projects like the NDSM wharf and De Ceuvel in Amsterdam, the Luchtsingel in Rotterdam, the Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin and the Yale Building Project in New Haven have called into question the character of architectural projects by engaging with co-production in development and realization. The urban territory, as well as the knowledge and skills of citizens, are understood as immanent resources that can be unlocked, activated and managed by a specific project. This seminar aims to study these approaches as prefigurations of a new, broader interpretation of architectural projects. It intends to answer questions such as: In the future, can we regard the interventions of architects as engagement with such important communal resources as territory, skills and knowledge? Seminar in conjunction with the lecture series »Constructing the Commons«.

Elective course winter 2016

ADP CMT ESC block GLC 6.—9.9. HTC

Michelle Howard / Luciano Parodi

My Funny Valentin

2016

Workshop in Sankt Valentin, Lower Austria

The city of Sankt Valentin has asked the CMT platform to propose designs and prototypes for 6 bus stops distributed throughout the municipal area. These will be developed during the winter semester 2016/17 with the students of BA rch 3. In a city where most people use cars, and buses have been forgotten as a form of transport, these bus stops need to perform far greater tasks than simply providing a place to wait for the bus. Sankt Valentin is a city which, although the wealthiest of the region, lacks a sense of centre and connections between the diverse and disparate areas that form its whole. This workshop will allow us to determine what makes this city tick, and perhaps reveal how these bus stops can become catalysts of urbanity. By moving individual characteristics into focus, we could discover new potential for these bus stops as places. The stops should also be strongly connected to the social and climatic environment, and generate new opportunities for the urban community.

Elective course winter 2016

JOHANNES WARDA

ADP CMT ESC fri bi-weekly GLC 9 30—12 30 HTC R210

Performing the Public: Architecture as Counterculture Space h

Lower Sproul Plaza, Univertsity of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Halprin, 1962 [Photo: Johannes Warda, 2007]

Dance and urban design are the two poles where the performative and material production of the world intersect. Yet the material dimension of place-making is still receiving little theoretical attention. Recent contributions to gender and queer theory have been focussing, again, on forms and formats of the public and its performative production. We will challenge these approaches by contrasting them with actually built space, its design, surface materials and use. The work of Anna and Lawrence Halprin, pioneer figures in both 20th century dance and landscape architecture, serves as a starting point for our analysis. In a second step, we will apply our own reading of the interactions between space, place and the body to a set of contemporary examples of the use of public space. We will share our findings from a subversive, material point of view in a small exhibition, contributing to the ongoing debate about the »return of the street« as a contested arena where civic rights and basic human rights clash.

Seminar winter 2016

Wolfgang Tschapeller

Thesis Seminar

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R210 mon

18 15—21 15 h

seminar winter 2016

Antje Lehn

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R210

Thesis Documentation 10—11 30 wed

ELECTIVE COURSE winter 2016

Tom Avermaete

Common Grounds:

R210 mon bi-weekly

10—13

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The Pleasures, Politics and Perils of Engagement

Elective course winter 2016

ADP CMT ESC block GLC 6.—9.9. HTC

Michelle Howard / Luciano Parodi

My Funny Valentin

2016

Workshop in Sankt Valentin, Lower Austria

Elective course winter 2016

JOHANNES WARDA

ADP CMT ESC fri bi-weekly GLC 9 30—12 30 HTC R210

Performing the Public: Architecture as Counterculture Space h

Lower Sproul Plaza, Univertsity of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Halprin, 1962 [Photo: Johannes Warda, 2007]

Doctoral Studies

syposium winter 2016

concept and organization:

Gogo Kempinger-Khatibi / Hannes Stiefel

R211a

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Doctoral Studies (Dr. techn.) Cultures of Cultural Heritage 25.11.

2016

Since 2011 IKA offers a doctorate study program in architecture (Dr. Techn.) 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. There is no application deadline and no admission fee.

Italian Positions

Further information on the program: https://ika.akbild.ac.at/school/admission/Dr_techn For queries concerning the programme, please contact: arch@akbild.ac.at

Ecology, sustainability and cultural heritage are the basic foundations of what we call »Baukultur« in German. Ecology describes the exchange between all organisms and their environments. This includes the built environments which, in their particular appearance, reflect specific architectural cultures. As for sustainability and cultural heritage in the field of architecture, they serve to guarantee continuity and the development of values (and value systems) that shape architectural cultures in their particular historical, geographical and societal contexts. These cultures are represented not only by buildings and objects, but rather by ideas and concepts, or – in the words of Colin Rowe – not only by what the eye sees, but more by what the mind sees. We look at Italy, a region that has one of the richest legacies of architectural history. Yet it was back in the era of postmodernism, with its pronounced interest in history, that Italian architecture was widely discussed in Europe for the last time. What are the current practices of cultural heritage in contemporary Italian architecture? What are the contextual conditions of those practices? And what is intended and/or expected to be achieved by those practices? We will ask six protagonists of Italian architectural culture in theory, politics and architectural practice about their views on understanding the role of cultural heritage as an influential transformative practice, in contrast to a duty of conservation. Speakers (tbc): Renata Codello Martin Feiersinger Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo Giulio Polita Maria Alessandra Segantini

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 W a l t r a u d I n d r i s t : 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 S o l m a z K a m a l i f a r d : A Study of Natural Lighting in Interior Spaces as a Human-Space Interaction Stimulus supervisor: Michelle Howard Esther Lorenz: The City as Mass Media supervisor: Angelika Schnell M a h s a M a l e k a z a r i : Dancing to the Tune of Light. An investigation into ascertaining discrete visual conditions through the active behaviour of the occupants supervisor: Michelle Howard Semir Poturak: Existential Phenomenology of Security in Architectural Space visiting student supervised by Michelle Howard

Holger Schurk: Projekt ohne Form. Die Überblendung von Abstraktion und Repräsentation bei OMA /Rem Koolhaas im Jahr 1989 supervisor: Angelika Schnell Eva Sommeregger: Ways in which to draw where you can be? Re-enacting drawings of locomotion supervisors: Angelika Schnell, Nic Clear C h r i s t i a n T o n k o : Engineering the creative process. A comparison between the office work of OMA/AMO and Olafur Eliasson supervisor: Angelika Schnell Jie Zhang: An Interpretation of the Renaissance in Post-war Italian Modern Architectural Discourse supervisor: Angelika Schnell

Banca del Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Colle Val d’Elsa, Italy, Giovanni Michelucci, Bruno Sacchi, 1983 [Photo: Martin Feiersinger]

A c h i m R e e s e : 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

Doctoral Studies

syposium winter 2016

concept and organization:

Gogo Kempinger-Khatibi / Hannes Stiefel

R211a

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Doctoral Studies (Dr. techn.) Cultures of Cultural Heritage 25.11.

2016

Italian Positions

Further information on the program: https://ika.akbild.ac.at/school/admission/Dr_techn For queries concerning the programme, please contact: arch@akbild.ac.at

Current Dr. techn. candidates at IKA

Banca del Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Colle Val d’Elsa, Italy, Giovanni Michelucci, Bruno Sacchi, 1983 [Photo: Martin Feiersinger]

Lecture series winter 2016

Tom Avermaete

R211a mon

19 dates: 24.10 / 7.11. / 21.11. / 5.12. / 9.1. h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

2017

Constructing the Commons Another Approach to Architecture and the City

Collectively inflating Nadar’s Le Géant in Amsterdam, Eugene Godard, 1865 [Photo: Peter Oosterhuis, CC-PD ]

Over the past few years, a panoply of innovative activism, scholarship and projects that focus on ›the commons‹ have gained momentum. This rapidly growing movement is based on new thinking in the domains of economics, political and social science, suggesting radically different ways to organize our societies. In her seminal publication Governing the Commons (1990), Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom put forward an idea of the commons as ›collective action‹ that challenges our understanding of politics, economics and culture. More recently, in Die Welt der Commons (2015), Silke Helfrich and David Bollier coined the commons as a matter of ›shared resources‹ that allow us to conceive of our everyday life beyond the dominant discourses of market economy and state intervention. In these theories, however, little attention is paid to the value of urban space as a shared resource and one of the main tangible forms in which ›the commons‹ exist in society. This lecture series asserts that the new conceptions of ›the commons‹ can radically alter the way that we think about the role of the architect, the character of the project and the relationship between architecture and the city. The five lectures relate – for the first time – the conception of ›the commons‹ to the field of architectural design, in order to develop a new architectural theory of intervening, transforming and maintaining urban environments. Looking at the history of architecture, but also studying contemporary design practices, each of the lectures will seek to delineate different aspects of the commons and their relevance to the nexus between architecture and the city. The lectures will look, in turn, at the commons as a matter of ›pooled resources‹, understood as collectively held goods that can be used by individuals; of ›commoners‹ defined as communities of people that share resources; of ›commoning‹, referring to the social practices that create and reproduce the commons; and of ›shared knowledge’ erasing the differentiation between the ›expertise‹ of elites and the know-how of ordinary citizens. Together, these different perspectives will construct the outline of another approach to architecture and the city.

Lecture series winter 2016

Tom Avermaete

R211a mon

19 dates: 24.10 / 7.11. / 21.11. / 5.12. / 9.1. h

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

2017

Constructing the Commons Another Approach to Architecture and the City

Collectively inflating Nadar’s Le Géant in Amsterdam, Eugene Godard, 1865 [Photo: Peter Oosterhuis, CC-PD ]

32 IKA CALENDAR

winter 2016

Kick Off / semester start: Diploma presentation: Diploma presentation: Mid-term presentation: Final reviews: Diploma presentation:

3.10. 4.10. 7.11. 21.—22.11. 16.—17.1. 19.1.

events Lecture Series: Tom Avermaete / Constructing Approach to the Commons — Another Architecture and the City lecture 1 lecture 2 lecture 3 lecture 4 lecture 5

24.10. 7.11. 21.11. 5.12. 9.1.

CULTURES OF CULTURAL HERITAGE – ITALIAN POSITIONS

25.11.

Michael Hansmeyer / Undrawable

12.12.

Symposium:

lecture:

Rundgang 2017

for general inquiries please contact: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Schillerplatz 3 1 010 Vienna | Austria w ww.akbild.ac.at/ika Office: R213 2nd Floor Ulrike Auer +43 (1) 588 16—5101 / u.auer@akbild.ac.at Gabriele Mayer +43 (1) 588 16—5102 / g.mayer@akbild.ac.at

19.—22.1.

Institute for Art and Architecture – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Winter 2016 Head of Institute: Wolfgang Tschapeller Editor: Julia Wieger Design: cyan berlin