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BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
RAUMPARK 8 Stadtverwaldung – Learning from Beuys?
Ludwig Löckinger with students, Augasse 2019
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HITZE: Some Walks and Talks to Begin With HITZE 1 Lecture Series Excursion Australia Otto Wagner Lecture 2019 VANDANA SHIVA Research at IKA
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–273.15°C is the coldest there is. At this temperature, nothing moves anymore. It is “absolute zero”, 0 Kelvin. No mass particle vibrates anymore. When it gets warmer, when mass particles begin to move, when mass particles vibrate excessively, that is heat. As we can see, temperature not only measures warmth, it can also be a measure of movement. Since the vibration velocity of mass particles can be infinitely high, heat can also become infinitely hot. There is no such thing as the hottest temperature. There is only the hottest temperature produced. It is man-made and was generated in 2010 in a particle accelerator of Brookhaven Laboratories in the United States by colliding gold ions. That temperature is 4,000,000,000°C (4 billion °C).1 By way of comparison: that is 250,000 times hotter than the core of our Sun, which comes to 16,000,000°C (16 million °C). The heat in the Sun’s corona reaches 1,000,000°C (1 million °C), its filaments measure 10,000°C, and its surface curiously has an earthly 6,000°C, corresponding to the heat in our Earth’s core. Liquid iron still has a temperature of 1,540°C,2 and the ignition temperature of paper – at least according to Ray Bradbury – is 233°C, or Fahrenheit 451.3
Our immediate environment is considerably cooler. In the summer of 2017, the administrator of the Vienna Imperial Palace gave a tour of the new conference centre. The rooms were icy cold, all of 18°C. Apparently, that is the temperature agreeable to a well-dressed Central European man in a three-piece suit in any place or season and at any time of day. As we can see, temperatures are controlled not only to make life possible, but also to assert a selective, formalized and sometimes fossilized lifestyle. Producing cold and heat means a command of temperature, lifestyle and culture, and moreover, in this case, a gender-specific hegemony over a space that was a political and cultural instrument of power even before climate control. As we can see, culture and temperature are also closely linked. Temperature can be a measure of culture. Heat and cold drive culture. In his “Cultural History of Climate”4, Wolfgang Behringer shows that cultures have their specific temperatures, and that any shift in temperature is a cultural shift. That was also the case at the beginning of the Holocene: “The transition from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic economy happened relatively quickly; it was induced by climatic upheaval”5 ... “Global warming meant an end to the previous human economic system” and “global warming is linked to a fundamental change in human culture…”6 Now, we could let these sentences stand as they are, a concise commentary on the beginning of the geo-
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chronological epoch in which we live, the abovementioned Holocene. However, the phrasing chosen by Behringer for the early Holocene is suggestive. It sounds as if it was meant for the here-and-now, as if it was written for our time. Let us then take these sentences and write, from the perspective of the future, about the late Holocene. Not much needs to be changed. It would read like this:
HITZE TAKES COMMAND is the annual project 2019/2020 of the IKA, Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
“Hot Quark Soup Produced at RHIC”, still from an animation to visualize the generation of 4,000,000,000°C Source: https://phys.org/news/2010-02-liquid-hot-quark-soup-video.html 2019-08-25
“The end of the Anthropocene 7 economy embedded in the Holocene happened relatively quickly; it was induced by climatic upheaval. Global warming meant an end to the previous growth-based, capitalist human economic systems and a fundamental change in human culture.” If we follow this suggestion, and if we know which changes induced and accompanied the Holocene, it becomes clear in which dimensions, categories and terrains architecture can now be imagined.
1 Ibid. 2 Information from Wikipedia, 2019-08-25 3 Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, New York 1953 4 Wolfgang Behringer, Kulturgeschichte des Klimas (A Cultural History of Climate), Munich 2011, 6th edition 2018 5 Ibid. p. 64, own translation. W. Behringer quotes Alfred Heuss and Golo Mann in Propyläen World History of the 1960s. 6 Ibid. p. 64f, own translation. 7 No formal determination has yet been made on whether we are still living in the Holocene or already in a new era, the Anthropocene. In any case, there is an overlap of characteristics between the two, hence the phrasing “Anthropocene economy embedded in the Holocene”. 8 Municipality of Vienna, Vienna environmental protection department – Municipal Department 22
HITZE TAKES COMMAND is an attempt to understand a phenomenon that was previously an exceptional situation and has since become the new normal, with unlimited potential for escalation. HITZE TAKES COMMAND is a reaction to increasing climate shifts, the contours of which became visible in the past century and are now extremely critical. HITZE TAKES COMMAND is a reaction to the publication “Urban Heat Islands – Strategy Plan Vienna”8. The IKA wants to juxtapose this strategy plan with projects from an architectural and artistic perspective, both in a supportive and a productively critical sense. HITZE TAKES COMMAND and the curriculum: Are our curricula heat-appropriate? Is our education such that students and teachers develop the knowledge needed to deal with heat phenomena and climate change? HITZE TAKES COMMAND is the result of an in-depth debate. Structurally, the title alludes to Sigfried Giedion’s book “Mechanization Takes Command”. The title is ambiguous. On the one hand, it means that heat has taken the helm. On the other hand, it means that heat requires control.
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EXCURSIONS WINTER SEMESTER Wienerbruck, Lower Austria: bonfire construction and combustion SUMMER SEMESTER (with Golmar KempingerKhatibi) Iran and the Gulf States: Fire Festival; the Lut Desert: hottest place on Earth; the desert cities of Yazd and Masdar.
CONSTRUCTION
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Design Studio BArch1, BArch3, MArch Michelle Howard Christian Fröhlich (Winter) Christina Condak (Summer)
In Summer 2019, forest wildfires consumed unprecedented tracts of the Amazon and the Arctic: our house is burning. It was 10 degrees hotter than the 1981-2000 average, but the majority of forest fires are still caused by humans.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Summer, 1573 and Fire, 1566. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons (1563) and Four Elements (1566) painting cycles, made for the Austrian Court, are often placed in paired arrangements. The warmdry Summer (on the left), corresponds to Fire (on the right). Though most of the paintings are abroad, these two still reside at the Kunst historisches Museum in Vienna.
1 Luis FernándezGaliano, Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy, transl. by Gina Cariño, MIT Press, 2000, p. 7f 2 Ibid., p. 9
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Forests and ECOLOGY forest clearings SUSTAINABILITY are central to CULTURAL apocryphal ori HERITAGE gin theories about architecture. One such parable at tributed to Reyner Banham by Luis Fernández-Galiano in his book Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy “… tells of a primitive tribe that has just come across a clearing in the wood where it plans to spend the night (…). There are fallen branches and some wood in the clearing. The tribe has a dilemma: whether to use the wood to build a small shelter or as firewood for a bonfire. An entire theory of archi tecture is encapsulated in this simple question. (…) Construction is nourished by flows, combustion by deposits. (…) Only an obstinate fetishism for icons or an object-oriented, hieratic conception of architecture can deny the bonfire the status of ab ovo architecture so easily assigned to the hut. What is a house but a hearth?”1 The hearth has played such an integral cultural role that the concept has been generalised to refer to a home or household. What is a hearth but a building burning from the inside? “… In all beginnings or origins, in myths and rituals as well as in the preconscious or unconscious mind, construction and fire are intermingled and intertwined.”2 This intermingling persists when we consider burning buildings: fire’s twin abilities to trans form – clay, ore and stone into bricks, metals and cement – and to consume – the house, the tower and the city, leaving only cinders, embers and ash. Our flame-gazing will be sup ported by the construction and combustion of analogue and digital models, by video reportage and documentary, by learning mathematical calculations and fire regulations, creating scenes of fire, visiting scenes of fires and fire’s aftermath, and exploring burning buildings through texts by FernándezGaliano (Fire and Memory), Bachelard (The Psychoanalysis of Fire) and Derrida (Cinders).
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HITZE CHALLENGES . It challenges the very foundations that our cities are built upon. It questions our idea of the ground and our relation to it. While walking through the maze-like alleyways of the superheated city of D., a startling phenomenon can be observed: bodies of humans and animals seem to fuse with their surroundings; the distinction between fleshy fragments of bodies and infrastructural devices dissolves; you no longer know where a body ends and where a bench begins, what’s a tree and what’s a building – or what if it is all just an extension of the moving ground, the hot crust of the Earth in motion? All this happens within incredibly densified spaces, while a hatch somewhere far above the scene will let some rays of daylight through… Suddenly Kisho Kurokawa seems to be speaking to us through the scenery: he talked about “a shift away from mechanical principles towards living principles”3 – not knowing what this very shift was going to be. HITZE: TO BE CHALLENGED . Very high temperatures and their manifold consequences drastically challenge the atmospheres in, of, above and beyond our cities. We will try to understand how to orient these challenges towards desirable futures. RAUMPARK is an attempt to do so through design. It is an attempt that avoids architectures of closed worlds in favour of open, reciprocally active and communicating environments.
1This is a year-long topic in both platforms ESC and CMT. 2 Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime, John Wiley & Sons, 2017 3 Kisho Kurokawa, From the Machine Age to the Age of Life, Manifesto, 1959 (cited in: Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks, Taschen GmbH, Cologne 2011, p. 377)
Basque Woods 4. Photo: Hannes Stiefel
HITZE TAKES COMMAND . A New Climatic Regime2 has come with problematic legacies that constitute precarious environmental situations – ubiquitously. One is the overheating of our cities. The critical conditions of their ecological systems call for new types of ground, spatial structures and built environments that allow us to adjust to altered climates. They will be characterized both by the needs and qualities of urbanity, and those of nature and wilderness. Methods and tools for orientation and processing of high outside temperatures will define the distribution, connection and interaction, the forms and appearance, the infrastructures and logistics, as well as the programming of the components of our future densified, afforested, locally and strategically darkened cities. RAUMPARKS are climatic devices; they are constructions of various sizes, operating on diverse scales, offering multi-dimensional populated parks, gardens and (“wild”) forests in and above our cities. The conception of such structures will unavoidably expose dichotomies between the consequences of the need for more liveable space for a rapidly growing population (another consequence of HITZE) and the importance of accepting human beings as an integral part of the larger ecosphere. RAUMPARKS will not only cool down the local and regional climatic conditions (meso-climate), but also have the potential to thoroughly challenge the ecological function of architecture in urban areas.
Daniel Spörri, Jean Tinguely, Bernhard Luginbühl, Dynamisches Labyrinth. 1960 in: Daniel Spörri, Katalog Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Centre Pompidou Paris, 1990, Photo: Leonardo Bezzola Copyright: Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Graphische Sammlung: Archiv Daniel Spoerri
FAUX TERRAIN VIENNA
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Man cannot at his pleasure command the rain and the sunshine, the wind and frost and snow, yet it is certain that climate itself has in many instances been gradually changed and ameliorated or deteriorated by human action. The draining of swamps and the clearing of forests perceptibly effect the evaporation from the earth, and of course the mean quantity of moisture suspended in the air. The same causes modify the electrical condition of the atmosphere and the power of the surface to reflect, absorb and radiate the rays of the sun, and consequently influence the distribution of light and heat, and the force and direction of the winds. George Perkins Marsh, in a lecture to the Agricultural Society of Rutland County, Vermont, 30 September 1847
Now we probably don’t even have a future anymore. Greta Thunberg, speech at the EU Parliament in Strasburg, 2019
Learning from Beuys 2019. Photo: Antje Lehn
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Monday / Tuesday / Friday 14.00—-18.00
Design Studio BArch1, BArch5, MArch Alessandra Cianchetta Antje Lehn
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GLC Ich bin ja kein Gärtner, der Bäume pflanzt, weil Bäume schön sind. Nein, ich sage, die Bäume sind heute ja viel intelligenter als Menschen. Joseph Beuys, 19841
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The condition of HITZE stands for scarcity and concentration of resources, environmental modifications due to climatic, technological and economic parameters, subsequent conflicts and displacements of populations, increasing imbalance in power, and political unrest. The question is how architecture, art and urban planning (and policymaking) can react to the threatening forecast of extreme heat in the contested urban realm. How can access to the most basic and essential goods like water, trees, landscapes and liveable temperatures – in other words, a healthy environment – be publicly guaranteed? In a recent report on “The global tree restoration potential” 2, scientists recommended the massive planting of trees to mitigate the currently recorded trend of increasing temperatures that research suggests may be due to climate change3 – so could planting an urban forest actually stop the heat in the city? Unlike policymakers, architects and artists can exercise the freedom of going further than providing mere technical solutions or regulations in order to generate and test new possibilities, public forms and inquiries. We believe in the transformative power of art for bringing together a provisional community of urban species to cope with the challenges of HITZE and to build strategies of resilience, “... for art is the only form in which environmental problems can be solved”.4 As a starting point, we will take Joseph Beuys’ project 7000 Eichen – Stadtverwaldung statt Stadtverwaltung (documenta 7), which involved planting 7000 trees of different species all over the city of Kassel and placing a basalt column beside each tree. The precedent of Beuys’ work and his connection to the controversial romantic idea of a totality of nature will be confronted with the current debate on the multiplicity and diversity of natures – also seen through the eyes of contemporary art production, “... since we don’t want the planting action to end ever again.”5 Not only the given conditions of ground, water and temperature are crucial for the analysis of trees. Especially when trees amount to forests, the condition of HITZE can also be applied to time and money; for instance, Austrian forests have recently become popular as secure investments.6 The investigation will focus on multi-scaled mappings of historical forest sites at the periphery of Vienna and their transformation during periods 1 Beuys. Die Revolution sind wir, eds. Blume, Catharine Nichols, Göttinof extreme growth of the city. Histor- Eugen gen, 2008 ical surveys like the Franziszeischer 2 https://science.sciencemag.org/ Kataster, Alexander von Humboldt’s content/365/6448/76 Pflanzengeographie and Eduard Suess’ 3 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/ publication Der Boden der Stadt Wien 613350/welcome-to-climate-change/ provide the historical dimension for an 4 7000 Eichen, ed. Heiner Bastian, 1985 experimental reforestation proposal Bern, 5 7000 Eichen, ed. Heiner Bastian, that considers the forest as an artistic Bern, 1985 laboratory for the radical transformation 6 Waldmillionäre, in: GEWINN 38, of urban space. Vienna, 2019, p. 22ff
Wienfluss am Karlsplatz, 1822. J.F. Wizzoni: Wien – Geschichte in Bilddokumenten, Verlag C.H. Beck. Wikipedia Commons
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There are environmental problems “out there”, such as climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation, among many others. This is daunting enough, but there are also a series of problems that the topic of heat poses “in here” – in the space of the academy of architecture, where instructors and students explore environmental concerns. One of the significant achievements in architectural education from the past forty years was the belief that design could be taught and that architecture was more than just a problem-solving exercise. Consider
a series of famous exercises professors gave in schools of architecture, such as the “kit of parts,” the “nine-square”, or the “figure-ground”. Each of these incorporated philosophical concepts and theoretical approaches in thinking about architecture – abstraction, dialectics, gestalt theory, the index and transparency, among others. The goal of these exercises was not to solve a given problem, but to develop ideas about the history and future of composition, space and architectural representation. Today, academic and architectural explorations of environmental concerns often
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run counter to this history. Explorations of heat and cold in academic contexts often take on a literal and highly instrumental character. One solves an environmental problem without engaging the history of architectural education or representation. The theme HITZE is an opportunity to go “meta.” We must architecturally address the environmental crises that face Vienna and the crisis that environmental explorations often present to architecture education. One way to do this is to rethink the character of environments through the prism of the above-mentioned history of education. Imagine assemblages of multiple, diverse temporal environments from Vienna’s past, present and future (like the “kit” in a kit-of-parts problem); im-
agine these arranged into some type of geographically impossible, but architecturally useful framework (like the grid of a nine-square exercise); and imagine ways that they might be represented as their opposite (like a figure-ground drawing). The strange environment that results from this would be useful to the architecture student, and different from the “environment” given to us by the climatologist, geographer or engineer. Our ultimate point is this: As we address architecture and heat, we must also provide a framework to consider architectural as well as pedagogic engagement with environments more generally. Vienna is the testing ground to reflect on an aspect of the future of architectural education in the age of environmental anxiety.
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Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Institute for Art and Architecture IKA Forum, 1st floor, core N Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna
SOME WALKS AND TALKS1 TO BEGIN WITH The physical experience of HITZE in some hot and cold places in Vienna, combined with a series of lectures covering as wide a range of topics as possible, is the starting point of our annual project. We want to understand HITZE – with our minds and with our whole bodies!
Walks and Talks DAY ONE Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Walks and Talks DAY THREE Thursday, October 3, 2019
10.00-12.00 14.00–15.00 15.00–18.00 18.00 19.00
9.00-16.00 ZAMG WienEnergie Waldbrandareal TIERGARTEN SCHÖNBRUNN
HITZE Opening and Studio Program Presentation Studio Meetings Walks & Talks – Hotspot Hopping Get together – Heisse Suppe HITZE 1 Lecture Series*: Philippe Rahm
Walks and Talks DAY TWO Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9.30–18.00 Meteorology: Michael Staudinger Thermodynamics: Christoph Dellago Humans, heat and vulnerability: Ruth Kutalek Heat solutions from the City of Vienna: Jürgen Preiss Heat infrastructure in Vienna: Steffen Robbi Heat and Activism: Katharina Rogenhofer
Walks and Talks DAY FOUR Friday, October 4, 2019 17.00 HITZE screening Party
1 “Walk and talk” is a storytelling technique used in filmmaking and television production, in which a number of characters have a conversation while walking somewhere. The technique is frequently used as a means of emphasizing how busy the characters are. It suggests that there is so much to do and so little time to do it … * Lecture Series curated by David Gissen and Hannes Stiefel, see p. 15
The Sun photographed at 304 angstroms by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). 19 August 2010, 00:32:21 Copyright: NASA/SDO (AIA)
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Institute for Art and Architecture Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna IKA Forum / 1st floor, core N
LECTURE SERIES WINTER 2019
all lectures start at 7pm
HITZE [heat] as a property of bodies, spaces and regions has shaped and continues to shape our thinking about architecture and cities. The lecture series, part of IKA’s 2019/2020 special programme HITZE TAKES COMMAND , examines the spatial culture of temperature, and its broader social and political implications, through the eyes of a number of contemporary thinkers. The historians, artists, scientists and architects assembled in this lecture series will explore the topic of HITZE in dimensions ranging from the soup pot to the troposphere.
1 October 2019
Who can think of the future today without consideration of HITZE? Every exceptionally warm day is imagined as portending future disaster, while a sudden cold day provides hope that the ravages of climate change might be mitigated. Our experience of HITZE is overburdened with dread and yet, HITZE is also a form of pleasure – integral to sensations of taste, comfort and sexuality. We hope to discover and understand more about the realm of HITZE in explorations of fields that will shape the future of architecture and urbanism.
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The Lecture Series is organised and curated by David Gissen and Hannes Stiefel.
PHILIPPE RAHM ARCHITECTES: RECENT CLIMATIC ARCHITECTURES Philippe Rahm Architect, Paris 28 October 2019
THE ROLE OF CLOUDS AND AEROSOL PARTICLES IN THE CURRENT AND A WARMER CLIMATE Ulrike Lohmann, Atmospheric Physicist Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich
NATURE’S MUTINY – NATURE AND CULTURE IN TIMES OF CLIMATE CHANGE Philipp Blom Historian, Writer and Broadcaster, Vienna 2 December 2019
HEATED POLLUTION Nerea Calvillo, Architect C+ arquitectas / Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick
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Luciano Parodi Hannes Stiefel
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AUSTRALIA – FROM SOUTH TO NORTH
Bureau of Meteorology, February 2018
Excursion February 2020
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November 11, 2019, 7pm Exhibition Space (EG Nord) Studio Building Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Semperdepot) Lehargasse 8, 1060 Vienna
OTTO WAGNER LECTURE 2019
THE TRANSFER FROM THE AGE OF FOSSIL FUEL FOR THE AWARENESS OF A LIVING EARTH VANDANA SHIVA
Dr. Vandana Shiva trained as a physicist and did her Ph.D. on “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She later shifted to interdisciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. In 1982, she founded an independent institute, the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in Dehra Dun, dedicated to high-quality and independent research to address the most significant ecological and social issues of our times in close partnership with local communities and social movements. In 1991, she founded Navdanya, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially
native seeds, and to promote organic farming and fair trade. In 2004, she started Bija Vidyapeeth, an international college for sustainable living in Doon Valley, in collaboration with Schumacher College, U.K. Dr. Shiva combines sharp intellectual enquiry with courageous activism. Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an environmental “hero” in 2003, and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia. Forbes Magazine in November 2010 included Dr. Vandana Shiva among the top seven on its World’s Most Powerful Women list. Dr. Shiva has received honorary doctorates from the University of Paris, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Oslo and Connecticut College, as well as the University of Guelph. Among her many awards are the Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award, 1993), the Order of the Golden Ark, the Global 500 Award of the UN and the Earth Day International Award. She received the LennonOno Grant for Peace award from Yoko Ono in 2009, the Sydney Peace Prize in 2010, the Doshi Bridgebuilder Award, the Calgary Peace Prize and the Thomas Merton Award in 2011, the Fukuoka Prize and the Prism of Reason Award in 2012, the Grifone d’Argento prize in 2016 and the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity in 2016.
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There is no application deadline and no admission fee. Further information on the program: ika.akbild.ac.at/school/ admission/Dr_techn
DOCTORAL STUDIES (DR. TECHN.)
For queries concerning the program, please contact: arch@akbild.ac.at
Architecture, as a discipline situated between the Arts and Sciences, finds itself in a unique position. Even if classified as scientific program of study by statute, the design process and therefore creative-artistic thinking forms the core of its education, thus architecture cannot be understood solely as an applied science. Architecture cannot be considered as a purely artistic discipline either since its practice involves a wide range of scientific aspects that require a rational-analytic and/or interpretive approach. These aspects are prerequisites to, as much as immanent societal obligations of the discipline. Making research visible by means of a PhD program at the IKA emphasises the particular position of the discipline. This has given rise to a distinctive, highly original, concept of research which allows for both strict scientific research formats – i.e. within the field of architectural history or material technology – and artistic research at the intersection of design practice. Consequently, Doctoral theses may include and focus on theoretical, historical, technical as well social themes. Additionally, Design based research equally qualifies as a research path. The IKA has offered a doctorate study program in architecture (Dr. Techn.) since 2011 which is open to students holding an appropriate university degree in architecture (master, diploma). Candidates who wish to apply for the program are required to write a synopsis of their proposed dissertation project and are encouraged to approach a professor at the institute who could act as a supervisor for their intended doctoral thesis. Once a supervisor is found the program normally stretches over six semesters. 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) 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. Entangle ments 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) ESTHER LORENZ The Corporeal City. (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) MAHSA MALEKAZARI Dancing to the Tune of Light. An investi gation 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) SONY DEVABHAKTUNI Dancing Through Architecture: The Impact of Collaboration in Practice (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) OLIVER DOMEISEN The Four Elements of Architectural Ornament. Foundations for a contemporary ornamental practice (supervisor: August Sarnitz) RUTH GERBER Spielstätten der Sprache und des performativen Handelns in den Spielräumen des heutigen Wien (supervisor: August Sarnitz)
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COMMUNITIES OF TACIT KNOWLEDGE 2019–2022 The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks programm is a research project including PhD students funded by the EU programme Horizon 2020 Universities: ETH Zürich TU Delft Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan Arkitektur og Designhogskolen I Oslo Bergische Universität Wuppertal Politecnico di Milano Universiteit Antwerpen University College London Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Partners: Vlaams Architectuur Instituut Architekturzentrum Wien De Smet Vermeulen Architects Cityförster SOMA Architecture Snøhetta architects and others. OCTOBER 17–18 2019 3rd Austrian Doctoral Symposium on Architecture a joint symposium of all doctoral programs of Austrian architecture departments 2019 hosted by Kunstuniversität Linz
The “Communities of Tacit Knowledge” TACK ITN will focus on the concept of “tacit knowledge” in architecture. Tacit knowledge is a specific type of knowledge that architects employ when designing, which is also embodied in the material vectors that they design with; from treatises and drawings to models and buildings. Consequently, architectural designs are the result of complex and occasionally conflicting sets of requirements that can only be reconciled through processes of negotiation between different disciplines and different fields of knowledge. These negotiations imply forms of synergetic thinking, which often rely on implicit common understanding. Michael Polanyi has called the resulting type of knowledge ‘tacit’, referring to the fact that the shared knowledge is so self-evident that it has become entirely implicit. Note: One PhD position at the IKA, starting Spring 2020. Call will be launched in Autumn 2019.
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Seminar BArch3 Damjan Minovski
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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 BArch 5 Marlene Rutzendorfer
AU_1.16 Thu 14.30–17.30
The course trains students in effective visual and verbal communication as well as presentation techniques. The course offers methods for developing and structuring clear arguments and compelling narratives for a variety of situations and audiences. It provides skills for visual explanations and envisioning information as communication, analytical and generative tools.
Project Lecture BArch1 Rüdiger Suppin
AU_1.16A Thu 12.00–13.30
Geometry is the basis of architectural drawing. Its spatial and temporal dimensions can only be communicated through abstraction. To achieve legibility of representations, within and outside of conventions, it requires a sense of structures and their assembly. Furthermore, understanding various tools and their procedures is essential for developing architectural concepts. Over the course of the semester, this software-based course will simulate a basic workflow from measuring, 3D modelling and representing to materializing geometrical ideas. Besides the fundamental issues of CAD and CAM, explicit and parametric modelling methods will be used to deal with questions that arise during work on the common semester topic.
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ADP ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO ANALOGUE PRODUCTION, DIGITAL PRODUCTION
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Hand, test with thermocamera, spring 2019. Photo: IKA
ALGORITHMS IN ARCHITECTURE
Seminar BArch3 Werner Skvara
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AU_1.16A Thu 09.30–11.00
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.
Lecture MArch1 Werner Skvara
AU_1.16A Wed 09.30–11.00
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.
Seminar MArch3 Dominik Strzelec
AU_1.16A Wed 13.00–14.30
Speculative Apps “Any hot medium allows of less participation than a cool one, as a lecture makes for less participation than a seminar, and a book for less than dialogue.” McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964)
tion of the powers of action results in sadness. (...) This seemingly trivial observation will prove indispensable in avoiding some of the past misconceptions of logocentrism which, unfortunately, has not loosened its grip over architectural theory or practice.”
What about apps? “The increase in the power of action brings us joy, claims Spinoza, whereas any diminution or destruc-
This seminar investigates the emancipatory and disruptive potential of digital technology.
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Project Lecture BArch1 René Ziegler
BUILDING STRUCTURES I
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AU_1.15 Tue 10.30-12.00
The Shaping of Construction and Technology by Combustion In these lectures we explore how constructions and technologies are influenced by combustion (fire). In the case of some materials we have not even skimmed the combustion possibilities inherent in them. This may be either because our understanding of their technology is still limited, we have forgotten what some materials are capable of, or the material which constitute their supports still take precedence. Clay for example is used primarily as a facing material today, but its behaviour in the case of fire is much more reliable than the reinforced concrete which supports it, and after a fire it can be re-used without a transformation process. If anything, the fire will have made it stronger. How does combustion and shaping influence the shape and behaviour of our constructions? Which should be the deciding factors for today’s materials and building systems? The transformation of materials for re-use and the influences of the recycling process will also be discussed.
Project Lecture BArch3 Jochen Käferhaus
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BUILDING PHYSICS I
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. Lecture MArch1 Michelle Howard
ADVANCED INTRODUCTION CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY
AU_1.15A Thu 14.00–15.30
AU_1.16 Fri 09.00–10.30
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.
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CMT BUILDING SERVICES II
CMT BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES II
CMT PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE II
Project Lecture BArch3 Jochen Käferhaus
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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. 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 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. 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. 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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Seminar MArch3 Alessandra Cianchetta
LANDSCAPE URBANISM
Mapping Artscapes
AU_1.16 Tue bi-weekly 9.30-12.30
This design seminar will be developed in parallel with the design studio reconsidering and rethinking the whole concept of private art galleries and foundations, and will explore new forms of museums (private or not) and cultural institutions at large. It considers interrelations with less explored territories, and the many opportunities and transformations that may be triggered and generated by the contemporary art world and the related market. The objective of this seminar is to explore potential new territorial developments and forms of urbanism triggered by the art market, and to produce a collective benchmark and a critical mapping atlas for a series of locations – both in cities and in rural contexts – organized by themes. We may look at locations as diverse as Somerset, Addis Ababa, Menorca, North Tyrol, Colombo or Yangon. The final aim is to produce a collective atlas of maps and a book. The preliminary research is collective; then, each student will individually develop a set of analytical and creative cartographies and texts on a chosen location using the collective research. For each of the assigned locations, we will explore both the local scale (city/region/country) and the regional scale (neighbouring countries) with a key focus on the art world – the main cultural institutions, museums, public and private art galleries, local artists, curators and art dealers, other cultural institutions or public and private foundations, other stakeholders such as collectors or patrons – in parallel with an in-depth exploration of the landscape and geographic features, heritage and cultural assets of each place. These data will be cross-referenced and overlaid with a series of socio-demographic and economic parameters, such as real estate indicators, to explore risks and opportunities. The creative analysis and research will generate a development hypothesis and a final report composed of cartographic maps, diagrams, benchmarks, precedents, statistics and a set of concise, critical texts.
TIME IN ARCHITECTURE
Project Lecture BArch1 Christina Condak
AU_1.15A Fri 11.30–13.00
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.
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Lecture BArch 5 Golmar Kempinger-Khatibi
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AU_1.16 Thu 12.30–14.00
“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 “Cultural Heritage I” explores theoretical and practical aspects of dealing with the built environment. It describes the meaning and importance of cultural heritage today, the fields it covers, related values and definitions, and provides an overview of its history, significant movements, and international guidelines and institutions. The practical section looks at the interaction between building materials and systems, and their surroundings and causes of deterioration. It discusses sustainable retrofitting and covers building materials ranging from ancient to modern, as well as management issues. The application of theory in practice will be demonstrated by analyzing case studies, as well as by short excursions and visits to exhibitions. Occasional guest lectures will round out the programme.
ESC ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGY, SUSTAINABILITY, CULTURAL HERITAGE
ESC ECOLOGIES I
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 BArch3 Hannes Stiefel
AU_1.15A Tue 11.00–12.30
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 “atmosphere” 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.
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HTC HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ARCHITECTURE
HTC HISTORY OF THEORY
HTC ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, CRITICISM
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AU_1.15 Thu 13.00–14.30
Vestiges of Ideas and Material Reflections The course surveys the history of construction technology, highlighting the reciprocal relationship between cultural development and technological innovation, and their respective impact on architecture. We will take as our point of departure the construction and education drawings in the Analitique from 18th century Central Europe. These complex plans were considered models for the planning and production of buildings, infrastructures and machines. However, they actually contain almost no written instructions, and important information concerning construction has been veiled or neglected. Further on, the lecture will expand 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. Looking closely at constructed details, we will question, assemble and display potential knowledge, history and ideas beyond their materiality, thus developing a speculative genealogy. Project Lecture BArch 5 August Sarnitz
AU_1.16 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 BArch 5 August Sarnitz
AU_1.16 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_1.16 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.
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Blank Magazine release at the library, 2019. Photo: Christina Ehrmann
AU_1.15A Wed 10.00–11.30
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.
Basement. Photo: Christina Ehrmann
ARCHITECTURE HISTORY I – PREMODERNISM
Project Lecture BArch1 Angelika Schnell
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GLC ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY, LANDSCAPES, CITIES
GLC CITIES GROWTH (HEAT) POLITICS POWER
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AU_1.15 Thu bi-weekly 10.00–13.00
Cities as Urban Laboratories between Research, Intervention and Utopia The city will be considered as an epistemological system in which the interweaving of social, cultural 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 MArch3 Gabu Heindl
AU_1.15 Fri bi-weekly 10.30–13.30
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 affects and bothers; yet ways of protecting against it are not equitably available. Vulnerable social groups bear a greater burden of heat. Heat is closely related to uneven urban development and unjust spatial distribution of infrastructure, to issues of class (who owns gardens?), race (‘white heat’ suffered by migrants in unliveable shelters) and gender (women expected to stay ‘at home’). So let’s take heat as a filter – to study power relations in urban planning and its politics; to discuss paradigm changes to stop cities from heating up; to conceptualize the future of good city life with opportunities for everyone, independent of income and origin. The seminar centres around close readings of texts on climate change, climate justice, social justice, urban cars, trees and water, on well-tempered environments, speculative futures and utopian concepts. Requirements: individual in-class presentations based on the readings; students will also choose a case study to analyze impacts of climate change in a final essay.
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Lecture BArch5 Christian Teckert
URBANISM I
The Rise and Decline of Urbanism as an Agenda in Architecture
AU_1.15 Wed bi-weekly 10.00-13.00
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.
GLC
Project Lecture BArch1 Lisa Schmidt-Colinet
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.”1
AU_1.15A Fri 09.30–11.00
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. It explores urban form as an outcome of complex consolidating forces by untangling economic, political, social and climatic processes. 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? 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. Further we are discussing historical and contemporary methods of analysis and representation of spatial urban elements and their performance. 1 John Habraken. The Structure of the Ordinary, Form and Control in the Built Environment, Jonathan Teicher (Editor), MIT Press 2000
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ADP CMT ESC HTC GLC THESIS DOCUMENTATION SEMINAR
Seminar MArch Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Christina Condak
AU_1.16 Mon 16.30–18.00
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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Elective BArch + MArch Hannes Stiefel, David Gissen
AU_1.15 Mon bi-weekly 18.15–20.30
LECTURE SERIES SEMINAR
HTC THESIS SEMINAR
CMT
WORKSHOP
This seminar will accompany the lecture series, please refer to page 15 for further description.
Seminar MArch3 Wolfgang Tschapeller
AU_1.16 Mon 18.15–21.15
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 BArch3 Irene Zavarsky
AU_1.15A Wed tba
Presentation Technique: Find Your Style Find your style, master your presentation! We will focus on techniques and methods to improve our presentation style, and maybe even find a way to enjoy presenting and defending ideas in front of others. We will use examples from your own practice and real presentations to experiment with different techniques. The aim is to find tools for everybody that help shape your individual approach to a presentation.
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GENDER LANDSCAPES
Elective BArch + MArch Roswitha Schuller
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AU_1.16 Wed 10.00–11.30
Viewing Landscape as a constitution of Gender The view of the landscape constitutes the viewer’s relationship to nature and thus to socio-cultural power relations. From a variety of perspectives, we now regard landscape as an ecological problem, as a zone of leisure and freedom, as an agricultural area, as an idyll or place of longing, as an allegory. The concept of nature, or naturalness, is problematized in gender studies, in the sense of questioning seemingly natural or existing orders (such as the traditional gender dichotomy). Even the most fundamental problematization of the gender dichotomy begins with the landscape. Consider the Christian topos of the Garden of Eden, and the associated idea of the “natural” man-woman relationship. The supremacy of the masculine view of nature, which began in literary form, over the landscape and thus over the “other” gender continues in the cultural history of landscapes to this day. In addition to the extensively studied relationship between landscapes and power structures, e.g. in the discourse of post-colonialism, a gender studies perspective on landscape is now evolving. In the seminar, we will explore this perspective using examples from landscape design and the visual arts, in a historical outline as well as with contemporary examples.
Lecture Series Uselessness, 2018-2019. Photo: Christina Ehrmann
BLOOM, production shot, Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller, 2011 © Hanakam & Schuller
Auch ich war in Arkadien (I Too Was in Arcadia), Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, before 1801 © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
HITZE TAKES COMMAND semester start
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Introduction week Diploma week Diploma presentation Diploma salon Midterm reviews Diploma week Diploma presentation Diploma 2/3 Final reviews Diploma presentation Rundgang
2–4 October 7–11 October 14 October 28 October 11–12 November 11–15 November 18 November 9 December 20–21 January 22 January 23–26 January
HITZE 1 Lecture Series:
Philippe Rahm Ulrike Lohmann Philipp Blom Nerea Calvillo
1 October 28 October 25 November 2 December
OTTO WAGNER LECTURE
Screening Filmmuseum Wien Keynote Lecture Vandana Shiva
10 November 11 November
EVENTS
Walks and Talks DAY ONE Walks and Talks DAY TWO Walks and Talks DAY THREE Walks and Talks DAY FOUR
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EXCURSION
Australia
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Temporary premises of IKA: Augasse 2–6, 1090 Vienna www.akbild.ac.at/ika arch@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
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Office: Room 1.3.11, 1st floor, core A Gabriele Mayer +43 (1) 58816-5102 g.mayer@akbild.ac.at Ulrike Auer +43 (1) 58816-5101 u.auer@akbild.ac.at Postal address: Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria
ANALOGUE MODEL WORKSHOP General machine hours (380Volt) MON – THU 2pm – 6pm For individual support, please contact: Günther Dreger g.dreger@akbild.ac.at
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Institute for Art and Architecture Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Winter 2019 Chair / Deputies: Wolfgang Tschapeller Lisa Schmidt-Colinet Werner Skvara Editor: Christina Jauernik Proofreading: Judith Wolfframm Design: grafisches Büro