Dia compendium ss15

compendium sommer semester 2015

dessau international architecture GRADUATE school | anhalt university of applied science

welcome

Dear Students,

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DIA welcomes you back to the summer semester and welcome the new exchange students joining us this semster in its Master Program which has taken up speed from having initially 10 students more than a decade ago to now about 220 participants from over 50 countries. It is this multi facetted atmosphere within the course, which is its trademark. And all this is mostly created by you.

As of 2010 the Directory Board at DIA decided to introduce a division of teaching at DIA into a First and Second Year. This is necessary to insure competent and thoughtful teaching at Mastercourse Level at DIA with its 200+ students. This means there is a separate teaching units for the Compulsory Courses for each of the two years with a list of common electives which are offered and open for both years. (First Year = 1st and 2nd Semester and Second Year = 3rd and 4th Semester). This Summer Semester will therefore have approx. 85 Students who are going to finish their Thesis this semester. The First Year will still offer different Studios of choice. Each Studio is limited in size to a maximum of 10 Students.

In the First Year, Studios offered run only over the period of one semester. This should give students a chance to experience different thematic possibilities before focussing on the thesis Year.

I hope you can enjoy your time here in Dessau and take back both a unique academic experience and a valuable degree when you return home. The DIA teaching staff is looking forward to sharing this experience with you.

If you should run into difficulties of any kind and at any time during your stay here, do not hesitate to contact us.

Kindly yours, Prof. Alfred Jacoby, Director DIA

welcome | summer semester 2015

April

May

June

June / July

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29

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Tue

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30 Thesis Finals | Grades

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Wed 1 Introduction | SYMPOSIUM

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3

1 Thesis Finals | Grades

Wed

Thu 2 1st Year Studios Aplications

30

4

2 Thesis Prize Jury

Thu

Fri

1 May Day

5

3

Fri

Sat 4

2

6

4

Sat

Sun 5 Easter Day

3

7

5

Sun

Mon 6 Easter Monday

4

8

6

Mon

Tue 7

5

9

7 1st Year Finals

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Wed 8

6

10

8 1st Year Finals

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Thu 9 1sr Year Studios start

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11

9 1st year Prize Jury

Thu

Fri

10

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12

10

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Sat 11

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Sat

Sun 12

10

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Mon 13

11

15

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Tue 14

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Wed 15

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Thu 16

14 Ascension Day

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Fri

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17 Graduation Ceremony

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Sat 18

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Sun 19

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Mon 20 1st Year studio excursions

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Tue 21 1st Year studio excursions

19 Midterms

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Wed 22 1st Year studio excursions

20 Midterms

24 Thesis Hand-in 3 copies

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Thu 23 1st Year studio excursions

21 Midterms

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Sat 25

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Sun 26

24 Whit Sunday

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Mon 27

25 Whit Monday

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Tue 28

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Wed 29

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Thu 30

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24 1st Year studio excursions

April 1: Semester start with the Courses Introduction and the SYMPOSIUM "Walter Gropius and the Legacy of the Bauhaus" May 19 - 21: Midterm Studio Presentations | June 24: Thesis Hand-in June 30 - July 2: Thesis Finals and Prize Jury | July 7-9 : 1st Year Finals and Prize Jury July 17: Graduation Ceremony

CALENDAR | summer semester 2015

CREDITS & MODULES TOTAL 4 SEMESTER PROGRAM

120 credits

SEMESTER I

30 credits

Studio I

10 credits

Urbanism I

5 credits

Compulsory Module I - Arch. History and Theory I - German Culture and Language I

5 credits

CAD logic I

5 credits

Electoral Compulsory Module I - two electives

5 credits

SEMESTER II

30 credits

Studio II

10 credits

Urbanism II

5 credits

Compulsory Module II - Arch. History and Theory II - German Culture and Language II

5 credits

CAD logic II

5 credits

Electoral Compulsory Module II - two electives

5 credits

SEMESTER III

30 credits

Studio III

10 credits

Urbanism III

5 credits

Compulsory Module III - Arch. History and Theory III - German Culture and Language III

5 credits

CAD logic III

5 credits

Electoral Compulsory Module III - two electives

5 credits

SEMESTER IV

30 credits

Master Thesis

25 credits

Master Colloquium

5 credits

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credits & MODULES | summer semester 2015

COMPULSORY COURSES

Architecture Theory III: Prof. Jasper Cepl

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Urbanism III: Prof. Dr. Andrea Haase

CAD logic III: CAD logic III / FRI shaping behavior project Tutor: Alexandr Kalachev CAD logic III / Den-city Tutor: Prof. Krassimir Krastev CAD logic III / Intro to Digital Fabrication Methods Tutor: Karim Soliman

COMPULSORY COURSES | summer semester 2015

Architecture Theory III Prof. Jasper Cepl

The lecture series will show how reoccurring questions central in architectural thought were interpreted differently at different times in the history of architecture. It thus provides students with an introduction to the wide realm architectural thought. The point is to explain how the reasoning they encounter today relates to the past that it has to come to terms with — sometimes in refinement, sometimes in about-turns, or sometimes in leaps sideward.

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Over the course of history, different arguments originate from different points of view. The aim is to demonstrate that there is not one way to think, but many different ones, some more and some less viable today. The lectures thus want to convey how thinking about architecture is in constant flux. For students of architecture, this means that they need to find their own way of critical thinking about the influences they are exposed to in the architectural world today.

In the lecture series, priority will be given to concepts of form and approaches to design. Being aware of the issues surrounding these topics is the particular responsibility of all those who want to make a thoughtful contribution to our built environment. Topics discussed will include such basic questions as: What is the relationship between construction and form? What does technology mean for the designer?

How does his work relate to society? How can we explain the idea of space in architecture? What is the meaning of place? How can we understand the city? What does it mean to design? And so on. Last but not least, the aim is to disentangle the intricately intertwined aspects named above and to show how they may change their meaning and value within different approaches to architecture.

This time we will specifically focus on the city and its interpretations. There are lots of ways to consider the city, and sometimes they do in fact contradict each other...

We will have a closer look at the different ways the city has been conceptualized through time.

COMPULSORY COURSES | summer semester 2015

Urbanism III Prof. Dr. Andrea Haase

The two-semester course aims to establish a basic understanding of tradition and key-issues of urbanism in Europe and America, from the beginnings of industrial development to date, during the first semester; it enfolds and deepens specific aspects of the tension between global and local influences on urbanism and resulting needs for responding to urban changes during the second semester. Both the semesters are back-boned by considering that global influences of the “worlds of systems” (politics, finances, technology) have to be responded locally by strengthening the urban conditions within the “worlds of living” (housing, working, services, social and economic relationships). Herewith, “spaces of interconnection” are an important perspective to be specified relative to the needs for re-embedding global functions locally into socio-spatial conditions.

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The course-structure builds up a differentiated understanding of the relevance of urbanism and urban design within the discipline of architecture and related fields of the “making professions” (architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, product design).

The offers of content complement each other during the first and the second semester. Whereas the winter semester concentrates on structural conditions, the summer semester applies this knowledge in order to introduce a method to come to concepts by “Creating a location”. The subject of the course is “decoding and designing space – in terms of structure, texture, material”. “Space – is understood as the synthesis of use, image and concept in time and place (s. Lefebvre, H. 1991). The intention of teaching is to enable to anticipate and to conceptualize “space” as syntheses of “values of use” and “values of form”. This way, aesthetic values are taken into consideration in a specific way, closely related to “spatial frameworks” for social and economic processes. The subject focuses on present stages of urban transformation and resulting needs for intervention in terms of completion, renewal, re-structuring or innovation. “Designing space” gains increasing importance for the fragmented agglomeration having to respond to changes at individual locations, competing equally, but with different needs, for investment in central and in “inner” and “outer” peripheral areas.

Exercises in the summer semester will focus on “creating a location” and will be carried out relative to the introduced subjects: The Generic City, What is a “concept”?, Third Landscape- Landscape Urbanism, Open Spaces - Placemaking, Infrastructure – Strategic Urbanism, The Urban and the Rural, Sacred Spaces, Urban quarters – Common Ground”… We contribute to “Liveable cities”.

COMPULSORY COURSES | summer semester 2015

CAD logic III FRI shaping behavior project Tutor: Alexandr Kalachev

This semester’s course will offer students the possibility to choose from one of the following major themes: digital fabrication, robotics and interactive interfaces/ mapping.

The digital fabrication group will deal with issues regarding innovative fabrication processes. The students will have to develop and design a component based material informed canopy. Digital tools and experiments as well as physical mockups will be part of the design routine. The structure will have to be self-supportive and it will have to use cheap building material. Participants will be introduced to sustainable building design software, analytical simulations and structural optimization techniques.

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The robotics group will have to deal with designing and assembling a autonomous robotized machine and/or system serving particular purpose. The aim of the project is to make participants be able to produce their “Own Tool�, as well as introduce them to the open-source electronic prototyping platform. Students will be introduced to basics of computer coding as well as analog/digital electronics. An additional target is seen as to establish ways of bridge interaction between personal communication devices (smart-phones) and electronic entities.

Interactive interfaces/mapping will deal with issues regarding interactive design.

The students will have to design and work with various platforms and mediums in order to create an interactive environment. Students will be introduced to such techniques as -3D Scanning, Mapping, Body/motion tracking using Kinect sensor and data management trough coding within Processing environment.

COMPULSORY COURSES | summer semester 2015

CAD logic III Den-city Tutor: PROF. Krassimir Krastev

More than half of the world’s population live in cities, and this number is rising. Cities grow and constantly transform; space and structure are materialized as a product of dwelling habits and activities – people continuously assembling, bending, breaking, melting, removing and stacking material around themselves.

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Conventional urban planning methods rely on deterministic mechanisms and often fail to adapt to the dynamics and complexity of our multi-layered metropolitan environment. Simulations of environmental, social, economic and demographic fluctuations can be adequately developed with computation, enabling architects to add powerful strategy-evaluation tools to their palette of space-planning methods.

Each student will develop an information model of a dense metropolitan region, as its location and extents are free to choose. This 3-dimensional sketch will contain not only geometry, but also data about resources, economic potentials, environmental pressures, population, infrastructure, etc. resulting in an interactive GIS (geographic information system) model in which energy and material flows, ecologic, economic and demographic gradients are simulated as parametrically linked dynamic layers.

The ultimate purpose of this exercise is to develop strategies for quick, interactive and accurate evaluation of diverse urban planning scenarios, opening up the possibility to foresee today the consequences of our actions tomorrow.

COMPULSORY COURSES | summer semester 2015

CAD logic III Intro to Digital Fabrication Methods Tutor: Karim Soliman

“Architecture continually informs and is informed by its modes of representation and construction, perhaps never more so than now, when digital media and emerging technologies are rapidly expanding what we conceive to be formally, spatially and materially possible. Digital fabrication, in particular, has spurred a design revolution, yielding a wealth of architecture invention and innovation”.

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„Lisa Iwamoto - Book ‚Digital Fabrications, Architectural & Material Techniques‘“ How Designs use digital fabrication and material techniques to calibrate between virtual model and physical artifact is the subject of this course.

This semester, we will explore innovative fabrication techniques in architecture, employing digital tools and technologies such as: sectioning, tessellating, folding, contouring and forming. We will research each of these methods and find the projects that have been fabricated by these methods. We will then work in groups on projects starting from designing and modeling up until the fabrication process.

We will use rhino + grasshopper to create these projects digitally and prepare it for fabrication.

COMPULSORY COURSES | summer semester 2015

1st YEAR STUDIOS SUMMER SEMESTER 2015

01 Studio Akbar: Maximum City. Istanbul: Beyoglu district in transition.

Studio Master Prof. Dr. Omar Akbar 02 Studio Chermayeff & Hönig: NEWTOWN Creek Art Storage Studio Masters: Sam Chermayeff & Tobias Hönig

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03 Studio Jacoby: Moving Mountains - Painting, Sculpting and Building Studio Master Prof. Alfred Jacoby 04 Studio Kalachev: ARGUS Climate Research Station Studio Masters: Alexandr Kalachev 05 Studio Kister: The Prayer and Learning House of Three Religions in Wittenberg Studio Masters: Prof. Johannes Kister 06 Studio Meyer-Grohbrügge: Museum Der Moderne Studio Master Prof. Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge 07 Studio Niebergall: BAUHAUS Museum Dessau – Another Statement Studio Master Prof. Ralf Niebergall 08 Studio Rein-Cano: Seoul Skyway Studio Master Prof. Martin Rein-Cano 09 Studio Soliman: Pop-up Studio Master: Karim Soliman 10 Studio Terragni: After History Studio Master Prof. Attilio Terragni 11 Studio Werner: Excessive Repetition. SYNT[H]ACKS MUTATION Studio Master Prof. Liss C. Werner

1st year studios | summer semester 2015

01 Studio Akbar Maximum City.

Istanbul. Beyoglu district in transition.

Studio Master: Prof. Dr. Omar Akbar

Beyoglu is one of the oldest districts in Istanbul. The centre of the district is Taksim Square und Gezi Park. In recent decades, the area turned more and more to a shopping and tourist centre. Currently part of the historic quarter is demolished for luxury buildings and apartments. The results of these developments are that the present inhabitants (most low income) are forced to leave the area. A radical social and cultural gentrification is taking place. Further more, it is planned to convert the public Gezi Park to an oversized mall. The malls architecture will be a kind of eclectic statement, including different historic styles and ornaments.

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As a result the planned and implemented projects will change the urban and architectural fabric of Beyoglu in a dramatic way. Because of private, partly public and international ownership and interests the very aggressive urban transformation is somehow stopped and modified.

In the context of the studio and based on the current situation in Beyoglu alternative urban and architectural concepts are developed, discussed and presents at the end of the semester.

1st year studios | summer semester 2015

02 Studio Chermayeff & Hönig NEWTOWN Creek Art Storage Studio Masters: Sam Chermayeff & Tobias Hönig

The latest since Corbusier’s Villa La Roche we know that art-storage does not necessarily have to look and function like a warehouse. A good example for this in a larger scale is Herzog De Meuron’s Schaulager nearby Basel. Especially in huge Metropolises such as New York the question for storage that provides space as well as security, easy logistics as well as accessibility to a public/semi-public audience, becomes more and more interesting for institutions, collections and auction houses.

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On a former waterfront cement factory site between Queens and Brooklyn we ask for your proposal for a depository warehouse offering the possibility of managing and storing art collections and other valuables. The site is an impressive 800 plus feet along Newtown Creek with an average depth of more than 70 feet, making every part of the site closely related to the waterfront. Bound by the creek and an underutilized railway the atmosphere is one of serenity despite its close proximity to Manhattan, the bustling high rise district of Long Island City and the growing Greenpoint, Brooklyn neighborhood. The land is around 5.800 square meters with an FAR of two and a buildable area of 11.600 square meters. The project should offer a variety of possibilities, include high-tech art storage facilities offering safe and new ways of expanding collections, meeting rooms and exhibition space.

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03 Studio Jacoby Moving Mountains Painting, Sculpting and Building Studio Master: Prof. Alfred Jacoby

The Engadin Valley stretches over a lengh of 70 km from Scuol to Maloja. With its rugged topography and its settlements of old agrarian villages it has developed a Characteristic Architecture over centuries.

Also, the Engadin has brought out a series of important painters and sculptors. Born in the second half of the 19th Giacomettis lived, worked and discussed together in the upper Engadin Valley around Maloja Celerina, Sils Maria and Bever.

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They were all striving for new forms of expression in painting and sculpting, to represent the beauty and scenic drama of their life within this beautiful environment.

Working between 1850 and 2012, this group of artist mostly dealt with painting the landscapes and scenery of the Engadin, bringing the phantastic world of the Swiss Alps into Art. Although their work is well known - in the case of Alberto Giacometti world famousthe Engadin Valley has no local Museum to show their work.- Every single painter has his own specialised artistic abode.

Keeping with this , the Studio Moving Mountains will prepare and design a Museum for the painters and sculptors of the Pedretti Family, who have their home, and adjacent to it, a small Gallery in Celerina. The Studio is going to visit the Engadin in Excursion Week, which is compulsory for participants of the studio.

1st year studios | summer semester 2015

04 Studio Kalachev ARGUS Climate Research Station Studio Master: Alexandr Kalachev

This semester we want to challenge the students to develop the project exploring the possibilities of creating an autonomous, non-governmental, climate research station. We are interested in experimenting with building construction methods under extreme environmental conditions. The station must function as an observatory, an expedition hub and an experimentation facility. It can be represented as a single entity or be part of a broader network of research units/clusters, performing a modularity study for a future station expansion.

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The program of the station should be following an actual and contemporary debate or research on climate change or the development of new renewable energy resources. In this sense the site will be chosen by the students as the product of an initial research of environmental conditions informing the fabrication methods and building technologies utilized and vice versa. The project must provide flexibility as well as high level of adaptability, which must be reflected in its structure, performance and construction methods. We are interested in design exploration within the field of computational design and robotics as well as the inquiry into the possibilities of creating smart design/organization solutions.

Through the duration of the semester, students will be asked to develop a model of building/structure lifecycle both in digital and physical/ prototypical world, by introducing the theory, the requirements and the design concepts for autonomous adjustable architectural elements of structures or systems in extreme environments.

Our main concern is to minimize as much as possible, aiming the obliteration of Co2 emissions produced by the construction process. Therefore, 3D printing technique as well as non-waste fabrication techniques must be used in order to produce the building and its parts. Through the proposed project we are interested in defining our present as much as our future by experimenting within the field of remote architectural design control.

We want to encourage the students to participate in an active dialogue on the matters of architecture as a self-sustainable entity in terms of energy, but with a direct dialogue with its surroundings and a contemporary global discussion. Creating architectural pieces, as well as associated research studies that will allow students to be up to date with the modern tools, technologies and thinking/experimental processes. We are interested in creating spatial compositions reflecting behavior of matter in natural environment. Students will be asked to create protocols describing processes of building production and its lifecycle, conceiving the project as a process and not as a final output.

1st year studios | summer semester 2015

05 Studio Kister The Prayer and Learning House of Three Religions in Wittenberg Studio Master: Prof. Johannes Kister

In 2017 Wittenberg will celebrate 500 years of Reformation. Wittenberg stand with Martin Luther and other thinkers of his time as Melanchthon or great artists such as Lucas Cranach for the revolution in religious thinking. From how you look at it, splitting the Catholic Church or renewal, a new concept of individual self­responsibility before God, is different. In fact, so that a new era has begun. Today, it seems as if a new way of thinking the together of the religions has moved in. Therefore, just Wittenberg (offside the city of Berlin, where at Petriplatz an interreligious center will be developed) is a place to explore a new dialog in a smaller scale thinking and practice laboratory. At a central site in Wittenberg a new prayer and learning house for Christians, Muslims and Jews is to design. The studio will be accompanied by ‚Dessauer Gespräche‘ on the topic: Sacred Spaces.

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Exkursion: Lutherstadt Wittenberg

1st year studios | summer semester 2015

06 Studio Meyer-Grohbr체gge Museum Der Moderne Studio Master Prof. Johanna Meyer-Grohbr체gge

In November 2014 the state budgetary committee of Germany grants the budget to build a new museum that should host different collections of art of the 20th century to be build at the Culture Forum Berlin. The competition will be announced soon and be one of the most interesting among architects this year.

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The Berlin Kulturforum with its museums, concert halls, libraries and institutes, is among the very important cultural sites of Germany. Many well-known and unique institutions are located here, including the New National Gallery, designed by Mies van der Rohe and the Philharmonie and Chamber Music Hall-home of the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Neue Staatsbibilothek (Berlin State Library) with its sensational reading room and, last but not least, the Gem채ldegalerie.

Despite of its famous and fabulous buildings the Culture Forum is a wasteland caused by urban mistakes in the past and a lack of an overall concept today. The new museum has to stand (up) between Mies and Scharoun but also be able to unite the Cultural Forum and change the atmosphere of the whole area.

This semester we will try to find answers to this difficult urban situation but also concern ourselves with the question of what it means to exhibit today and how this program can or should be connected to the city. We will look at and analyse many different examples of museums in Berlin and on our study trip that leads to famous examples in Denmark and Sweden.

1st year studios | summer semester 2015

07 Studio Niebergall BAUHAUS Museum Dessau – Another Statement Studio Master: Prof. Ralf Niebergall

Right now an architectural competition is running to design a BAUHAUS MUSEUM in Dessau at the edge of the city centre and the city park. One could ask if this is the end of the Bauhaus-idea. Is it possible, to put the claim of the Bauhaus, not only to design products and buildings but having a fundamental impact on the society in politics, economy, culture and everyday life into a Museum- box? How to exhibit a school? How to exhibit the idea of a laboratory of the Modern which still dominates the thinking in the modern movement, going beyond design towards complex solutions that integrate social and natural sciences, high-level technologies and economic visions and demands?

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The studio will trace these questions, integrating your individual experiences with the Bauhaus and the little town Dessau and considering contemporary demands and strategies to convey ideas instead of just displaying objects and history. It is about designing a BAUHAUS MUSEUM that highlights the actuality of the ideas and program, the vitality of the heritage and the importance of the Bauhaus for the contemporary time on about overall 3.500 m² (2100 m² exhibition space). But not necessarily on the same site, not necessarily following the intended exhibition strategies, even not necessarily in one single building. Therefore we call it “another statement”.

You will choose the focus of Your own statement: is it the relationship between Bauhaus and the realities and desires of the city Dessau, is it the relationship between Bauhaus innovation and contemporary visions of the future built environment, or be it the relationship between the Bauhaus approach to a new exhibition design and contemporary opportunities of conveying knowledge and ideas using new technologies, interactive media and considering changing habits in perception. An excursion is not mandatory, but is recommended, to visit some “state of the art” design museums or thematic exhibitions.

1st year studios | summer semester 2015

08 Studio Rein-Cano Seoul Skyway Studio Master: Prof. Martin Rein-Cano

Car centric urbanism of the twentieth century defined progress by the efficiency of automobile flow. The era of designing cities as if car access alone was sufficient however appears to be out-dated. Demonstrated by freeway removal, reuse and reinvention projects in cities around the world, many urban cores are reassessing the often antisocial, redundant and divisive urban highway infrastructure in favour of open space and transportation alternatives. Such urban infrastructural rewrites are cause for bold architectural, landscape architectural and urban engineering visions catered to 21st century needs. This course strives to promote such possibilities and seeks innovative proposals for a disused expressway ramp in the centre of Seoul, Korea.

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The decommissioned 700-metre stretch of overpass sits adjacent to Seoul’s main railway station and was formerly the main east-west artery connecting the central business district with the city’s west. To cope with rapid population growth of the later part of the last century, constructed since the 1970’s, Seoul‘s elevated highways historically dominated the public domain; this overpass was one of a network of 101 elevated freeways. At the forefront of urban freeway revision, Seoul has torn down 15 highways since 2002. The preservation of this central overpass, the “Seoul Skyway” is a diversion from Seoul’s demolition paradigm. The city perspective however is that simple demolition is insufficient to recover the city landscape to its former state, and that more urban space potential lies in the conservation and reuse of the massive structure.

The Seoul Skyway studio asks students to envision new experimental potentials to reclaim the once traffic-ridden urban space for public use. The new overpass design is to respect the engineering capacity of the existing structure and connect to the site surroundings structurally and economically while generating an attraction unique to the city of Seoul. As a tool of urban intervention the proposal should thus contribute to the revitalisation not only of the structure but also of the surrounding neighbourhoods. As a hybrid architectural and landscape architectural studio, proposals are to draw from and blend the strategies and disciplines. The new proposal should established itself as part of the urban landscape comprising the central public space of the Seoul Station will providing amenities and open space cultivating new spacial identity for the city.

1st year studios | summer semester 2015

09 Studio Soliman Pop-up Studio Master: Karim Soliman

“We tend to view architecture as permanent, as aspiring to the status of monument.

And that kind of architecture has its place. But so does architecture of a different sort.”

Allison Arieff, The New York Times; article “it is time to rethink ‘temporary’”.

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Pop-up studio will concentrate on a topic of small scale but of high complexity; to design a temporary structure.Such topic has been always an interesting challenge for architects because of its wide range of possibilities to demonstrate different scientific and technological advancements and more directly shape the future of our physical and virtual environment.

Working with different materials to achieve better structures, using digital fabrication methods to reduce building costs and creating new tectonics that serve our needs of tomorrow; these are some of the challenges that we face today.

Temporary structures are usually created for a specific event. They can vary in size, function and life span. In this semester, we will be focusing on events like World Expo Dubai 2020, Venice Biennale, Serpentine Pavilion, international Automotive fairs (IAA Frankfurt, Paris..etc), Milan Design week, Fashion Houses, Music Festival and Themed Festivals ( Burning Man).

Students will select remarkable temporary buildings and will start analyze them.

Later they will be asked to choose a client and an event where the client will be represented. After an extensive research about both the client and the event itself, students will define a program and design concept for their pavilion. This will be followed by successive research and experimentation to investigate material and digital fabrication techniques in order to deliver their original design proposals.

1st year studios | summer semester 2015

10 Studio Terragni After History Studio Master: Prof. Attilio Terragni

The studio After History will be working in the italian city of Lucca, in Tuscany. Why Lucca? Because Lucca is has been preserved from the global attraction of the last twenty years and has been able to preserve its historical heritage as no one else city in Italy. On the other hand Lucca is looking for a future outside the perimeter of its ancient and completely preserved walls, open to new architectural programs.

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So, what comes after history? After this incredible and fascinating architectural treasure?

Global and international Architecture has always been a practice of reduction of the abundance of the world. During the last decades this process has been transformed into a practice of adding pure volumes into the realm of cities. In the Studio we will try to start our research of urban spaces from the “new abundances” creates by the virtual world of the computer (that is actually a virtual reflection of the real world, a new form of transparences of glasses), so to say to use the infinitepossibility and capability of computer to visualize textures, matrix, unknown languages, all with their own coherence. Instead of a reduction of the empirical world, such as forest, mountains, nature forms that has always been part of them technique of architecture from the antique time, we will attempt to start from the not been of the virtual visions created by the latest technology, a technology that has been changed the world since the late 80 when it became clear it would became the most diffuse way to produce architecture.

The experience of new abundances is not related to any formal experiment happening in contemporary architecture star system, because it will be not formal. It is more related to produce signs and transformation from the one to other able to make us see the complexity of the new “urbanism”. The studio will use some key words to produce possible spaces visualizations... and our client ......will be space and the light. Each students or team will create through a modeling process a city vision that will be shown in Lucca at the end of the semester.

1st year studios | summer semester 2015

11 Studio Werner Excessive Repetition. SYNT[H]ACKS MUTATION Studio Master: Prof. ASSOC. Liss C. Werner

CONTEXT In 1995 Nicholas Negroponte stated that the “The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable”. In 1972 Martin Caidin the author of ‘Buck Rogers: A Life in the Future’ writes the sci-fi novel ‘CYBORG’, which later was adopted for the movie ‘The One Million Dollar Man’, followed by ‘The Bionic Woman’ in 1978. At the same time wearable computers experience their advent, the Internet (at the time ARPANET) is in its first decade and the term ‘bionic’ creeps into disciplines such as medicine, architecture and engineering. While Artificial Intelligence is flouring in the world of hard computer sciences, Frei Otto investigates Natural Material Intelligence for lightweight structures in architecture.

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STATEMENT 20 years after Negroponte’s statement we may claim that atoms and bits will merge and perpetuate further with the rise of smart skin and biological computers. The human body as physical interface to the world has been complemented by smart devices and the Internet; using wireless, invisible, fast data-autobahns. It has excelled itself as communication device between the individual and its physical and virtual environments.

THE PROJECT All disciplines are challenged by a tabula rasa convergence of hard and soft matter, biological computing and the artificial intelligence body in a semi natural world overridden by communication devices alien to nature. CITC VIII investigates architectural and urban transformations and novelty deriving from the body’s modification, where cyborgian and humanoid genes cross; describing a fundamental change of the body’s actual material and its tasks as semi-autonomous communication interface in the local and urban environment, in a macro- and micro-scale. We will hover between the real and the virtual, asking the question, which is what, trying to find common ground between the two. Lost and found worlds of serious coding will meet architectural skills, evolution and imagination. We will analyze current design trends in order to design architectural scenarios for the near future: a) the architecture of communication b) the architecture of urban utopia between material and virtual world c) the architecture of emerging design challenges

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electives 01 Urban Salon: Death and life of urbanity Prof Dr. Omar Akbar 02 Architecture and Migration Dr. Regina Bittner 03 Space and Volume: Sketching and Drawing in Meissen and Dresden Prof. Angelika-Christina Brzóska 04 Disappearing architecture: Architecture as Fiction and vice-versa Prof. Roger Bundschuh 05 Typologies: Past and Present Prof. Jasper Cepl

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06 Walter Benjamin, 50 Cent & The Pharaohs Sarcophagus Sam Chermayeff & Guest Mirja Reuter 07 OldNew: The Practice of Transforming Architecture Prof. Joris Fach 08 Types and places – Open spaces Prof. Dr. Andrea Haase 09 Design Economies Prof. Gunnar Hartmann 10 Design by Algorithm Krassimir Krastev 11 Architecture of Informality_Beyond Slum Prof. Ivan Kucina 12 collect Prof. Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge 13 aaaviary – A Space for music Prof. Peter Ruge 14 Workshop / Competition: Redesign of the Students Café Lucio Rossi and Larisa Tsvetkova 15 Le Café Lucio Rossi 16 After Reading Prof. Attilio Terragni 17 Analogue Digital Computational Prof. Assoc. Liss C. Werner

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01 Urban Salon Death and life of urbanity Prof Dr. Omar Akbar

urbanization . immigration . emigration . overpopulation . densification . depopulation . integration . segregation . gentrification . inclusion . exclusion . growth . shrinking . sprawl . formal . informal . legal . illegal . control . decontrol . urbanity . uniformity . diversity . multi-functional . mono-fuctional . mix-structure . mono-structure . harmony . disharmony . concentric .polycentric . organic . inorganic . regular . irregular . upgrading . marketing . labelling . museumization . commercialisation . construction . deconstruction . reconstruction . dwelling . sheltering . gating . controlling . connecting . disconnecting . etc. etc. etc.

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In the context of the elective literature, films, internet research, and other documents will be discussed and analysed. The final presentation will be in form of an exhibition.

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02 Architecture and Migration Dr. Regina Bittner

The design of an international language of architecture was one of the essential ideas of the Modern Movement. Internationalism was hereby conceived as political project: to overcome the imperial strategies of the European Nation states after the World War I. But the creation of the International Style supported already a narrative which emphasized the spread of modern architecture from Europe to the US by excluding the non-western world. Few modernist prestigious set pieces in India or Brazil has been later on integrated into that narration- but the dominant axes from the West to the South dominated the standard histories of architectural modernism.

This historiography oversees the complex encounters of different cultural modernities in which this projects where embedded and negotiated. Based on the reflection of the problematic conceptions of an “international style” in the first decade of the 20th had and has on the production of architecture. By looking into contemporary ways how a global architecture is produced, the aim is to achieve a deeper understanding of the complexities and contradiction, in which architectural production is embedded. Migration of Ideas, information, people and technologies is the fundamental principle for that contested space of global culture. The seminar examines within three different themes those complex interrelationships: first the “international style” architecture, second the contemporary “ethnopolis” and third migratory architecture. century, the seminar explores the constitutive role that migration.

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03 Space and Volume Sketching and Drawing in Meissen and Dresden Prof. Angelika-Christina Brzóska

The course begins with studying and analysing a 360° panorama, a picture‐ design

by Yadegar Asisi that shows Dresden in the year 1945. After that, we experience a new Dresden 70 years after that time. We will walk the most interesting ways through the city and talk about the planning aspects that formed the existing urban spaces. We will discover exciting parts of Dresden and later also the old town Meissen that is located nearby. Our impressions and ideas will be the inspiration for drawing architecture in Dresden and in Meissen.

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Materials: Students need sketchbooks, pens and pencils as well as a stool.

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04 Disappearing architecture Architecture as Fiction and vice-versa Prof. Roger Bundschuh

The concept of the narrative has a long tradition in architectural discourse. The elective starts with a hypothesis, namely that the concept lies at the very core of what we do: embedding architecture in its social, political and philosophical context is essentially a narrative function.

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The manifestations of this concept, however, are myriad and as sharply divergent as architecture itself. We will look at a number of examples across architectural history and will analyze these to discover links that transcend formal boundaries.

We will look at obvious examples such as the powerful narratives of church and synagogue design, the equally readable historicist attempts of Victorian and “Wilhelminian” architects to connect to supposedly linear narratives, and of course the idealizations of revolutionary architecture in France as well as the idea of the folly and the English landscape garden. Yet, we will also delve into the work of Lebbeus Woods, Archigram, Alexander Brodsky and many others.

The elective is very much an exploratory course that might well result in a realization that the hypothesized connectivity between the narrative qualities surveyed is not, after all, as strong as assumed at the beginning. As the Physicist Richard Feynman once famously said, it‘s about “the pleasure of finding things out”.

The elective will be divided into three parts: A series of lectures by myself to introduce the subject, including some guests who will speak to their own work and/ or research on the subject. This is interspersed with case studies presented by students. Finally, a graphic result will be produced that is then presented at the end of the semester in a small exhibition at an art venue in Berlin. For the presentation we will have guest judges.

Time constraints for the case study and graphic presentations mandate a restriction to a total of 20 participants. Excellent knowledge of the english language is a big plus for this elective...!

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05 Typologies. past and Present Prof. Jasper Cepl

With the growth of cities in the second half of the 20th century, especially in developing countries, new typologies emerged, most of all in the sector of housing. Interventions intended to improve the quality of live in such cities often require close studies of their dominant typologies. This, in turn, requires a better understanding of the meaning of the concept itself. What is the idea of type? To explore its potential one has to be familiar with its historical background.

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The seminar will focus on reading some classical texts, as well as exploring recent research on the subject. It will trace the emergence of the concept over the course of a history of ideas that has, especially since the 19th century, referred to the ideas of type and typology in numerous ways.

Once we are more familiar with the subject, we will have a workshop in which we will jointly compile a research guide to help other students to get acquainted with the subject and find their way through the literature on the topic.

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06 Walter Benjamin, 50 Cent & The Pharaohs Sarcophagus Sam Chermayeff & Guest Mirja Reuter

„The top feels so much better than the bottom / So much better / Ja you’s a window shopper / Mad at me / I think I know why / Jada you’s a window shopper / In the jewelery store, looking at shit you can’t buy“ (50 Cent).

Walter Benjamin is regarded one of Germany’s most important philosophers and cultural critics. In his most reowned work, „The Arcades Project“ („Passagen-Werk“), the (parisian) arcades, the pre- typology to the department store, became flaneuring his object of investigation. The shopping mall „Alexa“ due to its appearance is known as „the pharaos sarcophagus“ among Berliners. The much debated art-decofacade clearly refers to arcades.

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We want to follow Benjamin’s example. Which other references can we investigate flaneur-ing? What could be the meaning of this shopping mall’s spatial setup beyond aesthetical aspects? What was the meaning of „Barbie’s Dream House“ that got constructed for only one summer in Alexa’s backyard? What does a Berlin-City-model in a simulated city tell us about urbanity? Can we become friendly with all the window shoppers there?

Berlin-based artist Mirja Reuter is going to share her knowledge about the interface between flaneur-ing investigation and artistic production with us, as well as her „Alexa-fanaticism“.

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07 OldNew The Practice of Transforming Architecture Prof. Joris Fach

More than half of today’s architectural projects in Europe are transformations. This includes extensions, renovations, additions, reconstructions, conservations, in short, any project that somehow alters existing building stock. Accordingly, architect’s salaries are predominantly derived from projects that deal with old buildings, not new ones. As transforming has become the rule, and building anew the exception, the contemporary European architect is not simply a builder, but a re­builder.

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The course briefly traces the European history of architectural transformations and focuses on a few so called masters and their handling of existing building stock. The record of transformations in the work of modernists Mies and Corbusier, as well as the contemporaries such as OMA and H&deM will be discussed and their approaches to existing matter analyzed.

Additionally, the fact that this year’s Pritzker Prize winner Wang Shu was honoured predominantly for his history­sensitive designs finally shifts the focus eastwards. In a region that currently experiences the realization of the largest volumes of construction worldwide, the Pritzker jury’s commendation of Shu’s work “... His buildings have the unique ability to evoke the past, without making direct references to history” ads a critical outlook to the subject.

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08 Types and places – Open spaces Prof. Dr. Andrea Haase

As architects, we do know prototypes in technology and architecture representing the philosophies and means of making products from different stages of technology, culture and time – no relationship with context needed!. As architects of today, we are interested in holistic approaches to urban growth and shrinking, to spirals of real estate values and, most of all, to the “quality” of space for binding identification –relationship with context needed primarily.

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The theme tackles the question about philosophies and means of making in culture and time, focusing on the aspect of “nature”. The subject is “open spaces, types of “ in the inner and outer peripheries of Dessau and surroundings. in the inner and outer peripheries of Dessau and surroundings. We know, nature is vulnerable, however can be enhanced by culture. Thus, we strengthen this relationship. Culture then does not only refer to function, making and materiality but also, above all, to “meaning”. Thus we put “meaning” into the middle and look for “anchorplaces” binding people to place, i.e. linking the identification of people to images/ realities of “Heimat”, - relative to a range of different types of un-built spaces in the urban/ rural condition. In order to grasp the variety of options in general and in local specifics, we distinguish the following types of open spaces.

Attendance to the conference “Digital Landscape Architecture DLA 2015, June 4-8, Dessau, Germany, is compulsory. Participants need to register online via www.digital-la.de.

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09 Design Economies Prof. Gunnar Hartmann

“The reality for advanced design today is dominated by three ideas: distributed, plural, collaborative. It is no longer about one designer, one client, one solution, one place. Problems are taken up everywhere, solutions are developed and tested and contributed to the global commons, and those ideas are tested against other solutions.” (Bruce Mau and the Institute without Boundaries) While the boundaries of our disciplines are blurring, design economies emerge. These multi-disciplinary practices call for distributed problem solving and require today’s designers to possess a willingness to engage in a process of continuous research and learning.

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The goal is to be an expert coming out of a project, not going in.

The format of the course consists of two parts. The first part will bring into context some of today’s global problems, e.g., the changing climate, the spiky nature of our world’s economy, and the disparity of distributed wealth. The second part will explore ideas and a variety of diverse projects. Students will be asked to investigate the capacities of design in manufacturing, transportation, urbanism, warfare, health, living, energy, markets, materials, the image and information.

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10 Design by Algorithm Krassimir Krastev

A building’s skin is not only its envelope. It is the somatic membrane that separates and at the same time connects the building’s interior to the environment. It filters light, heat, air, moisture and noise transfer between inside and outside. The building’s skin may be interactive with people or environmental forces. The skin’s texture is among the first impressions a visitor gets from a building and defines its aesthetic identity.

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Computation has been embraced by architectural practices, especially when it comes to designing building skins. Since the end of the 90’s a vast variety of computational tools have been developed for paneling, patterning, planarization; analysis of solar gain, light transmission, acoustics, and many more. This semester we will explore the rich palette of existing tools and we will code procedures customized to generate and analyze unique building skin concepts.

The students will develop façade and roof systems for buildings of their choice. The projects are expected to demonstrate both aesthetical and performance-driven qualities. Digital sketches or physical mock-ups of details and interfaces, accompanied with physical or computational simulations of the skin’s performance will aid the design process. Ultimately, analysis and experimentation will lead to the development of computational algorithms to generate complex building skin systems.

Computational Building Constructions This semester is the first of three to explore the applications of computation in design of building constructions, successively developing studies on the topics of Skin, Skeleton and Networks in architecture. Skin refers to cladding, roofs, glazing, etc. the Skeleton is basically a building’s structure, and the Networks topic investigates infrastructural and spatial assemblages of building components.

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11 Architecture of Informality_Beyond Slum Prof. Ivan Kucina

This seminar aims at building up the agenda which purpose is to track the informal processes and to understand its consequences on architecture. Architecture of informality is a worldwide indicator of a widespread non-institutionalized but systematic practice. Academic research on the informal systems can serve as a starting point for proposing changes of the established policies, which would then become an instrument for creating sustainable and convivial living environment.

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Architecture of informality offers remarkable possibilities for redefining professional participation in making architecture more responsive to present conditions. It occurs between distributed and hierarchical systems; innovations are created through conflict and negotiation between individuals and institutions. While building patterns are fairly basic, the complexity that arose from distinctive blends of non-regulated and regulated building operations maintains a time- based character of an emergent system. In nearly all informal buildings, pulsating and flexible structures are achieved, resembling profoundly hybrid spaces. Their potentials provide a ground for cultivating an alternative architectural discourse that confronts official architecture system remaining rigidly attached to the proposition of an autonomous identity of designed object. It takes architecture production beyond the impulse to reaffirm identity and speaks to the very being of others, discovering the world from the perspective of many different people involved in the building process.

Understanding the architecture of informality as a consequence of perpetual interactions between the people questions whether design and building procedures can be shifted from a top-down, immutable delivery mechanism into a transparent, inclusive, bottom-up, and open- ended approach. In this respect, the production of a living space becomes radically incompatible with the idea of object autonomy representing a shift from object-oriented design to a relational space constructed as the domain of communal exchange among its participants. The apparent direction for architects is to influence, steer, and shift the process themselves, which means a change of focus from designing objects to designing programs for navigating the process of social exchange and sharing. Thus, a new methodology and a practice to identify, visualize, and, to a certain degree, predict architectural changeability must be developed.

At the end of semester new knowledge on the architecture of informality will be organized around questions that have been posted at the beginning of the semester.

Production of knowledge and learning thus become a simultaneous activity.

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12 collect Prof. Johanna Meyer-GrohbrĂźgge

Collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

The scope of collecting is unlimited. If something exists, somebody somewhere collects them.

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One psychoanalytical explanation for collecting is that unloved children learn to seek comfort in accumulating belongings; another is that collecting is motivated by existential anxieties – the collection, an extension of our identity, lives on, even though we do not. More recently, evolutionary theorists suggested that a collection was a way for a man to attract potential mates by signalling his ability to accumulate resources.

There is a very basic human need that stands as the basis of collecting—it allows us to cope with trauma. But in the museums of the western world, this notion has often been lost in the struggle to showcase power and wealth. In this elective we want to understand the base of collecting, the logic or non-logic behind it and discover the collector in ourselves. The first half of the semester we will look together at different famous collection and collectors of the world and in the second half make a collection ourselves.

The elective is recommended but not limited to the students of the studio Museum der Moderne.

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13 aaaviary – A Space for music Prof. Peter Ruge

„aaaviary is a hedonistic concert series. It brings sonically overwhelming music to breathtaking spaces. ... Striking visual installation will complete the experience.“ Elective Peter Ruge will cooperate this semester which artistic planners, composers, DJS, graphic and fashion designers to create a space for music. Music is an art form, whose medium is sound. Architecture is an art form, whose medium is material.

How can sound influence material, and material influence form.

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Between Berlin and New York a concert series in both locations will be held. The idea is to plan and realize (built!) a space for music, an aaaviary, where „we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of birds at aaaviary, but it‘s a space where creativity flies”.

Media Partner: www.van-magazin.de

Save the date: First elective: Wednesday, 15th First Berlin concert: Sunday 19th Quotes from Jeffrey Arlo Brown, composer; Picture from Ryan Beppel, composer of April 2015, 11:00 a.m., building 08, Room 004 of April 2015, Berlin, with works by Frey, Pisaro, Beppel

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14 Workshop / Competition Redesign of the Students CafĂŠ Lucio Rossi and Larisa Tsvetkova

The aim of is to find a new interior design focusing on the furniture and lighting of the space as well as a proposal for its external extension in the Summer months onto the Seminarplatz. The newly built wooden seating deck directly across from the Cafe should be taken into consideration as a space serviced by the Cafe.

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Any loose or fixed furniture as well as other proposals of alternative furnishings can be suggested by participants.-This includes for instance chairs, benches, sofas, tables, (book-) or other shelves or other storage item furnishings or any other type of furniture. Alongside the proposal of necessary mass produced furniture participants are asked to provide at least one designed item of choice within the space. Suggestions for lighting the supply of media (wireless etc.) the insertion of screens and / or the alternative use of additional material(s) are welcome.

An intensive workshop in limited to several days and aim to collect ideas for the actual competition.

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15 Le CafĂŠ Lucio Rossi

The aim of this elective is to design and build a prototype for a chair and/or a table for the new design of the students cafe. Students will design and build the furniture that will be in the cafe once its been redesigned. Also other type of furniture like arm chairs or other ideas that will come out of the design will be considered.

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16 After Reading Prof. Attilio Terragni

The icon imagine of the course is the one of memorial I built in Padua, a Book of light and memories, steel structure and pages in aluminium and glass. It represents the Book of architecture, the Book, with a capital B, as the word of French poet Mallarme. During the elective course we will try to build it through the reading of architectural treatises, text and essays. How everyone could build his or her own Book of architecture?

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Architecture seems to need a very particular Book with many faces, two of which would look towards into the obscurity, the aluminium page, the other sparkling with certainty, the glass page. We first see the necessary order of this Book, a book that is architectural and premeditated, and not a collection of inspirations, even marvellous. The future of any architectural project is announced from this operation of the Book, which will, be anything but its own holding back to discovery the very centre of the Book, of its regulated and regulating form.

The solid and transparent pages of the Book of architecture are composed with numerous books, multiplied in itself by a movement unique to it; in which diversity, in accordance with the various depth and space it develops, is necessary perfected.

Is a Book of pure relationships, is a Book without author, something made, being, impersonal, where one occurs without the others, because their relationship could never been elucidated but in our present imagination. A Book is a building that we cannot hold it in our hand.

The Book of architecture has never been and will never be a science. However is a knowledge: a knowledge that inhabits the same city of architecture, music, philosophy and poetry, as an autonomous territory of being and of his knowledge of himself, of which establishing the presence within the space of the architecture that surrounds it.

It is possible to forget everything that one has learned and seen, but the knowledge of a book does not fall into oblivion until its physical destruction. At any time it takes away from the state drowsiness in which inevitably everybody fall during our days repetitive.

We live wandering in a condition of millions of books that has been created an Invisible virtual Cities around us. Lets build the Book of architecture in front of us; make this city visible in our daily routine. to see internal and external morphology of something that has been always with us: then we could walk in that one city that seemed so familiar and measurable, to evolve the sphericity of our person in a walking simultaneously on the highways of the written world and the virtual.

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17 Analogue Digital Computational Prof. Assoc. Liss C. Werner

The elective ‘Analogue, Digital, Computational – Syn[th]acks Mutation‘ is a research elective focusing on THE THEORY AND MAKING OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE DIGITAL

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It acts as a co-requisite to the studio ‘Codes in the Clouds VIII’ and as elective for all other students wanting to extend their knowledge about and skills of the commonalities, differences and tangents of the three. Projects are executed in the two modes “digital” and “analogue”, whereby the outcome is a juxtaposition of the two. We do want to find out how can rule-based operations differ when carried out digitally or analogue, how does the usage of different tools and/or different materials affect the outcome?. We are inventing and analyzing systems, patterns, grammar, syntax and code. Students will learn how to differentiate between, genotypes, phenotypes, algorithmic, parametric, digital, analogue, rule-based, descriptive, mutation, morphology, and so forth.

The elective nourishes individual research on the following topics: - material and operation - material intelligence - structure, geometry and performance - physical computing - hardware and software - cybernetic diagramming - design systems Further three parts are complimenting each other: A smaller part focusing on theory, requiring reading A large explorative practical part, requiring making, a lot !

A constant part using digital tools (GH or Processing) We draw our foundations from the history of digital tools and algorithmic design, the latter ranging back to Al-Khwarizmi, the author of On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, 825 AD and passing Alberti, Gaudi, le Corbusier and Peter Eisenman as well as Doxiadis, Iannis Xenakis and Frei Otto. Rather that focusing on the question of all this ‘digital stuff’ serves a resilient future, we are focusing on the architectural exploration itself. The elective follows a workshop ‘Grammar, Code and Computation’ focusing on platonic geometry.

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