IKA Winter 2015

IKA – LEARN– ING ARCHI– TEC– TURES WINTER 2015

From ARCHITECTURES OF LEARNING to LEARNING ARCHITECTURES Wolfgang Tschapeller

Some years ago, students of architecture from all three architecture schools in Vienna gathered under the umbrella of an initiative that was mysteriously called »ITNOA«. An arcane movement it seemed, yet it was nothing else than a mask, a series of letters hiding the real endeavour which read as »In the Name of Architecture«. »ITNOA« bundled for the first time the different perspectives on architecture and architectural education of the three Viennese schools in one collective project: the IKA as an institute of the Academy, embedded in the Fine Arts, the Technical University representing a rational and technical perspective on the discipline and the Angewandte, establishing the shift of perspective from Fine to Applied Arts.

I was always intrigued by the acronym »ITNOA«. As a word, as an initiative and as an attempt to speak in a certain rhythm and voice, discretely transporting the hidden message »In the Name of Architecture«.

Now, some time and some experiments later, the IKA is embarking on a research project called »NEST«. Another acronym and again a collaboration between different schools of architecture, this time from five different European countries1. »New Schools of Thought« was set up to unveil contemporary and future practices of knowledge production and knowledge transfer in architecture.

At the IKA this research collaboration fuelled a debate on the essence of learning, teaching and researching in the field of architecture. It leads to the fundamental question of whether the dominant institutions in the field — including the IKA itself — are still the appropriate vehicles for achieving the formulated goals.

Is there a need for recalibration? What framework needs to be established to practice architectural research in a contemporary and emancipated process?

If the ideal modes and methods may be found beyond the limits of our institutions then there is a need to conceptualise what it is that challenges the legitimacy of our institutions itself.

To start the journey the faculty of the IKA decided to unite the five platforms of the IKA this semester and collectively »investigate« the topic with all of the students. Both design studios and courses will understand the term »investigated« not only in its narrow meaning of academic research governed by purely scientific principles but as a dynamic, adventurous artistic and architectural investigation. Attracted by both, rigorous thinking and intuitive making, we aspire to explore ARCHITECTURES OF LEARNING — or better still, LEARNING AR1 Together with the University of Liechtenstein, the CHITECTURES. University of Antwerp, the UMEA University in Finland and the Architectural Association in London

IKA – INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE WINTER 2015

Analog Digital Production Construction Material Technology Ecology Sustainability Conservation Geography Landscapes Cities History Theory Criticism

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DESIGN STUDIOS BACHELOR

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CHRISTINA R203b CONDAK / DANIELA HEROLD MON WORKSHOPS: LISA TUE SCHMIDT-COLINET / FRI WERNER 14—18H SKVARA

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Intuitive Trajectories Keeping Up With the Bauhaus

To experiment is at first more valuable than to produce; free play in the beginning develops courage. Therefore, we do not begin with theoretical introductions; we start directly with material [...].

The Bauhaus developed a foundation semester to teach design as a creative

Josef Albers and students in a group critique at Students completing Sol LeWitt wall drawing as part of the Bauhaus Dessau, 1928—29. [The Josef and the exhibition »Linear Thinking« at Middlebury College MuAnni Albers Foundation. © Phyllis Umbehr/Gal- seum of Art. [Photo: Middlebury College Museum of Art] erie Kicken Berlin/ DACS 2012 © Otto Umbehr]

Josef Albers

cross-discipline and through special training. Experimenting with materials and techniques, they thought it possible to judge the student’s aptitude for the study of architecture. Centre to the discussion of design was the concept of space, what it is and how to give it form. This search for something new lead to the invention of analytic exercises that are still the basis of our architecture education today.

This year, our concept for the first semester, is not to copy the Bauhaus foundation course, but to consciously create a studio that encourages an intuitive thinking-through-making process. By setting off small exercise-probes as starting points, either with materials, objects, or abstract images, the students create their own trajectories of spatial investigations. The work is guided by training in constructive thinking and transcriptions with media, i.e., drawing, print making, model making, casting, collage, photography, and wall drawing. The students will experience a process that gives them a feeling for design without a project. We will trace some of the original exercises of Josef Albers, MoholyNagy, Kandinsky, and Klee, exploring the essential lessons.

In order to achieve this open approach to design thinking, the studio, although very structured in its specific tasks, begins without any apparent aim, encouraging an artistic approach to look at the world and loosen any convictions about what we think architecture can be. Over the course of the semester, our spatial constructions will be confronted with issues and influences of an environment, i.e., with gravity or without gravity, or bright light and darkness, air movement or stillness. This will introduce the notion of a site and a space that arises in response to environmental conditions.

This winter term, as part of an educational experiment, students of the first and fifth semester (HTC studio) will work together for brief periods, investigating the principles of education in architecture.

The Weekend Entrepreneurship Collective [Photo: Khan Sultan] The Acropolis of Athens [Š A. Savin]

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MICHELLE HOWARD / LUCIANO PARODI

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The Peripatetic Environment Elemental Interactivity V

One of the greatest changes in spatial thinking in modern times occurred with the emergence of the knowledge worker and the designation of an individual workspace in the 18th Century. This development, in its turn, led to the dominance of the sitting position as the position from which work in the office was carried out. Indeed so important did the sitting position become that the most advanced piece of furniture today is arguably the office chair. For most of that time one’s position in the hierarchy was defined by how little one was compelled to leave ones expensive chair in order to carry out a day’s work (secretaries just outside the door could fetch the coffee and subordinates were summoned). Today, this idea of hierarchy is being turned on its head, not because of any lofty egalitarian ideas but rather increased health consciousness where every walk to the photocopier brings one a little further away from a cardiac arrest. As architects we should be convinced that creativity and productivity are, at the very least, tied in an essential way to the environmental enhancement of one’s physical capabilities and thus, to architecture. Working environments which require of us to remain within a reduced spatial terrain and to assume the same position day in and day out within that terrain, while perhaps being efficient at the level of square meterage per workspace, are not efficient at the level of enhancing intellectual and creative performance.

The creative power of movement New schools of thought very often emerge from very old schools of thought

and this studio begins with the Peripatetic school which was a school of philosophy founded in Athens at about 335BC. Peripatetic originally derived from the Greek word for the colonnades of the Lyceum in Athens, peripatos, and this word also refers to the act of walking. The legend goes that Aristotle liked to walk about as he thought and taught, pausing from time to time under a grove of olive trees, so that his followers, literally then, had to follow him in order to gain knowledge. A field trip to Athens and the Acropolis at the beginning of the semester will allow us to experience and observe those ancient paths for thought. The creative power of movement is central to this studio, not solely because of the possible health benefits involved but more importantly the power movement has to encompass a far greater spatial volume. Far from the famous open-plan which began as a liberation from the stuffiness of the small closed room and ended in the even smaller, even stuffier cubicle, we plead that more productivity cannot be achieved without more space and more spatial qualities. Thus our mission throughout the semester will be to annexe more and more spaces within our range of influence through the use of interventions which not only perform the annexation but allow us to experience them anew.

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WORKSHOPS:

ANGELIKA SCHNELL / ANTJE LEHN

LISA SCHMIDT-COLINET / WERNER SKVARA

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Design the World Keeping Up With the Bauhaus Erziehen ist eine verwegene Sache [...]

Sport at the Bauhaus, 1928 [Photo: T. Lux Feininger]

Johannes Itten

The Bauhaus is an undeniably important part of modern architecture’s history — its utopian program, its aesthetic principles, its pedagogy and many of its teachers and students molded our understanding of modern universal design.

There the idea was born of the individual student as a free and gifted independent personality, he or she should not be suppressed by imitating the »Master« dully and mechanically but encouraged to find their own way, the primary role of the teacher was to light the students’ spiritual fire. This is the great legacy of the Bauhaus and is still the basis for every modern arts and architecture education.

The core of this idea was the foundation course or Vorkurs which became the most influential outcome of the Bauhaus program. Having started as a preliminary course it quickly became the compulsive two-semester one that established the Bauhaus’ reputation. Altogether the Bauhaus had three (four) Vorkurs teachers: Johannes Itten (together with Georg Muche), Lazlo MoholyNagy and Josef Albers. They all had different ideas on how to teach the fundamental principles of forms, materials and light but they all agreed that these principles existed and that they could be intuitively understood.

At the IKA we too understand the first semesters as being those where new students learn the basic principles of materials, of forms, and light while our methods and ideology regarding intuition and talent have evolved. In order to investigate this further we propose that it would be a worthwhile pedagogical experiment to connect the studios of the first semester and fifth semester, and consequently the role of intuition at different stages of the educational process. On the one hand, both studios will examine the basic ideas of the Bauhaus, on the other hand they also will elaborate their differences to our contemporary understanding of the »fundamentals« (Rem Koolhaas) of architecture. This process both re-tells critically the history of one of the most influential architecture schools of the 20th century and contributes a contemporary pedagogical experiment by vertically linking two different semester-groups of students. The two studio groups will work on separate studio briefs with some intersections which allow the first semester students to repeatedly reflect on their work and the fifth semester students to recall their own intuitive design skills.

Lucas Bosch: Gelatin, Kunsthalle Krems, 2011

DESIGN STUDIO + PROJECT SEMINAR WINTER 2015

ERNST J. FUCHS

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R205—7 ADP CMT MON ESC TUE GLC FRI 14—18 HTC H

the NEXT college designing new schools of thought

Gordon Matta-Clark: Conical Intersect, 1975

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There have been a great number of changes within the last twenty-five years regarding tools for communication and transfer of knowledge, as well as the political. How will these changes impact on the future college? Do we still need auditoriums? Does the college need a building at all? Does the spatial concept for »the NEXT college« resemble a kitchen, a hotel, or a church more?

What spaces are now missing?

Hypothesis: The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna — a building completed in 1877

by Theophil Hansen — is to be declared an extra-terrestrial open zone for art and architecture, independent of state control.

Institutes and academic disciplines are to be dissolved. Courses no longer have objectives, while a new form of communal life is to stimulate the imagination of »the NEXT college«. An initiative born from an approach where everything is possible, and can start anew.

In a first phase of collaborative research staff and students engage critically with the status quo of the academic curriculum and the spaces at the Academy and then formulate their desires in this context. In the second phase the material collected and studied will be confronted with the world of imagination, individual ideas, fantasies and visions of what »the NEXT college« could be. Aware of what it was and is, eager to represent what it should be; the subsequent development of individual projects aims at replacing or rebuilding the existing Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. At the end of the semester, students present their results in the form of architectural manifestations (be it a building or agglomerations of buildings) together with a social vision that informs us about users, spatial tools, and desired interaction.

In the accompanying project seminar, students engage with exemplary design methods and explore their transformative potential in the mutual interplay between analogue and digital tools.

To further enrich the studio, teaching models (e.g. Black Mountain College, Cooper Union) are discussed while an extended faculty contributes different fields of expertise. Additional theoretical inputs from philosophy and cultural studies are intended to add even more inspiration, pleasure and »irrationality« — ingredients to fill the open zone and to conceptualise a daring vision of »the This studio will be undertaken in close collaboration and exchange with NEXT college«.

IKA’s other MArch studios. Reading List: Robert Pfaller: Ästhetik der Interpassivität, Fundus Reihe, Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2008 / Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress, Continuum, London New York 1974

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HANNES STIEFEL

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Comfortable House in the Metropolis, Peter Wilson, 1978 The Tower of Winds invaded by Ninjas, collage, Peter Wilson, 1989

Ambiguous Environments Designing about architecture

So might we begin by asking what message would you convey to the young architect and architecture student?

GM: Look, the important thing is to know nothing.

[Giovanni Michelucci, in conversation with the editors of Perspecta 27, 1989]

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When Toyo Ito, as the juror of the 1988 Shinkenchiku Competition, appropriated Peter Cook’s competition brief, Comfort in the Metropolis, from a decade earlier, and when in turn Peter Wilson appropriated the site of Toyo Ito’s Tower of Winds in Tokyo for his own contribution to that competition, a promising case study was set up. A case study with regard to questions about the relational origins of an architectural project, its potential roots in an inspiring academic and educational environment, and the formative aspects of an architect’s critical mind in general.

Peter Wilson’s winning entry formulated a highly speculative and truly poetic project on the physicality of architecture and the ephemerality of the then contemporary city: a call for the discussion of environmental issues by means of architectural design.

One component of the project was the Glove, or Ninja. This »boxless black box« borrowed its shape from an object found at a beach. It reminds one — due to its natural heritage, its otherness and stunning beauty — of the objet ambigu in Paul Valéry’s dialogue Eupalinos ou l’architecte. Valéry introduces us to a young Socrates who is torn between the urge to describe and classify the mysterious object he has found (and thus relate it to the sciences), and the alluring delight to enjoy it aesthetically (and thus placing it in the field of the arts). This balancing act on the ridge between the humanities and the natural sciences is one of the crucial constants in architectural education throughout cultures and time.

Both of Peter Wilson’s contributions to the topic Comfort in the Metropolis (1978/ 1989) are clearly anchored in their times — and firmly rooted in the milieu of the Architectural Association in London during Alvin Boyarsky’s era as chairman: an influential place of radical investigation, where young architects like Koolhaas, Tschumi, Krier, Cook, Hadid, Wilson, Coates and Salters were teaching and studying.

As part of the studio we will look closely at buildings, teachers and schools — famous and unknown, certainly auspicious. We will try to understand in what sort of environments seminal work could emerge. We will design towards contemporary forms of such environments and we will ineluctably call for an, as yet, unknown change of paradigm in architectural practice and teaching, an intensified investigation of other spaces and thus of concepts of diversity and This studio will be undertaken in close collabora- difference. This is the future of an architecture upon which some tion and exchange with IKA’s other MArch studios. of yesterday’s exceptions have already cast their shadows.

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Eye muscle surgery [Source: wikipedia.org]

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KATHRIN ASTE

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R205—7 ADP CMT MON ESC TUE GLC FRI 14—18 HTC H

embodiment of a hypercontext academy on site

SimCity

Middle part of the Triptych ìGarden of Earthly Delightsî HieronAnatomical studies; Leonardo da Vinci [Source: pinterest.com] ymus Bosch, 1500 + Constant: Symbolische voorstelling van New Babylon, 1969 © Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

Architecture — like art — requires an approach akin to experimental research.

Following Albert Einstein who said that »Imagination is more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited«, our studio understands research in architecture as the creation of knowledge through the imagination.

Ever since the Academy of Fine Arts was established in the 17th century it was a place where interdisciplinary research could blossom. It was a place that both perpetuated and gave discipline to the ability of imagination. As one research unit confronting the overarching semester theme, Architectures of Learning — Learning Architectures, our studio will explore the educational landscape of the Academy, designing within the hypercontext of a centuries- old institution, the history of its building, its institutes, its protagonists and their teaching ideologies.

We ask to which extent such a specific environment has influenced and continues to influence the positions and perspectives of generations of architects and artists. We will barricade ourselves into the premises of the Academy until we have uncovered and disclosed the secrets of this place.

Exemplary for one of these hidden places, is the old dissecting theatre on the lower ground floor, a completely preserved »Theatrum Anatomicum«. Less prestigious but equally important is the life-drawing room positioned on the opposite corner of the same level. In so doing, the architect of the Academy, Theophil Hansen, placed the study of life and death in opposition to each other thus creating an inner tension within the foundations of the school. Already in the days of Leonardo Da Vinci anatomical representations were an important part of the academic discourse, illustrating the human quest to understand the functioning and symbiosis of different parts of the body and their movements. At the academy both spaces bear witness to the extension of such a quest into the artistic realm. They are testimony to the study of the body and emphasise the importance of the study of the relationship between internal structure and external form.

It is the aim of the studio to study and portray such intersections between difThis studio will be undertaken in close collabora- ferent fields of knowledge, to analyze the complex interplay tion and exchange with IKA’s other MArch studios.

As part of the program academy on site is expand- between disciplines, between art, sciences and architeced by academy on tour – a field trip to the Venice ture, taking the spaces of the Academy as the starting point.

Art Biennale.

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PROJECT LECTURE WINTER 2015

PHILIPP SOEPARNO

B1

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R203a THU

11 30—13 H

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Common Denominators

Drawing, 3D Modelling and Geometry

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

SEMINAR WINTER 2015

MORITZ HEIMRATH / ADAM ORLINSKI

B3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R203a THU BI-WEEKLY

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Analytical Simulation and Scripting

Architecture is a dynamic discipline that has tended to increasingly merge with others such as mathematics, programming, engineering or fabrication and has the potential to become a more speculative and experimental field encouraging prototypic explorations. Students will explore how new digital approaches to architectural concepts can be developed. The main focus of the course will be on applications that feed on numeric information and create forms through assigned rules. Students will manoeuvre between top-down (preconception) and bottom-up (generated, manipulated, simulated) operations. They will learn how to analyse different physical performances (e.g. structural behaviour, or light impact) and simulate self-emerging events in a digital environment by means of parametric models. The digital experiments will result in a series of 3D printed structures that capture the topics of the seminar. The general aim of the course is to understand the performative properties of models in digital space.

SEMINAR WINTER 2015

WERNER SKVARA

R203a THU

9 30—11 H

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B3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

3D Modelling and Animation II

The course aims to significantly advance the students’ digital modelling skills. It introduces them to advanced modelling techniques for the development of complex geometries. Focusing on image processing and rendering, it explains relevant principles of human perception and cognition and the implications of abstraction versus photorealism.

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WALTRAUD INDRIST

B5

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R209 WED BI-WEEKLY

16—19

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Visual and Verbal Communication

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

LECTURE WINTER 2015

WERNER SKVARA

R203a FR

9 30—11 H

H

M1

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Advanced Introduction to Analogue Production, Digital Production The course introduces state-of-the-art modelling applications and advanced animation. It gives students an understanding of simulation techniques, new tracking technologies and fabrication methods. The fluid transition from one software application to another is a central concern.

SEMINAR WINTER 2015

DOMINIK STRZELEC

M3

ADP CMT ESC GLC WED 13—14 30 HTC R203a

H

generative-hand-made

Algorithms in Architecture

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

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PETER BAUER

B1

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R211a THU

Building Structures I

14—15 30 H

In these lectures we learn about fundamental structural concepts. We study simple linear elements like beams and cables, and derived structures like frames, truss-works and cable-beams.

We investigate actions on these design elements, the materials of which they are made of, and discuss the need of safety-concepts. Further, we will study several digital methods of analysis, improving our command of the Rhino and Grasshopper modelling programs. These tools will be used to examine structural fundamentals by means of parametric modelling.

PROJECT LECTURE WINTER 2015

JOCHEN KÄFERHAUS

B3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R209 FRI

Building Physics I

9—10 30 H

Building physics – often considered a dry course by architects – is a fascinating scientific investigation into how materials transfer heat, air, noise and light. The lectures explain how to protect against humidity, heat loss, unwanted noise and, importantly, against fire in a building. Every architect should have basic knowledge of a building’s physics in order to create them and to treat their inevitable deterioration.

PROJECT LECTURE WINTER 2015

JOCHEN KÄFERHAUS

Building Services I

R209 FRI

10 30—12 H

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B3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The quality of a building is determined, not only by its design, but also by its services. They supply the building with fundamental resources such as water, air, or electricity and help to dispose of a building’s waste. They are an integral part of the architectural planning process. In order to achieve a useful, functioning and sustainable building, services need to be considered in the design process from the very beginning. Knowledge of both recent technological developments and tried and true older systems is vital in order to evaluate the best system for the given task. Only in this way can low investment and running costs of buildings be achieved – an aspect that nowadays is more important than ever in the design process.

PROJECT LECTURE WINTER 2015

CHRISTOPH MONSCHEIN

R209 WED

9 30—11 H

Building Technologies II

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B3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

This course deals with interior finishes, building envelopes and technologies. Through the analysis of architectural precedents, students learn to develop a culture of detailing and obtain an understanding of the logic of technical problems. By exploring basic architectural elements students learn about the interdisciplinarity of architecture, a skill essential for the implementation of an architectural idea.

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SEMINAR WINTER 2015

R209

JOCHEN KÄFERHAUS

FRI

Building Services II

12—13 30 H

B5

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Building services are an integral part of sustainable buildings. These discussions deepen students’ knowledge of intelligent housing services and electronic systems. They demonstrate how one can increase comfort in a building while reducing the consumption of energy and material.

The seminar will focus on smart planning strategies for office buildings and low energy consumption buildings and will discuss different kinds of ventilation systems as well as the latest developments in the field of integrated housing services.

LECTURE WINTER 2015

MICHELLE HOWARD

R210 TUE

9—10 30 H

M1

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The Shaping of Construction and Technology by Materials

Advanced Introduction to Construction, Material, Technology

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

SEMINAR WINTER 2015

THOMAS SCHWED

R209 THU

10—11 30 H

Professional Practice II

M3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The lecture introduces professional and legal topics relevant to the practice of architecture with a focus on the construction phase. We will analyse the complex process of the implementation of a building including the detailed planning of construction work, construction supervision, and the project management of the construction phase. We will investigate the process of construction work by means of concrete examples and site visits. Furthermore, we will discuss the objectives of a building phase, building laws and regulations, building standards and building calculations in relation to the design process.

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CHRISTINA CONDAK

R211a FRI

Time in Architecture

12—13 30 H

B1

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

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.

WINTER 2015

HANNES STIEFEL

Ecologies I

R211a TUE

10—11 30 H

B3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

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

Penguin Pool, London Zoo by Tecton / Berthold Lubetkin (1934), 1951

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R211a

GOLMAR KEMPINGER-KHATIBI

Forever Young?

THU

12 30—13 H

H

Conservation I

B5

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

»Buildings and towns enable us to structure, understand, and remember the shapeless flow of reality and, ultimately, to recognise and remember who we are. Architecture enables us to place ourselves in the continuum of culture«. Juhani Pallasmaa The lecture courses Conservation I & II deal with theoretical and practical aspects of modern conservation. They explain the meaning and importance of cultural and natural heritage today, the fields they cover, and the values and definitions they relate to. The courses provide an overview of the field’s history, its significant movements and international guidelines and institutions. The practical part looks at the interaction between the building systems, materials, their surroundings and causes of deterioration. It discusses sustainable retrofitting and also looks at management issues. The application of theory in practice will be shown by analysing case studies, short excursions and visiting exhibitions. Occasional guest lectures will round out the program.

LECTURE WINTER 2015

PETER LEEB

R211a THU BI-WEEKLY

16—19

H

M1

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Advanced Introduction to Ecology, Sustainability, Conservation

Ecology, Sustainability, and Conservation are an important part of a humanistic groundwork of architecture and this course presents issues currently debated in the field. It introduces contemporary lines of thought to issues such as, nature, energy, mobility, economics, community, food, material, construction, life style, resilient practices and cultural heritage. Their influence on architecture, in theory as well as in practice, will be subject to critical reflection. Strategies of adaptation and mitigation will be discussed and supported by references to current conceptualised and built examples, publications and case studies. The course provides the students with a deeper understanding of our systemic predicament and suggests methodologies for detecting such interrelated problems. It also provides a means of evaluation of this complexity, and indicates future potentials.

SEMINAR WINTER 2015

KATHRIN ASTE

R209 TUE BI-WEEKLY

11—13 30 H

M3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Observing – Absorbing – Composing Landscape Urbanism a seminar in three parts

Part I »Observing« of the seminar series will deal with the subject of landscape observation.

This observation focuses on the urban landscape, the cultural landscape and the natural landscape. Of special interest are the conditions on the fringe of metropolitan areas, where the amalgam of landscape, housing, industry and infrastructure transgress the former ideas of the city.

Methods and ways of observing the landscape are analysed and their potential for the architectural design process explored. In that way observation is understood as an act of selection. What we recognize is therefore constituted by both, mind and creativity.

The aim of the seminar is to mark the beginning of a research project and thus, forms the basis of a research proposal. Fundamental to the seminar is an interdisciplinary exchange between teachers and students of the IKA as well as experts from other research disciplines.

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LISA SCHMIDT-COLINET

Urban Form and Analysis

R211a FRI

9 30—11 H

H

B1

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

How and why did cities take their shape? How do they change and evolve? The course initiates students into an understanding and analysis of cities and explores urban form as an outcome of complex interactions between consolidating forces and conditions. It also investigates cities on a morphological and physiological level, explains their development and process of constant transformation, their different organisational layers, and the scale and grain of urban fabrics. We study the city in relation to its environment and surrounding lands. How were boundaries defined in different eras? How does this relation change once physical and visible borders dissolve? View a city from a distance, thus discovering their fabric, is as important as immersive perception. While discussing historical and contemporary examples of city analysis, the course offers students tools for the analysis and representation of morphological elements of the city where several sessions of directed »fieldwork« allow the application of this new found knowledge.

LECTURE WINTER 2015

CHRISTIAN TECKERT

R211a WED BI-WEEKLY

16—19 30 H

B5

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

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

Photo: Christian Teckert

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.

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LECTURE WINTER 2015

CHRISTIAN TECKERT

R211a THU BI-WEEKLY

M1

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

16—19 30 Cities as Urban Laboratories between Research, Intervention and Utopia H

Advanced Introduction to Geography, Landscape, Cities

Demo in Traiskirchen, 22.7.2015 [Photo: Gabu Heindl]

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 WINTER 2015

GABU HEINDL

Racism / Refugees / Right to the City

R209 MON

10—13

H

M3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Cities, Growth, Politics and Power

Europe is currently facing a wave of immigration which it has chosen to fight by building a fortress. Refugees are dying at European borders and are suffering from insufficient aid and shelter within many of its countries and cities, certainly in Austria. We will study how urbanism and architecture has been and is currently confronted and involved with the worldwide phenomenon of migration. We will look closely at modes of spatial exclusion and inclusion as well as fortification, and at the spaces for those who have fled their countries for economic, political and human rights related reasons. This involves discussing practices and possibilities of solidarity both from within the practice of architecture such as mapping and making visible through drawing and from civil practice such as supporting equal spatial rights or other aesthetics of resistance. Basis for discussions within the seminar as well as the required student papers is a close reading of texts about the spatial politics of (im)migration societies as well as audio-visual images and activist projects.

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PROJECT LECTURE WINTER 2015

B1

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R211a

ANGELIKA SCHNELL

Architecture History I — Premodernism

WED

10 30—12 H

H

Leon Battista Alberts Zeichnung der Zentraleprspektive.

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.

LECTURE WINTER 2015

LUCIANO PARODI

R209

Vestiges of Ideas and Material Agnosticism THU

13—14 30 H

B3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

History and Theory of Technologies

The course surveys the history of construction technology while highlighting the mutual relationship between cultural developments and technological innovation and their subsequent impact on architecture. It traces the process of material innovation to the developments of prototypes and the implementation of norms. This semester we will focus on the production of details and their immanent discourse. Details will be used as source of knowledge and as historical documents highlighting the technical and cultural framework within which architecture was produced. The links and the metamorphoses between the imagined, the drawn, the constructed and the published detail will be closely scrutinized.

PROJECT LECTURE WINTER 2015

AUGUST SARNITZ

R209 WED

14—15 30 H

B5

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Historiography of Architecture

Historiography is discussed as a differentiated notation of historical realities and developments.

Institutions, theories, and authors are presented within their social-economical-cultural context as a basis for an architectural discourse and the various contexts for architectural development will be discussed.

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PROJECT LECTURE WINTER 2015

AUGUST SARNITZ

History of Theory

R209 THU

17—18 30 H

B5

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

This course discusses how architectural theory is related to the production of the built environment. Different theories – mainly of the 19 th and 20 th 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.

WINTER 2015

AUGUST SARNITZ

M1

ADP CMT ESC GLC WED 15 45—17 15 HTC R209

Advanced Introduction to History, Theory, Criticism H

H

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.

The Roman antiquities, t. 1, Plate IX. Aurelian Walls, Giovanni Battista Piranesi

LECTURE

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ELECTIVE MICHELLE COURSE — HOWARD WORKSHOP WINTER 2015

Underscapes

PORTUGAL

AUGUST 29 — SEPTEMBER 4

BM

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

Workshop in Loulé, Algarve, Portugal

The rock salt mine of the city of Loulé, on the Algarve in Southern Portugal, was first opened in the late 1850s and extends to 140 metres below ground level. The salt mined there was both used to conserve the products exported and as an export product itself. The task is to propose new ideas and new uses for the rock salt mine which recognise its existing qualities, reveal new connections to the city and promote its further development. Five students each from 6 cooperating European schools will meet in Loulé for this week-long intensive workshop.

The other schools are: Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, Portugal Instituto Superior Agronomia de Lisboa, Portugal Universita Iuav di Venezia, Italy Escola d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, Spain Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

ELECTIVE HANNES COURSE — STIEFEL SEMINAR WINTER 2015

Future Lectures

BM

ADP CMT ESC GLC NOVEMBER 30 HTC

TBA EVENT: ATELIERHAUS, LEHÁRGASSE 6—8, 1060 WIEN

Tape Melbourne [Photo: Numen/For Use]

Concept by: Clemens Aniser, Anna Krumpholz, Fabian Liszt, Manuela Mandl, Jiri Tomicek This seminar investigates the social aspects of sustainability within contemporary societies under constant reconfiguration and reconstruction. How does, could and will spatial development and architectural culture reflect existing and emerging social conditions in diverse societal contexts? It lays the groundwork for an interdisciplinary public discussion which is organized in collaboration with Forum Umweltbildung (Forum for Environmental Education), an initiative of the Austrian Federal Ministries of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, and of Education and Women’s affairs. The 2015 Future Lectures will take place at three locations: the FH Wieselburg, the University of Klagenfurt and at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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SEMINAR WINTER 2015

CHRISTOPH KATZLER

B3

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

TBC TBC

TBC

Super Light Spatial Structures

Workshop

This workshop will be held by Christoph Katzler, part of the art collective Numen/For Use, and will commence with a description of the development of several of their walk-in installations. On the basis of this introduction, the workshop participants will develop a light spatial structure.

Students may reinterpret existing low tech working methods or invent simple new ones to create interesting and unique shapes. The design will be developed and tested in several scales by means of models and computers will not be used. The workshop is conceived as a fast and intense design exercise and offers the possibility to develop, materialise and test ideas on the basis of several models in a very short amount of time.

SEMINAR WINTER 2015

WOLFGANG TSCHAPELLER

M

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

R210 MON

Thesis Seminar

18 15—21 15 H

H

The Thesis Proseminar offers seminars and guidance to independent student research which should result in the comprehensive development of their thesis proposal. The course provides general instruction in the definition, programming, and development of a thesis project. Students will prepare their thesis proposal by specifically defining a question, developing a working knowledge of related research in that field, and producing an architectural hypothesis. The collected work of the Proseminar will provide the necessary materials for the subsequent semester’s design experimentation, testing, critical appraisal of the hypothesis and eventual thesis project. The thesis argument will ultimately couple the specific resolution of an architectural proposition with the response to a larger question within architectural discourse.

SEMINAR WINTER 2015

ANTJE LEHN / LISA SCHMIDT-COLINET

R210 TUE BI-WEEKLY

13—16

Thesis Documentation

H

M4

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

The course focuses on the representation and documentation of the thesis project. It challenges the students to develop their theses through a continuous process of oral articulation, writing, drawing and documenting, and enables them to formulate and structure their proposal. As the final synthesis of the graduation project, students submit the thesis documentation in the form of a book, putting forward their thesis. It presents their hypotheses and methodology, includes research material, the process of production, and documentation of the final thesis project.

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DOCTORAL STUDIES

D

Doctoral Studies (Dr. techn.)

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 design 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.

There is no application deadline and no admission fee.

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

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DOCTORAL STUDIES

Current Dr. techn. candidates at IKA

D

Anamarija Batista: KlangkünstlerIn als RaumplanerIn – ein Blick auf die Kooperation zwischen künstlerischer und urbaner Praxis (supervisors: Diedrich Diederichsen, Angelika Schnell) Waltraud Indrist: Hans Scharoun – Eine humanistische Entwurfsmethode? (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) Solmaz Kamalifard: A Study of Natural Lighting in Interior Spaces as a Human-Space Interaction Stimulus (supervisor: Michelle Howard) Michael Karassowitsch: The Goal in Architecture: The Essential Mutual Claim of One Another of Architecture and Spirituality (supervisors: Elisabeth von Samsonow, Wolfgang Tschapeller) Esther Lorenz: The City as Mass Media Angelika Schnell)

(supervisor:

Mahsa Malekazari: Dancing to the Tune of Light.

An investigation into ascertaining discrete visual conditions through the active behaviourof the occupants (supervisor: Michelle Howard) Holger Schurk: Theorie, Form und Geometrie im Entwurf.

Die Projekte von OMA/Rem Koolhaas zwischen 1989 und 1992 (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) Eva Sommeregger: Ways in which to Draw Where Eye Am? Performing Topography (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) Christian Tonko: Engineering the Creative Process.

A comparison between the office work of OMA/AMO and Olafur Eliasson (supervisor: Angelika Schnell) Jie Zhang: An Interpretation of the Renaissance in Post-war Italian Modern Architectural Discourse (supervisor: Angelika Schnell)

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LECTURE SERIES WINTER 2015

NIC CLEAR

R211a MON

19

H

BM

ADP CMT ESC GLC HTC

A Strange Newness Utopian Urbanism and Science Professorship for Research in Visionary Cities Fiction Endowed in collaboration with the City of Vienna

When discussing Science Fiction and Architecture it is usual to look at the architecture in Science Fiction and in particular the architecture in Science Fiction films. In this series of lectures that relationship will be reversed and it will be the Science Fiction in Architecture that will be discussed. The lectures will map out an alternative reading of a number of architectural movements and projects where the work will be viewed explicitly as science fiction.

The definition of Science Fiction that is being used relies on Darko Suvin’s conception of the »novum«. Suvin contends that Science Fiction should contain an »exclusive interest in a strange newness, a novum« that distinguishes it as »an alternative to the author’s empirical environment«. The intention of these lectures is to make an explicit connection between the genre of Science Fiction, as a system that uses conceptions of newness and alterity and examples of visionary architectures. However, it is not solely technical considerations that can constitute a novum, it can also include the social and political dimensions of the project that the architect is trying to imagine.

It could be argued that Architecture has lost its desire to try and create a better society, it has at most contented itself with the idea of creating a slightly less worse society, for some. The technologies that promised liberation and emancipation have been replaced by technologies that deliver buildings that are more uniform in terms of programme and procurement and in many cases are more culturally regressive despite having a superficially futuristic appearance.

We are clearly at a moment of great technological change, one hundred years ago it was architects who were imagining how the technologies of the industrial revolution might impact on our cities. Currently the most interesting speculations on what forms a whole range of technologies from nanotechnology, synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, to augmented and virtual reality might take are being developed in Science Fiction. Architects have to stop thinking about what architecture was, and what it is and look forward to what it could be.

Nic Clear is Head of Department of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich, where he also teaches a postgraduate design unit that specialises in the use of film and animation in the generation, development and representation of architectural spaces. Nic is particularly interested in the intersection between architecture and Science Fiction. He edited an edition of AD titled Architectures of the Near Future and has written the Architecture section of the Oxford Handbook to Science Fiction.

Nic Clear: GoldMine. A composite plan [Š Nic Clear]

WINTER 2015

KICK OFF / SEMESTER START: DIPLOMA PRESENTATION: MIDTERM REVIEWS: FINAL REVIEWS: EVENTS:

LECTURE SERIES:

A STRANGE NEWNESS

LAST WEEK OF

1 2 LECTURE 3 LECTURE 4 LECTURE 5 LECTURE LECTURE

SILVER LININGS. 12 UNIQUE APPROACHES TOWARDS ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTATION.

FUTURE LECTURES

[ATELIERHAUS DER AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE]

RUNDGANG 2016

for more information about courses and updates see: https://campus.akbild.ac.at for general inquiries please contact: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Schillerplatz 3 1010 Vienna Austria www.akbild.ac.at/ika Office: Ulrike Auer

R213 2 nd Floor +43 (1) 588 16—5101 / u.auer@akbild.ac.at Gabriele Mayer +43 (1) 588 16—5102 / g.mayer@akbild.ac.at

12.10.

9.11.

23.11.

7.12.

11.1.

EXHIBITION:

10.10.

9.—17.10.

SYMPOSIUM:

30.11.

SYMPOSIUM:

[ATELIERHAUS DER AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE]

1.10.

12.10.

23.—24.11.

JANUARY

21.—24.1.

Institute for Art and Architecture – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Winter 2015 Head of Institute: Wolfgang Tschapeller Editors: Hannes Mayer, Julia Wieger Design: cyan berlin Printed in Austria by REMAprint

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