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Analog Digital Production Interaction Sustainability Cultural Heritage Construction Island Technology Geography Cities Landscapes Petroleum History Theory Museum Routes

Design Studios 3–8 All Platforms CMT HTC BArch Courses 9–15

Forest Intimacy Play Material Ecology Ocean Criticism Crisis

MArch Design Studios 17–20 ADP GLC MArch Courses 21–24

Appendix Electives 25 Doctoral Studies 26–27 Research Projects 28 Lecture Series 29–31 Calendar / Labs 32

Preview Winter 2022

A...kademie der bildenden Künste Institute for Art and Wien Architecture Institut für Kunst und Architektur

Institute for Art and Architecture Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Winter 2022 / 23

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Chair / Deputies: Schillerplatz 3 Wolfgang Tschapeller 1010 Vienna Christina Condak akbild.ac.at / ika Lisa Schmidt-Colinet arch@akbild.ac.at Editor: Christina Jauernik Proofreading and Translation: Judith Wolfframm

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Interaction Play

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Bodyspacemotionthings* Daniela Herold Luciano Parodi

People interacting with »Body Space Motion Things« by Robert Morris, an installation at Tate, 1971. Photo: Robert Morris, Copyright: Tate (Simon Wilson) © Bildrecht, Wien 2022

In 1971 the artist Robert Morris displayed a series of interactive sculptures at the Tate Gallery in London. Morris was interested in the relation between an artwork and the physical appropriation of its viewer. He installed sculptures like ramps to walk on, spheres to balance on, or constructions to climb in order to challenge interactions between object and body. Through this involvement and reception by the visitors, the objects were no longer sculptural forms, but rather spaces exhibiting atmospheric conditions that could be experienced and felt. The exhibition became so popular that it had to close after four days because not only did the objects break from intensive use, but people also hurt themselves. At the time, the concept of interactive art was new. The audience was ready to be engaged, but did not know how, and the museum was * Title of an exhibition at the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2009, restaging interactive sculptures by the artist Robert Morris originally shown at the Tate Gallery in 1971.

not prepared for this kind of participation, despite providing accompanying instructions for how to use each sculpture. In 2009 the exhibition, including almost all of the objects, was set up again at the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. This time, constructors were involved not only to retain the original forms, but also to ensure safety during use. In the meantime, an awareness had developed that a work of art places immediate demands on the body of a viewer and requires actions as a prerequisite for reception. In 2009 it was possible to keep the show open for weeks. This playful approach to discovering and designing spaces can also be found in many references of architecture and urban theory. The artist and architect Constant Nieuwenhuys, for example, dedicated his model of »New Babylon«, which represents

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»Twist and enhance triple courtship on volutes« tournament at Ciudad Abierta, 1975. Courtesy Archivo histórico José Vial Armstrong, Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseno, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso.

his vision of future urban life, to Homo ludens. Constant generated spatial structures for playfully thinking people, structures that allowed for change and adaptations to the behaviour of the inhabitants he envisioned. He considered »New Babylon« as a kind of huge playground. Cedric Price pursued a similar approach when he designed the Fun Palace project in the 1970s. Planned as a cultural and educational building, the Fun Palace enabled a playful appropriation of knowledge that also went hand in hand with the changeability of spaces. That playing and experimenting are fundamental to driving invention was an argument that Rem Koolhaas put forward in his manifesto »Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan« (1978). By that, he meant the layouts and the use of the vehicles of the amusement park on

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Coney Island that functioned like a laboratory in his view – a joyful test field where the foundations of technical developments like the elevator were laid. This semester, we are starting studies of architecture through the lens of play. In science, play is described as an activity through which people primarily develop their cultural skills. It is characterised as an imaginative process that is capable of changing the elements of a situation to create something new and unknown. This studio will be structured along a series of exercises addressing play in terms of movement and body behaviours while interacting with different kinds of spatial settings. Through a playful approach, spatial imagination will be able to unfold and the skills of making and constructing will be trained.

Bodyspacemotionthings

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CMT Construction Material Technology

Michelle Howard Valerie Messini 1

TANKED fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel. drink heavily; become drunk. fail completely, especially at great financial cost. deliberately lose or fail to finish.

The filling station is a curious and ancient typology; it appeared long before oil-driven movement. These ports of refuelling, respite and refreshment have facilitated our travels since the dawn of road networks. Roman roads were divided into sections of 1,000 (mille) paces (1,500 metres), the derivation of the word ‘mile.’ Relay stations were established at a distance equivalent to one day of travel, typically about 20 miles. There, travellers could rest, feed and water or change their oxen and horses, and pass communications from one rider to another. Then, as now, they served the

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Empty Shell. Old filling station, Huttengasse 1160 Vienna 2017 Photo: Herbert Ortner, Copyright: Creative Commons

wider community too. We can all recall how a filling station has provided for some part of our lives, a much-needed break from a long journey, accident prevention and Band-Aid, a shortcut to avoid traffic lights, baby food and ice at midnight, a haven from assault, open space in the congestion of the city, and the only light in the darkness … Our continuing addiction to oil and its products will certainly lead to our demise and that of our planet. Our resolve to wean ourselves from petroleum and other fossil fuels has been strengthened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting energy supply impasses. The adoption of alternative forms of energy and transport will sound the death knell for the filling station as we know it. The retail world is full of ideas all based on values tightly bound to Taylorist business

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efficiency, in particular the automation of all services and the ejection of human interaction. TANKED will propose alternative ideas for the metamorphosis, reuse and recycling of existing filling stations in and around Vienna. TANKED will trace the route of Vienna’s oil: from the oilfields of the world, the transfer of crude oil to mammoth ultra-large crude carriers, their arrival at the port of Trieste, the transfer and transit of oil to the Transalpine Pipeline, then the Adriatic-Vienna pipeline, arrival and processing at the Schwechat refinery, to the pumps of Viennese filling stations. TANKED will explore Vienna’s geopolitical role in oil; the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is based in Vienna’s first district, and the city lies on the oilfields of the Vienna Basin.

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TANKED will investigate the potential for building with other products of crude oil, from plastics to bitumen, with special focus on their use though reuse and recycling, and attempt to open this Pandora’s box without getting burned. Excursion to filling stations, pipelines in and around Udine and Trieste. Literature Steininger, Benjamin and Alexander Klose, Erdöl: Ein Atlas der Petromoderne. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2020. Yergin, Daniel, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations. London: Penguin Press, 2020. Vali, Murtaza, Crude – Exhibition Catalogue. Dubai: Art Jameel, 2018.

Museum Crisis

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HTC History Theory Criticism

FORM of a museum, or: everyday (in)(a) museum

Angelika Schnell Eva Sommeregger

There are crises everywhere. Present-day museums are not only affected by them, they are also involved. Even though the concept of a museum seems to be successful as never before, Western museums in particular are facing criticism. Because they have ignored the colonial past, which in many cases is the basis for their collections, and for their scientific and curatorial epistemology; because they have turned from public institutions into neoliberal event agencies, which are dependent on mass tourism and therefore complicit in climate change; because the pandemic revealed that museums missed the digital turn and its challenging possibilities; because new museums are either designed as unusable star architecture, or as boring and conservative black boxes. And there is more to complain about.

However, museums are still the Sachertorte to design for any architect. The HTC studio will give students the opportunity to reflect / to design / to shape a concept / a form / a practice of a contemporary museum that is aware of its critical situation today. Thus, we want you to design not a museum, but the concept or form of a museum! Concretely, we want you to design a competition brief (»Auslobungstext«) for the Wien Museum on Karlsplatz. Pretend that the last competition in 2015 has not yet taken place. Imagine that you are the intellectual / the planner / the designer / the author of a competition brief for an upcoming competition that takes into account not only the heterogeneous and comprehensive collection of objects and the different sites of the Wien Museum, but also the new / different concepts that are discussed today: virtual museum,

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Towards a New Wien Museum. Photo: Heribert Fruhauf. Copyright: Wien Museum

transhistorical museum, para-museum, new museology, radically democratic museum, decolonial museum, relational museum, etc. You might reflect on another spatial / virtual layer that overlaps the given sites and spaces, you might create new curatorial models, you might think about new foyer spaces as the intersection of the museum with the city, you might refer to Neurath’s old idea of a mobile museum, or anything else that is the design of a form and concept of a new museum. To develop a deeper understanding of past, present and projective museum strategies, you may also make use of re-enactment practices. We will visit various museums in Vienna and will discuss them compared to seminal museum concepts (linked to the related lecture on »Historiography of Architecture«).

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Literature Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums. The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, plutobooks, London 2020 Elke Krasny, »Über Vermittlung: Vom Verhältnis zwischen Museum und Öffentlichkeit«, in: Elke Gaugele / Jens Kastner, Critical Studies. Kultur- und Sozialtheorie im Kunstfeld, Springer, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 339–356 Bénèdicte Savoye, Afrikas Kampf um seine Kunst, C.H. Beck, München 2021 Nora Sternfeld, Das radikaldemokratische Museum, De Gruyter, Berlin 2018 Eva Wittocx / Ann Demeester (eds.), The Transhistorical Museum. Mapping the Field (Vis-à-vis), Valiz, Amsterdam 2018

FORM of a museum, or: everyday (in) (a) museum

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Analog, Digital, Production

Rüdiger Suppin

Drawing, 3D Modelling and Geometry

Project Lecture BArch1

Toward sharpness – the project lecture is meant for making the first steps in architectural drawings, and understanding their spatial and temporal dimensions, which are communicated through abstractions. Based on an introduction to a CAD drawing tool, the craft of producing artefacts for explicit communication between recipients, humans as well as machines, will be learned. Throughout the semester, this course will simulate a workflow from measuring, 3D modelling and representation to ultimately materializing geometrical ideas with CAM. The course will tackle the participants’ project-specific challenges and require proactive contributions during that process.

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Analog, Digital, Production

3D Modelling and Animation II

Werner Skvara

Seminar BArch3

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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Analog, Digital, Production

Damjan Minovski

Analysis, Simulation and Scripting

Seminar BArch3

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.

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Analaog, Digital, Production

Sophia Walk

Visual and Verbal Communication

Seminar BArch5

Greetings from Architecture or Ways of Seeing Visual and verbal communication is preceded by observation. This course aims to explore ways of looking at tangible and intangible aspects of architecture. How can architectural observation be visually represented and textually described? How can we communicate in visual and verbal ways what we have seen? We will define both ways of seeing architecture and ways of visualising what architecture is all about besides built (tangible) matter. In this semester we will deal with what lies between architecture and interpretation, and how built and unbuilt aspects of architecture are transferable to discernible representation. We will depict the found aspects of the usage of architecture on postcards and send them out. As observation comes before communication, the course will deal with observing as a cultural technique. The carrier of these manifold observations will be the postcard, which also represents a cultural technique itself.

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Construction, Material, Technology René Ziegler

Building Structures I

Project Lecture BArch1

The course teaches the fundamentals of building structures. Students learn about the different forces, which influence the planning of building structures, from gravity to wind, heat, mass and size. It introduces students to different construction systems and their structural logic, as well as basic calculations and dimensioning.

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Construction, Material, Technology Franz Sam

Building Technologies II

Project Lecture BArch3

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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Construction, Material, Technology Doris Österreicher

Building Physics I

Project Lecture BArch3

To create comfortable, safe and environmentally sound buildings, we must first understand how heat, air, light, noise and fire transfer through a building, its components and materials. A systemic perspective is vital in this context, as it is not only relevant which materials we choose, but also where, how and in what quantities we use them. This lecture provides the key fundamentals in building physics with a specific focus on climate adaptive construction, energy efficiency and adequate use of resources. The goal is to be able to apply the knowledge gained so that the aspects of efficiency and sufficiency form an intrinsic part of any future design.

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Construction, Material, Technology

Building Services I

Project Lecture BArch3

The course introduces students to building services and the infrastructure network of shafts, cables and piping for running water, heating, lighting, electricity and the elimination of human and manufactured waste products. The connection of these services to the municipal grid and other networks are described.

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Building Services II

Seminar BArch5

The course introduces more complex building services especially those for large buildings where factors of artificial lighting, heating and cooling gain importance. The concept of the conditioned environment is introduced and the many possible solutions are explained. Emphasis is placed on the sustainable building environment. The newest advances in this technology are presented and discussed.

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Construction, Material, Technology Tina Wintersteiger Michelle Howard

Workshop

Seminar BArch3

Garden Kitchen Cooking and food processing are to be done in future in Gartenwerkstadt, a community-managed kitchen garden on the roof of a car park in the 6th district. In this workshop, we will get to know the users and the project, develop the structures and installations for cooking, washing and storage, and explore the following questions: How can water and energy supply, as well as wastewater and waste disposal, be addressed in the context of a kitchen garden? What synergies can be found? Which substances can be circulated, which materials reused? Workshop with members of the Gartenwerkstadt association Excursion to Simmeringer Haide, including a visit to the garden centre Gärtnerei Fleischhacker

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Ecology, Sustainability, Cultural Heritage Christina Condak

Time in Architecture

Project Lecture BArch1

This course is concerned with the design of architecture and the life of buildings as process and not as an end-finished product. Architecture is different from just building. Architecture is about ideas and choosing your design criteria to work with, it is about reading carefully an environment and responding to it, then translating these findings first into drawings and other media and then spaces. The course discusses the entire life cycle of a piece of architecture. If designed thoughtfully these constructions endure in operation with care and maintenance. But it depends. And, so we ask: what makes a building last? Given our complex times and the changes that are occurring, we reflect on concepts of permanence or transience in architecture, developing arguments and perspectives to speculate on future design. The course uses examples and traces experiments of innovative architecture throughout history, but primarily from post-war architecture to today.

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Ecology, Sustainability, Cultural Heritage Golmar Kempinger-Khatibi

Cultural Heritage I

Lecture BArch5

The course gives an overview on cultural heritage in general, the diversity of its perception in cultures, and the international collaborations and institutions related to it. Our focus turns on the material heritage and the built environment, and the different approaches and significant movements dealing with that heritage throughout history. The course discusses the possibilities and technical aspects of adapting the built heritage to contemporary needs and taking care and forwarding it to future generations. The application of theory in practice will be demonstrated by analyzing case studies, as well as short excursions and visits to exhibitions.

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History, Theory, Criticism

Angelika Schnell

Architectural History I Premodernism

Project Lecture BArch1

Genealogy of Modernity I The lectures Architectural History I and Architectural History II build on each other. Under the title Genealogy of Modernity, they trace the direct and indirect origins, roots and ancestors of architectural modernity. Consequently, they are not structured chronologically, because that would imply a linear and causal historiography. Instead, they start from the present and look back from there along significant lines of development. In so doing, they respond to the methodological criticism of modernism and its simple model of progress, which ignores bridges, gaps, detours and one-way streets, but at the same time, they acknowledge the special significance that architectural modernism continues to play today. Thematically, the lectures essentially cover the European region and reach back to antiquity. Students should gain comprehensive knowledge of European architectural history. They should learn to understand connections and contradictions, and at the same time develop their own points of view through in-depth historical knowledge.

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History, Theory, Criticism

History Theory of Technology

Luciano Parodi

Lecture BArch3

Vestiges of Ideas and Material Reflections The course surveys the history of construction technology, highlighting the reciprocal relationship between cultural development and technological innovation, and their respective effects on architecture. The lecture delves into the history of the use of a series of exemplary materials (glass, wood, metal, plastic, etc.) and production techniques (solid, layered, etc.) in architecture. Upon closer examination of constructed details, the potential knowledge, history and ideas beyond their materiality will be explored, compiled and displayed, thus depicting a speculative genealogy of their creation. In addition, topics such as the history of technical drawings and construction books will provide insight into the influences of other disciplines, such as medicine, on the development of a common language of architectural construction and into the close relationship between technology, culture and society. The point of departure will be construction and education drawings from 18th century Central Europe: the Analytiques. These complex plans were considered models for the planning and production of buildings, infrastructure and machines. However, they actually contain almost no written instructions, and important information concerning construction remains veiled or neglected. They disassemble the object of study through a series of representations, the complementariness of which aims to reconstruct the entire original object in all its facets, mostly on a single sheet of paper.

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Historiography of Architecture

Angelika Schnell

Project Lecture BArch5

Key Texts of Modernist Criticism For this lecture, key texts critiquing architectural modernism will be explored through joint reading and study, e.g. texts by Robert Venturi, Alexander Mitscherlich, Anthony Vidler, Michel Foucault, Beatrice Colomina, etc. The lecture thematically accompanies the BArch Studio HTC and therefore offers historical background. Following and comparing lines and flaws of reasoning in works by different authors is important when analysing and interpreting architecture and its theories. Therefore, a very heterogeneous mix of texts is planned.

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History, Theory, Criticism

History of Theory

Ines Weizman

Project Lecture BArch5

This course discusses how architectural theory is related to the production of the built environment. Different theories – mainly of the 19th and 20th century – will be discussed and put into relation with discussions which will take place concurrently in the HTC studio to which the course is linked.

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Geography, Landscapes, Cities

Lisa Schmidt-Colinet Project Lecture BArch1

Urban Form and Analysis

»Built environments have live of their own: they grow, renew themselves, and endure for millennia. Conservations may serve to freeze works of art in time, resisting times effect. But the living environment can persist only through change and adaptation.« How and through which means did urban environments took shape and how are they continuously changing? The lecture investigates cities on a morphological and physiological level, following its development and the process of constant transformation. Investigating the ordinary fabric of the city, we practice to read urban form as an outcome of complex consolidating forces. By untangling economic, political, social and climatic and geopolitical influences, we can better grasp continuities and ruptures in urban spaces, implicit agendas and performances. How is space in the city related to topics of access and distribution? We will further study the city in relation to its environment and surrounding territories. How were boundaries defined in different eras? How does this relation change once physical and visible borders are dissolving? A continuous shift of perspective is essential to this course: The view from the distance, understanding the fabric and patterns of cities, is as important as perceiving the city by moving through. By drawing we are exploring methods of analysis, to better understand spatial urban elements and their performances.

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Geography, Landscapes, Cities

Urbanism I

Christian Teckert

Lecture BArch5

The Rise and Decline of Urbanism as an Agenda in Architecture The lectures will address the emergence of urbanism as a science and discourse, and will focus on the role of the architect as an actor in this discipline, which was historically contested. What will be crucial in this 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 to providing tools for understanding and analysing the discursive formations in the history of urbanism. It will include discussions from fields such as sociology, media theory, philosophy or critical geography, which in turn have been crucial to the current debates in urbanism.

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Forest Intimacy

MArch Mon / Tue / Fri

ADP Analog Digital Production

David Lieberman

FOREST and GARDEN

Studio of David Lieberman Architect, 2019

Was Eden a walled garden, what defined the edge and contained the space, what controlled or limited its bounds on the threshold between the known and the unknown. Is the forest a place to be feared for its darkness, not knowing what or who might lurk in the shadows. The dappled light filtering through the dense canopies brings a delicacy and a sense of security to unfamiliar spaces and experiences. Listen carefully to the sound of footsteps, to the leaves shifting in the gentle breeze, to drops of water falling through the multiple layers. Drawn scores of sieve theory serve as notation of sounds discovered, sounds imagined, and sounds made on instruments of tradition and invention. The Jurassic spruce of the Austrian forests is the wood of choice for the string instruments made in Cremona and the sound-boards of pianos.

For many, the forest goes beyond fear and instils terror, filled with the voices of creatures of uncertain identity. The garden with its protective custody is a contemplative refuge from that which is outside the scope of understanding; birds sing in melody and harmony, flowers blossom with a remarkable chromatic range and delicacy of scent and taste. The gentle stream is reassuring. Wander beyond the edge of the garden and into the forest. Remember that the serpent dwelled in the garden, not the forest, and no doubt dwells there still. Birch trees, starkly columnar in the dead of winter as the bark peels, white like the snowy ground; in spring, the earliest of buds drinking the waters of the earth, leaves rustling in the breeze and shading the paths in the heat of summer in Klimt’s birch forest.

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Forests beckon and seduce with promises of verdant pleasures, dark and foreboding; we are drawn to an imagined, if not real, sense of nature. The constructed landscapes of the contemporary city offer many of the pleasures previously associated with our cultural understanding of forests and gardens, choreographing movement through the spaces of the city, spaces of intimacy and spaces of congregation. The dappled light of the canopies provides punctuation to the subtleties of occupation, allowing pauses in the shade or being revealed by the light of the sun. Ghosts and spirits shed light; ghosts and spirits are not seen but heard. The project may propose an environmental strategy, a new commons, or simply a house in a garden.

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ADP

FOREST and GARDEN

Understand dimensions and the limits and containment of space. Walk in the garden; share the stories and experiences of those who have gone before. In a spatial rereading of the urban fabric, the city is the new forest. »THE SHAPE OF A CITY, as we all know, changes more rapidly than the heart of a mortal.« Charles Baudelaire

Island Ocean

MArch Mon / Tue / Fri

GLC Geography Landscapes Cities

Aristide Antonas

Epistemology of Exoticism The question of distance and its political meaning is posed in relation to a concrete thought on some specific desert islands. The studio insists on a theory of exoticism that could be related to the structure of the present-day social sphere. This working hypothesis of the studio is seen as a challenge to alternative definitions of the exotic and, at the same time, as an open question about island-like schemata affirming the different principles of exotic settings. The exotic is seen here as a research concept, an as yet unclearly defined element of future urbanity. The studio explores the core of the presentday social sphere proposed as idiosyncratic withdrawal. Withdrawal is not understood as an antisocial attitude, but increasingly as the basis of post-urban sociality. Withdrawal becomes the core of what the »post-urban« character

disrupted landscape, Aristide Antonas

of a landscape could mean. We may claim that the specific withdrawal the studio refers to is a deep dive into the sphere of infrastructure. The growing difficulty of accurately describing the present-day world makes us look at the urban present as something obsolete, already belonging to the past; already surrounded by new languages and new perceptions of different realities, we could be triggered to envisage the end of the modern city, and the decline of the Western world and its instruments of interpretation, which still structure the image of decay for the world around us. Accepting this change does not mean, however, that humans cannot positively influence the new conditions of this different world. The question we pose in this intellectual and design exercise is related to the possibilities of architecture to

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plan a different future infrastructure. The new communities that are formed within networks, and their possibilities of being self-regulated via the Internet, show a potential way to emancipate parts of the infrastructure. The reference to deserted islands provides an opportunity to deal with erased writing, the experience of implementing a structure in a natural setting. The text »L’Île déserte« (2002) by Gilles Deleuze is a starting point, focusing on the promise of a new start, but the studio will also delve into the reality of the desert and deserted islands. Communities can be thought about in different ways depending on the protocols they accept for their constitution. The example of an alternative university community or a desert island university could form the basis of this studio.

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As its working and testing site, the studio will use a small group of desert islands around Hydra, Greece. An excursion to Hydra is planned.

Epistemology of Exoticism

ADP

Analog, Digital, Production

Werner Skvara

Advanced Introduction to Analog Production, Digital Production

Lecture MArch1

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.

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Analog, Digital, Production

Dominik Strzelec

Algorithms in Architecture

Seminar MArch3

Speculative_Apps: Fuzzy Logic and Abundance Refresh. This semester is going to be entirely about non-binary logic and network dynamics. Instead of zeroes and ones, we are going to think spectrally. Instead of scarcity economics, we are going to navigate abundance. Necessarily in a hands-on way.

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Construction, Material, Technology Michelle Howard

Lecture MArch1

Advanced Introduction to Construction, Material, Technology Shaped by Oil »… for every advantage a new technology offers, there is always a corresponding disadvantage. The disadvantage may exceed in importance the advantage, or the advantage may well be worth the cost. … the advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the population. This means that every new technology benefits some and harms others. Technological change is not additive; it is ecological. The best way to view technology is as a strange intruder, to remember that technology is not part of God’s plan but a product of human creativity and hubris, and that its capacity for good or evil rests entirely on human awareness of what it does for us and to us.«1 Keeping this warning in mind, we will examine works of architecture – ancient, modern and contemporary – and discuss the ideas that enriched their construction, materials and technologies. We will trace and discuss the presence and influence of crude oil and its by-products in the transformation of architecture and the act of construction. We will turn a critical eye on what were perceived as improvements, and weigh losses and gains in a world enabled by oil. Which factors will determine how we use, and most importantly re-use, materials and building systems in the future, even oil? How could this knowledge enable us to use less material and contribute not only to the sustainability, but also to the dormant regenerative powers of the built world? 1 Neil Postman, excerpts from »Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change« Talk delivered in Denver, Colorado, 28 March 1998

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Construction, Material, Technology

Professional Practice II

Seminar MArch3

The course develops students’ understanding of professional practice. The legal implications attached to building are explored. Recent legal cases and court decisions are probed and explained. The student is made familiar with best practices in architecture, traps to avoid, and possible methods of protection in case of litigation.

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Ecology, Sustainability, Cultural Heritage

Lecture MArch1

Advanced Introduction to Ecology, Sustainability, Cultural Peter Leeb Heritage

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

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Ecology, Sustainability, Cultural Heritage

Landscape Urbanism

Seminar MArch3

Aristide Antonas Negations of Domesticity The course explores the theoretical consequences of contemporary distancing. The diptych of proximity and distance is treated in relation to the idea of bringing us closer through a data-based social network; the controlled distortions of this diptych shape a specific look at present-day landscapes of infrastructure. Distancing is driving the creation of self-occupied individuals; they no longer need urban mobility as proposed, for example, by Hannes Meyer’s Co-op Interieur in the 1920s. The individuals of contemporary social spheres do not need to move away from a comfortable setting that guarantees the position of a user in front of the common data sphere of the internet. While this stable position is becoming the workspace par excellence, the question of conventional space and its architecture takes on new meaning. Offline or in continuation of an online activity, the relation to conventional space is explored from a theoretical point of view. The course is structured in three main lectures, discussions, screenings, and work on a video essay.

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HTC

History, Theory, Criticism

Ines Weizman

Advanced Introduction to History, Theory, Criticism

Lecture MArch1

HTC

History, Theory, Criticism

Thesis Seminar

Wolfgang Tschapeller Seminar MArch3

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.

GLC

Geography, Landscapes, Cities

Christian Teckert

Lecture MArch1

Advanced Introduction to Geography, Landscapes, Cities

Cities as Urban Laboratories between Research, Intervention and Utopia In the lectures, the city will be considered as a dispositive, in which the interweaving of social, cultural and political paradigms is given an indicative function. We will analyse the evolution of specifically selected cities and read them as symptoms of urban concepts, which in turn represent crucial contemporary structural definitions of what we call the »urban«. Facing a situation where no hegemonic method in urbanism can be defined, the lectures will focus on concepts that help us understand the complex urban formations and furthermore might lead to new strategies for intervention and (re)design. Addressing key discourses of recent spatial theory, the topics will deal with questions of materiality, boundaries and limits to the urban implications of the immaterial dimensions of computation, algorithms and surveillance capitalism.

Courses

MArch

GLC

Geography, Landscapes, Cities

Cities, Growth, Politics and Power

Marlene Rutzendorfer

Seminar MArch3

Disrupting Colonial Continuities This course will look into historical entanglements and contested spaces in cities and urban environments. How did we get to where we are today, and where do we go from here? What role have strategies of segregation and displacement historically played, and what strategies have people come up with to counter hegemonic thinking and planning? We will look into urban and political structures and power relations, as well as the role of civic space and housing as political tools.

All Platforms

Christina Condak / Lisa Schmidt-Colinet

Thesis Documentation Seminar

Seminar MArch

This course focuses on the development of a thesis project. A continuous process of oral articulation, writing, drawing and documenting enables students to make their research productive for a design thesis, to take a stance within a selected field of interest and to formulate a clear hypothesis. As the final synthesis of the graduation project, students submit the thesis documentation putting forward their position in book format. It presents their hypotheses and methodology, and includes research materials, the process of production and the documentation of the final thesis project.

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Electives Doctoral Studies Research Projects Lecture Series: Disruptured Landscapes Calendar / Student Assistants / Labs

Damjan Minovski

Seminar

Camera, Light, Photography and Video for Architecture Students I We will create and work with 3D scans, analyze and apply techniques borrowed from the film, vfx and game industry. Furthermore we will establish a solid foundation on the topics of image synthesis, pointcloud/image/video capture and physics of lights and materials.

Aristide Antonas

Disruptured Landscapes

Seminar

The course accompanies the lecture series, preparing conversations with the speakers and editing the results. The preparation includes readings of their works and the editing concludes a systematic approach on the condition of urgency as an intellectual frame of practical thinking. Different traditions and disciplines will be examined in relation to the typologies of these urgencies and to possible ways how to deal with them.

Course developed and conducted by students of IKA (with Antje Lehn)

Seminar

Feminism’s role in the architectural discourse

Feminism’s role in the architectural discourse This student-led course aims to discuss the role of feminism in the architectural profession, with a focus on how structural disadvantages in architectural history, teaching and professional practice can be revealed, and how we could start to unlearn these patterns. It is an attempt to create a space where we can question, challenge and champion the role of women* in architectural studies and beyond, and thus form a path to supporting each other in navigating towards better working conditions. The output will be the theoretical foundation, format, programme and spatial intervention for the symposium in spring 2023.

Heidulf Gerngross

The generative grammar of architecture

Workshop

During the workshop, each student will design and build a piece of furniture or architectural model or zoning plan.

Electives

Doctoral Studies

Further information on the program: ika.akbild.ac.at/school/admission/ Dr_techn

For queries concerning There is the program, please contact: no application arch@akbild.ac.at deadline and no admission fee.

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

Doctoral Studies

formats – i.e. within the field of architectural history or material technology – and artistic research at the intersection of design practice. Consequently, Doctoral theses may include and focus on theoretical, historical, technical as well social themes. Additionally, Design based research equally qualifies as a research path. The IKA has offered a doctorate study program in architecture (Dr. Techn.) which is open to students holding an appropriate university degree in architecture (master, diploma). Candidates who wish to apply for the program are required to write a synopsis of their proposed dissertation project and are encouraged to approach a professor at the institute who could act as a supervisor for their intended doctoral thesis. Once a supervisor is found the program normally stretches over six semesters.

Current candidates at IKA Anamarija Batista ›Krise‹ als Denkfigur und Ihre Manifestation im städtischen Raum: Ein Blick auf die künstlerische, architektonische und urbane Praxis. (supervisors: Diedrich Diederichsen, Angelika Schnell)

Sony Devabhaktuni Dancing Through Architecture: The Impact of Collaboration in Practice. (supervisor: Angelika Schnell)

Solmaz Kamalifard A Study of Natural Lighting in Interior Spaces as a Human-Space Interaction Stimulus. (supervisor: Michelle Howard)

Bertan Koyuncu Re-reading Henri Lefebvre Through Inside and Outside the Refugee Camps in Lesvos. (supervisor: Angelika Schnell)

Jae Hyun Lim Synthetic History: Unmasking the History of Tange and Isozaki.

Oliver Domeisen The four elements of architectural ornament – foundations for a contempoary ornamental practice.

(supervisor: Angelika Schnell)

(supervisor: August Sarnitz)

(supervisor: Angelika Schnell)

Nikolaus Ettel The Architectural Parallels, Film-making as investigation method for urban oddities.

Paula Strunden Simulating Atmospheres: Digitizing embodied design and decision-making processes in architecture.

(supervisor: August Sarnitz)

Adam Hudec Epidermitecture: An exploration of the potential of the facades outermost skin. How patina, the shallow layer of deposits on their surface can be of benefit to the building and its environment. (supervisors: Michelle Howard, Katja Sterflinger)

Waltraud Indrist 5 Häuser. 5 Familien. 5 Freundschaften – Der photographische Akt im Werk des Architekten Hans Scharoun zwischen 1933 und 1945.

Esther Lorenz The Corporeal City.

(supervisor: Angelika Schnell; part of research project Communities of Tacit Knowledge)

Mara Trübenbach A Loom’s Influence: Handcraft and the Role of Contemporary Aesthetic Education in British Architecture. (supervisor: Tim Anstey, Oslo School of Architecture; second supervisor: Angelika Schnell; part of research project Communities of Tacit Knowledge)

(supervisor: Angelika Schnell)

Christina Jauernik Touching Distance. Inter-Views with the Virtual (supervisors: Wolfgang Tschapeller, Vicki Kirby)

Doctoral Studies

Research Projects Communities of Tacit Knowledge Architecture and its Ways of Knowing 2020–2023 Angelika Schnell Eva Sommeregger Paula Strunden Mara Trübenbach

Ambivalences of Modernity The architect and city planner Roland Rainer between Dictatorship and Democracy 2022–2024 Angelika Schnell Ingrid Holzschuh Waltraud Indrist Susanne Rick Monika Platzer (Architekturzentrum Wien) FWF – Austrian Science Fund / Stand-Alone Project ( P34938-G )

EU Horizon 2020 (860413) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks

Unstable Bodies 2021–2023 Wolfgang Tschapeller Christina Jauernik Johann Lurf Fabian Puttinger Rüdiger Suppin Christian Freude (TU Wien) Vicki Kirby (University of New South Wales) Thomas Lamarre (University of Chicago) FWF – Austrian Science Fund / PEEK (AR574)

RAUMPARK VIENNA A research project on an ecological megastructure for the city in times of the New Climatic Regime 2022–2023 Hannes Stiefel Luciano Parodi Stepan Nesterenko Florian Berrar Christina Ehrmann Christopher Gruber Funded by B+C Vienna, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

Research Projects

IKA Research Evening 5 December A... Research Day 2022 16 November

Lecture Series

Disruptured Landscapes

GLC Geography Landscapes Cities curated by Aristide Antonas

Lectures take place Invisible Symposium at IKA, R211a Schillerplatz 24 Oct 2022 at 7pm Momoyo Kaijima 28 Nov 2022 Ann-Sofi Rönnskog 23 Jan 2023

A provocative tension between post-colonial, feminist discourses and the global warming literature is put into focus. Ecology offers a new grand narrative today, and the lecture series challenges it as such; global warming is examined through a set of investigative approaches that put forward its dogmatic side, linked to the unavoidable urgency with which this discourse comes to us. The lecture series is meant to have an extra layer of editing to further deepen the reading of its outcome and overwrite it with simple tools offered by the Internet. Within the framework of the discourse on »global warming«, we observe the stabilisation of a grand narrative that is becoming increasingly powerful and accepted as legitimate; it arises from the primacy of a human fault (or even of a human »sin«, to

immediately affirm the theological scale of this discourse), and it is understood differently each time, in the context of what we can understand as »nature« and »natural« today. The stabilisation of this discourse runs in parallel with a continuous development of post-colonial literature and a part of feminist writings underlying the importance of a destabilised normality even in the most trivial, accepted natural observations. While we cannot really enter into its important details in simple dialectical ways, the presence of a scientific discourse breaks with a critical and deconstructive tradition usually running counter to hegemonic discourses. In other words, there is now supposedly a privileged hegemonic discourse that we tend to agree is considered unchallengeable; it presents itself with theological force,

Lecture Series

for some definitions of »nature«. Recent feminist discourses question the naturalisms attached to questions of hegemony in very different ways. Geography, as a complex way of framing different types of countryside and urban fields, is addressed in this exact frame of the omnipresent issue of global warming. Global warming – considered as a new grand narrative – is presented as a metaphysical scheme able to belong to a new religious constellation of science, already described in past epistemology. The empowerment of this discourse is presented in parallel with the necessity of »acting urgently«; while urgency is often linked to an end of investigations, this lecture series investigates the possibilities of urgent but well-balanced political thought. The new frame

Lecture Series

of action becomes increasingly threatening and disorienting as regards the type of inquiries that are held on the topic, and the constitution of any possible critique of their scientific results. Nevertheless, a non-homogeneous technical power alone seems in a position to organize the horizon of any human response to global warming. In this poisoned setting – that necessarily leads to an unquestioned aristocracy of science driving any actions for »reversing global warming and its discontents« – the role of the university appears boycotted. It seems that there is no room left for critical thinking, while an anonymous technical and scientific power appears to be the only actor able to assume the responsibility to act; but could that ever happen in the name of the people, and for their sake?

Athena Athanasiou Clementine Deliss Mona Mahall Keller Easterling Felicity Scott Malkit Shoshan Antonia Alampi

Invisible Symposium conducted 24 Oct 2022 Interviews and edited by: Julian Berger, Daniel Oskar Binder, Jakob Draž Planinšek, Yoko Halbwidl, Martin Kohlberger, Stepan Nesterenko, Lisa Penz, Nikolaus Podlaha, Martin Sturz

It is true that a political engagement for action on the urgent issue of global warming seems trapped in this impasse; a problem of democracy seems to be intrinsic to the structure of this type of scientific discourse. It is only on a technical level that we might be able to raise our voices about options to be heard, and maybe discussed and decided. Furthermore, the production of a field of urgency cannot drive a single scientific proposal. The lecture series is introduced to reflect on this field as a political one. In this difficult frame of urgency, the policies left to debate seem impotent and restricted; any critique that may be voiced in this respect can be excluded in advance because of its incompatibility with the scientific understanding of the processes inscribed in the field of investigation. In a Foucaultian sense, the discourses held in this

frame can only refer to a set of knowledge epistemologically excluded from the critical discourses that traditionally took place at universities. Can these displaced critical discourses still form a background, and reposition a political scenography at a distance from increasingly unreachable science?

IKA Calendar

Winter 2022

Studios / Thesis Kick off / semester start 3 October Thesis presentation 10 October Thesis presentation 7 November Thesis salon 7 November Midterm reviews 14–15 November Thesis 2 / 3 12 December Final reviews 16–17 January Thesis presentation 18 January Rundgang / Open days 19–22 January

Lecture Series Invisible Symposium 24 October Momoyo Kaijima 28 November Ann-Sofi Rönnskog 23 January

Events Heidulf Gerngross Workshop 8 October Heidulf Gerngross Lecture 10 October Aktionstag 19 October Benjamin Hossbach Lecture 17 November Alumni Evening 21 November Research Evening 5 December

Student Assistants Plotter / Paper Moritz Schafschetzy Archive / Photography Roxane Seckauer Lasercutter / 3D Plotter / Milling Jonathan Moser Lecture Setup / Lecture Documentation Paul Böhm

CAD Lab Render Machines, Monitors, Software Damjan Minovski

Media Lab Cave virtual environment with projections on three walls, stage truss for mounting additional hardware, VR capable workstation, room scale VR tracking Damjan Minovski

Model Workshop Analog Procedural development and implementation of spatial structures by using woodworking machines: circular saws, band saw, planer, pillar drill, veneer press, hand tools Günther Dreger / Rüdiger Suppin Mon–Fri 2 pm–6 pm

Model Workshop Digital Interpretation of digital structures into physical prototypes using computeraided output devices: portal milling machine, laser cutters, 3D printers (powder / resin), thermoformer Günther Dreger / Rüdiger Suppin Mon–Fri 2pm–6pm

Contact Matriculation deadline 5 September – 31 October Course registration deadline 19 September – 31 October

d.minovski@akbild.ac.at g.dreger@akbild.ac.at r.suppin@akbild.ac.at

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