A...kademie der bildenden Künste Institute for Art and Wien Architecture Institut für Kunst und Architektur
Sustainability Prototypes Cultural Landscapes BArch Design Studios 3–8 Heritage Isolation All platforms CMT Environments Material HTC BArch Courses Construction Notations 9–14 Technology Geography MArch Design Studios
Preview Distinctions Winter Garden Analogue 23/24 Digital Cities Criticism Street Theory Ecology Transition
Scenography Realities Production Water History Underground
15–21 ADP CMT ESC GLC MArch Courses 23–26
Electives 27
Lecture Series 29 Doctoral Studies Research Projects 30–31 Calendar / Labs 32
Institute for Art and Architecture Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Winter 2023 / 24
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Chair / Deputies: Schillerplatz 3 Lisa Schmidt-Colinet 1010 Vienna Angelika Schnell akbild.ac.at / ika Hannes Stiefel arch@akbild.ac.at Editor: Christina Jauernik Proofreading and Translation: Judith Wolfframm
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Street Scenography
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Daniela Herold Luciano Parodi
La Strada Novissima Embodiment! Discourse! Performance! Enactment! It is a performance of architecture, more than an architecture of performance Germano Celant, » ›Strada Novissima,‹ in ›The Presence of the Past‹ «, Artforum International (December 1980)
At the first solo architecture exhibition in Venice in 1980, the main feature was a street. This street was called »La Strada Novissima« (the newest street) after Strada Nuova in Genoa.1 This time it was not the banking aristocracy that occupied the plots, but a group of twenty architects and postmodern architectural discourses. The idea was to re-introduce the street as an urban generator into the discussion about the city and the course that architecture 1 Residential palace street or linear piazza, 16th century. Originally via Aurea, now via Garibaldi. See George L. Gorse, »A Classical Stage for the Old Nobility: The Strada Nuova and Sixteenth-Century Genoa«, The Art Bulletin vol. 79, no. 2 (June 1997), 301–327.
Strada Novissima. 1. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura »La presenza del passato«, 1980. Copyright: Archivio Storico della Biennale di Venezia – ASAC
as a discipline had taken in recent years. Two façade lines formed a dialogue across a linear gap 4.5 m wide with ten projects on either side. Stage designers from Cinecittà helped with its implementation and construction. In this way it became both a stage and a real place. It provided a forum for discussion about the intermingling of historical and contemporary architectural elements. At the same time, it put visitors in relation to the real dimensions of a street and its façades. The tour through the exhibition was a deliberately staged spatial experience. The contributions to La Strada showed not only ways of operating with the past, but above all the idiosyncrasy of their authors. Paolo Portoghesi, curator of the Biennale, wrote in the exhibition catalogue: »This is how the idea for La Strada was born in the Corderia of the Arsenale, a gallery
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of architectural self-portraits made into a game to rediscover the very serious game of architecture...« A project for a Strada Novissima will become the subject of explorations in the upcoming first semester. A series of exercises and a field trip to the current Venice Architecture Biennale will support the process of creation and making. First, we will concentrate on the creation of the protagonists of the street. We will develop specific characters of buildings which will originate from the depiction of human bodies, their properties and performances. In the process, we will learn about different scales and the sizing of spaces from an interior to a building and a street space. Designing and creating analogue and digital models of the individual parts will inform the subsequent design and the final arrangement of the street. By bringing up
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this exhibition in the context of a first semester studio, we are not only framing our interest in the topics and the development of the Biennale format, but we primarily want to highlight the idea of constructing a common space, like a street, as a collective act based on individual proposals. It aims to create an inherent parallel, a symbiotic relationship between the building and the performing body.
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Water Underground
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Michelle Howard Eva Sommeregger
Riverrun Letting the Wienfluss out to play. Our relationship with the world around us has more often than not been one of conquest and control, and the earth’s rivers were perhaps the first of the world’s treasures we set our minds on dominating. On the primal level, they provide us with the fresh water we need to sustain our own lives and are rich ecosystems that support a diverse range of flora and fauna on exceptionally fertile soil. Flooding caused by the periodic swelling of rivers enriches the soil with nutrients, enhancing crop yields and enabling agriculture-based economies. Long before roads, rivers provided the most reliable transport routes and were important migratory paths. With very few exceptions, civilisations are built along rivers and have been shaped by them. As we increased in population, we first harnessed rivers to generate mechanical
Wienfluss vaulting and Secession under construction, 1898. Photo: Friedrich Strauß, Wien Museum (Vienna), No. 94600/400, CC0
power and demolish the barriers set by our muscles and those of other animals. When we describe our relationship with rivers, we use the language of animal trainers: they are not only harnessed but tamed and increasingly reined in. For no river is this truer than for the »Wienfluss«, the river that gave Vienna its name and then disappeared. Since the early 1800s, the Wienfluss has been increasingly reined in, its banks consolidated, bricked and concreted. And then in the late 1800s, using extreme measures, it was built over, enclosed and hidden from view. The few areas where it is visible in the city are characterised by steep, deep canyons and are victim to the requirements of multiple transport networks. Projects by the city with regard to the Wienfluss, then as now, are most concerned
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with expelling any extra water that falls during heavy rains. The current project for the 9 km extension of the Wiental Kanal 1 is no exception. This studio starts from the premise that expelling water from the city is a mistake. On the contrary, with temperatures rising all over the world and water supplies diminishing, cities need to retain all the water they can and urgently. Together we will investigate methods of retaining the water of the Wienfluss, rendering it more visible and letting it out to play.
Excursions To follow the source of the Wienfluss and back to the city To the underground world of the Wienfluss beneath our feet To follow the line of water around Prague To listen to the Wienfluss at the Alte Schieberkammer
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Prototypes Realities
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HTC History Theory Criticism
Angelika Schnell Antje Lehn
See-ing Rotterdam On 14 May 1940 the German Luftwaffe bombed the city of Rotterdam and destroyed almost the entire city centre. Only a few days after this terrible day, on which around 800 people were killed and 80,000 made homeless in just 13 minutes, the city administration began with first plans for the »Wederopbouw«. With a certain defiance, Rotterdam has since celebrated itself as the ever »nieuwste stad«. After the war, projects such as the famous Lijnbaan – Europe’s first pedestrian shopping zone – or the urban transformation of the huge industrial areas of the old port into a metropolitan skyscraper skyline in the 1980s made Rotterdam the European laboratory of contemporary architecture. And this story is not over yet. Even though terms such as novelty or innovation have become ambivalent concepts, especially in times of climate
The skyline of Rotterdam mirrored in the façade of the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (design by MVRDV). Photo: Angelika Schnell
change, the city of Rotterdam holds on to its desire to be the »nieuwste stad«. Recently, a number of projects were initiated to address the problems of urban heat and – particularly important in the Netherlands, where large parts of the west are several metres below sea level – the increasing risk of spring flooding. »Rotterdam is not an illusion … Rotterdam is far too real,« the writer Jules Deelder once wrote in a poem entitled Rotown Magic. Indeed, it seems that a sense of pragmatism and realism prevails in Rotterdam. Contradictions or hidden meanings are hard to discern. And so we look at this city like art historians who interpret Dutch paintings from the so-called Golden Age. Do the landscapes, still lifes, portraits of everyday people and city panoramas actually depict real life, or can they be understood emblematically?
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The art historian Svetlana Alpers was one of the first to discuss a different approach. She focused on what she called »picturing«: the fact that much of 17th century Dutch painting not only tells the stories of Dutch families and landscapes, but also the process of image creation – for example, through the use of advanced optical instruments. They consist of several layers of reality instead of the classical dichotomies such as surface and depth, or the obvious and the hidden. And this inherent yet visible story of the »making of« makes these images so real and present to this day. Following Alpers’ concept of »picturing«, 10 to 15 iconic projects in the city of Rotterdam in the 20th and 21st centuries will be considered, studied and reconstructed to find out how they came to be. In line with the concept of »new« embraced in Rotterdam’s planning history,
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we will explore the latest technological tools such as AI software for this research. However, a reconstruction always produces a new reality – another layer. The overlapping and / or merging of layers – in Rotterdam, but also in other places such as Vienna – will lead to a deeper understanding not only of the city Rotterdam. An excursion to Rotterdam is planned to get insights into the »reality« of the projects on site.
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Analogue 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.
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Analogue Digital Production
Seminar BArch3
3D Modelling and Animation I I
The course aims to significantly advance the students’W 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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Analogue 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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Visual and Verbal Communication
Sophia Walk
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. 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 TechnologyRené 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 TechnologyFranz Sam
Building Technologies I I
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 TechnologyDoris Österreicher
Building Physics I
Project Lecture BArch3
To create comfortable, safe, and environmentally sound buildings, we initially must 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 rather where, how and in which quantities we consider them. This lecture provides the key fundamentals in building physics with a specific focus on climate adaptive construction, energy efficiency and the adequate use of resources. The goal is to be able to apply the gained knowledge so that the aspects of efficiency and sufficiency form an intrinsic part of any future design.
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Construction Material TechnologyThomas Zelger
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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Construction Material TechnologyThomas Zelger
Building Services I I
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 TechnologyRüdiger Suppin
Workshop
Seminar BArch3
The workshop is understood as a quick and intensive design exercise. It offers the opportunity to playfully develop, test and implement ideas within a very short time. We focus on interior acoustics and how to tackle problematic spaces by implementing 1:1 prototypes.
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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 Hannes Stiefel
Ecologies I
Lecture BArch3
Ecology is about the interplay and the reciprocities of all organisms and their environments – in which architectural culture is dynamically embedded. Thus, the topic of ecology generally determines the coordinates of architectural design and its genealogy. This course discusses the subject from A–Z, from »air« and »atmosphere« to »zone« and »zoology« in an essay format. It seeks to guide towards a broader understanding of the complex environmental function of architecture and subsequently towards an architectural practice of multidirectional ecological awareness.
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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, the different approaches and significant movements dealing with 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 the future generations. The application of theory in practice will be shown by analyzing case studies, short excursions, visiting exhibitions and occasional guest lectures.
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History Theory Criticism
Angelika Schnell
Architecture 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 of Theory
Ines Weizman
Project Lecture BArch5
The course traces the history of architectural theory and its impact on architectural production. It focuses on architectural discourse of the post-war period and the relation between Modernist and Postmodernist theories.
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Geography Landscapes Cities
Lisa Schmidt-Colinet Project Lecture BArch1
Urban Forms 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
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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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Notations Isolation
MArch Mon / Tue / Fri
ADP Analogue Digital Production
Aristide Antonas
Definitions of an Island
Mark Lombardi, World Finance Corporation and Associates, c. 1970–84: Miami, Ajman, Bogota-Caracas (Brigada 2506: Cuban Anti-Castro Bay of Pigs Veteran) (7th Version), 1999. Courtesy The Lombardi Family and Pierogi Gallery. Photo: John Berens
The studio will be focussed on the work of representing island-like systems. The structure of islands is often linked to representations relating isolation to enclosures or to open perspectives of promised futures; prison-like isolation or places where humans could dream of becoming different and even become differently organized on a social level. Two texts serve as guidance for this double work. On the one hand, the old short novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, »The Invention of Morel«, will introduce us – in an oblique way – to the world of artificial intelligence. The second text, the short essay »Desert Islands« by Gilles Deleuze, will open the workshop to the world of promised alternative lands. The Deleuzian concept of re-beginning opens the island structures to the perspective of different forms of life. For his part, Bioy Casares describes
a strange dystopia of »necessary« selfimprisonment in technology. Utopia by Thomas More – also an island – always includes this double-sided view of experimental practices necessarily proposed as refusing the canons of normality in different ways. In its most ambitious aspect, the topic is related to controls of becomingness and to representations of durations, analogous to music scores and choreography notations. Is there a political side to this type of score or notation? Is it only the breaking of prepared durations that can guarantee that concepts of freedom can arise? A set of different representations will form the result of the studio related to the work, planned to end in a group show.
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Transition Garden
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CMT Construction Material Technology
Susanne Zottl Norbert Steiner
Arogenesis
François Morellet, Géométrees and through. Lézarde et fente de ce mur, North wing, second floor / Cracked wall, primed canvas, branch / realisation 1986“, © Mario Buda, 2023
Trajectories through interzonal spaces Arogenesis describes a rare exceptional case of an evolutionary process where a small group of species transitions from one zone to another. This transition usually occurs relatively quickly, while many groups potentially perish in the interzonal spaces without reaching the new adaptive zone. The process results in a new fragmentation, leading to the development of key characteristics that contribute to a specific »building plan« – an evolutionary trajectory. It is difficult to predict what our environment, society, and built surroundings will evolve to become. We will be accompanied by systems, structures and materials that respond to constantly changing demands, to everevolving aspirations and objectives, and to everything that we don’t yet know from today’s point of view. We put forward the thesis that 1 Uwe Mattheiß, »An Essay on Buchberg«, in Kunstraum. eds. Gertraud und Dieter Bogner (Vienna: VfMK, 2016).
architectural fragments, themselves created in dancing leaps of thought, will offer solutions for questions that have not yet been asked – the resilient anti-specialist or the »social climber« of evolution. The studio includes a study trip to the Kamp valley in Lower Austria, starting on 9 October 2023. Our exploration involves the interzonal spaces of the Kamp river throughout the Kamp valley, along with the hydroelectric power station and the medieval castle with its inscribed art space »Kunstraum Buchberg« and landscape gardens. Exposing ourselves to »a time capsule addressed to unknown recipients« 1 we will test and develop arogenetic strategies that interact with the existing fabric as well as with the nature surrounding it.
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Environments Distinctions
MArch Mon / Tue / Fri
ESC Ecology Sustainability Cultural Heritage
Hannes Stiefel
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Tu ne sais plus qui tu es, qui tu as été, tu sais que tu as joué, tu ne sais plus ce que tu as joué, ce que tu joues, tu joues, tu sais que tu dois jouer, tu ne sais plus quoi, tu joues. Ni quels sont tes rôles, ni quels sont tes enfants vivants ou morts. Ni quels sont les lieux, les scènes, les capitales, les continents où tu as crié la passion des amants. Sauf que la salle a payé et qu’on lui doit le spectacle. – Marguerite Duras, Savannah Bay 1
[…] Does work come out of work? How can we not have time? Does form follow the step into the unknown? Is diversity the essence of education? How did it happen? How is it/can it be done? Is it true that walls are meant to separate? Sind anhaltend fortlaufende Irrtümer statische oder dynamische Phänomene? Do we do what we truly need to do, or do we do what we think someone else is expecting us to do?
Mill Cottage, Ruthin, Wales, 2023. Image: Hannes Stiefel (Detail Library)
Why architecture? Why does it look like what it looks like? Must the inner logic of a project with a critical claim reflect all the logics that dominate the critical discourses at the time of its creation? Is countercyclical action still possible? – Or even allowed? Is a slap in the face of public taste considered to be violent and thus to be condemned? – By whom? Too tired to tell? Do decision-makers see poorly? Who decides? What if applied criticality shows its opportunistic face? Are you sure? Will tomorrow know something different? Really? When is a building a model?
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1 You no longer know who you are, who you’ve been, you know you’ve played, you no longer know what you’ve played, what you’re playing, you’re playing, you know you have to play, you no longer know what, you’re playing. Nor what your roles are, nor your children, living or dead. Nor the places, the stages, the capitals, the continents where you have cried out the passion of lovers. Except that the audience has paid and that we owe them a show. (Translation: Hannes Stiefel)
What are the environmental functions of architecture? And what are potential architectural functions of environments? Is distinction the perfect continence? Does an architectural work emerge from drawings of distinctions in space? Is living in a detached house cynical? Is it worth it? For whom? Where will people live? Could it be that Donauinsel is Austria’s most sustainable construction? What was the public opinion on this matter at the time of its implementation? Are errors close to their effect? Does knowledge die with the knower? What are most conversations actually about? Are acclimatization and habit formation
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reversible in the course of an individual’s life? How far can we expand the territory of our doubts? What sort of intentions would allow you to design counter-worlds and counter-worlds to counter-worlds? Does a thesis have to be true to justify thinking it through? Thinking by design? What are the instruments to measure the results of architectural production? Will architecture be able to resist falling off the ridge between the arts and the sciences? Are you looking for answers to your questions? And to the questions of others? (Somewhat…) Through design? Will we enter – for better or worse – a new era of architecture without architects? When will we know? […]
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Analogue Digital Production
Advanced Introduction to Analogue 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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Analogue Digital Production
Dominik Strzelec
Algorithms in Architecture
Seminar MArch3
Adequate Tectonics If there is anything that architects do really well, it is joining. Making one out of many. When the reality seems to be falling into pieces, this might actually be useful. There is certainly a lot to learn about the world from the way different things can come together. Especially when we are not entirely sure what is a thing and what is a difference. This semester we are going to use algorithms in order to embrace different things adequately.
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Construction Material TechnologyMichelle Howard
Lecture MArch1
Advanced Introduction to Construction, Material, Technology … 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. Neil Postman, excerpts from »Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change«. Talk delivered in Denver, Colorado, 28 March 1998.
Shaped by Water Keeping these ideas in mind, we will examine works of architecture, ancient, modern, and contemporary, and discuss the ideas which enriched their construction, materials and technologies. We don’t often think of water as a material, yet no construction would be possible without it. We will trace and discuss how construction, materials and technologies have been
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shaped by water, whether it be through transport via waterways, or the retention, conservation and expulsion of water and the other materials it carries.
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Construction Material TechnologyThomas Schwed
Professional Practice I I
Seminar MArch3
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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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
The seminar discusses the terminology and the relationship between cities and landscapes. It conveys an understanding of landscape as a potential andsubstantial, structuring element of urban territories.
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History Theory Criticism
Ines Weizman
Advanced Introduction to History, Theory, Criticism
Lecture MArch1
The teaching of history and theory in architectural schools has gained in stature and importance in recent years. In a rapidly changing environment such as this, where the pace of modernization never lets up, historical studies are of crucial importance to the architect in that they enable a broader sense of cultural judgment with regard to one’s own. The lectures will present detailed case studies of buildings, writings, and theoretical concepts in the specific context of their formation. In each case study, a major architectural or urban project is presented in depth, and discussed in its social, political, and cultural contexts. Special attention is given to the interdependent relationship between architectural concepts and audiences, social institutions, aesthetic theories, and building practices.
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History Theory Criticism
Thesis Seminar
Aristide Antonas
Seminar MArch3
The seminar aims to advance students' capacities in constructing and articulating a hypothesis and an intellectual framework for their project. The seminar supports students' preparations of their thesis proposals. Students will develop the topic of their thesis/diploma and elaborate their focal point.
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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.
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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.
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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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Damjan Minovski
Seminar
Camera, Light, Photography and Video for Architecture Students 1 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.
Michelle Howard / Adam Hudec Lecture Series Seminar
Yeah, but is it Technology?
This course provides greater insight into the ideas behind the lecture series and the people who have been asked to speak, through critical discussion, practical knowledge construction, speaker interviews, and hands-on learning. Furthermore, supplementary funding from the OEAD 1 facilitates an exchange with art and architecture students from the UMPRUM 2 in Prague, particularly the studio Planet B 3. In October 2023, Akbild Students travel for 4 days to Prague to meet their peers and pursue workshops together in alternative technologies. In December 2023, UMPRUM Students travel to Vienna and do the same. Further exchanges will continue online.
Susanne Zottl
Feminism’s role in the architectural discourse 2
Seminar
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 profession 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.
Let’s Get Emotional
Dijana Simić / Seminar Si Sophie Pages Whybrew
Introduction to Affect Studies Since the early 2000, queer theorists have highlighted the emotional impact and implications of social and societal mechanisms of social exclusion. In doing so, they have examined the connections of emotions to normative and discriminatory discourses. In this seminar, we explore to what extent our feelings and experiences are politically and theoretically relevant and which conclusions we can draw from these emotional, political, and theoretical reflections for feminist theory and praxis. 1 2 3
OeAD, Agentur für Bildung und Internationalisierung – AKTION Österreich-Tschechien https://www.umprum.cz/ Klára Peloušková and Veronika Miškovičová
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Lecture Series: Yeah, but is it technology? Yes, of course! Doctoral Studies Research Projects Calendar / Student Assistants / Labs
Lecture Series
Yeah, but is it technology? Yes, of course!
This course asks what direction technology would have taken if skills that are normally attributed to women and other anomalies were given the attention they deserve, and proposes that by embracing the practical application of lines and threads, we can build a richer and more sustainable future. Scientists now accept that humankind’s first tool was not a weapon but a carrier bag, that humans tended toward sociable collectives rather than submission to hierarchy, that entire social systems were adopted or discarded according to need. These facts are now recognised because evidence long existing has been re-evaluated in less biased ways. The evidence was not difficult to find, it was just ignored. Patriarchal biases have labelled one practice technology and the other craft. Both are dependent on the practical application of knowledge, yet one attracts prestige, income, and a taste of
CMT Construction Material Technology curated by Michelle Howard Adam Hudec Veronika Miškovičová Eva Sommeregger
progress, while the other is deemed pretty but also pretty useless. Could embracing ignored technologies lead to a regenerative practice that drives environmental and societal progress? Of course it could!
Lectures take place at IKA, R211a, Schillerplatz and online. In collaboration with UMPRUM, Prague. IBUKU 2 October, IKA + online 1 pm Tim Ingold 15 October, online 5 pm Clive Spash 6 November, IKA 7 pm Karina Grömer 4 December, IKA 7 pm Folke Köbberling 8 January, IKA 7 pm
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Doctoral Studies There is no application 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
Further information on the program: ika.akbild.ac.at/school/admission/ Dr_techn For queries concerning the program, please contact: arch@akbild.ac.at formats – i.e. within the field of architectural history or material technology – and artistic research at the intersection of design practice. Consequently, Doctoral theses may include and focus on theoretical, historical, technical as well social themes. Additionally, Design based research equally qualifies as a research path. The IKA has offered a doctorate study program in architecture (Dr. Techn.) since 2011 which is open to students holding an appropriate university degree in architecture (master, diploma). Candidates who wish to apply for the program are required to write a synopsis of their proposed dissertation project and are encouraged to approach a professor at the institute who could act as a supervisor for their intended doctoral thesis. Once a supervisor is found the program normally stretches over six semesters.
Current candidates at IKA Anamarija Batista ›Krise‹ als Denkfigur und Ihre Manifestation im städtischen Raum: Ein Blick auf die künstlerische, architektonische und urbane Praxis.
Nikolaus Ettel Debris and Data. Using Photogrammetry for Mapping Remnants in Hong Kong.
Supervisors: Diedrich Diederichsen, Angelika Schnell
Sony Devabhaktuni Dancing Through Architecture: The Impact of Collaboration in Practice.
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.
Supervisor: Angelika Schnell
Supervisors: Michelle Howard, Katja Sterflinger
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Supervisor: Angelika Schnell
Waltraud Indrist Auszug aus einer Entwurfstheorie: Das Individuum und eine Gemeinschaft »differenzierter Freunschaften« – Das Verhältnis von Architektur, Medien und Politik im Werk von Hans Scharoun Supervisor: Angelika Schnell, Daniel Gethmann
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.
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« EU Horizon 2020 (860413), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks
Research Projects Unstable Bodies 2021–2023 Wolfgang Tschapeller, Christian Freude (TU Wien), Christina Jauernik, Johann Lurf, Fabian Puttinger, Rüdiger Suppin, Vicki Kirby (University of New South Wales), Thomas Lamarre (University of Chicago), FWF – Austrian Science Fund / PEEK (AR574)
Supervisor: Angelika Schnell
Farnoosh Namaziyan Repealing the Walls – Investigation of Historical islamic Architecture Introversion to FemaleDedicated Space in Iran Supervisor: Angelika Schnell
Paula Strunden Simulating Atmospheres: Digitizing embodied design and decision-making processes in architecture. Supervisor: Angelika Schnell, Lara Schrijver; part of research project »Communities of Tacit Knowledge« EU Horizon 2020 (860413), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks
RAUMPARK VIENNA A research project on ecological megastructures for the city of Vienna in times of Climate Change 2022– Florian Berrar, Christina Ehrmann, Manuel Gruber, Armin Maierhofer, Stepan Nesterenko, Anna Pieber, Funded by B+C Immobilien Privatstiftung Ambivalences of Modernity The architect and city planner Roland Rainer between Dictatorship and Democracy 2022–2024 Angelika Schnell, Ingrid Holzschuh Waltraud Indrist, Monika Platzer (Architekturzentrum Wien), Susanne Rick, FWF – Austrian Science Fund / Stand-Alone Project ( P34938-G )
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IKA Calendar
Student Assistants
Winter 23 /24
Studios / Thesis Kick-off 2 October Thesis presentation 9 October Thesis presentation 6 November Thesis salon 7 November Midterm reviews 13 – 14 November Thesis 2 / 3 11 December Final reviews 15 –16 January Thesis presentation 17 January Rundgang 18 – 21 January
Lecture Series IBUKU 2 October, IKA + online 1 pm Tim Ingold 15 October, online 5 pm Clive Spash 6 November, IKA 7 pm Karina Grömer 4 December, IKA 7 pm Folke Köbberling 8 January, IKA 7 pm
Events Return Evening and Exhibition Otto Wagner Lecture Yanis Varoufakis 16 October
Plotter / Paper Sebastian Seib Archive / Photography Patricia Griffiths Lasercutter / 3D Plotter / Milling Valerie Mauerhofer Lecture Setup / Lecture Documentation Martin Sturz
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 Analogue 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
2 October 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 d.minovski@akbild.ac.at g.dreger@akbild.ac.at r.suppin@akbild.ac.at