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First of all, please let me welcome Matilde Igual Capdevila and Luis Hilti who will teach a visiting studio together with Bianca Böckle this semester. Matilde and Luis won the competition to represent Liechtenstein at this year’s Architecture Biennale in Venice and some of you students will get the chance to become part of this unique adventure. But there is much more to the upcoming Summer Semester 2018: in March you will be enjoying the seminar week, travelling to Mexico (Studio Schwarz / Alba) or Germany (Studio Brandl / Mackowitz) or retreating deep into the snowy Alps (Studio Venice: Hilti / Igual Capdevila / Böckle); in April we will host our mid-term critique with exciting guests; May will bring the opening of the Biennale in Venice and June will provide us with the highlight of the year, culminating in the big summer exhibition and publication on «transparency», the theme we will all continue to work on throughout the semester. Last but not least, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) will return with their decisive visit during the final reviews at the end of June. Given their feedback during their first assessment in January we are fully confident that we can successfully complete the RIBA validation and thus provide you with an additional seal of quality in being able to award RIBA Part 1 (BSc Arch) and RIBA Part 2 for graduates of our MSc Arch in the near future.

Wishing you all the best for the upcoming semester!

PETER STAUB Head of Institute and Academic Director of the Master’s degree Programme

Design Studio

Studio Anne Brandl Tutor: Martin Mackowitz

Shaping the future

The foundation Zukunft.li, a think-tank for a sustainable development of Liechtenstein, invited the Institute of Architecture and Planning to think about the future spatial development of the principality. Anticipatory strategies are needed for adapting the urban structures of Liechtenstein in a way that the impacts of the social trends will not endanger but enrich the urban living environment. Therefore, we will think creatively about different kind of spatial models and scenarios for Liechtenstein in 2050 in a bigger scale. We also intent to zoom in and discuss specific spatial qualities on a smaller scale: where are the outskirts, the city centre(s), the central parks of Liechtenstein? We will adopt different methods of analysing the existing spatial qualities of Liechtenstein as urban layer analysis, perceptual walks etc. We will learn how to develop spatial models and scenarios for the future development of a (urban) landscape like Liechtenstein. We will deal with different kind of scenarios (status quo, trend scenario, alternative scenario, contrast scenario) and compare them to each other. We will experiment with different forms of visualising these spatial qualities – with landscape models, virtual models, movies etc. In an internal jury process with the think-tank, three works of students will be selected for a further scientific consideration. Besides we will work on an exhibition during the semester.

Design Studio

Studio Luis Hilti, Matilde Igual Capdevial, Bianca Böckle Integration: Christoph Frommelt, Ümit Mesci

Studio Venice.

Cross-country experiments in architecture The conquest of a remote territory from agricultural expansion to the first adventurers, to infrastructural development, to tourism, is a compelling narrative to capture Liechtenstein. We are set to explore the history of remoteness in the country and the architectures it entails, through Walking, Writing and Building. An arbitrary line drawn on a map will guide our research. We will attentively study everything we cross while following the line: the Rhine banks, the streets of Vaduz, the castle, the fields, the cow pastures, the power station, the tunnel, the farmer’s huts, the woods, the rocks, the cheese factory, the ski resort, the familiar and the unknown, the accessible and the remote. Together, we will walk across Liechtenstein, from one border to the other, gathering impressions and carry out experiments. While strolling, we will collectively sketch ideas for in-situ wooden constructions. «To opt for minimal intervention is to guarantee that the significance of whatever already exists will be apprehended in full and accepted.» These interventions will provide «the opportunity to emphasise nature’s free gifts of light – sunlight and moonlight, air, gravity, materials – natural and man-made resources.» Each student will carefully design, prototype and build onto the landscape one of the structures. The studio seminar will encourage an immersive scrutiny of the landscape through the practice of walking and a collaborative approach to design and construction. «As a literary structure, the recounted walk encourages digression and association, in contrast to the stricter form of a discourse or the chronological progression of a biographical or historical narrative. This kind of unstructured, associative thinking is the kind most often connected to walking, and it suggests walking as not an analytical but an improvisational act.»

The students are invited to take part in the exhibition taking place during the Biennale’s opening weekend in Venice. Studio Venice is part of Liechtenstein’s contribution to this year’s architecture Biennale in Venice. Students will contribute to the Exhibition in Venice and to the accompanying publication.

Design Studio

Studio Dietrich Schwarz Tutor: Rodrigo Alba

Mexico – Landscape Habitat as an existential basis To build – to sustain – to be : The task will be to make programmatic and architectonic proposals for a rural community in the state of Oaxaca, a region that was very damaged by the earthquakes that hit Mexico last September. Beyond the catastrophe, the earthquake left spaces not only to re-think the way of construction, but also the way of life. In that sense, we will look for solutions that bring people back in relation to their landscape.

Conserve – communicate – recreate – culture: We will focus on a rural region in Mexico, where people are still strongly related to their ethnic roots and to the land, a place where culture plays a primordial role in the quality of life of the inhabitants. This semester the studio will collaborate with the community and with different experts like artisans and engineers, as well as two organizations, «Red Global de Mexicanos» and «Techo» to seek that one of the projects becomes a reality.

Design Seminar

Studio Anne Brandl Tutor: Martin Mackowitz

Ruhr area: the aesthetics of an agglomeration The Ruhr area is one of Europe’s major agglomerations with an industrial history. But since more than twenty-five years the region has undergone a fundamental structural change. Settlement, industry, infrastructure, urban agriculture and forestry created a new typology of‌ well, what?

Landscape, agglomeration, metropolis, polycentric region?

We will discover the region by hiking and biking. We want to approximate the agglomeration from its outskirts, discussing the problems, opportunities and challenges of an (required?) aesthetic care. Finally, we want to discuss, if the developed strategies of the Ruhr area can be transferred to the Alpine Rhine Valley.

Together we want to explore the variety of the Ruhr area in form of field research and selfawareness. We will set a variety of topics that we are going to discover: urban quality of life, free mobility, agriculture and self-sufficiency, urban culture and heritage, diversity etc.

Design Seminar

Studio Luis Hilti, Matilde Igual Capdevial, Bianca Böckle Strolling into the wild

Following a straight line, we will walk, ski and sledge across the entire country of Liechtenstein and traverse its extreme topography from the most vivid spots in the center of Vaduz to the most remote valleys in the mountains. Where possible, we won’t follow existing paths or roads and see where the line takes us.

Our base camp will be a remote mountain hotel at the top end of a sledge run. There, we will – apart from sledding races – develop ideas of architectural reactions to the landscapes encountered. In a stable used by cows in summer, we will have the power-tools and materials needed to build first prototypes. Night strolls and day trails will be complemented by discussions, workshops and inputs on the historical conquest of remote landscapes and complex topographies, and the architecture it produced.

Studio Venice is part of Liechtenstein’s contribution to this year’s Architecture Biennale in Venice. Students will contribute to the exhibition in Venice and to the accompanying publication.

Design Seminar

Studio Dietrich Schwarz Tutor: Rodrigo Alba

Oaxaca, Mexico: Cultural roots

The design seminar will take us to Oaxaca, Mexico, where we will do workshops together with the community to understand their needs and their every-day practices. We will learn from the local culture and traditions to be able to give better solutions for the project. We will also visit architecture from different periods in history, from the Zapotec culture, colonialism, post-colonialism and different contemporary projects that have learned from the traditional constructions. We will have as a base the city of Oaxaca, from where we will travel to the different sites and to the community. At the end of the trip we will also have a couple of days to experience the life of the metropolis in Mexico City.

Design Seminar

Erasmus+ Sommerworkshop

Stadt / Studio 1:1 Tutor: Martin Mackowitz

Tutor: Cornelia Faisst / Dalal Elarji

Society in Motion

Migration is the key driver of urban change worldwide. In the three years summer workshop series in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Bergen School of Architecture, the current situation of people in motion, socially, architecturally and spatially on multiple levels as they have social and economic capital will be analysed. The aim is to investigate architectural and spatial challenges for new emerging society in motion from various perspectives. In this context, the issues will be discussed in open dialogue together with students, teachers, researchers, local and regional experts and actors.

The workshop 2018 is supported by an Erasmus+ grant for strategic partnership for higher education and will take place from July 31st to August 9th 2018 in Vienna, Austria together with students and researchers from Bergen School of Architecture, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Liechtenstein.

Tee Haus Platz

In a Summer Workshop we will install and build the first Intervention of the Stadt/ Studio in Feldkirch 1:1. We are looking for 16 passionate people to make our team complete and competent. On the base of the designs developed in the Bachelor Short Design Studio C we will create a final and realizable plan and build our Intervention ÂŤTee Haus PlatzÂť 1:1 on the Raiffeisenplace in Feldkirch. If you see yourself as a hands on person and have a background with competent skills that fits to the Stadt/ Studio team, please apply. It will all end in a huge opening party!

Lecture series

Transparency Concept: Anne Brandl, Clarissa Rhomberg and Martin Mackowitz

Transparency is a key feature of today's society. But is transparency also a current topic in architecture and urban planning? Is the current trend towards large-scale glazed buildings merely an expression of a new material or an artistic response to social changes? Does transparency in buildings ultimately result in more visible processes within a building or is it only a characterisation of the materiality?

The Institute for Architecture and Planning at the University of Liechtenstein will conduct a lecture series from autumn 2017 onwards for one year. In the series, different disciplinary perspectives will deal with the literary, the transposed and the organisational understanding of transparency; taking into account the perspectives of architecture, landscape architecture, conceptual design, perception-oriented urban research and participatory urban development.

12.04.2018, Thu 6–7.30pm AGLAÉE DEGROS – THE FLUIDITY OF PUBLIC SPACE IN EUROPE AFTER PARIS ATTACKS ON NOVEMBER 2015 Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein 07.06.2018, Thu 6–7.30pm ANNETTE FREYTAG – TRANSPARENCY AS A TRIGGER FOR A REORIENTATION OF SWISS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THE 1980s Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein

2018 SUMMER SEMESTER

Lecture Series: Transparency

Institute of Architecture and Planning

INFO-EVENT 02.05.2018, Thu 6-7pm INFO EVENING MASTER Cafeteria, University of Liechtenstein Information and counselling on the Master´s degree programm in Architecture www.uni.li/architecture

VARIOUS 09.06.2018, Sat 10am-12pm DIES ACADEMICUS Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein University Day

PRESENTATIONS 19.-20.04.2018, 9am-5pm MIDTERM PRESENTATIONS University of Liechtenstein

LECTURES 22.02.2018, Thu 6.30pm ROGER BOLTSHAUSER H1, University of Liechtenstein 01.03.2018, Thu 6pm TRANSPARENCY II – PECHA KUCHA Atelier, University of Liechtenstein 08.03.2018, Thu 6pm ANNE BRANDL – INAUGURAL LECTURE H1, University of Liechtenstein 15.03.2018, Thu 5.30pm CONSTRUCTIVE ALPS 2017 Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein 17.05.2018, Thu 6pm SIMON PHIPPS H1, University of Liechtenstein

SYMPOSIUM 26.04.2018, Thu 8.30am-12pm OPEN REVIEW Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein 25.-27.06.2018, 9am-5pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS University of Liechtenstein

12.06.2018, Di 9.00-18.00 Uhr GREEN SUMMIT Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein Registration www.uni.li/greensummit www.uni.li

12.04.2018, Thu 6-7.3opm AGLAÉE DEGROS – THE FLUIDITY OF PUBLIC SPACE IN EUROPE AFTER PARIS ATTACKS ON NOVEMBER 2015 Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein The essence of the European city is the life that exists between buildings, the public space! It is by definition a place to meet, to cross, to lounge for this purpose it required a certain fluidity of the space.

This fluidity nowadays transforms since many European cities – Paris, Bruxelles, Nice, Berlin, London – are confronted with terrorism using the public space as a field for attacks. The lecture will survey the transformation of the fluidity of the space and reflect on it.

Aglaée Degros is professor and chair of the Institute of Urbanism at Graz University of Technology. Aglaée was born

in 1972 in Leuven, Belgium, and studied architecture in Brussels, Karlsruhe, and Tampere. In 2001, she cofounded Artgineering, an office dedicated to improve the relation between landscape, city and infrastructure based in Rotterdam, which moved to Brussels in 2014. Degros has held various teaching positions and visiting professorships at Delft University of Technology, the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, the Free University of Brussels, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Vienna University of Technology, among others. Degros is co-editor of Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe (2013) and co-author of Brussels, [re]discovering its spaces (2014). She regularly serves as a jury member at international urban planning and design competitions.

07.06.2018, Thu 6-7.3opm ANNETTE FREYTAG – TRANSPARENCY AS A TRIGGER FOR A REORIENTATION OF SWISS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THE 1980S Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein The essay Transparency, written by Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky in 1964 had a big impact on Swiss architecture and Swiss landscape architecture of the 1970s and 1980s. The resulting text by Rowe and Slutzky was one outcome of their experimental teaching, though Bernhard Hoesli later attempted to establish the concept of transparency as a reliable design method in the entry-level course for architecture at the ETH Zurich, where he was appointed as professor. The lecture of Annette Freytag will focus on this very special moment in Swiss landscape architecture as Dieter

Kienast was a key figure in reorienting the profession during the 1980s. After an introduction to the concept and its meaning for Kienast in particular, the lecture will focus on two urban parks, where Kienast first used the principles of transparency.

Anette Freytag is an award-winning scholar, educator and critic. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century landscape architecture. Her quest is to bridge the gap between landscape history and contemporary practice, thus bringing new impulses to the profession.

Before joining the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University as Associate Professor in the Fall of 2016, she has taught undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students at ETH Zurich, the Universities of Basel, Innsbruck and Leuven and HSR Rapperswil.

EXHIBITIONS 22. – 27.02.2018 TERRA AWARD Foyer, University of Liechtenstein Contemporary earth architecture 15. – 26.03.2018 CONSTRUCTIVE ALPS 2017 Foyer, University of Liechtenstein 20.04. – 12.05.2018 TRANS~PARENZEN: KUNST & FENSTER Cafeteria, University of Liechtenstein 04. – 13.05.2018 VORARLBERGER HOLZBAUPREIS 2017 Foyer, University of Liechtenstein 18.05. – 03.06.2018 FINDING BRUTALISM Foyer, University of Liechtenstein 27. – 30.05.2018 THE LINE – A CROSS-SECTION THROUGH LIECHTENSTEIN Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Venedig Architecture Biennale contribution of Principality of Liechtenstein

VERNISSAGE 22.02.2018, Thu 7.30pm TERRA AWARD Foyer, University of Liechtenstein 15.03.2018, Thu 7pm CONSTRUCTIVE ALPS 2017 Foyer, University of Liechtenstein 19.04.2018, Thu 6pm TRANS~PARENZEN: KUNST & FENSTER Cafeteria, University of Liechtenstein 03.05.2018, Thu 6pm HOLZBAUPREIS 2017 Foyer, University of Liechtenstein 17.05.2018, Thu 7pm FINDING BRUTALISM Foyer, University of Liechtenstein 28.06.2018, Thu 6pm ARCHITECTURE ANNUAL EXHIBITION AND SUMMER PARTY University of Liechtenstein

29.06. – 12.08.2018 ARCHITECTURE ANNUAL EXHIBITION University of Liechtenstein www.uni.li/architecture

Imprint Institute of Architecture and Planning at the University of Liechtenstein, February 2018 Editorial: Cornelia Faisst Graphic Concept: Annett Höland Print: BVD Druck+Verlag AG