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2017 SUMMER SEMESTER

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Master of Science in Architecture Institute of Architecture and Planning

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The upcoming Summer Semester 2017 will bring our work on «cultural identities» to a grand conclusion. The three exciting design studios will continue and deepen our architectural investigation into the theme.

The studio of Prof. Dietrich Schwarz and Daniel Penzis will work in the fabulous Veneto in Italy, challenging our understanding of landscape as a resource. Hugo Dworzak and Martin Mackowitz explore the typology of the hotel and question its star system and an exciting new studio, led by award winning architect Philip Lutz and Georgia Papathanasiou, focuses on defining a spatial identity through urban interventions on the beautiful Lake of Constance.

The studios are accompanied by exciting study trips to Italy, Spain or Norway, literally broadening our horizons. Together with the work already produced in the previous semester, the studio results are part of a big summer exhibition to be opened during a festive public event on June 29th 2017.

I can’t wait to see the surely amazing results of what is going to be a fascinating and intensive Summer Semester 2017.

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

Design Studio

Studio Hugo Dworzak Tutor: Martin Mackowitz

The Allstar Hotel

Globalism, without doubt has connected the world economically and has created dependency amongst countries. On the contrary the social spectrum has drifted apart. The rich became richer and the poor poorer.

As this gap widens the danger of conflict rises. To at least make a homoeopathic effort against this tendency we design THE ALLSTAR HOTEL that ranges from zero to six stars. Refugees as well as millionaires, youth hostellers and seniors, illiterates and nobel prize winners, hetero and homosexuals, prostitutes and untouchables live under one roof. The wealthier pay tribute to the poor and the poorer contribute with skills.

We design a place for multicultural, multilingual and multisocial ÂŤinhabitantsÂť, where globalism is as concentrated as a 40 years old whiskey.

The site is either at the railway station of Bregenz in Austria or that of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Design Studio

Studio Philip Lutz Tutor: Georgia Papathanasiou

Transformation Lochau

Suburbia usually evokes a negative sentiment. Nevertheless, suburbia represents a considerable amount of European land and it is an area that is expanding with no limits, blurring the boundaries between what we used to call «countryside» and the city. Within this semester Studio Lutz/Papthanasiou will address the transformation of the area of Lochau (Austria). The municipality of Lochau belongs to Austria and it is located on the northern suburb of the regional capital Bregenz. From a topographic point of view Lochau is located between the natural borders of Bodensee and the mountains of the Pfänder. It is a city of 5’500 residents.

Lochau lacks of public spaces and services. It sustains its existence to surrounding cities like Bregenz, Lindau etc. Lochau mainly offers residential uses for permanent residents as well as for tourists. Throughout it´s existence Lochau always was a bottleneck for travelers from north to south, from Germany to the Alps and Italy. In former times foreign armies have been stopped here, today there is still a national border to Germany and Lochau is theater for regular traffic jams on sunny weekends. Lochau has developed between two main physical borders, the lake and the mountains; characteristics that give the area a great potential. Lochau is suburbia, but it is a scenic place. It´s waterfront and the buildings there contribute a grate share of the Skyline of the bay of Bregenz. It´s housing developments on the hillsides of the Pfänder give great locations for private life and evoke desires in many tourists.

Lochau is a gateway and gives a first impression what might be Austria for many Europeans passing by. The design studio sees this potential and would like to take the challenge and deal with its development as an area with hidden treasures and as an area that dynamically influences both the regional and the territorial scale. Building on the legacy of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s «Learning from Las Vegas», the studio will conduct a survey and a series of architectural design proposals for the area of Lochau and its surroundings. The studio declares its position towards an urban design approach that builds up its core and its development on the architecture itself. The studio will collaborate with key figures from the area and it will integrate experts from the field of urban design and architecture as well as natural scientists and graphic designers.

Design Studio

Studio Dietrich Schwarz Tutor: Daniel Penzis Integration: Viviana Ferrario

Using landscape

This semester we want to cultivate the nature. We want to use the landscape as a resource, to act functionally and to build the necessary infrastructures without destroying its beauty. The sustainable cultivation of the landscape leads to a new culture of construction. Freely adapted from Heidegger, the farmer is the one who builds (grows) the land and who builds the house. This duality of «to build» is essential and has its origin as human settled down getting a new self-understanding. The first form of «Ich bin» or the English basic form «to be» has the same root. «To be, or not to be, that is the question» It is a quote from the tragedy of Hamlet. The protagonist Hamlet begins his monologue with this sentence. He is not courageous enough to act decisively because he fears dying more than his yearning for death and his world pain.

«Sustainable development is the management and conservation of the natural resources base, and the orientation of technological and institutional change in such a manner as to ensure the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs for present and future generations.

Such sustainable development in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors conserves land, water, plant and animal genetic resources, is environmentally non-degrading, technically appropriate, economically viable and socially acceptable» (FAO, 1988) The fact, that we Europeans already require three planets to cover our resource needs, raises the question of the relationship between resource consumption and quality of life. Whereby we want to cover our consumption by renewable resources.

Interestingly this is in direct relation to our land consumption and building culture. Construction is not only restricted to the built city but also to the cultivated land. This developing culture should define our quality of life and self-understanding. Task: Urban development, architecture and construction will be analysed, questioned and newly developed. We follow the principle: «Synchronized thinking of city and landscape». In a globalized world where merchandise goods and population circumnavigate the world seemingly free, comes the question of the cultural identity of the individual; is the environment on which we act as humans, original or artificial, real or virtual? What makes us people from, that what we consume, or what we produce?

Design Seminar

Studio Hugo Dworzak Tutor: Martin Mackowitz

Intercultural coexistence Sevilla / Cordoba / Granada The three cities are the cultural centres of Andalusia, their history - over a period of eight hundred years ¬– documents the qualities of intercultural coexistence. The time between early 800 and the year 1492 were amongst the most prosperous, both in economical as well as cultural terms of the Iberian peninsula. The Moorish culture is architecturally still evident, its traces are still visible in today´s daily life.

Coexistence of different cultures, religions, societies demands inclusiveness – an inviting atmosphere.

We will walk along the path of hospitality – visit places of invitation and open(minded)ness and learn that the built environment is an expression of cultural attitudes and societal behaviour. Our field of interest is what has survived, continues to influence and how our time reacts on a past that is still present through its built structures.

We will be accompanied by the question: «for the society to come, what could be possible architectural offers and answers?»

We will share some time and visits with the studio of Dieter Jüngling.

Our paths cross throughout the excursion week.

Design Seminar

Studio Philip Lutz Tutor: Georgia Papathanasiou

Southern Norway

We think in layers and in patterns. There is the pattern of rocks and water, the landscape, the «work of god». There is a layer of transit and infrastructure, the work of our nations and our engineers. And then there is the pattern of agriculture, settlement and architecture, our culture. We see all this in Lochau and we will have open eyes in Norway for the same things.

Oslo City walk, St. Johans Gate, Town Hall.

Oslo walk, seaside, Astrup Farnley museum, guided tour to the Opera. Holmenkol sports arena Snøhetta office Over the mountain plateau of hardangervidda to Bergen 7 hours drive, stopover at Eidfjord, hardanger tourist road. We rent two vans for 5 days and go west.

Bergen – Old town Brygge, hanseatic museum, fish market, mountain cable car, museums in the Center.

Bergen architecture school, Office opa-form Road trip to allmanajuvet zinc mine museum, Peter Zumthor, Ryfylke road; 4:30 hours wild fjord road, 3:30 hours Ryfylke seaside road to Stavanger.

Stavanger – Old town, wooden houses, conserve museum, ekofisk oil museum Helen&Hard architects Drive back to Oslo – Stopover at Vennesla Lybrary and at the Kilden Performing Arts Centre in Kristiansand Oslo – City walk to the museum island Bygdy. Folk house museum, ship museums

Design Seminar

Studio Dietrich Schwarz Tutor: Daniel Penzis

Agropolitana Veneto

Agropolitana: «Starting from the idea that it could be more useful to read the Veneto «città diffusa» not only as a urban sprawl region with rural/urban conflicts, but instead also as a small metropolis with agriculture inside. This research is trying to explore the possible coexistence between urban spaces and agriculture in an interwoven agro-urban pattern.» Viviana Ferrario The journey will take us to the Veneto. We will analyse the «città diffusa» with its strengths and weaknesses. Therefore we have to think the city and the landscape at the same time. We will study the cities Padua, Vicenca, Treviso and the urban sprawl between. We will develop a coexistence between food production and urbanity in terms of sustainable, architectural projects. In this context we will also think about biosphere food, green houses, the city as a compact nucleus, vernacular architecture... To encourage exchanges there will be a workshop with students at the IUAV in Venice.

Design Seminar

Build.Erasmus+ Erasmus+ Summer Workshop Workshop Tutor: Cornelia Faisst / Clarissa Rhomberg

Tutor: Urs Meister / Carmen Rist

Society in Motion Skilling landscapes borne in Norway

Crafting the façade: Reuse, Reinvent, Reactivate

The discovery of Norwegian North Sea oil in December 1969, led to a heady transformation in the built environment and settlement patterns of the nation’s Western coastline. Whilst the broad phenomena of specialist industrialisation and urbanisation has been widely documented, the 2017 «Societies in motion» Summer workshop will seek to uncover the spatial complexities that have evolved in response to the movement patterns of successive generations of skilled labour migrants in Norway.

Multi-scalar explorations of shortlisted localities, using various interdisciplinary techniques, will provide opportunity to document and celebrate this half century of technical, cultural, economic and social migration, and to propose enhancement through alternative spatially designed interventions.

The workshop is supported by an Erasmus+ grant for strategic partnership for higher education and will take place from July 28th to August 6th 2017 in Bergen Norway together with students and researchers from Bergen School of Architecture, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Liechtenstein.

Limburg, Netherlands, 17. - 23. August 2017 For the final symposium – workshop in August 2017 we travel to Limburg in the south of the Netherlands. In this region they have been building castles, cloisters and farmhouses with a combination of stone, brick and timber. Stone is extracted from a local Kunraderstone quarry. Bricks are baked from river Maas clay and timber is harvested from the local forests.

The workshop takes place in the playground of a historical Castle site where students experiment freely with the available materials in search of that which opens our eyes, surprises us and tempts us to take new steps in the design process. During the days we will present the results of the Crafting the Façade project, discuss with experts and built three pavilions with stone, brick and timber.

The workshop will be in collaboration with IBA Parkstad www.iba-parkstad.nl

2017 SUMMER SEMESTER

Institute of Architecture and Planning

ARCHITECTURE ANNUAL EXHIBITION 29.06.2017, Thu 6pm VERNISSAGE Atelier and Foyer, University of Liechtenstein 30.06.-25.08.2017 EXHIBITION Atelier and Foyer, University of Liechtenstein www.uni.li/architecture

PRESENTATIONS 11.-13.04.2017, Wed-Fri, 9 am-5 pm MIDTERM REVIEWS Foyer, Atelier and Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein 26.-28.06.2017, Mon-Wed, 9 am-5 pm FINAL REVIEWS Foyer, Atelier and Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein SYMPOSIA 05.-06.05.2017, Fri-Sat CRAFTING THE FAÇADE: REUSE, REACTIVATE, REINVENT Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein Erasmus+ Symposium and Excursion in Cooperation with the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow and the Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam 23.05.2017, Tue, 9 am-6 pm GREEN SUMMIT 2017 Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein

VERNISSAGE 06.04.2017, Do 18.00 Uhr WOOD WORKS Foyer, Universität Liechtenstein 11.05.2017, Thu, 6 pm 1 BY 1. MY ARCHITECTURE Foyer, University of Liechtenstein 29.06.2017, Thu, 6 pm ARCHITECTURE YEAR EXHIBITION Atelier and Foyer, University of Liechtenstein

EXHIBITIONS 27.02 – 15.03.2017 KURZENTWURF D. FENSTER UND TÜREN Foyer, Universität Liechtenstein The studio of Carment Rist are presenting the results of the winter term 2016-17.

MISCELLANEOUS 07.04.2017, Fri, 5pm GRADUATION CEREMONY University of Liechtenstein www.uni.li/architecture

16.03. – 31.03.2017 KURZENTWURF B. KOMPLEXITÄT DES WOHNENS Foyer, Universität Liechtenstein The studio of Robert Mair are displaying their current projects.

04.04.-13.04.2017 WORLD EXCURSION FORUM Foyer, University of Liechtenstein 06.04.-8.5.2017 WOOD WORKS Foyer, Universität Liechtenstein The studio of Urs Meister and Carmen Rist are presenting the results of the winter term 2016-17, the third part of the Erasmus+ cooperation CRAFTING THE FAÇADE. 12.05.-02.06.2017 1 BY 1. MY ARCHITECTURE Foyer, University of Liechtenstein One Teacher, One Project 30.06.-25.08.2017 ARCHITECTURE ANNUAL EXHIBITION Atelier and Foyer, University of Liechtenstein

Imprint Institute of Architecture and Planning at the University of Liechtenstein, February 2017 Editorial: Cornelia Faisst Graphic Concept: Annett Höland Foto: René Caamaño Parada / Anna Jaimes Camargo / Ilse Gabriela Martínez Gonzáles Print: BVD Druck+Verlag AG