After successful completion of the course, students are able to

1. understand essential features of vernacular architecture.
2.a. identify region-specific building typologies (based on a selected object).
2.b. understand specific traditional building techniques within a particular cultural context (based on a selected object).

Students learn about culture-related characteristics of vernacular architecture. Based on a selected object, students will delve into regionally typical layouts, materials and constructions. A visit to the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, the Welt Museum in Vienna and an open air museum in Austria accompany this course.

Theoretical teaching of the subject matter and object analysis are intertwined.
Aspects of vernacular architecture are taught by means of specific examples.
-Together we will visit the Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art with a focus on settlement and building typologies in Austria (entrance fee: 8€).

B. PRACTICE
Selected objects are documented and analysed in terms of building typology and their cultural context.
The choice of the object includes
1) historical architectural models from the collection of the Welt Museum.
2) 1:1 in situ objects.
-Together we will visit the architectural model collection in the Welt Museum (free entrance) and an open air museum in Austria (package entrance fee for all participants: 45€ not including travel costs; further details will follow during the course).

is based on an oral examination and the submission of an exercise paper
Exercises will be individual or group work according to the size of each object