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).
Introduction: online, Wednesday September 29 at 6pm
Students learn about culture-related characteristics of vernacular architecture. They will delve into regionally typical layouts, materials and constructions.
Basically, the course is organised as Distance-Learning-course.
Visits to museums, such as Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, the Welt Museum in Vienna or an open air museum in Austria depend on the particular present COVID-19 situation.
A. THEORYTheoretical teaching of the subject matter and object analysis are intertwined. Aspects of vernacular architecture are taught by means of specific examples. Museum visits or the architectural documentation of selected objects depend on the respective COVID-19 situation.
B. PRACTICE Selected objects or settlement structures are documented and analysed in terms of building typology and their cultural context.
There are 2 timetables, depending on COVID-19: Szenario 1. COVID-19 allows in situ building documentation: visit to a selected vernacular object in Austria including building survey and documentation.Szenario 2. COVID-19 does not allow in situ building documentation: archival and online research on certain objects, object groups and / or settlement structures.
Precondition for participation in this course is the participation in the course 251.449 Exkursion zu Baukunst I _GROUP 1-EXCURSION RURAL BUILDING IN LOWER AND UPPER AUSTRIA
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 task
