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 9.3. 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.

Excursions are held physically. All activities will be adjusted to the particular present COVID-19 situation.

A. THEORY
Theoretical 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. The course includes a multi-day excursion to Heiligenbrunn, where we will devote ourselves to the vernacular architecture of southern Burgenland.

Link for Zoom Meeting:

https://oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/j/2522782819?pwd=QlFYZ3FyNEV3c2lOU3pUSDI2Z0J2Zz09

Meeting-ID: 252 278 2819
Kenncode: 6DJYCW

Recommended literature:

Feiglstorfer, Hubert und Erich Lehner. 2022. Das Bauernhaus Pierreith in Ertl, in: 100 Jahre Gemeinde Ertl. Ein Heimatbuch, Hg. Gemeinde Ertl, Ertl: Gemeinde Ertl, 269-284.

Feiglstorfer, Hubert. 2021. Vom Speichern und Lagern. Speicherbauten im Südburgenland, in: Geschichten von Häusern und Menschen, Hg. Museumsverein Oberschützen, Sonderausgabe Oberschützer Museumsblätter, Oberschützen: Museumsverein Oberschützen, 14-19.

Feiglstorfer, Hubert. 2020. Lehmbaubestand in Kellergassen, in: Kulturlandschaft der Kellergassen. Erforschung Schutz Erhaltung, ed. Gerold Eßer, Horn, Wien: Verlag Berger, 107–113.

Feiglstorfer, Hubert (Herausgeber). 2018. Earth Construction and Tradition. Volume 2, Vienna: IVA-ICRA Verlag.

Feiglstorfer, Hubert und Franz Ottner. 2022 (In Druck). The impact of clay minerals on the building technology of vernacular earthen architecture, in: Heritage 2022.

Feiglstorfer, Hubert und Roland Meingast. 2018. History of earth building in Eastern Austria, in: Earth Construction and Tradition, Volume 2, ed. Hubert Feiglstorfer, Vienna: IVA-ICRA Verlag, 21–83.

Lehner, Ercih und Hubert Feiglstorfer (Herausgeber). 2021. Freilichtmuseum Bad Tatzmannsdorf. Bautraditionen im Südburgenland, Wien: IVA-Verlag.

Schauppenlehner, Thomas, Renate Eder, Kim Ressar, Hubert Feiglstorfer, Roland Meingast and Franz Ottner (Herausgeber). 2021. A Citizen Science Approach to Build a Knowledge Base and Cadastre on Earth Buildings in the Weinviertel Region, Austria, in: Heritage 2021, 4(1), 125-139, doi:10.3390/heritage4010007.

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