After successful completion of the course, students are able to identify architecture as a site where 'world pictures' and 'world models' manifest and express themselves. Through the two VOs Architekturtheorie 1 and 2, they have been introduced to think about technology from a philosophical point of view and have learnt to relate critically to architecture. They have acquired knowledge of a broad spectrum of stances and approaches to architecture theory throughout history as well in the contemporary condition. They are introduced to the key concepts and instruments (language and mathematics) at work in architecture theory. With this, students are capable of grasping and relating critically to the complex entanglement between theory, technics, knowledge, skill and power. They learn to recognise analog situations throughout different domains, and how to locate and contextualise them respectively. They are familiar with the fact that, and in a basic sense also with how, different theoretical stances entail different implications and effects upon a the respective practice .
The lecture courses Architecture Theory 1 + 2 are concerned with architecture with respect to anthropological, social, cultural, political, economical, technical, mathematical, theories of science, technology, and communications, as well as aesthetic, religious (both history and practice), and gender related discourses and disciplines.
VO Architecture Theory 1 guides the students through a broad historical spectrum (with respect to developments in science, culture, and architecture). It introduces conceptual and mathematical instruments at work in architecture theory, and it learns to distinguish a variety of 'theoretical gestures' in how these abstract instruments have been and are being 'played' by architects.
VO Architecture Theory 2 builds upon the first lecture course, and attends mainly to more recent and contemporary architecture and architecture theory.
Programm S 2024
(all lectures are online at the ATTP YouTube Kanal)
Background Literature:
Robert Doran, The Theory of the Sublime (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015)
Lars Spuybroek, Gravity and Grace (Bloomsbury, London 2020)
Gilles Clément, Planetary Gardens (Birkhäuser, Basel 2008)
Massimo Cacciari, Europe and Empire: On the Political Forms of Globalization (Combined Academic Pub., 2016)
Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (MIT Press 2011)
Junya Ishigami, Another Scale for Architecture (Art Data, 2017)
Kengo Kuma, The Anti-Object: The Dissolution and Disintegration of Architecture (AA press, London 2008)
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Discussion of key texts in contemporary architecture theory in the weekly lectures; individual reading and preparing of the texts, including further research to better grasp these texts in their larger contexts under the guidance of the lectures. The students will follow the lectures in their own pace and time (online recordings).
Diskussion von Schlüsseltexten der gegenwärtigen Architekturtheorie in den Vorträgen, individuelle Lektüre und Recherche zur Vor/Nachbereitung der Vorlesungssitzungen. Die Studierenden schauen sich die Vorträge im Selbststudium an, aber es werden 4 live Termine stattfinden um die Inhalte gemeinsam zu reflektieren, diskutieren, und verorten.
As of S2024 this course will be examined in written form (live in the Hörsaal, essay writing). the course material remains the same (online Aufzeichnungen auf dem ATTP YouTube Kanal), but in preparation to the exam there will be weekly live lectures until Mid-May, with the main exam date end of May. (Details follow asap).
Written exam, live in the lecture hall (dates follow asap).
For any questions please contact: exams@attp.tuwien.ac.at
