In order to understand the connections between concepts and ideas in architecture, it is necessary to deal with different scenarios of the architectural environment. The aim of the course is to recognise and analyse the different perceptions and interpretations of architecture and built space caused by the respective cultural background. The aim is to raise awareness of evolutionary developments in architecture. This should make it easier, if not possible, to assess the degree of sustainability of future architectural solutions. Basically, two hypotheses are used: 

• The perception and interpretation of architecture and the built environment is indispensably dependent on the cultural background of the observer. 
• Architecture is understood as an international language. But depending on the individual cultural history, this is interpreted in very different ways. 

The course offers the opportunity to deal with forms of expression of architectural phenomena and urban spaces in different cultures in order to understand that a building can and must only be understood and designed in connection with its history and environment.

* Supplementary subject to the module Cultural Spaces (251.749)

Based on the lecture series on cultural heritage offered in the summer semester 2019, a freely chosen topic on the significance of cultural heritage for current architectural developments can be dealt with in a seminar paper.

The topics of the lectures deal with 

• Architecture and the World Heritage in the current discussion
• loam architecture 
• Non-European Architecture
• Orientalizing architecture in the Balkans 

>>>> Introduction: Monday March 11:00 am,  Seminar Room 251 Stair 3, Level 3

20-page seminar paper

On a self-chosen topic in connection with one or more lectures.