Am Ende: Architektur. Die letzten 50 Jahre
A cooperation with the Architekturzentrum Wien (AzW), which is organizing an exhibition on the occasion of the leave of founding director Dietmar Steiner.
On the occasion of the demise of founding director Dietmar Steiner the AzW wil be questioning the present state of architecture. The rapid development of the last decades within a globalized world with constantly renewing technical and digital options has plunged the architecture (seen as an artistic and social phenomenon) in a crisis. Globally active big offices, Star architects, technologisation, a flood of norms and the legal and economic disempowerment of the profession are increasingly changing the role of architecture.
After a transition period of disorientation, new trends have emerged - socially engaged, historically conscious or regionally based - that again breathe life into the supposed stagnation of the discipline. Initially ridiculed as a niche or fads, the representatives of these movements have now taken over the theoretical discourse.
The exhibition will be meandering between present and past, and so will tell the story of architecture by taking the contemporary architectural landscape as starting point.
The course is bilingual (German/English) and subdivided into three main parts. The units will be detailed further at the beginning of the semester.
a) Supervised research and formulation of a research question
b) Independent research and writing of an academic abstract
c) Oral presentation of the state of the art, construction of the argument and writing of the final paper
