After successful completion of the course, students are able to apply the combined  methodological approaches of Global Architectural History, Archival Research and Comparative Construction History. As a test field serve the temporary events of Word’s Fairs from London 1851 to Dubai 2020 with their ephemeral architectures, with a focus on the building histories of the Austrian pavillions.

 Students lern and test the combined methods of Global Architectural History, Archival Research and Coparative Construction History with those cultural-politcal Super-Shows which, since the mid 19^th-century until today and with changing host coutries and their exhibition sites (e.g. London, Paris, New York to Osaka, Shanghai and Dubai), staged architecture in a ‘spectacular’ way: World’s Fairs. With its historical analysis of the changing political, cultural and aestetic parameters for the staging of European and Non-European (Asian, African and American) building arts, the seminar intends to sharpen den analytical thinking of architectual practice in today’s globalised world. At the same time, students engage with the research about the Austrian pavilion architectures in previous world’s fairs from the 19^th to 21^st centuries: parallel to the main focus on the Vienna World’s Fair of 1873 and its diverse constructions, Viennese archives will be consulted, the involved Austrian architects contextualised with their various Austrian pavilion projects (from Paris 1900 to Hannover 2000, Shanghai 2010 to Dubai 2020) and the concrete planning and construction histories set in relation to the changing self-conceptions and international presentations of Austria.

The seminar fosters the theoretical reflection about the students’ own architectural positions with forms of scientific work (literature studies, visits to archives and libraries), oral presentations (indivdual, team work) and written samples (response papers, term papers). The docent provides the methodological approaches through impulse presentations and relevant readings; discussion formats among the students; and contacts to archives, collections and research libraries in Vienna; and helps the students with the application of scientific work techniques, and the text versions of their analyses. Eventually, a small exhibition at the TU Vienna and a small publications is planned.

Termine:

Weekly Mondays 15:00 - 17:00 in the seminar room 251 (staircase 3, 3rd floor)

Introductory meeting: Monday 14.10.2019 at 15:00 in the seminar room 251

Response papers for the weekly readings, oral presentations (eventually in team work), written term paper

Knowledge in scientific work procedures, good knowledge in English language