After successful completion of the course, students are able to deal with the potentials and problems of certain historical architecture in a critical and solution-oriented manner.
>> THE EXCURSION MUST BE CANCELLED!!!
In the summer semester 2020, the course will focus on amorphous architecture in Iran and their special challenges in the context of preservation, conversion and the requirements of Charta of Venice . . .
Amorphous Architectures in Iran :: Caves and Earthen Structures!
Blocked lecture in workshop format!
In the summer semester 2020 the course focuses on amorphous architecture in Iran and its special challenges in the context of preservation and reuse . . .
Introduction: date coming soon . . !
- short introduction to the topics, targets and methods
- reader topics for the excursion
- "homework" to get a feel for the subject.
Superblock 1: Mid May three evenings in a row from 18:00 hrs
- Impulse lectures (and possibly film clips) on the topic Architecture :: Amorphous
- City walk Vienna :: Amorphous
- digital tools for communicating and organizing collaborative wor
- impulse lecture communication skills
- introduction to zotero, literature research and management,
- introduction to scientific work
Superblock 2: End of May/beginning of June 2020: Excursion to Iran (251.449 EX to Architecture I)
- flight to Tehran
- onward journey to Isfahan and Yazd (cooperation with the universities of Isfahan and Yazd)
- caves and earthen structures in Isfahan, Yazd, Kharanaq, Meybod etc.
- developing a research question
- documentation in text, sketch, film and photo
Superblock 3: in the week directly after excursion (ideally one evening)
- summary and analysis of the excursion results in groups and individually
- concept development to "answer" the respective research questionjoint implementation + development of an exposé and an abstract
- final workshop with presentations in pecha kucha style
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Examples of our digital tools in the workflow of the research exercises:
- slack and dropbox paper to communicate and organize
- zotero to create a group library
- etherpad and googledocs for writing in multiauthoring
In addition to the block courses, online phases for introduction and reflection and of course for getting to know each other are part of the course.
