After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• Define the framework for necessary research based on a research question.
• Describe and analyze specific attributes of architecture
• Conduct comparative research of built environments with different cultural backgrounds.

The course offers an introduction to social and cultural science aspects of architectural research. Teaching methodological tools to independently conduct empirical studies and make the results understandable. Special emphasis is laid on comparative architectural research, in which relationships between different aspects of the built environment in different cultural areas are compared or related to each other. This is intended to provide an understanding of the importance of the socio-cultural environment in shaping architecture. From this context, students should develop their own research questions to investigate this same sociocultural environment and its mediation.

•Introduction into the culture, art and architecture of Iran with a focus on Yazd and Isfahan
•intorduction into the World Heritage Convention and its implications
•Introduction into comparative research and analysis
•Practical Exercises
•Introduction into scientific writing
•Supervision for the writing of a paper as could be presented for a conference

INTRODUCTION: Monday, 08.03.2020 Online

https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/93368130365

Compilation of research results on a specific topic

optionally a paper in this or in LVA 251.747

Requirements: At least one completed seminar or another theoretical work and basic experience in research