After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand functional principles of historic building systems and constructional details and recognize qualities in these iteratively evolved systems.

Photo: Black hair tent of the Yöruk nomads in Selcuk, Turkey; Eva Kodzoman 2024

The lecture series historic.smart aims to provide students with an introduction into exceptional functional principles of historic buildings. Through enabling of physical precepts and specific material properties shown examples prove to be highly efficient. As antithesis to software-controlled building equipment and composite Materials found in current constructions, the elegance of simplicity as well as possibilities and limitations of such systems are shown to encourage a critical discourse about technophile solutions in today's architecture.

As participation to lectures and contribution to discussions are a central part of this course and there will be no written exam in regard to the content of lectures, only an individual paper with an own contribution to the topic, attendance is mandatory. Students not participating in lectures will have their place in the course given to someone in the waiting-list.

Lectures will take place in February 2024; You can find the exact dates and the selected lecture hall in the dates below.

The lectures will not be broadcast. Presence in the lecture hall is required.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN JANUARY 2025.

lecture series within two subsequent days

written submission via TUWEL as individual proof of individual engagement with the field

Attendance at the study days and participation in the surveys held there provide a basis for receiving a certificate from historical.smart.

Of the approximately 17 lectures, 3 lectures can be missed.

• Attendance at the lectures

• Written submission of an individual contribution to the discussion at TUWEL (checked by plagiarism detection software)