After successful completion of the course, students are able to design and conduct a qualitative- research design for a small project in the realm the research in the built environment and to conduct research. . Furthermore, the students gain basic methodological knowledge for working with scientific text and are able to present reflect and discuss their results. 

housing 1970s and after

Focus: Literature review 

Literature review is one of the first tasks in a research process steps when working on a grant application, writing an essay or as a crucial part of the PhD thesis. Research begins with an idea, or with a question, or a hypothesis. Have other researchers already worked on this? What results and publication are already available on the idea, question and hypothesis? A literature search is carried out, after which the found texts are analysed in relation to their own planned work and research gaps are identified.

Focus topic summer term 2022:
1970s housing

The thematic focus in the 2022 summer semester is housing production and expansion in the 1970s. 1970s are an era of disenchantment, when the spirit of optimism, upheaval and optimism of the 1960s ended. By 1970, the protests of 1968 have subsided. The escalation of Cold War crises is followed by the détente. The decade of development in the decolonized countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia gave way to disillusionment. Modernist architecture is criticized as technocratic and monotonous. The mid-1970s also marked the end of the three decades of welfare state economic activity (Les Trente Glorieuses 1945-1975), characterized by full employment, the rise in living standards and continued economic growth. However, the boom in mass housing construction in the urban expansion areas and New Towns goes on. A number of studies and publications on the extensive housing production of the 1970 is available. These studies, based on a variety of disciplines including architectural historiography, urban and housing studies and sociology, will be used for literature review which we will perform in this course.

Participants will first analyze and present selected texts. In this first analysis, the inner structure of the text should be exposed, and the 'storyline' briefly summarized and the terms used recorded and analyzed. In a second phase, a systematic literature review will carried out, either as group exercise or individual work.

DATES: (3.00-6.00 pm) 

11.3.22

25.3.22

08.4.22

20.5.22

10.6.22 

Selected course reading

Cupers K (2011) The expertise of participation: mass housing and urban planning in post‐war France. Planning Perspectives 26(1): 29–53. DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2011.527546.

Dostalík J (2020) The natural environment in socialist modernity: three case studies of new urban areas in Czechoslovakia (1966–1991). Planning Perspectives 35(5): 895–907. DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2020.1801494.

Glendinning M (2021) Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power-a Global History. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Huemer H and Kapeller V (2007) Bautechnik des Wiener Plattenbaus. Plattenbausanierung Wien - Bratislava 4. Wien: Inst. für Stadt- und Regionalforschung der Österr. Akad. der Wiss.

Huuhka S, Kaasalainen T, Hakanen JH, et al. (2015) Reusing concrete panels from buildings for building: Potential in Finnish 1970s mass housing. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 101: 105–121. DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2015.05.017.

Jany A (2019) Experiment Wohnbau: Die Partizipative Architektur Des Modell Steiermark. Architektur + Analyse Band 7. Berlin: Jovis.

Kadi J (2015) Recommodifying Housing in Formerly “Red” Vienna? Housing, Theory and Society 32(3): 247–265. DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2015.1024885.

Kadi J (2018) Die drei Phasen der sozialen Wohnungspolitik in Wien. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/download/60120935/Kadi_2018_Die_drei_Phasen_der_sozialen_Wohnungspolitik_in_Wien20190726-26097-17ezubq.pdf (accessed 21 February 2022).

Kapeller V and Bacová A (eds) (2006) Plattenbausiedlungen in Wien und Bratislava zwischen Vision, Alltag und Innovation. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Kemppainen T (2017) Disorder and Insecurity in a Residential Context: A Study Focusing on Finnish Suburban Housing Estates Built in the 1960s and 1970s. Research series 2017:2. Helsinki: City of Helsinki, Executive Office, Urban Research and Statistics.

Krivý M (2015) Greyness and colour desires: the chromatic politics of the panelák in late-socialist and post-socialist Czechoslovakia. The Journal of Architecture 20(5): 765–802. DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2015.1088053.

Lawson J (2010) Path Dependency and Emergent Relations: Explaining the Different Role of Limited Profit Housing in the Dynamic Urban Regimes of Vienna and Zurich. Housing, Theory and Society 27(3): 204–220. DOI: 10.1080/14036090903326437.

Matznetter W (1991) Wohnbauträger Zwischen Staat Und Markt: Strukturen Des Sozialen Wohnungsbaus in Wien. Campus Forschung Bd. 664. Frankfurt ; New York: Campus Verlag.

Matznetter W (1992) Organizational Networks in a Corporatist Housing System Non-Profit Housing Associations and Housing Politics in Vienna, Austria. Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research 9(sup2): 23–35. DOI: 10.1080/02815737.1992.10801440.

Matznetter W (2002) Social Housing Policy in a Conservative Welfare State: Austria as an Example. Urban Studies 39(2): 265–282. DOI: 10.1080/00420980120102966.

Monclús J and Díez Medina C (2016) Modernist housing estates in European cities of the Western and Eastern Blocs. Planning Perspectives 31(4): 533–562. DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2015.1102642.

Urban F (2020) Postmodernism and socialist mass housing in Poland. Planning Perspectives 35(1): 27–60. DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2019.1672208.

Presentations/ Responses, 

attendance

the seminar is for master or phd students only