After successful completion of the course, students are able to independently write a scientific paper. They have an overview of suitable research methods in the field of architecture and are able to formulate research questions. They have learned to formulate scientific arguments and are able to articulate themselves in different text formats.

Start date 7.3., 9:30, location to be announced. Supervision on Mon mornings.

Ambulatorium der Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse (3., Strohgasse 28), erbaut 1926/1927 nach Plänen von Fritz Judtmann und Egon Riss 

From Outpatient Clinic to Primary Health Care Centre

Every health system is characterised by permanent change. Since changes used to happen slowly and over longer periods of time, they were often not noticed by those affected. Currently, however, we are in the midst of a serious, almost exponential change in the health care system.

• On the one hand, we are seeing a shift in the age distribution, with an increase in older people, who are also more agile than previous generations. The number of centenarians is increasing. The degree of self-information of the responsible patient is also increasing (often with the help of "Dr.Google").
• On the other hand, we are experiencing rapid progress in medicine, in pharmacy, in medical technology. Today, medications and treatment methods are available that were unimaginable some time ago, such as targeted chemotherapies and point-oriented anaesthesia. Or outpatient "minimally invasive interventions" using the smallest of skin incisions without major surgical operations, which are usually followed by wound healing and inpatient hospital stays.

These new factors and also the decreasing possibility of financing the construction and operation of large high-tech / high-med hospitals have for years been leading to a shift from the inpatient to the outpatient sector and at the same time to a decentralisation of health care facilities. In the seminar we will deal with these "outpatient" facilities with the following focus:

• The different orientation of outpatient departments and outpatient clinics with their corresponding architectural forms.
• The images of the future, utopias and visions of individual past epochs on the respective expected development of health care facilities and what we can learn from them today for our visions and ideas of the future.

The method of the seminar is to write a scientific paper of approx. 30,000 characters (without appendix) on the basis of independent research. Possible subtopics include e.g:

- Outpatient facilities in the "Red Vienna".

- Primary Healthcare systemic: Austria, federal level / state level / policies >> Relation to architecture, spatial planning

- Primary Healthcare Buildings Austria

- Primary Healthcare buildings internationally

Due to the Corona pandemic changes in the organisation of the seminar may occur.

Paper, Presentation