After successful completion of the course, students are able to detect former factories or production facilities belonging to the aera of industrialization and to investigate the industrial survivals by using scientific research methods.

The search of lost factory buildings or survivals of historical traffic facilities as well the survey of abandoned industrial plants constitute the very content of the practical course. The field studies will be completed by the study of sources and by an introduction in oral history methods.

Out-door activities like field studies and surface survey as well as recording and photographic documentation.

In-door activities like the study of historic plan material, papers and documents in archives as well as literature investigation.

Term: weekly Tuesday 14:00 - 16:00

The introduction will be given on Wednesday, October 7th at 14:00 in Konferenzraum der FAK A+R (Stiege VI, 4. OG).

The results of the practical course will be written as a running commentary and also refered.

Blätter für Technikgeschichte (Industriearchäologie und Industriedenkmalpflege), Bd. 63 (2001) Roland Girtler: Methoden der Feldforschung. 4., völlig neu berarb. Aufl., Wien-Köln-Weimar 2001 Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson: Industrial Archaeology. Principles and practice, London and New York 1998 Axel Föhl: Bauten der Technik und Industrie (Schriftenreihe des Deutschen Nationalkomitees für Denkmalschutz, 47), Bonn 1994 G. Ulrich Grossmann: Einführung in die historische Bauforschung, Darmstadt 1993 Johannes Cramer: Bauforschung und Denkmalpflege. Umgang mit historischer Bausubstanz, Stuttgart 1987 Rainer Slotta: Einführung in die Industriearchäologie, Darmstadt 1982 Günter Drebusch: Industriearchitektur, München 1976

Fundamentals on the history of the industrial revolution.