259.498 Architecture Theory 2
This course is in all assigned curricula part of the STEOP.
This course is in at least 1 assigned curriculum part of the STEOP.

2020W, VO, 1.5h, 2.0EC

TUWEL course

Properties

Semester hours: 1.5
Credits: 2.0
Type: VO Lecture
Format: Online

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of the course, students are able to identify architecture as a site where 'world pictures' and 'world models' manifest and express themselves. Through the two VOs Architekturtheorie 1 and 2, they have been introduced to think about technology from a philosophical point of view and have learnt to relate critically to architecture. They have acquired knowledge of a broad spectrum of stances and approaches to architecture theory throughout history as well in the contemporary condition. They are introduced to the key concepts and instruments (language and mathematics) at work in architecture theory. With this, students are capable of grasping and relating critically to the complex entanglement between theory, technics, knowledge, skill and power. They learn to recognise analog situations throughout different domains, and how to locate and contextualise them respectively. They are familiar with the fact that, and in a basic sense also with how, different theoretical stances entail different implications and effects upon a the respective practice .

Subject of course

The lecture courses Architecture Theory 1 + 2 are concerned with architecture with respect to anthropological, social, cultural, political, economical, technical, mathematical, theories of science, technology, and communications, as well as aesthetic, religious (both history and practice), and gender related discourses and disciplines.

VO Architecture Theory 1 guides the students through a broad historical spectrum (with respect to developments in science, culture, and architecture). It introduces conceptual and mathematical instruments at work in architecture theory, and it learns to distinguish a variety of 'theoretical gestures' in how these abstract instruments have been and are being 'played' by architects.

VO Architecture Theory 2 builds upon the first lecture course, and attends mainly to more recent and contemporary architecture and architecture theory.

Programm WS 2020 (still subject to possible change)

1 ONCE UPON A PLENITUDE: FORM

2 FORM UND LEBENDIGKEIT: VON MYTHO-POETIK ZU META-PHYSIK UND KULTURTECHNIK

3 URFORM, LEBENSFÜLLE, UND KOPIE

4 MECHANIK, ODER DER SCHLÜSSEL ALS MOTIV UND FIGUR

5 DER GENERISCHE GRUND ODER DIE NATUR DER DINGE

6 DIE SKALIERBARKEIT ALS NATUR DES INTELLEKTS

7 NO THING, NOTHING, NIHILIMS

8 UNILATERAL SYNTHESIS. ZUR MÖGLICHKEIT EINER ABSOLUTEN ARCHITEKTUR

9 FORM UND EINFLUSS: DAS "ANTI-OBJEKT"

10 GIFTS OF THE GARDENS OF PLANETARY SCALE

11 GRACE AND GRAVITY: THE NATURAL SUBLIME

12 BY WAY OF SCALE: ARCHITEKTUR IN DER ATOMZEIT

(alle Vorträge online auf dem ATTP YouTube Kanal)

Hintergrund Literatur:

u.a.

Robert Doran, The Theory of the Sublime (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015)

Lars Spuybroek, Gravity and Grace (Bloomsbury, London 2020)

Gilles Clément, Planetary Gardens (Birkhäuser, Basel 2008)

Massimo Cacciari, Europe and Empire: On the Political Forms of Globalization (Combined Academic Pub., 2016)

Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (MIT Press 2011)

Junya Ishigami, Another Scale for Architecture (Art Data, 2017)Kengo Kuma, The Anti-Object: The Dissolution and Disintegration of Architecture (AA press, London 2008)

Teaching methods

Discussion of key texts in contemporary architecture theory in the weekly lectures; individual reading and preparing of the texts, including further research to better grasp these texts in their larger contexts under the guidance of the lectures.

Gruppen Diskussionen live on ZOOM:

Topic: VO Architekturtheorie 2 WS2020
Time: This is a recurring meeting

https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/96276479818?pwd=ZFBUeG10OVpGb20wVWNHQndZZXdoUT09

Peer-to-Peer Diskussionen live on ZOOM
(organisiert von und mit Irinel Pintilie, Ruslan Dimov, Jacob Lindloff, Deyvi Papo).

Topic: Peer to Peer Meetings WS2020 - [259.498 - VO Architekturtheorie 2]
Time: Nov 2, 2020 05:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Every week on Mon, until Jan 25, 2021, 6 (8) occurrence(s)

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https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/94258395388?pwd=UHlML2lYbGtTelppcWNtd3JwaHh6dz09

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