After successful completion of the course, students are able to...
… To know ways of applying, adapting and adopting technologies in conception and design and architecture.
... to discuss the significance of technologies and techniques in the design and analysis of architecture.
... to understand the different positions in architecture discourse on technology and techniques between classical modernism and postmodernism and to use them for one's own work.
... to articulate the differences between technologies and techniques.
Nowadays new developments in longer existing technologies have an astonishing influence on the everyday. Hence, we will look into and at robotics and artificial intelligence. We will familiarize with both, where they came from and why they got influential. The aim is to examine what consequences those technologies may have in Architecture in the widest scope, and what social and cultural techniques they might foster.
In general technologies and techniques are inseparable from Architecture. Moreover, at any time some Architects dared to evolve their ideas according or in resistance to the latest, at the time most complicated technologies, the most advanced media, or tried to develop so fare unknown techniques. One may say those people culturalised or tamedtechnology in making them constitutively for their architectural idea.
The resulting architectural diversity is stretched out in the course of the lecture. By polarizing and at the same time fusing case studies of projects and architecture topics such as, 'Encapsulating & Adaption', 'Organism & Network' or 'Psyche & Apparatus', to name a few.
Projects from 20th to the beginning of 21th century will be discussed. They get analyzed towards both, how, at different times technocultural ideas got turned into concepts of architecture, and, how these processes generated the sources of their own poetics and how they reshaped established meanings.
Meetings, see Modul Metaarchitektur
Place: Seminar room Architekturtheorie.
