Environmental History and Theory: Building Environments
Tulay Atak
Architecture, Architecture
2023S, Vorlesungen (VO), 2.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S04598
Description
Considering selected case studies in contemporary architecture and recent history, this course will study the ways in which architects and theorists have been proposing to construct new environments. The case studies will include Haus Rucker Co, the Missing Link, John McHale, John Habraken, Design Earth, Cave Bureau, Francis Kere, Olalekan Jeyifous among others and will address different mediums of architecture including building, drawing, text and performance. Through examples in various media, we will consider the different definitions of environment in architecture and the theories that support these definitions.
Environmental history and theory provides a way to consider architecture in relation to histories of energy, extraction, infrastructure, production, supply chain and labor. The environmental lens on history is a way to encompass all the elements of the built world (people, place, technology), allowing for making connections across a variety of scales from building details to cities. Environmental history and theory provide ways to consider architecture’s disciplinarity, how research is defined in architecture and how architecture incorporates knowledge from other disciplines. It offers a vantage point where the limits of the discipline come into view, where new affinities can be drawn and articulated, and where we can ask the question, “how do we know what we know?” and “what can we do with what we know?”
Examination Modalities
Attendance is mandatory for this class. Students who have more than three unexcused absences will not receive a grade.
Dates
02 March 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 3
09 March 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 3
16 March 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 10
23 March 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 3
30 March 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 3
20 April 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 3
27 April 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 3
04 May 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 3
11 May 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 8
25 May 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 10
01 June 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 8
15 June 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 3
22 June 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 3
29 June 2023, 10:00–12:00
Course Enrolment
The online registration was already closed
Curriculum Allocation
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
TransArts - Transdisciplinary Arts (Bachelor): Theoretical foundations: Theoretical foundations 180/003.01
Architecture (Master): Expertise: Theory: Theory of Science and Theory of Society 443/003.03
Expanded Museum Studies (Master): Electives: Theory and History of Architecture 537/080.22
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie und Geschichte : Architekturtheorie, Architekturgeschichte 566/208.06
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie, Geschichte: Architekturtheorie, Architekturgeschichte 567/208.06
Studies in Art and Culture (Master): Electives Area 2: History and Theory of Architecture 568/006.13
Design: Specialisation in Graphic Design (2. Section): Theoretical Basics: Humanities 576/203.02
Design: Specialisation in Graphics and Advertising (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 577/203.02
Design: Specialisation in Fashion Design (1. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Free Elective Pool Methodological and Theoretical Basics 584/103.80
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Media Theory,Art&Knowledge Transfer,Th. of Architecture,Th. and Hist. of Design 605/202.02
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice 605/202.80
Co-registration: possible
Attending individual courses: possible