Wojciech Czaja

Most Architects just open their mouths, and nobody understands what they are talking about. Technical expressions, a bit of pseudo philosophy, paired with poor communication skills. Do you know that kind of experience? This seminar and workshop will help you to learn how to express yourself in different situations talking to different target groups such as architects, clients, investors, tenants,… 2024W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

First part of the seminar is a compact lecture series, which will provide a fast paced recap and overview of the principles of structural design and its application using well know illustrative examples. Following that, students will, in group work, analyze the structural systems and performance of a suitable built example - We will provide a choice of buildings for… 2024W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

This seminar will explore the integration of architectural and structural design using case studies (built examples/projects currently in development). Students will be working in groups. In the first part, you will be studying structural, construction, architectural and conextual aspects based one of the case studies. In the second part you will be looking critically at how the structural/architectural integration could… 2025S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrei Gheorghe

Integration of Structural design concepts into the architectural project. One to one tutorial based on appointment. Appointment managed through a google calendar run by Andrei Gheorghe. Appointments on Wednesday afternoons. Appointment length 20 minutes.   2024W/2025S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

ntegration of Structural design concepts into the architectural project. One to one tutorial based on appointment. Appointment managed through a google calendar run by Andrei Gheorghe. Appointments on Wednesday afternoons. Appointment length 20 minutes. 2024W/2025S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

The production of most of our current building materials requires large amounts of energy and produces unsustainable levels of carbon emissions. What are the emerging alternatives? What are the new materials that are being researched and tested? More importantly, what impact do they have on the tectonics of our buildings. What are the structural constraints and opportunities, and what does… 2024W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Bernhard Sommer

Das Wetter ist ein deterministisch chaotisches System und in der Folge ist die Aufgabe einer nachhaltigen Gestaltung der Umwelt hochgradig komplex, die Umwelt inklusive des menschlichen Tuns, ein hochgradig komplexes System. Es gibt keine letzt- oder allgemeingültige Bewertungsschema für die ökologische Verträglichkeit von Gebäuden oder gar städtebaulichen Entwicklungen, dazu erscheint das Thema zu komplex. Es gibt aber eine hinreichende Anzahl… 2025S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Sophie Grell-Prix

Course Overview: The seminar “Team Building Mediation” delves into the topics of mediation and team building, offering a comprehensive approach to understanding and managing interpersonal conflicts in organizational and creative contexts. The focus of this lecture is on exploring the dynamic interactions among team members in architectural projects. Teamwork is a fundamental element of the architectural creative process, as projects… 2024W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Clemens Preisinger

In diesem Seminar beschäftigen wir uns mit der Anwendung numerischer Simulationsmethoden und den mathematisch - physikalischen Grundlagen auf welchen diese basieren. Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt liegt im Bereich der Tragwerksanalyse. Nach einer Einführung in die grundlegenden Prinzipien der Computerprogrammierung erfolgt die Erstellung selbstgeschriebener Simulationsroutinen. 2024W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Theory of Arch 1 presents a survey of architectural theory from around 1970ies to this day, with an emphasis on contemporary developments since the nineties. The course will focus on questions of disciplinarity, form, mediums and media, as well as political, environmental and technological issues facing architecture today. In order to trace the transformation of thought, we will discuss each… 2024W, Vorlesung und Diskussion, 2.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Theory of Architecture 2 will focus on the agency of architecture and the role of the architect as producer from the nineties onwards. What is the role of the architectural imagination confronting contemporary issues like climate change, technological transformation, energy transition and social problems? How is the discipline of architecture constructed and reconstructed as architects address what is thought to… 2025S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Ongoing group and individualdiscussions for developing a diploma thesis in architecture with a focus on architectural theory.  2024W/2025S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY Drawing from a distorted view of a genre that may be coined speculative documentary the course puts emphasis on developing a sense of reality that resides within and beyond the factual and narrative of how inhabitable space can be known, described, analysed and imagined. Based on the movie The Wild Blue Yonder by Werner Herzog (2005), in… 2025S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Florian Medicus

Introduction into 'Structural Design' as an essential aspect of materialization in general and fundamental  application within Industrial Design. 2024W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

In lectures, readings and discussion, and by means of selected examples, common paradigms of urbanized landscapes and their spatial organizational principles are critically reflected in order to reassess their relevance  with regard to current dynamics. 2024W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

Urban Strategies Integration provides a framework for articulating and deepening an urban / landscape aspect of the pre-diploma project. In group discussions and individual meetings, students are guided through the process of formulating and testing a hypothesis by anchoring their reasoning in related discourses on a relevant focus of their choice. Note: Individual projects do not have to tackle large-scale… 2024W/2025S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS