Wolf Mangelsdorf

First part of the seminar is a compact lecture series, which will provide a recap and overview of the principles of structural design and its application using built and unbuilt examples, with four lectures in total and time for discussion and further explanations. Following that, students will analyze the structural systems and performance of a suitable built example of their… 2023W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

This seminar will explore the integration of architectural and structural design using case studies (built examples). 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 have been resolved… 2024S, 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.   2023W/2024S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

Integration of Structural design concepts into the architectural (studio) 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. 2023W/2024S, 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 greenhouse gas 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… 2023W, 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… 2024S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Sophie Grell-Prix

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 often require… 2023W, 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. 2023W/2024S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Theory of Arch 1 presents a survey of architectural theory from around 1945 to this day, with emphasis on contemporary developments since the nineties including formalism, postmodernism and digital design as well as the impact that cultural theories and movements like feminism, environmentalism and decolonization have made on architectural thought. The course will trace the transformation of architectural ideas, articulate… 2023W, Vorlesung und Diskussion, 2.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Theory of Arch 2 (term 2) will consist of lectures, seminar discussions and class presentations. It will trace the transformation of architectural ideas, articulate the links between specific examples and their social and cultural contexts, deepen the theoretical underpinnings of architectural form and map the limits of how the field of architecture has expanded in order to address contemporary questions.… 2024S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Ongoing group and individualdiscussions for developing a diploma thesis in architecture with a focus on architectural theory.  2023W/2024S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

The course draws attention to diverse connotations and contradictory relations of Wastelands to living spaces. By means of individual narrations, we adopt all sorts of possible and—maybe impossible—vantage points of exploration, demonstrated by actual situations the world currently produces. 2024S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

Urban Strategies Integration provides a framework for articulating and deepening an urban aspect of the pre-diploma project. In individual meetings, students are guided through the process of formulating and testing a hypothesis by anchoring their reasoning in urban discourses on a relevant focus of their choice. Note: Individual projects do not have to tackle large-scale urban designs in order to… 2023W/2024S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

In lectures, readings and discussion, and by means of selected examples, common paradigms of urban and spatial organizational principles are critically reflected in order to reassess their relevance with regard to current dynamics. PRODUCTIVE.LAND looks at different scales of urbanized landscapes questioning the relationship between densely built cores and seemingly supportive hinterlands. Through written essays, we explore —and speculate with… 2023W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Baerbel Mueller

[Applied] Foreign Affairs Integration provides pre-diploma students the framework to incorporate an experimental, transcultural and transdisciplinary approach and the expertise of [A]FA to feed their thesis interests on a methodological, thematic, and artistic level. Thereby, "applied research" is central. The outcome of the course will be an individual collection of "fragments of knowledge", in the format of a "set of… 2024S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS