Lecture Architecture Theory II (MA)
Architecture Theory II

At the centre of the lecture series are the basic concepts of architectural theory. The lectures are intended as an introduction to the conceptual terms that form the basis for understanding all architecture: Sign, image, simulacrum, history, phenomenon, aura, atmosphere, empathy, avant-garde, the new, tectonics, ruin, author, etc.
Linked to this is the question of a comprehensive definition of modernity. 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. -Ing. Jörg Gleiter

Time: Wednesdays, 16-18 h
Start: Wednesday, 14.04.2021, 16:15, live via Zoom

Zoom link: tu-berlin.zoom.us/j/61128780141 Registration: ISIS and QISPOS (from 15.04.21)
Lecture notes: ISIS link isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php

Introduction to Architectural Psychology
What can it achieve? (MA/BA)
Architectural Theory/Theory III

How do architectural spaces influence health, well-being, but also motivation, performance and social interaction? The focus of architectural psychology is the human being with his or her needs, experience and behaviour. This shifts the focus of the approach and complements the frame of reference "How is space designed?" with the central question "How is space experienced and appropriated?". In the seminar, basic architectural psychological theories and models on topics such as spatial perception, territoriality, orientation and crowding are taught in order to describe and clarify complex interrelationships between the built environment and human experience and behaviour. In addition, you will gain an insight into selected research findings in architectural psychology as well as quantitative and qualitative methods such as needs analysis and user-oriented evaluation. The aim of this seminar is to get to know and reflect on architectural psychological theories and methods and to apply architectural psychological contents and the user-oriented perspective to methods of analysis in visual practice in an exercise.

Lecturer: Dipl.-Psych. Gudrun Rauwolf, MA; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Gleiter

Time: Mon., 10:00-12:00 hrs
1st event: 12.04.21

Registration: 1st event
Information about registration for exams in Qispos and ISIS-Link will be announced in the 1st course.

Zoom link: tu-berlin.<wbr>zoom.us/j/63077148947

Racism in Architecture (BA/MA)
Architectural Theory/Theory II

The racist worldviews developed in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries form a cornerstone of structural inequalities that shape images of society. The seminar examines the responsibility of architects in the reproduction of (everyday) racist patterns and then questions modern and contemporary design planning of (urban) space. To what extent are exhibitions of foreign people in "African villages" at trade fairs or in circus events at the end of the 19th century constitutive for the construction of modernity? How did racist theories from Viollet-le-Duc to Adolf Loos shape modernist architecture? Is this repeated in postmodernism and today? How should one deal with monuments in the city that glorify the colonial past, how do rights spaces critically thematise? The question arises, what can be the contribution of architectural theory to overcome racist thinking?

Lecturers: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Gleiter, Dr. Alexander Stumm

Time: Mon., 6:00-8:00 p.m.
First date: 19.04.2021

Registration: 1st event
Information about registration for exams in Qispos will be announced in the 1st course

ISIS link: isis.tu-berlin.de/mod/forum/discuss.php
Zoom link: tu-berlin.zoom.us/j/65597697222
PW: 266705

Status of the Object: natural, ideal, social (MA/BA)
Architecture Theory/Philosophy II

The environmental crisis is increasingly shaking the dichotomy of man-nature and man-object. And right in the middle of it is architecture, which cannot escape it, indeed should not escape it. This is directly reflected in the change in the status of the 'object'. In the translations of ideas into drawings and further into buildings and their use, the 'architectural' object changes its status from ideal to represented objects, from represented to material and further into social objects and, not excluded, back again. What does this mean for architecture. What happens there, what does it mean for the work of architects? What translations does the project normally go through in this process, how does it change, and what does this actually mean for the 'architectural object'? What function does representation play in this? What is the influence today of the ecological crisis on the status of the object, where it shakes up the relationship between man-nature and man-machine on all levels? On the basis of relevant texts by Maurizio Ferraris, Timothy Morton, Anna Tsing, Gilbert Simondon, Bruno Latour et. al., the seminar attempts to penetrate this topic, which is so central to architecture.

Lecturers:Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Gleiter, Klaus Platzgummer, MSc ETH Arch, M.A. (AA)

Time: Mon., 16:00-18:00 hrs
First date: 12.04.2021

Registration: 1st event
Information about exam registration in Qispos will be announced in 1st lecture.

ISIS link: isis.tu-berlin.<wbr>en/course/view.php
Zoom link: tu-berlin.zoom.<wbr>us/j/62402281700

Codes: Phenomena, Symbols, Messages
Architecture Theory/Philosophy III

The binary code, developed by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the Baroque era, which laid the foundation for the machine treatment of mathematical problems and with which computers calculate today, is only one of many codes. The philosopher Vilém Flusser claimed that man is an "alienated" animal that "must create symbols and order them in codes if he wants to bridge the abyss between himself and the 'world' [...]." Codes are systems of symbols that enable communication, between people, between people and machines, between people and environments. Architecture is also part of this "codified world". Coded or uncoded, codes exist in architecture at and in the most diverse levels . On the surfaces of buildings, which are not only phenomena but also carriers of messages. In the construction drawings, whose symbols structure the communication between office and building site. In the texts about architecture, which programme discipline with the supposedly universal symbols of the alphabet. The aim of this seminar is to use texts from the history of architecture and philosophy to gain an overview of what codes are in architecture and how they are related to the central concepts of phenomenon, symbol and message, and to attempt to critically decipher architectural codes by analysing case studies.

Lecturer: Klaus Platzgummer, MSc ETH Arch, M.A. (AA)

Time: Mon., 14:00-16:00
First date: 12.04.2021

Registration: 1st course
Information about registration for exams in Qispos will be announced in the 1st course.

ISIS link: isis.tu-berlin.<wbr>en/course/view.php
Zoom link: tu-berlin.zoom.<wbr>us/j/62402281700

Space Theories meet Architecture Blockseminar (MA)
Architekturtheorie/Theorie I (Architecture Theory/Theory I)

I Since the spatial turn, somewhere back in the 1970s, space has been the subject of theories from various disciplines. In the last decades architectural discourse became aware of some of these theories, yet it seems that these discussions are still going on separately, and space theories have not yet become an inherent part of architecture research and practice. In this Seminar we will explore few streams of space theories and find out how concrete architectural projects can be analyzed considering their perspective. As architecture students, we are used to classify and categorize architecture through prisms as style, typology, and technology. In this seminar, we will also pay attention to the users, and to daily life in the planned and built environment. We will examine how architecture constructs daily life and produce meanings that are taken for granted; We will also look for the individuals ability to produce and transform architecture through everyday practices and patterns of use. During the seminar we will read and discuss texts of twentieth-century thinkers (such as Lefebvre, Foucault, and Bourdieu) and get acquainted with concepts such us Panopticon, Habitus, or themes like "disciplinary space"or "gender hierarchy";. We will discuss how these concepts are expressed through architecture - I will present the manifestations of those concepts in the space and everyday life of the Kibbutz in Israel, which is the subject of my research; The students will choose one of the theories and explore the concepts through examples upon their choice.

The 2-week block seminar 'Space Theories meet Architecture' will be led by Arch. Idit Ran-Shachnai MA (Israel Institute of Technology Technion) and will take place from May 25 - June 4, 2021.
The seminar comprises approximately 8 sessions, 2 to 4 hours each, held during the week. The studio hours on Thursday's/Friday's will be taken into account in the scheduling of the seminar.
An info session will be held 1-2 weeks before the start of the seminar. 

The exact date of the info session has not yet been set, and will be communicated to you via email if you enroll in this course on ISIS.

Language: English
ISIS Link: https://isis.tu-<wbr>berlin.de/course/view.php?id=<wbr>24701

Visual Reflections by Architecture Students
Architekturtheorie/Kritik I (Architecture Theory/Critics I)

Architecture is considered a reflective practice - it requires self-observation to draw conclusions for further work. Therefore, reflection is essential to the professional development of architects and architecture students. But, architecture is also a visual discipline – architects learn, understand, and communicate visually. This course suggests that reflection in architecture can also be visual. The course is designed for students that have already experienced architectural studio learning. Students will use their former studio work/works as a starting point for various reflection modes. This course will give students both theoretical knowledge on reflection and practical experimentation with visual and verbal reflective tools. Course sessions combine frontal lectures, group discussion, and one on one guidance. Students will work individually, based on their stage in studies.  

The 2-week block seminar 'Visual Reflections by Architecture Students' will be led by Arch. Keren Shoham (Israel Institute of Technology Technion) and will take place from June 11 - June 22, 2021.
The seminar comprises approximately 8 sessions, 2 to 4 hours each, held during the week. The studio hours on Thursday's/Friday's will be taken into account in the scheduling of the seminar.
An info session will be held 1-2 weeks before the start of the seminar. 

The exact date of the info session has not yet been set, and will be communicated to you via email if you enroll in this course on ISIS.

Language: English
ISIS Link: https://isis.tu-berlin.de/<wbr>course/view.php?id=24704

Future Diagramming 
Architekturtheorie/Philosophie I (Architecture Theory/Philosophy I)

The diagram has become an everyday notion of architectural language today. This mainstream use of the diagram is the paradoxical epilogue of a very recent history of the diagram, which was vehemently introduced in the 1980s but whose philosophical reflection seems to have disappeared from the daily practice. In reality, even if in design the diagrammatic practices seem to have fully entered the process of generation of forms with more or less representational and mimetic final products, it is possible to bring to light another tendency motivated by a critical and experimental vision of the diagram analyzing urban complexity and the multilayered ecology of architectural projects. 

Lecturer: Dr. Lidia Gasperoni

Time: Tuesdays, 10:00-12:00
1. Session: 13.04.2021

Registration: 1. meeting
Informations about registration in Qispos will be announced in 1. meeting

Language: English
Zoom-Link: https://tu-berlin.zoom.us/j/67964053915?pwd=QjR1WFpsdVRQRGlRMXpjelVTRjljdz09  

PiV Fields of Entanglement
Entwurfsprojekt Städtebau I

We will ask ourselves how we can understand our environment and our world, which seems overwhelmed by complexity. How can we translate that into concrete architectural and urban fields entanglement, which rethink our interaction with the environment? What media do we need to deploy for this endeavor? It is the aim of the PIV to embrace slowness and thoughtfulness within the disciplines of place-making. We will think, read, diagram and catalogue.

Lecturers: Dr. Lidia Gasperoni, Klaus Platzgrummer, MSc ETH Arch, M.A. (AA)

Time: Do., 9:00-10:30 Uhr
First Meeting: 15.04.2021

Zoom: https://tu-berlin.zoom.us/j/<wbr>67819209557?pwd=<wbr>UmhqWWJOSHhlWWZyeUdVTmk2REVHZz<wbr>09 
Registration: 1st meeting, QISPOS with the studio