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Winter term 2023/24
»Research Workshop on the History of the Institute for Tropical Building in Darmstadt (1960s–1990s)«
Adrian Franco, Dr. Frederike Lausch
Winter Semester 2023/2024
»Housing and Social Justice: Spaces, Histories and Experiences«
Daniela Ortiz dos Santos
09.11. – 08.01.2024
Lecture series
»“Tropenbau” – Building the Tropics into the Curriculum«
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Edited by Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris and Anna-Maria Meister
CCSA TALKS 2023
Mondays at 18h00 (CET)
“What’s in an atmosphere?”
Cigdem Talu, McGill University, Canada. Moderation: Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi, Goethe University Frankfurt.
“Biocultural City”
Rob Boddice, Tampere University, Finland. Moderation: Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi, Goethe University Frankfurt.
June 19, 18h (CET)
“An Assemblage of ANY Oppositions“
Ehsan Kakhani, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. Moderation: Frederike Lausch, Technical University Darmstadt
CCSA Talks takes place via Zoom and will be later available on the CCSA YouTube-Channel.
21.04.22
CLAUDIA MAREIS (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
»Kombinatorische Kreativität: Entwerfen und Erfinden zwischen Ordnung und Kontingenz«
05.05.22
LIONEL DEVLIEGER (Ghent University, RotorDC)
»Assembling Fragments: Designing with Salvaged Building Components«
02.06.22
NATHALIE BREDELLA (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) mit NICK FÖRSTER (Technische Universität München) und BENJAMIN BEIL (Universität Köln)
»Tools of Play: Planungsstrategien der Metastadt«
07.07.22
HAUKE HORN (Universität Mainz)
»Eine Frage des Geldes? Immobilienwirtschaft und Kommunalpolitik als ordnende Kräfte bei Planung und Bau von Bankhochhäusern in Frankfurt a. M.«
All CCSA Talks & CCSA Lectures will be added to the Youtube Channel.
Just published:
Frederike Lausch: Faschismus und Architektur. Max Bächer’s confrontation with Albert Speer
Video recordings of 14 Bauhaus Lectures online
Architectures of Order (AO) is a new LOEWE research cluster that is headed by CCSA.
The Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA) is a research cooperation between the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (Art History Department), the Technical University of Darmstadt (Architecture Department) and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum. The combination of a university, technical university, and museum is unique worldwide. Through innovative study programs, postgraduate students from the faculties of architecture and art history can link their academic research in the field of architecture and architectural theory with curatorial and media-related questions, as well as with professional experiences. The CCSA reflects upon the history, theory and mediality of architecture as an intellectual and aesthetic challenge. The Center seeks to afford postgraduate students the skills to link theory and research expertise with interdisciplinary issues. At the same time, the center aims to expand discussions on the mediality of architecture, which have hitherto been mainly related to contemporary architecture, to earlier historical eras. Accordingly, the CCSA focuses on the history and theory of architecture from the early modern age until the present day. This is based on the awareness that the access to certain historical topics is always accompanied with a specific interest in the present, while substantial theoretical architectural research can barely be conducted without knowledge of the history of ideas. Therefore, architectural history and architectural theory are inextricably linked with each other. Only together do they become a complex, conceptually precise, and methodologically stringent discussion on architecture.
The newsletter informs you about current events, new publications and selected news of the “Center for Critical Studies in Architecture” and the LOEWE research cluster “Architectures of Order”.