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23.10. – 12.02.2025
Lecture Series
»HOUSING AND…«
05.12. – 06.12.2024
Conference
»Kunstgewerbeschulen: Wegbereiter einer neuen Architekturlehre? | Schools of Applied Arts: Forerunners of a New Architecture Education?«
21.11. – 22.11.2024
»Exploring UNESCO and UIA: Histories of Architecture and Bureaucracy in Development Contexts«
25.10. – 16.02.2025
exhibition
»OUR HOUSE Artistic positions on living«
Kunstgewerbeschulen (Dortmund, 5-6 Dec 24)
Fachhochschule Dortmund, Fachbereich Architektur, Emil-Figge-Straße 40, 44227 Dortmund, Hörsaal 0.01, 05.–06.12.2024
Anmeldeschluss: 18.11.2024
Join us in this curatorial project for the Pavillon Le Corbusier in Zurich as a contribution to the show “Vers une architecture Revisited” organized by the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich.
Ein Forschungsblog präsentiert historische Dokumente zur Geschichte des Instituts für Tropisches Bauen und des Fachgebiets Planen und Bauen in Entwicklungsländern in Darmstadt (1968–2000) und macht sie für die Forschung zugänglich.
In the DFG Research Training Group “Organizing Architectures” (3022), in which the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the Technical University of Darmstadt, the University of Kassel and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory are involved, positions for doctoral students and postdocs are to be filled as of 01.11.2024.
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
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.
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