25.06.2024
This course works at the intersection between postwar architecture, archival records and the institutional history of the DAM.
It uses the papers by French designer Jean Prouvé (1901-1984), Greek-French architect George Candilis (1913-1995) and German architect Diwi Dreysse (1937), which are preserved in the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) as a point of departure for discussions. This research seminar is the result of a cooperation in the DAM.
19.04.2022
Barricades, tent cities and tree houses are just a few examples of protest architecture. Often temporary and improvised, they take on different functions: They protect, block, occupy, make visible… How can we grasp the tension between design and (dis) (de-)construction? How is protest configured in space? Is there an aesthetics of protest and if so, what constitutes it? The seminar approaches such questions from the perspective of historical-critical architectural theory. Under the guiding categories of “objects,” “bodies,” and “spaces,” we examine selected protest movements from around 1845 onward for their spatial elements and, on this basis, develop contributions to a “dictionary of protest objects”. On the basis of independent, intensive research, the participants will create a scientific contribution on a selected topic, which will be presented in the form of a poster.
The seminar is a cooperation in the context of the CCSA with Oliver Elser and Anna-Maria Mayerhofer, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, who are currently preparing an exhibition on the topic. The participants’ drawing work will be supervised by Anna-Maria Mayerhofer and Leonie Lube as tutor. We will also cooperate with an external seminar, led by Ursula Kirschner (Professor of Architecture and Digital Culture, Leuphana) and Nayara Benatti (Universidade de São Paulo), which will take place in parallel at Leuphana University Lüneburg. At the end of the seminar, a joint final presentation with the guests from Lüneburg is planned.
Seminar: Lisa Beißwanger (CCSA/Technische Universität Darmstadt) in Kooperation mit Oliver Elser (CCSA/Deutsches Architekturmuseum), Anna-Maria Mayerhofer (Deutsches Architekturmuseum) und Leonie Lube (CCSA/Technische Universität Darmstadt)
20.04.2021
Comics depict life in buildings and cities, sometimes historically, sometimes realistically, sometimes utopian or even dystopian. At the same time, architects use comics as an alternative to classical architectural representations: Comics enable visualizations of designs with a temporal dimension, with a narrative or didactic elements. In comics, architects develop scenarios of how their architecture can be used – perhaps even how it should be used. Occasionally, comics serve as a medium of architectural criticism and as a form of ironic self-reflection. In this seminar we will read different comics and ask what role comics play in architecture.
Guests: Dr. Szilvia Gellai (University Wien)
20.04.2021
How were and are planning and building processes visualised? The seminar is dedicated to forms of representation of temporal processes – rather than designed and built architecture – throughout the history of architecture: from representations of construction in a medieval picture bible, Chinese construction manuals, Giovanni Biagio Amico’s 18th century „L’architetto prattico“, illustrated building encyclopaedias from the 19th and 20th centuries, self-build manuals developed for the United Nations University in the 1980s, to magazines for house building. Why and how is construction knowledge communicated and disseminated? Are architects or users addressed and what influence does the target group have on the explanation and presentation of the content? What knowledge of the architectural discipline is passed on to non-specialists?