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Kunstgewerbeschulen: Wegbereiter einer neuen Architekturlehre? | Schools of Applied Arts: Forerunners of a New Architecture Education?

02.11.2024

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Die heutigen Fachbereiche Architektur und Design der Fachhochschule Dortmund gehen auf die 1904 gegründete Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule zurück. Das 120-jährige Jubiläum der Dortmunder Bildungseinrichtung wird zum Anlass genommen, in einer Tagung die Beziehung zwi- schen Architekturausbildung und Kunstgewerbeproduktion eingehender zu beleuchten und den Einfluss von Kunstgewerbeschulen auf die damaligen Architekturdiskurse zu erörtern.  

REFERENCE AND CONTEMPORANEITY IN ARCHITECTURE

26.04.2023

The conference is dedicated to the difficult relationship between reference and contemporaneity in architecture. It addresses the conflict between both ideas. It hypothesizes that the narratives of reference often disentangle the actual dialectic of reference and contemporaneity in favor of a radical opposition: While reference relates in large part to the past, contemporaneity is focused primarily on present and future references of originality, actuality, innovation, and problem-solving. Both concepts each have different narrative and legitimation contexts and justifications. Methodologically, the papers called for by this conference introduce reference and contemporaneity as two normatively understood concepts that are different, but relate to each other at a critical distance – references only become problematic in their relation to actuality, while conversely contemporaneity comes into conflict with references that necessarily refer to conventions and to canonized knowledge.