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The chair's research programme concentrates on the pivotal question of how urbanity and landscape have been perceived by
architects, urban planners and landscape architects during the 20th and 21st
century. Subsequent perspectives, analyses and issues are to position
architecture as a unique form of cultural expression. On this basis, the chair's
focal point "research for research" draws an alternative history of the city at
the beginning of the 20th century as radical changes of
how cities are conceived, developed and managed are still part of the critical
agenda of today's architecture. Rather than investigating
restrictively into design and planning, the chair's objective is the dissection
of different modes of "reading the city" or, more sharpened: urban research as
programme. This connects traditional projections of research with a series of approaches
that construe the contemporary city and landscape in their novel conception of
complexity. Thereby the research work is further supported by diploma and
dissertation projects. Additional emphases
of research address a new perspective of the Alps as a particular articulation of cultural
intervention and moreover, the crucial projection of how new cultural,
technological, social and political formations influence the architectural
discipline.
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