Symposium Innovation in Tradition
The focus of the convention “Innovation in Tradition” will be placed on the complex topic of social reformatting, exceeding the central question of the effect of technological innovations and their influence on architecture, space conception, building typology, domestic engineering, urban design, etc. One aspect to be addressed should be the emergence of our idea of […]
Public Screening + Panel Discussion / The Competition / Angel Borrego Cubero / Faculty of Architecture
Madrid-based architect Angel Borrego Cubero of Office for Strategic Spaces (OSS) has directed and produced the first documentary focused on the tense process that often characterizes an architectural competition. Appropriately titled The Competition, the film captures a fascinating account on how five world renowned architects – Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Dominique Perrault, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster – […]
Public Lecture & Panel Discussion / Things—R—Us / Lars Lerup / Kunstraum Innsbruck
The recognition that human behavior dominates the Earth’s atmosphere undermines our anthropocentric view that the world is ours to use. This in turn demands a radical revision of our view of ontology—of our understanding of being. The era of the dominance of subjects over objects has come to an end. Replaced by a flat ontology […]
(Deutsch) Netzwerk #6 / Netzwerk Architekturtheorie / UDK — Universität der Künste Berlin
From November 29th until December 1th the sixth “Promotionskolleg” of the network architectural theory took place at Berlins University of fine arts. The network architectural theory is a platform for the exchange of different architectural theory and interdisciplinary scholarship, featuring various cultural, thematic and methodological backgrounds, interests and approaches. The aim of the “Promotionskolleg” is […]
Domus Guide — Europe’s top 100 Schools of Architecture & Design
For the third time the Faculty of Architecture Innsbruck, was selected as one of EUROPES’S 50 BEST SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE, by DOMUS Magazine. The guide gives a selection of Europe’s best schools of Design and Architecture. The criteria that were used mainly focus on aspects like networking & international relations, the reputation of the institution in the […]
BA Degree Show / Everything is Architecture — Austrian Architectural Avantgarde / Die Bäckerei Innsbruck
For the second time, this years Bachelor degree show took place at “die Bäckerei” (Dreiheiligenstraße, Innsbruck). Architecturaltheory.eu presented this years Bachelor design projects, as well as this terms Master projects on our research topic: “Everything is Architecture”. Therefore we used the medium book, in combination with installations and video projections, to illustrate the working process […]
(Deutsch) Symposium + Diskussion / Ministaaten / Institut Architekturtheorie
There are countless reasons, whey small states used to separate themselves from the rest of the world over and over again – or remain as little fragments. From economic benefit (Special Economic Zones) to social utopia (Christiana) or even artistic ideals (Atelier van Lieshout): almost everything could be a solid reason to cut oneself off. […]
Lecture / (E)Motion, Transitions in Alpine Tourists Stagescapes / Michael Zinganel / Insitute Architecturaltheory
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Symposium / Italian Collage — Architectural Drawings in the Age of Social Media / Kunstraum Innsbruck
Several Italian architects have recently taken up the technique of collage again to present their ideas about architecture. The best-known examples are Carmelo Baglivo, Luca Galofaro and Beniamino Servino. Collage has been one of the favourite techniques in Italian architecture since the nineteen sixties. It enabled radical architects like Superstudio, Archizoom and others to give […]
Lecture / Israel — Africa, A Genealogy of Moral History / Haim Yacobi / Claudiana Innsbruck
This lecture is not about „Africa“, but rather about Israel. It critically examines the ways in which Africa – as a geopolitical entity – is socially manufactured, collectively imagined but also culturally denied in Israeli politics. The main argument of this presentation is that a genealogical investigation of the relationships between Israel and Africa sheds […]
(Deutsch) Ausstellung / Potenziale 2 — StudentInnenarbeiten der Universität Innsbruck / aut. Innsbruck
The exhibition “Potentiale 2” shows various stages of university education, from design classes running over the course of one semester and diploma projects to bachelor and master thesis. Plans, sketches, texts, films, visualizations and installations exemplify a profound conceptual and medial involvement with architecture. The particular selection of works, their unique materialization and design show […]
Lecture + Panel Discussion / The Politics of Digital Architecture / Faculty of Architecture — Labor Studio3
To address the hegemony of digital calculus and its architectural meaning by the question of politics, there is a thought raised in Antoine Picon’s “Digital Culture in Architecture”, one of challenging the impact, achievement and consequences produced and generated by “digital architecture”. Conversely, such a discussion is one of asking what ideas and visions evolve […]