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Courses

Within the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Innsbruck, the Department of Architectural Theory teaches cultural theory, concentrating primarily on those aspects that affect the design of our environment, but also scientific research, curating and publishing materials on architectural, urban and landscape issues. In doing so, aspiring architects and architects gain conceptual and communication skills. Additionally, the chair prepares on specialized occupations, which reflect on the cultural aspects of architecture reflecting: architectural theorist, architectural historian, architecture journalist, curator, editor, occupations in museums, cultural funds, in PR and marketing, etc.
In lectures, seminars and projects, students are introduced to and study important architectural theoretical treatises and positions. Studio projects deal subsequently with concrete projects for books, exhibitions, websites, etc., using all potential skills for their realization. Courses dealing with theory as theory are alternated with ones that deal with an encountered built reality. Of course, essential social, philosophical and cultural positions are reflected upon in the process.

Important learning objectives for all courses beyond the central theme of the course are also:

• “Learning to Learn”: learning from books, from lecturers, from other students and from reality.
• Acquisition of learning strategies and content in the context of the research of architectural theory and history.
• Learning an effective use of the library(s) and archives. Learning important research techniques, also for archival research.
• Writing texts, using pictures, making books, curating exhibitions, editing videos and designing websites on the basis of the investigated material.
• Use of several presentation techniques in varied contexts and with different media: essay, short presentation with PowerPoint or Keynote, book, exhibition, website, video.
• Teamwork: we usually work in teams of two students. The topics and presentations are structured in such a way that all teams can benefit from each other and the individual presentations are part of a larger whole or product.

12 6th, 2016

M2 MIDTERM 2016: Other media, other architecture / Bettina Schlorhaufer & Davide Tommaso Ferrando

Program 07.12.2016 with a lecture by Giacomo Pala. 10:00 midterm presentations 14:00 lecture on “Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The rule of imagination” given by Giacomo Pala. Architekturtheorie, HSB 11 Architekturgebäude EG Technikerstrasse 21c 6020 IBK This semester, Architecturaltheory’s Master Studio will investigate the way in which social media are changing the production, interpretation and transmission of architecture. According […]

09 27th, 2016

M2 Other media, other architecture / Bettina Schlorhaufer & Davide Tommaso Ferrando

This semester, Architecturaltheory’s Master Studio will investigate the way in which social media are changing the production, interpretation and transmission of architecture. According to the “Digital in 2016 report” there are 2.31 billion users of social media around the world, spending an average of two hours per day on their accounts. Accessing social media from […]

03 14th, 2016

SE Selection of Architectural Theory (EN) / Iva Kovač & Elvis Krstulović

We will debate on utopian architectural proposals for egalitarian social relations; specifically, on their critique regarding the way that gender and class relations are materialised in the living environment. Departing from historical case studies that proposed the architecture for alternative social structures, we will consider its role as an active agent of change rather than […]

09 27th, 2016

E4 Studio Bangkok / Bart Lootsma & Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen

The future of architecture is in Asia, not in Europe. Asian cities are growing at a speed unknown to Europe. Because of this, new urban planning methods, or the lack of them, develop. The growth gives opportunity to innovative architects to manifest themselves. Over the last five years, young Asian architects are among the winners […]

06 14th, 2016

Existenzoptimum / Exhibition / Fokus Grupa (Iva Kovač & Elvis Krstulović )

The project Existenzoptimum is the outcome of the Fokus Grupa research into architecture and design practices, informed by socialist and materialist-feminist critique, realized with the support of the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen fellowship and as a seminar organized at the Architecture Theory department for the students of the Innsbruck Faculty of Architecture. The project developed into a […]

03 1st, 2011

M1 Matchpoint Innsbruck / Bart Lootsma, Thomas Fußenegger & Bettina Schlorhaufer

In the summer semester 2011, the institute for architectural theory and building history of Innsbruck University organizes an exceptional design studio for Master students in cooperation with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). The project is part of the exchange program with RMIT. Six exchange students from RMIT will take part in the courses. Matchpoint […]

09 27th, 2016

EX Excursion Bangkok / Bart Lootsma & Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen

Date: February 2017 (to be confirmed). 1st meeting: October 25th, 3:00 pm, Architectural Theory – Studio 2nd meeting: November 8th, 3:00 pm, Architectural Theory – Studio

03 14th, 2016

SE The Architectural Discourse: Methods and Processes (EN) / Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen

[The course will be taught in English.] We are negotiating with the penetration of technology in every single moment of each day through “interface”, in this case interface as means of communication. The common ground of investigation and discussion during this seminar will focus on online media for architecture in order to trace and analyze […]