Institute Institutes - Fakultät für Architektur - TUM

Grundlagen der Gestaltung
Principles of Architectural Design
The Chair of principles of architectural design mediates different means and
matter of architectural design methodologies and a variety of analog and digital
representation techniques as a basis for all fields of study in architecture. The
conformation of our environment is a reality whose basic prerequisite lies in the
cognitive and emotional reflection of our cultural context by constitutive and
creative individuals. Historically, this process has been particularly driven by
societal phenomena, theory and science. A strong affiliation with up-to-date
knowledge of cultural and scientific facts respective of their time has therefore
proved to be crucial in the development of our own consciousness and existence.
Our current society has reached such a high degree of understanding that even
simple design tasks oftentimes require a highly complex system of procedures in
order to sufficiently gauge solutions that effectively reflect our cultural development.
The knowledge of contextual relationships and their requisite translation
into a process of design or form therefore require a certain abstract comprehension
of these different phenomena. The mastery of these methods and the intellectual
ability to transfer multifaceted coherences into a design statement are
an essential obligation for the future generation of designers and therefore, it is
the central core of our teaching and research concept at the Chair.
“Principles of representation” comprises of manual architectural drawing and
digital illustration techniques. Descriptive geometry is an important thinking
and construction method for architects and the grammar for the language of
drawing. It covers all common projections and standard drafting laws. Supplementary
to the general teaching of representation techniques, basic architectural
sketching skills are trained in weekly exercises. “Principles of design”
elucidates contemporary and also historical philosophies of design as a tool and
quality characteristic of architecture. The focus of the course conciliates both
intellectual and technical tools in the accomplishment of common design tasks.
The assignments are abstract in their nature but always balanced with the manifested
architectural and spatial accumulation of relevant criteria, which considers
the functional, constructive, tectonic, and structural aspects of the architectural
discipline.
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Leitung Professor
Vertretungsprof. Mark Mückenheim
Sekretariat Office management
Christine Englmann
Wiss. Mitarbeiter Research associates
Juliane Demel, Harry Dobrzanski, Florian
Hartinger, Peter Schmid, Maren Weitz
Leitung seit Professor since 01.10.2012
Prof. Uta Graff