Semester program Summer term 2023

Bachelor Courses Architecture 44
1710455
Seminar week: Concrete Communication:
Berlin
Architecture and the city emerge out of communication
and conflict. Nowhere can you see and
experience this better than in Berlin. We will
spend four days walking through the city of Berlin
to visit important sites of past and present architectural
debates, from the International Building
Exhibitions of 1957 and 1984/87 to the Museum
Island and the Kulturforum to the city centre with
the Humboldt Forum and the planned Bauakademie
as well as, in contrast, „alternative“ planning
sites such as the Old Flower Market or the
Spreefeld and Holzmarkt. We will move around by
walking on foot as much as possible in order to be
able to examine the effects of planning decisions
and negotiation processes on the experience and
use of the city as concretely as possible. Travel to
and from Berlin must be organised by the participants
themselves. We will make suggestions for
accommodation. The walks are to be documented
photographically. A good mobile phone camera is
sufficient for this.
Cost (without travel, incl. Hostel, Tickets, subway
etc.): approx. 200 euros Block date: Tue 30.05.– Fri
02.06.2023, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 1st meeting:
Tue, 30.05.2023, 9:00 a.m., meeting point will be
announced via ILIAS
Number of participants: max. 20
Event format: On-Site
Language: German/English
Rambow, Riklef
Alkadi, Lama
1720509
Seminar Week: Venice Biennale 2023
(Wappner)
We plan on visiting the lagoon city of Venice and,
in addition to exploring its unique architectural
and urban marvels, we will also be visiting the
18th International Biennale, which will take place
from May 20th to November 26th, 2023 in the
Giardini, in the Arsenale and at various locations
in Venice and bears the title: „ The laboratory of
the future” and use that as a starting point for
reflection and discussion. This year‘s curator of
the exhibition, Lesley Lokko from Ghana and
Scotland, set this theme and announced that
with this title and the theme of this biennial,
the focus should fall on the African continent in
particular as one of the most important protagonists
of the future. “There is a place on this planet
where all these issues of justice, race, hope, and
fear converge and merge. This is Africa. On an
anthropological level, we are all Africans. And
what happens in Africa happens to all of us,”
explains Lokko. The Venice Architecture Biennale
2023 envisions the exhibition as a workshop and
laboratory and invites architects and practitioners
from a broader field of creative disciplines to bring
up for discussion examples from their contemporary
practice that offer a path for the public
to discover and imagine what the future might
bring. Inspired by Lokko‘s work to see „Africa
as a laboratory of the future“, the theme of this
biennial attempts to redefine and rethink the
terms themselves. For one thing, Africa is quite
specifically a laboratory for the future: not only
because the pressing global problems are already
much more tangible here than elsewhere, but also
because it is the youngest continent in terms of
population. People and societies there are also
characterized by a high degree of resilience, which
is important, given persistently strong, often
chaotic urbanization. The topic of global justice as
well as anti-colonial and anti-racist perspectives
play other important roles, which we want to
devote ourselves to intensively on this excursion
with a visit to the Biennale.
30.05.2023 - 02.06.2023
Venice / Italy
ca. 350 - 400 Euro
Event format: On-Site
Language: German/English
Wappner, Ludwig
Kochhan, Simon
Häberle, Lisa
1720609
Seminar week: Hand & Material - A round
trip among traditional and future building
methods
In the seminar week we want to take a round trip
between traditional and future building methods
and explore the connections of hand and material.
We want to look at new manufacturing techniques
in craftsmanship and technology, their interdependencies
and dare a look into the future
of construction towards digital fabrication.
The journey will take us from Karlsruhe, via
Stuttgart to the alpine foothills and then via
Zurich and Laufen back to Baden. Some of the
costs will have to be covered by the students
themselves. We are striving to keep this part as
low as possible.
Time: 30.05.2023 – 02.06.2023 ganztägig Site:
Karlsruhe, Kernen, Reutlingen, Bregenz, Reuthe,
Andelsbuch, Schlins, Lustenau, Winterthur, Dübendorf,
Zürich, Laufen, Karlsruhe.
Number of Participants: 20 Plätze Bachelor /
Master