This course shifts the study of infrastructure from abstract material and bureaucratic networks to the buildings, objects, and technologies at the wire’s end. Using the design of these terminal elements as our primary points of analysis, we will read the history of infrastructure through its use and interpretation in local communities.

The commons is a concept that is garnering increased interest in academia and beyond. This course will critically approach this concept from a non-Western perspective based primarily on the work of the Sufi-Marxist Iraqi scholar Hadi Al-Alawi.

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What do images do? How can you understand drawings, photographs and other visual material in architectural practice? This course will give you a critical toolkit for understanding, analysing and questioning the visual material of architecture.

This course focuses on a specific part of the architecture of the 1970s and 1980s, its architectural-theoretical analysis and its properties and challenges associated with the preservation of such objects. This course is a collaboration between the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA) and the Institute for Preservation and Construction History (IDB).

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This course is not offered in FS22.

In the framework of three elective courses, students need to prepare elective works (seminar works).

In the framework of three elective courses, students need prepare elective works (seminar works).

If you ask ChatGPT how to write about architecture, the OpenAI program provides tips. You have to “understand” architecture, “read books” and “visit buildings”. Only then should one proceed to “description” and “analysis” and “link everything to society”. Sounds good? The only question is: How can AI writing programs help us with this? This Architectural Criticism seminar aims to find out.

Architectural criticism must develop new criteria in order to place buildings in the right relationship to the environment. In this seminar, the ecological view is particularly directed at concrete as a building material in order to clarify its criminal economy and aesthetic exaggeration.

The doors of the D-Arch have been closed for over a year. We stayed at home and pretended digital teaching was still our concern. Meanwhile, over 4 million people worldwide died as a result of Corona, and the climate crisis is advancing, our construction industry is responsible for 38% of CO2 emissions. The time has never been so pressing. Let's start critique the status quo. Let's start writing.

The elective course/seminar "Architectures of Gender: body_building" seeks to provide an interdisciplinary introduction to gender theory in its relation to architecture.

The elective course/seminar "Architectures of Gender: body_building" seeks to provide an interdisciplinary introduction to gender theory in its relation to architecture.

Today, computational design increasingly relies on the processing and visualization of data: from processes of simulation, procedures of manufacturing to the optimization of complex building processes. Looking at the post-war period, this seminar critically discusses current approaches of data-based design, considering the political, social, and economic interests that conditioned the designs.

This seminar considers Afrofuturism through Paul Gilroy’s conceptual framework of the Black Atlantic. Both a cultural and geographic space, the Black Atlantic links diasporic traditions of the Black radical imagination from the West coast of Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas.

For centuries, architectural drawings have been at the center of the profession: how architects come up with ideas, share them with clients, and communicate with builders. The seminar takes the point of view that hand drawing can still be a useful instrument for the architect, and that the ways how may be understood in part through a study of past drawings, studied in the original.