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"Italian may be "such children" but their tar-babies are not physical pain or coldness; they want an absence of history, they want to start fresh. When they designed those big palaces in Rome they must have known all along about hope and death, but they were so graceful they made it look easy."—Babitz, Eve. Slow Days, Fast Company. Rain. 1977.

PATHFINDER 8 is dedicated to the timeless city of ATHENS: its intricate history, morphology, mythology… all canonical spatial parameters suggested by Lefebvre: political, sociological, anthropological, economical, temporal. Our interest will focus both on the banal and the sublime, on habits and exceptions, individual rites and social encounters.

PATHFINDER 6 is dedicated to the timeless city of BERLIN: its intricate history, morphology, mythology… all canonical spatial parameters suggested by Lefebvre: political, sociological, anthropological, economical, temporal. Our interest will focus both on the banal and the sublime, on habits and exceptions, individual rites and social encounters.

“[...] we have to admit to the fact that Hong Kong was invented. It was one of the most marvelous inventions in human history. Hong Kong has been a work of fiction from its very beginning.”– Dung Kai-Cheung, Atlas: The Archeology of an Imaginary City (2017)

PATHFINDER 4 is dedicated to the timeless city of LOS ANGELES: its intricate history, morphology, mythology… all canonical spatial parameters suggested by Lefebvre: political, sociological, anthropological, economical, temporal.* Our interest will focus both on the banal and the sublime, on habits and exceptions, individual rites and social encounters.

"How far does Tokyo go? A solid two hours by train from home – and I’m still in Tokyo?"—Furukawa, Hide. Slow Boat. 2017.

A theoretical or experimental quantity, condition, or factor that does not vary in specified circumstances.Variable [vair-ee-uh-buhl]A quantity or function that may assume any given value or set of values.

Dionysos/Apollo is to become a rambling exploration on the lookout for an urban environment beyond reasonable or irrational, good and evil. Considering humankind as embedded in (and dependent on) its geological era, we look upon history’s intertwined layers as torpid raw potential to be fully deployed, appropriated and composed with – joyfully disrespecting historical authenticity.

The semester "Apollo" aims at designing erratic hyper-contexts generated by hypothetical ruling incentives: as a marker of singularities, it is to become the passionate catalogue raisonné of elemental urban idiosyncrasies.

This semester aims at both designing erratic hyper-contexts generated by hypothetical ruling incentives, and the obsessive recording of their past and present traces of erasures and becomings.

"Difference/Repetition" invokes identity and sameness, evolution and change, patterns and habits, originality and copy, time and recurrence, beat and rhythm. All things seemingly constant, all shades of their endless variations. How may such abstract notions contribute to shape immaterial processes and crystallize timeless and paradigmatic urban environments?

Focus on the city of London: Rich history, possibilities. As the framework of our prospective investigation, it shall evoke an array of fantasies and trigger multiple narrative potentials.The careful and critical consideration of architectural paragons, socio-economical dynamics, geopolitical shifts, further endowed with the lure of fiction shall initiate new beginnings to alternate (hi)stories.

PATHFINDER 2 focuses on the city of Istanbul: its rich history, morphology, mythology… all canonic spatial perimeters as suggested by Lefebvre: political, sociological, anthropological, economical. As the framework of our prospective investigation, it evokes an array of fantasies and triggers multiple narrative potentials.

The course aims at studying the correlation between board games (limited to a fixed geometric area but unlimited in their permutations) and the architectural grid (this 'architecture without a substance' yet more durable than any built work).

The lecture series of the Institute of Design and Architecture - in the FS22 provides students with an overview of the various positions of the teachers within the IEA (Institute Design in Architecture).

Specialists give lectures on current architecture-specific topics.

The lecture series of the Institute of Design and Architecture - in the FS23 provides students with an overview of the various positions of the teachers within the IEA (Institute Design in Architecture).

This course is not offered in FS22.