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056-0002-01L 4 Credits NDS D-ARCH
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Architecture and the City II

Architektur und Stadt II

Lecturers & Examiners: Dr. Anne Kockelkorn, Dr. Susanne Schindler Kilian
Only for MAS in History and Theory of Architecture.
VVZ CR n/a

Last Updated: 2026-02-05 15:41:46

Abstract

How Will We Live Together? is the central question of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2020. In this seminar we will address this question by analysing experiments of collective housing from the 1970s to the 1990s. We focus on a parallel analysis of design and forms of financing that have made these residential buildings thinkable, desirable and possible at a certain point in time.

Objective

Students will test analytical methods and representation techniques to make the material interfaces of architecture, urban planning and their respective forms of financing tangible; they will learn to relate architectural and material details, typology, morphology and territorial situation to financial instruments such as taxes, bonds, loans and investments. They gain experience in expressing their insights in a concise way, both linguistically and visually.

Content

Research and analysis of key housing projects of the 1970s and 1980. In parallel, we read methodological key texts in urban and architectural history about what determines the form of our coexistence since the 1970s.

Resources

Literature

Will be announced on the class platform.

Learning Materials (Links)

General Information

Language
German
Levels
NDS
Frequency
Yearly recurring

Examination

Type
ungraded semester performance

Registration & Places

Priority: Registration for the course unit is only possible for the primary target group

Course Components

Type Title Time & Place Hours
seminar Architektur und Stadt II
Die Lehrveranstaltung findet in den letzten beiden Semesterwochen nicht statt (s. Raumbelegungen). Ersatztermine (während den Semesterferien) werden bekannt gegeben.
  • Fri 12:45-16:30 (HIT F 31.1)
4 h weekly

Offered In

  • MAS in History and Theory of Architecture (GTA) (The MAS-programm in "History and Theory of Architecture" is a two-year half-time course and contains 60 CP. The course starts in the autumn semester. Attendance of classes supplemented by independent research; practical training periods and excursions; lectures/seminars on one to two days per week, in total 600 ca. contact hours, in addition private study ca. 600 hours (for each in-class day one day of work preparation), two individually tutored seminar papers on chosen subjects (200 hours) and credited Master's thesis (600 hours).)