Seminars
For over thirty years, thematic seminars have been offered as part of the MAS program. Each spring and fall semester, there is a new focus.
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Seminar Architektur und Stadt II/IV (056-0004-01)
Veranstalter: MAS GTA ETH
Dozierende: Dr. André Bideau, Dr. Susanne Schindler, Dr. Lukas Held
Zeit: 14–17.30 Uhr
Ort: HIT H 42
Artistic interventions in architecture and urban design, funded through programs like “percent for art,” are premised on the general public as intended audience. Civic art, then, is a declaration of public values. It is the result of a commission or acquisition, which needs consensus on the part of those commissioning or acquiring it. This is particularly true when the building of which the art is to be a part is commissioned and/or financed by a municipal or state entity. But who is this art speaking for? Whom should it address? And why do the results, often due to the public funding involved, cause such controversies? These questions are the focus of the MAS GTA project semester. The city of Zurich serves as site to analyze the interdependencies of art, architecture, and the public. Having been spared the physical destruction of wars as well as the disruption of political regime change, buildings and civic art in Zurich have enjoyed remarkable longevity. The close examination of their material reality thus allows us to understand—on the backdrop of the seeming stability of Swiss institutions—questions of use, redevelopment pressure, age, and redundancy. Just like the buildings it is a part of, civic art is subject to changes in value systems. These become especially consequential when the function of the building or its urban environment changes—or when the art work’s originally intended message loses its meaning. Students will analyze case studies using primary sources; their insights will form part of an exhibition at the Department of Architecture in the spring of 2025. GTA Archives is the partner for this research project.
Seminar Architektur und Stadt I/III (056-0001-01)
Veranstalter: MAS GTA ETH
Dozierende: Dr. André Bideau, Dr. Susanne Schindler
Zeit: 14–17.30 Uhr
Ort: HIT H 42
The seminar Taxes, architecturally considered is focused on the interplay of taxation and the built environment. How do architectural configurations—the superdense office towers of Hong Kong or an artificial product like «Andermatt Swiss Alps»—contribute to globally rising inequality? How do they indirectly also shape related tax systems? Conversely: How do fiscal formulas like imputed rental values or appreciation taxes, the OECD minimum tax on corporations or philanthropies’ tax exemption affect the buildings, public spaces, and infrastructure of Switzerland? Where, how and for whom does taxation become operative spatially? Our aim is to identify, through the analysis of the built environment, the societal priorities codified in the tax system. In a democracy, these priorities are negotiated, including the redistribution of wealth through tax policies.
In order to approach the interplay of taxation and the built environment, we need to consider this environment in its spatial qualities and at different scales: from the window detail specified in a home renovation to the way in which the boundary is drawn for an urban renewal area. Architects play a key role in the creation and ordering of the values created by any project or plan. Just as construction and development are typically premised on the speculative accumulation of capital, architecture relies on the speculative dimension of design.
In this way, Taxes, architecturally considered is also an endeavor at social and economic critique through the medium of architecture. The goal is to make visible, through careful observation and description, correlations that are often hard to grasp. The correlation between architecture and socio-economic inequality is one. We will do so by situating specific buildings and spaces within contemporary and historic tax policies. In this way, the seminar seeks to contribute a decidedly architectural dimension to the otherwise rarely spatialized debates prompted by Thomas Piketty's bestseller Capital in the Twenty-first Century (2013).
Seminar Architektur und Stadt II/IV (056-0002-01)
Veranstalter: MAS GTA ETH
Dozierende: Dr. André Bideau, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: 14–17.30 Uhr
Ort: HIT H 42
Does architecture have transformative potential? Is a building capable not only of reflecting change, but also of sparking it and promoting profound transformations in a society? Is architecture a "programmatic medium of the social" (Heike Delitz)? What or who enables a building to organize collectives, for example? With which political or economic constellations is this potential connected? For an increased degree of effectiveness, buildings are dependent on mediality–mediality understood as immediacy: as a potential inherent in architecture that triggers affects. This communication, its structural causes and effects are the subject of the semester. As a term, mediality is not to be confused with the far more familiar mediatization of architecture– mediation that relies on an external agency. Rather, we will address architecture in its concreteness: how it communicates by itself and in its own materiality. Of course, it does not do so in a vacuum–even a self-referential, "mute" architecture is highly medial and does not exist in a state of conceptual autonomy. Closely linked to codes and processes of reception, architecture can never be separated from its audience and from the context of its creation. What happens, in turn, when the context of a building's meaning changes and its message loses its original effect? The transhistorically structured seminar examines a range of situations. The focus is on working with texts in order to get to know different perspectives on the object of study. Guest lectures will illuminate aspects of architectural mediality on the basis of concrete case studies, thereby presenting various research approaches.
Seminar Architektur und Stadt I / III (056-0001-01)
Veranstalter: MAS ETH GTA
Dozierende: Dr. André Bideau, Dr. Susanne Schindler, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: Freitags, 14.00-17.30 Uhr
Ort: HIT H 42
What does “historic moment” signify for architectural history? How are so-called forks in the road, paradigm shifts, or turns constructed? In the current seminar, we will debate these questions through the interplay of design, politics, and the economy. To do so, we will consider four canonical years between the European Enlightenment and today—1789, 1848, 1949, 1973—as historical thresholds. These years marked political or economic events which had a direct or indirect impact on the production, reception, and historiography of architecture. As turning points, they allow us to ask how history is constructed. How does a turning point gain currency? How do contemporaries react to such disparate events as the fall of the French monarchy or the decoupling of the dollar from the gold standard? And how do scholars in (architectural) history, cultural studies, or geography evaluate or even canonize this moment at a distance?
The fall semester is thus centered on questions of periodization and causality in the writing of history. Selected architectural and urban design projects serve as entry points to analyze and question authors’ perspectives and underlying assumptions. Invited architectural historians will provide us with further input in our endeavor to reflect on our own positions as writers of architectural history.
Seminar Architektur und Stadt II / IV (056-0004-01)
Veranstalter: MAS ETH GTA
Dozierende: Dr. André Bideau, Dr. Susanne Schindler, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: Freitags, 14.00-17.30 Uhr
In this research semester, students will jointly conceive of an exhibition on Ersatzneubau at the Zentrum Architektur Zürich (ZAZ) in 2023. The MAS GTA will thus focus on a practice that has become central to Zurich’s urban planning: to demolish existing municipal or cooperative housing and replace it with new buildings offering larger and more numerous, more varied apartments. Arguments in support of this practice are always at once aesthetic, economic, and regulatory in nature, in equal parts goal and strategy. “Density,” for example, suggests more “urban, vibrant” typologies, more “efficient” use of land, and responds to the legislative mandates to curb sprawl and increase the energy efficiency of buildings. The research will contextualize Zurich’s practice historically and transnationally through nine case studies. This will allow us to make tangible the narratives and rationales, as well as the and architectural, financial, and regulatory conditions that underpin the demolition and new construction of housing, specifically as they relate to land and its valuation.
Seminar Architektur und Stadt I / III (056-0001-01)
Veranstalter: MAS ETH GTA
Dozierende: Dr. André Bideau, Dr. Susanne Schindler, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: Freitags, 14.00-17.30 Uhr
Land is a finite resource, as has become abundantly clear in recent years. Climate change, growing socio-economic inequality and political polarization—all related to the question of land—define this moment of crisis. What does this mean for a critical discourse of architecture?
Construct
Land is a construct, the result of the multiple needs and desires projected onto it. In the words of André Corboz, land is a “palimpsest.” Any territory settled by humans is thus implicated in a web of imaginaries—related both to its past and to its future. Or, as Reinhold Martin argues, without land there is no architecture—no building without a site to build on. At the same time, there is no land, or real estate, to be owned or valued, without the instruments of architecture including boundaries, geometries and aesthetics.
Crisis
The seminar is centered on this reciprocity of crisis and critique in the construction of land. In the process, land will also be considered as part of a history of ideas, in which architects have repeatedly mobilized crisis narratives, for instance, in the Modern movement’s utopian projects. If early twentieth-century reformers saw the collectivization of land as a condition for tackling issues of substandard housing and public health in industrialized cities, today architects are resorting to arguments for the commons to address real-estate speculation and the effects of sprawl. Given the process of continuous urbanization, both our notion of the environment and the crisis narrative have shifted.
Critique
We will address these questions through the analysis of primary texts and case studies. But we will also search for alternatives to an object-centered form of architectural criticism as it has been practiced in newspapers and professional media. The questions of land are of interest to us above all in terms of their critical potential for the discourse of architecture and urbanism.
The Furttal, a valley northwest of Zurich, is our prompt to actively explore the question of land through the genre of architectural criticism. What insights might we gain from the increasingly blurred overlap of different land uses? The students’ work is part of a research project to feed into a larger exhibition on view at ZAZ/Zentrum Architektur Zürich in late 2022.
Seminar Architektur und Stadt II / IV (056-0002-01)
Veranstalter: MAS ETH GTA
Dozierende: Dr. Susanne Schindler, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: Freitags, 13.00-16.30 Uhr
The seminar considers the history of European twentieth-century architecture through the lens of the institutions designed, founded, and used by architects and planners in light of the challenges arising from new forms of globalization.
The end of empire following the first and second world wars fundamentally changed the global network of power and trade of the late-nineteenth century. It was replaced by a new world order based on sovereign nation states, ideally democratically legitimated. In the course of the twentieth century, however, a new series of global actors emerged. Some, like the UN, insisted on the primacy of democracy and universal human rights. Others, like GATT and WTO, aimed to protect the movement of capital from the interference of democratically controlled states.
How did the tension between these two globalizing tendencies affect architecture and planning? In the seminar, we will seek answers by focusing on institutions that worked in the grey zone between state authorities and the private sector. These include professional associations, clubs, philanthropies, research institutes, popular movements and lobbying groups. What notion of world order, and which economic and political assumptions guided the design of institutions like Heimatschutz and Werkbund, UN-Habitat and the environmental movement? Conversely, how did their legal and organizational form shape the architectural and planning proposals of their members?
The seminar’s learning goals are, first, to better understand and describe the entanglement of the realms of the architectural, economic, and political; second, to consider the design of institutions, just like the design of buildings or cities, an architectural task.
Link to movie: external page Gordon Hyatt, Between the Word and the Deed, New York 1970.
Seminar Architektur und Stadt I / III (056-0001-01)
Veranstalter: MAS ETH GTA
Dozierende: Dr. Anne Kockelkorn, Dr. Susanne Schindler, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: Freitags, 13.00-16.30 Uhr
Cotton. An Architectural History of Nineteenth-century Globalization
This seminar expands the canonical history of nineteenth-century architecture through a close investigation of the birth of industrial capitalism and the second wave of European colonization beginning in 1800. What was the effect of newly globalized power relations on the development of new building programs and territorial property regimes? How did these new programs contribute to render workers and owners governable according to a new rationality of economics and hygiene? Point of departure and central motif in this inquiry is the globalized production of cotton. Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton (2014) serves us as a road map to analyze—by way of selected buildings and urban projects—the global entanglements of resource and human flows, imperial trade infrastructures and emerging nation states. The goal of connecting economic, social and architecture histories is to better understand the mutual construction and legitimization of architecture and society; and to question the conditions that shaped modernity in architecture and the modernization of cities as both cultural and infrastructural projects.
Seminar Architektur und Stadt II (056-0002-01)
Veranstalter: MAS
Dozierende: Dr. Anne Kockelkorn, Dr. Susanne Schindler, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: Freitags, 9.30-12.00 13.00-16.30 Uhr
Ort: Vormittag HIL D 60.1 / Nachmittag HIT F 31.1
Question
Over the course of the past twenty years, Zurich’s housing cooperatives have realized a series of impressive experiments in the architecture of living together. In so doing, they have challenged established notions of what, or who, constitutes a household. Recent projects include dwellings for more than fifty residents, micro-units clustered around shared space, and apartments for living and working or for short-term lease—to name just a few.
But what makes possible these new forms of living together which are both nonprofit in perpetuity (gemeinnützig) and of such high quality architecturally? Who owns the land, on what terms, and as a result of which historic precedents? Why do banks consider Zurich’s cooperatives, even though they are committed to non-speculation, to be excellent borrowers? What are the interest rates and who fixed them when and how? In a world increasingly shaped by financialized real-estate investments and the resulting socio-economic inequality, these are key questions if we are to imagine alternative ways of living together.
Research project
Students’ work is part of the research project «Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance, and Regulation» and basis for a Research Station exhibited at the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale «How will we live together?», on view from August 29 to November 29, 2020 in the Arsenale.
Goals
By considering more than one-hundred years of cooperative housing in Zurich, the seminar seeks to understand not only the architectural and urban characteristics of this housing, but their financial, legal, and political-cultural conditions. By considering architectural form in tandem with the history of a political economy, we aim to gain greater latitude for architectural agency in in the twenty-first century.
Structure
Through a series of conversations with architects, cooperative housing developers, as well as decision makers from banks, pension funds, and public authorities, students develop a basic understanding of cooperative housing through the lenses of architectural, urban, and economic history. In a second phase, students visit archives and synthesize existing scholarship. In a third phase, students are responsible for one of eight Dossiers, each dedicated to a single regulatory instrument and its interplay with architectural and urban form.
Seminar Architektur und Stadt I (056-0001-01)
Veranstalter: MAS
Dozierende: Dr. Anne Kockelkorn, Dr. Susanne Schindler, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: Freitags, 13.00–16.30 Uhr
How do we want to live tomorrow? And how are we living today? Architectural criticism enables us to debate and contest the production of the built environment. This is true in particular in times of social, economic or ecological change. Crisis and critique are not only related etymologically with regards to the question of how to discern and differentiate. They also connect architecture with public debates about key aspects of a society’s development.
Architectural criticism emerged in the late eighteenth century as a literary genre and format of public debate of civil society: at a moment when sufficient numbers of educated reader were able to reflect on relevance, form, and expression of buildings. Two centuries on, some of the main conditions of architectural criticism were fundamentally called into question. The economic, environmental, and political crises of the 1970s meant an abrupt end to modernity’s narrative of growth and progress; accordingly, its models of architecture and planning became untenable. Beginning in the 1990s, the internet provided a previously unknown availability of images: at that point in time, websites and blogs took over the function of reporting on architecture, thus rendering conventional print media obsolete. Ever since, architectural criticism has been struggling with visibility, and yet as a space for political debates on the built environment it is more relevant than ever.
In this seminar, three contemporary crises will serve us a point of the departure to ask how architectural criticism can contribute to an understanding of the built environment and of the society that produced it. First, there is the question of survival, or how architecture, urban development and construction technologies contribute to global warming through energy use and land consumption. How do architectural critics frame the conditions of architectural production when considering climate change, and do they dare to define “architecture” in terms other than as the materialization of progress and endless growth? Second, there is the financialization of development, fueled by long periods of zero or negative interest rates, which has taken hold of cities globally and is destroying their social networks. How do architectural critics respond to the housing question in light of these new challenges, which alternative mode of thinking do they offer? Finally, there is growing political polarization and the question, if and how architecture can propose shared spaces and models thereof. How do critics address what building tasks are needed, and how they might be aesthetically resolved?
In “Crisis and Critique” we posit that “architectural criticism” deals not only with just-completed buildings, but takes into focus society’s entanglements, analyzes the layering of places, or investigates the conditions of production. Criticism requires a variety and breadth of sources that go beyond the perspective and documents of architects (their drawings, their statements). Criticism can dissect the conventions of public discourse and what it excludes, or propose alternative models of architectural thought including the formats and channels of their distribution and reception. Toward these goals, the seminar sessions are divided in equal parts into two different formats: first, text analysis and discussion (5 sessions); second, site visits as prompts for writing criticism in short, medium and long form, with feedback and discussion sessions of students’ work with invited guests (5 sessions). The seminar thus seeks to provide ample opportunities for students to articulate and refine their own responses to the questions asked in the beginning: How do we want to live tomorrow? And how are we living today?
Learning Objectives
• To obtain an overview of the different media, formats and debates in contemporary German- and English-language architectural criticism.
• To gain a basic understanding of the historical development of German- and English-language architectural criticism.
• To develop arguments, methods and research questions for contextualizing architectural artifacts politically and historically.
Skills Obtained
• Writing short, precise texts.
• Learning to describe and interpret buildings or spatial situations for different audience and media in short, medium and long form.
• Analyzing architectural criticism: You will dissect an author’s basic assumptions, argumentative structure, and rhetorical devices.
• Articulating a critical and personal position: You will develop your own intellectual and stylistic approach to contemporary architectural production.
Seminar Kunst und Architektur II (056-0002)
Veranstalter: MAS
Dozierende: Dr. Anne Kockelkorn, Dr. Susanne Schindler, Marie-Anne Lerjen, Sabine Sträuli
Zeit: Freitags, 14.00–17.15 Uhr
In the seminar “Architecture, Money and the City: 1500, 1800, 2000” we explore the relationships between the political economy and architectural production of a particular historical context. In doing so, we take into account that money flows and political power do not necessarily go hand in hand, and that architecture often emerges in the grey zones where money and power overlap. We also posit that built form and financial models are mutually dependent: on the one hand, architecture materialises political and economic power relations; on the other, it is only through architecture – its siting, organisation and materiality – that certain property relations and forms of investment become real. The seminar thus asks: how do economics, trade and financing shape the built environment? And conversely: how do the production and use of the built environment condition forms of finance? What can we learn about techniques of governmentality and representation by analysing the built environment through the lens of money?
In order to identify the continuities and discontinuities between economics and architecture, the semester is structured around three historical turning points in the history of globalisation and capitalism: 1500 (the end of Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance and European colonisation); 1800 (the end of the Enlightenment and the beginning of industrial capitalism); and 2000 (the neoliberal turn including post-Fordism, financialisation and digitisation). In juxtaposing texts from architectural and economic theory with key buildings from these three periods, we will test new ways of conceptualising the relationships between architecture, money and the city.
This approach is based on three convictions: first, that reading economic and architectural history in tandem and across different epochs, places and building tasks increases our understanding of the history of globalisation; second, that this reading articulates in a particularly efficient manner the relationships between architecture and the city, concept and use; and third, that it evinces the a-cyclical relationship between past and present.
Seminar Kunst und Architektur (056-001)
Veranstalter: MAS, MAS
Dozierende: Dr. Sylvia Claus, Sabine Sträuli, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: freitags, 9.00 - 12.30 Uhr
Donnerstag, 23. August 2018
14.00 – 16.00 Uhr, HIL D 60.1
Einführung ins neue Semester: Vergabe der Referate und sonstigen Aufgaben
Freitag, 21.09.2018
1. Sitzung
Literatur- und Methodendiskussion
Lektüre I: Lang, Evelyne, Les premières femmes architectes de Suisse et leurs précurseuses au niveau international, Genf 1993 (Thèse de doctorat 1992 à l’EPF Lausanne).
Lektüre II: Maurer, Bruno, Zürcher Architektinnen. Zwölf Porträts – elf Bauten, Ausst.-Kat. Stadelhofer Passage, Zürich 2000 (Das kleine Forum in der Stadelhofer Passage 22).
Lektüre III: Kuhlmann, Dörte (Hg.) et al., Building gender. Architektur und Geschlecht, Wien 2002.
Lektüre IV: Kuhlmann, Dörte (Hg.) et al., Building Power. Architektur, Macht, Geschlecht, Wien 2003.
Lektüre V: Pepchinski, Mary / Budde, Christina / Voigt, Wolfgang / Cachola Schmal, Peter (Hg.), Frau Architekt. Seit mehr als 100 Jahren: Frauen im Architekturberuf, Ausst.-Kat. Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Tübingen 2017.
Lektüre VI: Beckel, Inge / Vollmer, Gisela (Hg.), Terraingewinn. Aspekte zum Schaffen von Schweizer Architektinnen von der Saffa 1928 bis 2003, Bern 2004 (Gender Wissen 5).
Lektüre VII: Dörhöfer, Kerstin / Ulla Terlinden, Verortungen. Geschlechterverhältnisse und Raumstrukturen, Basel 1998 (Stadtforschung aktuell; 66)
Lektüre VIII: Frey, Katja / Perotti, Eliana (Hg.), Theoretikerinnen des Städtebaus. Texte und Projekte für die Stadt, Berlin 2015.
Freitag, 28.09.2018
2. Sitzung
Ideenbau: Die SAFFA 1928 und 1958
Freitag, 05.10.2018
3. Sitzung
Wohnungsbau: Lux Guyer, Lisbeth Sachs, Flora Steiger Crawford, Elsa Burckhardt-Blum, Silvia Witmer-Ferri, Marie Claude Bétrix
Freitag, 12.10.2018
4. Sitzung
Schulbau und Kindergärten: Trudy Frisch, Heidi Wenger, Vrendli Amsler, Flora Ruchat, Monica Brügger, Yvonne Hausammann
Freitag, 19.10.2018
5. Sitzung
(Innen-)Räume und Design: Tilla Theus, Trix Haussmann, Verena Huber
22. – 26. 10.2018 Seminarwoche (keine Lehrveranstaltungen des MAS)
Freitag, 2.11.2018
6. Sitzung
Architektinnen und ihre Bauten: Exkursion (Zürich, Küsnacht, Basel)
Freitag, 9.11.2018
7. Sitzung
Öffentliche Bauten: Jeanne Bueche, Lisbeth Sachs, Tilla Theus, Marie Claude Bétrix, Silvia Gmür, Katharina Steib
Freitag, 16.11.2018
8. Sitzung
Städtebau: Beate Schnitter, Elsa Burckhardt-Blum, Gret Reinhard, Inès Lamunière
Freitag, 23.11.2018
9:00-12:30
9. Sitzung
Architektinnen in der Lehre: Flora Ruchat, Jacqueline Fosco-Oppenheim, Inès Lamunière, Annette Spiro
14.00-15.30 Uhr
Gastvortrag von Dr. Eliana Perotti und Dr. Katia Frey
Freitag, 30.11.2018
9:00-12:30
10. Sitzung
Architektinnen heute
14.00-15.30 Uhr
Gastvortrag von Christine Heidrich und Ewa Wolanska
Freitag, 7.12.2018
9:00-12:30
11. Sitzung
Bauen für Frauen? Feministische Planungsansätze resp. Auswirkungen der Emanzipation auf Architektur und Städtebau
Seminar MAS Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (065-0003)
Veranstalter: MAS
Dozierende: Dr. Sylvia Claus, Dr. Lukas Zurfluh, Sabine Sträuli
Zeit: freitags, 9.00–12.30 Uhr
Ein Seminar zur Architekturkritik ist integraler Bestandteil des zweijährigen MAS-Programms. Es ist folgendermassen organisiert:
1. Besichtigung
Eine studentische Gruppe organisiert die Besichtigung eines im Vorfeld mit den Dozierenden ausgewählten Projektes und macht dazu bis spätestens zwei Tage vor der Exkursion die notwendigen Angaben auf der Kooperationsplattform des MAS.
Bei der Besichtigung begründet die Gruppe zur Einführung ihre Objektauswahl und stellt die führende Person vor.
Die Gruppe hat das für die Besichtigung hilfreiche Abbildungsmaterial zur Hand.
2. Schreiben
Die Kritiken werden für vorgegebene Formate geschrieben (Tages- und Fachpresse, Radiobeitrag etc.).
Pro Objekt schreiben alle Studierenden für das selbe Format. Abgabe der Texte ist jeweils am Montag nach der Besichtigung auf der Kooperationsplattform.
3. Diskussion
In der auf die Besichtigung folgenden Woche findet im Seminar die Diskussion zum Objekt und zu den Kritiken statt. Dafür haben wir mit Hubertus Adam, Jørg Himmelreich und Martin Tschanz renommierte Experten als Gastkritiker gewonnen.
Programm
2. Februar 2018, 10:00–11:30 Uhr
Einführung ins neue Semester
23. Februar 2018, 09:00–12:30 Uhr
Was ist gute Architekturkritik? Diskussion und Kriterienbildung
2. März 2018, Treffpunkt 9.45 Uhr vor dem Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur
Erste Besichtigung:
Barozzi Viega, Erweiterung Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur
Aussegnungskapelle Friedhof Fürstenwald,Chur
Steinkirche Cazis
verantwortlich: Gruppe 1 (Bülent Abbasoglu, Sonja Bozic, Michael Beck, Mikel Martinez, Eva Nägeli)
9. März 2018, 09:00–12:30 Uhr
Erste Kritik der Kritiken
- Werkstattgespräche, Seminarwoche, Osterferien -
13. April 2018, Treffpunkt
Zweite Besichtigung
Holzer Kobler, Haus Elli, Zürich (prov.)
Hohes Haus West
verantwortlich: Gruppe 2 (Andrea Rummel, Christoph Feinweber, Francine Speiser, Florian Rietmann, Catherine Sark, Miriam Dobler, Haaike Peeters)
20. April 2018, 09:00–12:30
Zweite Kritik der Kritiken mit Hubertus Adam
Donnerstag, 26. April 2018, Treffpunkt 13.45 Uhr vor der Tonhalle Mag, Zürich
Dritte Besichtigung
Spillmann und Echsle, Tonhalle Maag, Zürich
verantwortlich: Gruppe 3 (Franziska Quandt, Rune Frandsen, Rebekka Hirschberg, Lucia Pennati, Constanze Kummer, Sandra Hüberli, Jinju Lee)
4. Mai 2018, 09:00–12:30 Uhr
Dritte Kritik der Kritiken mit Jørg Himmelreich
Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2018, Treffpunkt Winterthur
Vierte Besichtigung
Bernath + Widmer, Reihenhäuser Leimenegg II, Winterthur
verantwortlich: Gruppe 4 (Philipp Sax, Tobias Mocka, Jakob Schröder, Gabriela Dimitrova, Fadrina Arpagaus, Camilla Minini, Nina Hüppi)
18. Mai, 8.00 – 11.30 / 15.00 Uhr
Vierte Kritik der Kritiken an der ZHAW Winterthur mit Martin Tschanz
anschliessend Besichtigung der Schule und gemeinsames Mittagessen
Seminar MAS Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (065-0003)
Veranstalter: MAS
Dozierende: Dr. Sylvia Claus, Dr. Lukas Zurfluh, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: freitags, 9.00 –12.30 Uhr
Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2017, 9.00–11.30 Uhr, HIL D 60.1
Einführung und Vergabe der Referate
Donnerstag, 23.02.17, Workshop Ausstellung
Programm nach separater Liste
1. Sitzung, 24.02.17
Moderne und Postmoderne: Begriffsklärung und historische Fundierung
Lektüre:
Harry Levin, What was modernism?, in: The Massachusetts Review 1 (1960) 4, S. 609–630. Levin 1960
Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp (1964), in: dies., Kunst und Antikunst. 24 literarische Analysen, Frankfurt am Main 1995, S. 322–341. Sontag1964/2006_Camp
Susan Sontag, Die Einheit der Kultur und die neue Erlebnisweise (1965), in: dies., Kunst und Antikunst. 24 literarische Analysen, Frankfurt am Main 1995, S. 346–347.Sontag 1965/2006_Einheit der Kultur
Leslie A. Fiedler, Cross the Border – Close the Gap, in: Playboy (1969) 12 v. Dez, S. 151, 230, 252-258, dt. Übersetzung in: Wolfgang Welsch (Hg.), Wege aus der Moderne. Schlüsseltexte der Postmoderne, Weinheim 1988, S. 57–74.Fiedler 1969/1988
Leslie A. Fiedler, Das Zeitalter der neuen Literatur. Die Wiedergeburt der Kritik, in: Christ und Welt, 13. 9.1968, S. 9f. und ders.,Das Zeitalter der neuen Literatur. Indianer, Science Fiction und Pornographie, in: Christ und Welt, 20. 9.1968, S. 14–16.Fiedler 1968_13. und 20. 9.
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Antwort auf die Frage: Was ist postmodern?, in: Postmoderne für Kinder. Briefe aus den Jahren 1982-1985 (1986), 3. Aufl., Wien 2009, S. 13–32.Lyotard 2009
Referat: Sandra Hüberli; Mikel Mugica
Diskussionsleitung: Fadrina Arpagaus; Anne Hangebruch
Protokoll: Regina Luginbühl; Esther Baur
Feedback: Nina Hüppi; Elisabeth Bormann
14.00–16.00 Uhr Workshop: Exposé
2. Sitzung, 03.03.17
Was ist postmoderne Architektur? Ihre Grundlagen und Ausprägungen
Lektüre:
Charles Jencks, Die Sprache der postmodernen Architektur. Entstehung und Entwicklung einer alternativen Tradition (1977), Stuttgart 1978. Jencks 1988
Heinrich Klotz, Moderne und Postmoderne Architektur 1960–1980, Braunschweig- Wiesbaden 1984.
Jürgen Habermas, Moderne und postmoderne Architektur, in: ders., Die Neue Unübersichtlichkeit, Frankfurt 1985, S. 11–29. Habermas_ModernePostmoderne
Referat: Christoph Dietz; Elisabeth Bormann
Diskussionsleitung: Esther Baur; Frida Grahn
Protokoll: Sandra Hüberli; Mikel Mugica
Feedback: Camilla Minini; Regina Luginbühl
3. Sitzung, 9. und 10.03.17
Exkursion ins Tessin
Referat: Camilla Minini; Michael Beck
Diskussionsleitung: Nina Hüppi; Tobias Mocka
Protokoll: Gabriela Dimitrova; Anne Hangebruch
Feedback: Fadrina Arpagaus; Frida Grahn
4. Sitzung, 17.03.17
Sonderfall Schweiz? Die Schweizer Architekturdiskussion in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren
Literatur:
Referat: Regina Luginbühl; Frida Grahn
Diskussionsleitung: Christoph Dietz; Jan-Jakob Schröder
Protokoll: Elisabeth Bormann; Sonja Bozic
Feedback: Sandra Hüberli; Anne Hangebruch
14.00–16.00 Uhr Workshop: Besprechung der Exposés
24.03.17__________Seminarwoche__________
5. Sitzung, 31.03.17
Exkursion: Neue Beliebigkeit? Postmoderne Architektur in Zürich
organisiert von der Leitung des MAS ETH gta
Mittwoch, 05.04.17, 14.00 – 16.15 Uhr Werkstattgespräche
Donnerstag, 06.04.17, 9.00-11.00 Uhr Werkstattgespräche
14.04.17__________Karfreitag__________
21.04.17__________Osterferien__________
6. Sitzung, 28.04.17
Fiktion und Ironie in der Architektur der Postmoderne
Lektüre:
Charles Jencks, Die Sprache der postmodernen Architektur. Entstehung und Entwicklung einer alternativen Tradition (1977), Stuttgart 1978.
Heinrich Klotz, Moderne und Postmoderne Architektur 1960–1980, Braunschweig- Wiesbaden.
Referat: Gabriela Dimitrova; Fadrina Arpagaus
Diskussionsleitung: Michael Beck; Camilla Minini
Protokoll: Jan-Jakob Schröder; Tobias Mocka
Feedback: Sonja Bozic; Mikel Mugica
14.00–16.00 Uhr Workshop: Ausstellungstexte
7. Sitzung, 05.05.17
Postmoderne als Kritik: «Soziales» und «ökologisches» Bauen
Lektüre:
Lucius Burckhardt /Walter Förderer, Bauen ein Prozess, Teufen 1968.
Referat: Nina Hüppi; Esther Baur
Diskussionsleitung: Mikel Mugica; Gabriela Dimitrova
Protokoll: Michael Beck; Christoph Dietz
Feedback: Jan-Jakob Schröder; Tobias Mocka
8. Sitzung, 12.05.17
Kritischer Regionalismus: Architektur im Kontext
Lektüre:
Kenneth Frampton, Towards a critical regionalism. Six points for an architecure of resistance, in: Hal Forster (Hg.), The Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on postmodern culture, Port Townsend 1983, S. 16–30; dt. Übersetzung: Kritischer Regionalismus – Thesen zu einer Architektur des Widerstands, in Huyssen/Scherpe 1986, S. 151– 171.
Referat: Anne Hangebruch; Sonja Bozic
Diskussionsleitung: Regina Luginbühl; Elisabeth Bormann
Protokoll: Camilla Minini; Nina Hüppi
Feedback: Esther Baur; Christoph Dietz
9. Sitzung, Donnerstag 18.05.17
Die Wiederentdeckung der Stadt: Zum Stadtbegriff in der Postmoderne
Referat: Tobias Mocka; Jan-Jakob Schröder
Diskussionsleitung: Sonja Bozic; Sandra Hüberli
Protokoll: Fadrina Arpagaus; Frida Grahn
Feedback: Michael Beck; Gabriela Dimitrova
29. Mai – 2. Juni 2017 Exkursion nach Griechenland
Seminar MAS Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (065-0003)
Veranstalter: MAS
Dozierende: Dr. Sylvia Claus, Dr. Lukas Zurfluh, Marie-Anne Lerjen, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen
Zeit: freitags, 9.00–12.30 Uhr und 14.00–16.00 Uhr
Kuratieren in Lehre und Forschung: "Das Institut gta und seine Rolle im Architekturdiskurs seit 1967" als Ausstellungsprojekt
Das MAS ETH gta beteiligt sich mit einer von seinen Studierenden in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut, insbesondere der Ausstellungsabteilung, zu kuratierenden Ausstellung an den Feierlichkeiten zum 50jährigen Bestehen des Institutes gta.
Das Institut wurde 1967 in einer Zeit des politischen, gesellschaftlichen und architektonischen Umbruchs gegründet. Die These vom „langen Sommer der Theorie“ (Philipp Felsch) umschreibt treffend die Bedeutung, die damals der theoretischen Durchdringung gesellschaftlicher Probleme international beigemessen wurde. In diesem Kontext wurzelt auch das gta. Das Nachdenken über den Stellenwert der Theorie für die gesellschaftliche Praxis und damit auch das Nachdenken über die Relevanz universitärer Forschung für die Gesellschaft findet in der Erforschung der Rolle dieses Institutes in der internationalen Architekturdiskussion einen angemessenen Gegenstand.
Das Projekt wird wiederum vom Innovedum Fonds der ETH Zürich gefördert.
Den Auftakt zum Projekt bildeten zwei Workshops im FS 2016. Die Ausstellung wird im Herbst 2017 eröffnet.
Seminar MAS Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (065-0003-01)
Veranstalter: MAS
Dozierende: Dr. Sylvia Claus, Dr. Lukas Zurfluh, Marie-Anne Lerjen
Zeit: freitags, 9.00–12.30 Uhr
Das Seminar ist Teil des vom SNF geförderten Projektes "Städtebau als politische Kultur. Der Architekt und Theoretiker Hans Bernoulli (1876-1959)". Es dient der Erarbeitung des weiteren historischen und städtebautheoretischen Kontextes von Bernoullis Werk und bildet damit die Grundlage für die historisch-kritische Kommentierung der theoretischen Texte Bernoullis, die die Studierenden im Laufe des Semesters individuell leisten werden.