Preservation: Uncool & Unloved Elective Course Spring Semester 2021 Teaching Team: Silke Langenberg, Reto Wasser The task of heritage conservation is the inventory and preservation of objects worthy of protection. In doing so, it is confronted with a wide variety of challenges and issues, both constructive and social, such as ageing and decay, the desire for development, […]
Keep Reading →FOR WO*MEN ONLY. GENDER EXCLUSIVE SPACES Seminarreise nach Val Müstair im Herbstsemester 2021 Teaching Team: Silke Langenberg, Regine Hess, Robin Rehm Doing Gender hat Harold Garfinkel den tagtäglichen Vorgang genannt, bei dem wir bestimmen, welches Geschlecht die Handelnden haben. Doing Gender funktioniert nicht ohne Orte im analogen und digitalen Raum, in der Literatur, in der Wissenschaft, […]
Keep Reading →Preservation: Communicate & Exhibit Elective Course Fall Semester 2021 Teaching Team: Silke Langenberg, Regine Hess, Fabian Kastner Current strategies of «building in the existing fabric» are backed by various historical theories and practices of preservation. But which architects follow – explicitly or implicitly – which theory? How do these points of view evolve through the works […]
Keep Reading →Digital Construction Archive funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Project Proposal and Director: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, Project Proposal: Dr. Tobias BüchiCo-Director and Contact: Dr. Adrian Pöllinger The radical turn from industrial to digital design and production has led to a paradigm shift in architecture, and it impacts the possibilities to preserve the […]
Keep Reading →Hors Saison* Seminar trip to Davos in the fall semester 2020 Teaching Team: Silke Langenberg, Orkun Kasap, Reto Wasser Since the development of the antibiotic streptomycin and other drugs against tuberculosis, Swiss sanatoriums and climatic health resorts have been losing significance since 1943. Many of the buildings are converted into hotels towards the end of the Second […]
Keep Reading →ICOMOS Suisse Working Group: System & Series(2016–2023) Compared to other countries, Switzerland had a comparatively low demand for buildings that could be erected quickly and on a large scale in the first decades after the end of the Second World War. Nevertheless, pioneering construction systems and serial production techniques were developed here early on, and […]
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