Circular Strategies Symposium
How can the integration of the biosphere into the technosphere of architecture or the city contribute to overcoming the climate crisis and creating an environment worth living in? We want ...read more
Excursions
The Wien Museum will expand and relocate its exhibition on the history of the Prater (the amusement park) to a new building. ...read more
Excursions
The building of the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna was absolutely avant-garde in terms of construction in the 1970s. ...read more
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https://youtu.be/HBDPs7dNL0Y Ecosystems collapse, resources are becoming scarce and there is urgent need for action to counteract these developments. Architecture plays a vital role in shaping our relationship with the world, bearing a significant ...read more
Construction Site Visits
Site manager Michael Wögerbauer of Pichler & Traupmann Architekten (pxt) gave us a tour of the construction site. Finishing works, ...read more
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First day of the Angewandte Festival, the 'floats' were populating the bridge of Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz and showing all the content from studios, research groups and department contributions to the public. On the Department-Float ...read more
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According to Gottfried Semper's theory, the origin of the wall lies in the textile and in weaving. The German word “winden” (weave) is etymologically related to "Wand" (wall) as the ...read more
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Rammed earth may be the oldest building material known to mankind. Can we revive the building technique? How can it be integrated into modern building practice? ...read more
Construction Site Visits
Architect Regina Freimüller-Söllinger guided us through the construction site of her current project in 1120 Vienna, Tivoligasse 11. ...read more
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November 24, 2021, 7 pm (via Zoom) Rena Giesecke, ETH Zürich „The Making of Building Clarity - New Construction Techniques in Glass" ...read more
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A lecture by Christoph Bauchinger, who has been working as a façade professional for more than 10 years and has successfully completed large scale projects worldwide. He now works for the internationally renowned company Seele, which specializes in steel-glass constructions and all-glass designs, and heads its Austrian engineering department . ...read more
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Project by Mira Suradi
Resources & Construction was an offer for students of all three architecture studios to engage with a design ...read more
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This years contribution to the Angewandte Festival is hosted in digital space. ...read more
Lectures
Covid-19 has shaken some certainties, such as our ideas of the dense city. On the one hand, it requires caution to keep a distance to potential carriers of the virus, ...read more
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Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/s/94672269778 ...read more
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Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/s/94672269778 ...read more
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Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/s/94672269778 ...read more
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Angewandte Festival 2020
We showed some short videos of our students' work: Construction studies carried out in the course Building Construction Integration, as well as structures and details developed from these preparatory works for the master theses. ...read more
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Monika Kalinowska and Denys Karandiuk from Studio Rashid and Weronika Moscicka have won the Student Trophy 2020, an interdisciplinary, open student competition ...read more
Construction Site Visits
Archive:
IKEA Vienna
October 20th, 2020
(rendering courtesy querkraft)
The IKEA building was designed by querkraft architects, an internationally successful architectural firm. The construction site is located directly behind the ...read more
Circular Strategies Symposium
Video documentations online now:
The climate crisis and scarcity of resources are forcing ...read moreThe Making of
House 36 is a crystalline volume of exposed concrete. Both the walls and the roof are made of monolithic insulating concrete and combine the load-bearing structure, the thermal insulation and ...read more
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9.10.2019 Knitted Formworks for Complex Concrete Structures Mariana Popescu, Block Research Group, ETH Zürich 14.11.2019 H36, A Monolithic insulating Concrete House, Stuttgart Matthias Bauer, Stuttgart 11.3.2020 - Postponed to winter semester 20-21 MUCEM Marseille, Ultra-High Performance Concrete Romain ...read more
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KnitCandela is a thin, sinuous concrete shell built on an ultra-lightweight knitted formwork, jointly designed and developed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Block Research Group (BRG) of ETH Zurich. It ...read more
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The Sheikh Zayed Desert Learning Centre is both a museum and a research centre for desert landscapes and environmental issues, located within the Wildlife Park Resort of Al Ain, UAE. ...read more
Construction Site Visits
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Sunny Hills in Aoyama Tokyo is a pineapple cake shop jointly designed and developed by Kengo Kuma and Jun Sato. Its structure is based on the centuries-old Japanese wood craft of Kigumi, a timber framework whose elements interlock like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle... ...read more
Excursions
Programme: Guided tour through the Elbphilharmonie including the large concert hall. Guided tours through the new urban development areas Hafencity + Speicherstadt, Altona and Wilhelmsburg, IBA projects, Kontorhausviertel (expressionist brick office buildings from the 1920s and -30s) ...read more
Workshops
The workshop is part of the courses BC A, BC B, BC C and BC I. It gives students the opportunity to complete the practical part of up to two ...read more
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The expansion of the Oslo Airport by Nordic Architects includes five pavilions that divide the huge international arrivals hall. They differ in shape and size but share the same structural principle ...read more
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The lecture focuses on the materiality of the wall by presenting and exploring some pivotal scenes from BBC's television series "Sherlock" (2010-present). In particular, it analyses how different types of ...read more
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In our courses for the Industrial Design students the lecture contents are immediately applied and tested in a small design exercise. Since this semester's design task is a tea house, ...read more
Workshops
The Japanese tea house is a modest building in close touch with nature. A structure of wooden posts and mud walls provides an unadorned, yet refined setting for the ceremonial ...read more
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This project is a true classic. Completed in 2000, it was a landmark in the evolution of complex steel-glass structures. Although it served as a paradigm for a multitude of ...read more
Lectures
Some traditional house typologies offer surprising options of being transformed, typologically evolved and applied to new urban developments. ...read more
Excursions
Programme: 09:00 Bus departure from Angewandte 10:30 Museum Galerie Niederösterreich, Krems (Architects: Marte.Marte). Guided tour of the construction site. 13:30 Factory tour at Glas-Berger, Viehdorf/Amstetten. Advanced glass processing. Short lunch break 16:00 Stelzer office building, Herzogenburg (Architect: Franz Sam). ...read more
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Zaha Hadid always tried to push the artistic boundaries of architecture, thus challenging engineers and construction companies. One of her last projects, an extension to St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, ...read more
Workshops
The workshop was part of the courses BC A, BC B, BC C and BC I. Students technically elaborated their individual studio projects, based on the particular stages of design ...read more
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Archive:
Innochain first year Colloquium with Design Probes exhibition
7. und 8. März 2017
AIL Space Wien
The InnoChain ETN network is a research training environment examining how digital design tools challenge building culture enabling sustainable, informed and ...read more
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the Sequential Roof, Arch_Tec_Lab, ETH Zürich
January 11th, 2017, 7pm
Seminarraum 3
Aleksandra Anna Apolinarska of Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zürich explains how innovative computational design and manufacturing methods not only change the logistics of timber construction but also lead to novel architectural solutions. ...read more
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Jan Niklas Schoepf, Michael Knoll (University of Applied Arts Vienna) and Felix Stadler (TU) win the 1st prize in the student competition "Concrete Student Trophy" 2016. Technical support was provided by Franz Sam. ...read more
Workshops
Archive:
Raum & Konstruktion, Plandarstellung für ID
4.11.2016, 9:00-16:00;
13.1.2017: 9:00-16:00
VZA 3, SR 24
wandelbares Microhaus| convertible micro house ...read more
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Danach: Podiumsdiskussion im Rahmen der ArchFilm Matinée im Filmcasino mit Karin Raith (Universität für Angewandte Kunst), Dr. Ing. Sabine Knierbein (Stadtforscherin, SKuOR/TU-Wien), Dr. Ian Banerjee (Bildungs- und Stadtforscher, ISRA/TU-Wien) und Helmut Weihsmann (Kurator der ArchFilm Matinée) ...read more
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Curator Vanessa Joan Müller guides through the exhibition in Kunsthalle, Museumsquartier. Afterwards: “Beton für die Zukunft” – Pecha Kucha on material innovations. registration is required. ...read more
Lectures
Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „Die Natur der Infrastruktur. Schauplätze österreichischer Umweltgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert“ ...read more
Lectures
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Channels and Chahar Baghs
November 16th & 17th, 2016
Universidad de Sevilla - Cátedra al-Andalus
It is common knowledge that two of the main types of the Islamic garden – the first with a linear water axis, the second with cross-shaped channels (chahar bagh) – ...read more
Construction Site Visits
Hannes Traupmann guided through the construction site ...read more
Excursions
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Belgrade: Reading a city
March 14th, 17th & 18th, 2016 (Seminar)
April 24th – 30th, 2016 (Study trip)
Seminar and study trip to Belgrade. A cooperation between Edith Futscher, Institut für Kunstgeschichte and Karin Raith, Institute of Architecture, Department Building Construction ...read more
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Goswin Rothenthal, façade engineer and software developer at Waagner-Biro Stahlbau talks about the complex dome structure of Louvre Abu Dhabi (designed by architect Jean Nouvel) and how he optimised the geometry of the multilayer aluminium cladding to manufacturing constraints. ...read more