Visiting Professor: Peter Staub
Assistant: Christian Koch
Mapping Explorations
On the Hunt‐Lenox Globe of the early 16th Century the phrase hic sunt dracones – here be dragons indicates unchartered and possibly dangerous territory. The unknown has long been and continues to be a source for myths and a challenge for many explorers. In times when GPS and Google Street view are common tools of navigation and virtual travel, our perception of what it means “to explore” seems to have shifted. Have we lost touch with our personal exploratory senses? This term, Architectural Design Theory will embark on a journey to rediscover, describe, measure, map and interpret territorial specificities. The findings will form a collection of crafted, speculative maps, postcards and broad‐sheets, all packed neatly in your contemporary boîte‐en‐valise.
At the heart of our investigation lies the ambition to detect and map hidden qualities and spaces in Liechtenstein that identify the country’s unique building culture. While the chair’s research project will provide the necessary data based on facts and figures, your projects will use them to develop and design speculative and experimental architectural interventions, stories and myths.
Several workshops and seminars will guide you along this journey and offer insight into mapping and other alternative visualisation techniques. Further, relevant architectural theory will be read and discussed, focussing on concepts such as folding, the dérive and hyperreality. In parallel, the lecture courses Architectural History I, Architectural Theory I and Perception for Architects I will convey the theoretical knowledge necessary for your critical design development.
The Studio is kindly supported by Freitag.ch
All information subject to change.