NEW:
Master of Architecture
Master of Interior Architecture
Start: Oct. 2003
Apply before: 5/15/2003
Academy of Fine Arts in Nürnberg
Department for Architecture and Interior Design
Prof. Arno Brandlhuber
Institute for Research in Art and Environment
(In preparation).
The Academy of Fine Arts in Nürnberg is setting up new
postgraduate courses in architecture and interior design
in order to broaden its presence within the arts. The course
lasts 2 years and students will receive an M. Arch or an
M.I. Arch respectively. The course program will focus on
design strategies, research and theory. In addition to the
Masters a PhD program is planned.
To facilitate an international dialgue, the teaching program
will be complemented by activities at other European Universities including workshops, seminars and conferences.
Mail to: mail@a42.org
To build, one must think Pop.
The (post-)modern >> >> formal canon cannot be
transformed from within. The current architecture
practice generally operates within fading certainties,
without creating >> popular values.
Meanwhile, the production of architecture, seen as
part of the so-called 'high culture', is restricted to
the branded, >> >> media compatible product of the few.
Tto think 'city', one must be 'society'.
Architecture more often than not seems to be a
culturally irrelevant endeavour. Buzzwords like >>
'neo-liberalism', >> 'digital revolution' and >> 'market
populism' mark a fundamental shift in paradigms.
Architectural practice contributes little, and is unable
to cope with these radical changes that are having a
fundamental impact on the physical space around us.
Everything changes architecture, architecture changes nothing. >> >> The production of buildings and the thinking about the built environment have been separated, as social discourses.
To be part of the world, one must 'compute'.
The possibilities generated by computer-aided design
are far from exhausted. A series of scientific quantum
leaps, inseparable from the exponential increase in
computing power over the last decades, have become
the source for new scientific >> thought models.
However within the architectural discipline this newly
acquired power – apart from the occasional attempt to
optimise the workplace or an approach to mass-
customisation, is merely used >> >> generate complex
bio morph space models by a quasi Avantgarde.
To 'compute', one must do research.
The production of architecture is subject to constant
changes of demands, not only functionally and techno-
logically but also culturally and economically. Equally
the way we read the architectural surface is subject
to shifting ways of >> perception and a changing
iconography.
The mere >> reproduction of tested typologies reduces
architecture to the provision of standardised solutions
which generally won’t last. Architectural education
subsequently cannot be tied down as the mediator for
such >> preconceived solutions but must encourage
systematical research.
To do research into the future, one must build.
If 'freedom of choice' wanted to be more than the
anticipation and subsequent following of >> organised
trends, we would need the sovereignty of contemplation,
discovery and knowledge. Problem-solving strategies
will enable us to act, whilst continually scrutinising the
rule set by the omnipresent >> 'preformatted’.
