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The design of buildings is a formal response to a program and a specific environment.

We understand the design process as a means to gain insights into an architectural

problem. Design is a hypothesis rather than an answer, a way of investigating the cor-

rectness of a program, the potential of a specific environment and the opportunities

inherent in the formal concepts of our time.

Design and Theory of Building Types

Prof. Karl-Heinz SchmitzDipl.-Ing. Nicolas Geißendörfer

M.Sc. Leopold Mücke

Guest professor

Alexander SchwarzDesign Director David Chipperfield Architects

Excursion to Berlin

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In the summer semester of 2014 the Bauhaus University Weimar will hold it´s 15th design course in English. The course is entitled “international Advanced Architectural Design”.The international AAD 2014 program is organised by the chair of Design and Theory of Building Types, Professor Karl-Heinz Schmitz, in close cooperation with other chairs of the master program at the faculty of Architecture.

In close cooperation with:

University College Dublin, IrelandPeter CodyMackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, UKChristopher PlattUniversity of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UKDavid HassonETSAM, Madrid, SpainAlberto Campo BaezaUniversitá degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, ItalyFerruccio IzzoUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville, USAHansjörg GöritzVirgina Tech / WAAC, Alexandria, USAJaan HoltTU Wien, AustriaAndrás Pálffy

The program includes an excursion to places of specific re-levance to the course. Students will be asked to contribute to the costs of the excursion (estimated 350 Euros). The de-sign course will be supported by a lecture course on Theory and History of Building Types as well as additional seminar courses. The entire study program may earn up to 30 ECTS credit points in total.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS

Students from Partner Universities: 1st OF FEBRUARY 2014

Students from Bauhaus University Weimar: 1st OF MARCH 2014

Applications including a letter of motivation and a portfolio.

international AADBauhaus-Universität Weimarc/o Professor Karl-Heinz SchmitzGeschwister-Scholl-Strasse 8D 99421 Weimar

iaad@archit.uni-weimar.de www.uni-weimar.de/architektur/e+gel2

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Altes MuseumOld MuseumKarl Friedrich Schinkel

EinsteinturmEinstein TowerErich Mendelsohn

Bauhaus DessauWalter Gropius

Neue NationalgalerieNew National GalleryLudwig Mies van der Rohe

PhilharmoniePhilharmonic HallHans Scharoun

Sammlung BorosBoros CollectionJens Casper & Realarchitektur

Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-ZentrumJacob-and-Wilhelm-Grimm-CentreMax Dudler

Neues MuseumNew MuseumFriedrich August StülerDavid Chipperfield Architects

Staatsbibliothek Unter den LindenState Library Unter den LindenAugust TiedeHG Merz

Faculty of Architecture

Design and Theory of Building Types

Prof. Karl-Heinz Schmitz

Designing With the Perspective[ 3 ECTS ]

The exercise is compulsory for all students taking part in the iAAD

design course.

Architectural thinking finds its expression in sketches and drawings.

Ideas vital to the design concept are usually developed in plan,

section and elevation; perspectives are usually drawn towards the

end of the design process. The seminar is concerned with perspective

sketches and drawings during the whole design process. In four

exercises, important aspects of the spatial concept will be explored

with the help of perspective drawings.

1st assignment

Freehand perspectives of the site and their important spatial

characteristics

2nd assignment

Freehand perspectives of the first design concept

3rd assignment

Constructed perspectives of exterior and interior spaces

4th assignment

Detail and perspective drawing

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Design and Theory of Building Types

Prof. Karl-Heinz Schmitz

Principle and Form[ 6 ECTS ]

Architectural drawings are an abstraction, a method to investigate

an architectural principle, the programmatic idea and an urban or

natural situation. The design process encompasses analysis as well

as synthesis. Clear-cut methods and rational procedures can only be

applied to a degree. Often accidental and unintended deviations,

often an unexpected obstacle helps to show up the right principle.

In this seminar, we will be looking for permanent, essential and

characteristic architectural attributes inherent in plan, section and

facade. It is the timeless and universal qualities that we are after. The

aim of this seminar will be to articulate fundamental architectural

principles by drawing; by distilling and comparing and stripping

away irrelevant circumstances, we would like to discover universal

principles involved in the design of buildings.

Architectural drawings can be as eloquent as written or spoken

language in communicating complex and subtle ideas. It will

therefore be important to aim at consistency and precision in graphic

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The lectures deal with the historical evolution of public buildings

and public spaces. Two aspects are important: function and

architectural space. The history of function is one of diversification

and specialisation. History has shown that programmatic ideas and

spatial ideas correspond within their own time but that form does

not always follow function. In many cases, typical spatial forms

are capable of coping with a diversity of functional requirements.

Function can be implicit as well as explicit; how could we otherwise

reuse older buildings.

Public buildings and public spaces are as much a result of conflicting

architectural ideas proposed by different periods of history as they

are the result of a specific programmatic idea of their own time. Ideal

buildings and ideal spaces are the exception; in most cases, architects

are concerned with the reconciliation of conflicting spatial ideals and

conflicting programmatic ideas. The lecture course supports the idea

that the intuitive design process is part of a greater architectural

history. The lectures deal with the present, and with the past in

relation to the present.

Faculty of Architecture

Design and Theory of Building Types

Prof. Karl-Heinz Schmitz

Lecture Course[ 3 ECTS ]

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Prof. Karl-Heinz SchmitzDipl.-Ing. Nicolas Geßendörfer

M.Sc. Leopold Mücke

European Skyscraper IIIiAAD Design Project

[ 12 ECTS ]

The use of the word “skyscraper” is first recorded roughly 120 years

ago in reference to certain newly erected buildings in Chicago. The

motivation for them was an urge for innovation (which would have

been inconceivable without technological invention), and the desire of

commercial companies for self-portrayal in an urban context. It is no

coincidence, therefore, that the high-rise building had its origins in

Chicago and New York at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the

20th centuries with the rise of American “cathedrals of commerce”.

At all events, the architecture of skyscrapers is regarded as a deve-

lopment that took place on the other side of the ocean. While most

US churches, museums and banks were uninspired reproductions of

European ideals, the skyscraper was a native product and a symbol

of the American spirit, according to the US architectural critic Claude

Bragdon. The direct relationship between this type of building and the

American ideology of progress and success is probably an important

reason why it is still regarded with such suspicion in Europe.

Robert KaltenbrunnerIcons of Progress – High Rise Buildings, Their Motivation, Aesthetics and Effects. Detail 9/2007

These quotes are a convincing reflection on one aspect of the history

of skyscrapers. Does this mean, however, that European architects

were less enthusiastic about a building type that has always see-

med antagonistic to the established concepts of the European town?

There is very little evidence for this supposition, as there are many

notable European architects who did design a skyscraper: Le Corbu-

sier, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Adolf Loos, Tony Garnier,

Auguste Perret or Antonio Sant’Elia. The first generation of modern

architects on both sides of the Atlantic worked on proposals for high-

rise buildings regardless of whether they were designing for Chicago,

New York, Berlin, Paris or Milan. Even those architects who belong

to the second and third generation, those who have defended the

European town against the concepts of modern town planning, like

Peter and Alison Smithson in Great Britain or Oswald Mathias Ungers

and Hans Kollhoff in Germany have designed high-rise buildings. In

contrast to the first generation, some members of the second and

third generation have taken great pains to reflect upon the situation

of the European town with its rich historic layering of urban ideas.

Students taking part in this year’s iAAD design project will be asked

to give thought to the special history of the skyscraper in a European

context, the changes taking place in the nature of public function

and public space, the relationship between the icon and public space

and the spatial principles of organising public functions vertically.

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Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Schmitz

* 1949 Born in Bonn Bad-Godesberg, Germany1970-78 University of Cape Town, South Africa1985-88 Technische Universität Karlsruhe1980 Haus-Rucker-Co, Düsseldorf1981-86 O.M. Ungers, Köln1987-93 Karljosef Schattner, Eichstättsince 1993 Professor at the Bauhaus-University Weimar Design and Theory of Bulding Typessince 1993 Private practice

Dipl.-Ing. ETH Alexander Schwarz

* 1967 Born in Ludwigsburg, Germany1987-1991 Education in Violin Making1991-2001 University of Stuttgart 1993-1994 ETH Zürich1995-1996 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart since 1996 David Chipperfield Architects London since 1998 David Chipperfield Architects Berlinsince 2006 Managing Director 2007-2008 Visiting Professor Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart2007-2008 Visiting Professor Münster School of Architecturesince 2011 Partner2012-2013 Visiting Professor Bauhaus-University Weimar

Prof. (jun) Dr. phil. Ines Weizman

1992-1998 Bauhaus University Weimar (Diploma)1998-2000 Ecole d’Architecture de Belleville Paris Cambridge University (M.Phil.)2000-2004 Architectural Association School of Architecture (PhD)2001-2003 Diploma tutor Architectural Association School of Architecture2005 Senior lecturer Goldsmiths College London2005 Visiting Professor Berlage Institute of Architecture, Rotterdam 2005-2013 Senior lecturer Syracuse University School of Architecture Program Londonsince 2004 Senior lecturer CASS School of Art and Architecture, Londonsince 2013 Junior Professor at the Bauhaus-University Weimar Theory of Architecture

Dr.-Ing. Volkmar Zabel

1990-96 Study of Civil Engineering at the University of Architecture and Construction Weimar1993-94 Study at the University of Bath, UK1996-2006 Researcher at the Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus-University Weimar2003 Doctoral degree, Bauhaus-University Weimarsince 2003 Head of the structural dynamics laboratory at the Institute of Structural Mechanics2007 Researcher at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlinsince 2008 Senior Engineer at the Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus-University Weimar Involvement in several national and international research projects

Social and political discourses have recently been placed at the

forefront of cultural practice. This can be seen in the art/culture

world’s engagement with social and political critique and its search

for ways of intervention and action. This lecture series emphasizes

the social and political perspective of space making as it is narrated

and viewed through photography and film.

Films and sound recordings are selected for their capacity in

showing how architecture can present the history and conflicts of a

transforming society, but also for its function as a medium of politics

and ideology. Architecture is here understood as both presence and

representation. The reading of architectural documents - sketches,

construction plans, correspondences, photographs, or the recordings

of witness accounts and opinions of inhabitants, experts, authors

(architects) also allows for a particular mode of reflecting about

architectural history and theory.

The lecture series intersects with the program of Bauhaus-

ARGUMENTE which invites architects, film-makers, artists and

theorists to present their work. Please refer to the programme for

details.

https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/architektur/forschung-und-kunst/

forschung/institute/bauhaus-institut/bauhaus-argumente/

Faculty of Architecture

Theory of Architecture

Prof. (jun) Dr. Ines Weizman

Architecture Portraits in Film [ 6 / 3 ECTS ]

Faculty of Civil Engineering

Institute of Structural mechanics

Dr. Volkmar Zabel

Experimental Structural Dynamics[ 6 ECTS ]

In this project the students learn experimental methodologies that

enable them to extract information about the dynamic properties,

such as natural frequencies, mode shapes and damping ratios from

existing structures. This includes both the theoretical concepts and

the application of experimental equipment. The students will work

in interdisciplinary groups. Together they will develop the structural

concept for a high-rise building that is supposed to be subjected

by an earthquake excitation. The building should be based on the

design the architecture students develop within the design project

“European Skyscraper III”. Within the project the students will build

a physical model of the structure that represents the main features of

the designed building. The model will be tested with respect to its

modal parameters and response to an earthquake excitation.

Students of architecture contribute to the project with their skills in

design and project development. Furthermore they will get familiar

in this interdisciplinary project with problems and methods in

structural dynamics.