Kurs aus TUMOnline ( S2022)
With the digitalization and the rampant spread of social networks, we are observing the death of the single and individualist architect as traditionally known to the benefit of a more inclusive and sustainable means of practice. However, buildings are still often attributed to one architect, even though it is well known that designing architecture requires the efforts and ideas of many more individuals. By means of project analysis, both historical and contemporary, the aim of this seminar will be to distinguish voices, to expand the notion of design signature, to discover other authors who may have played an instrumental role in project gestation, and to reveal some of the absences and erasures that the canon has overlooked.
Students will search for different works and projects where authorship has not been sufficiently accredited and will write short essays to, among other themes, bring recognition to architects who have been overshadowed by their own partners; gauge the extent of individual authorship in corporate practice; reveal the identity of other actors, including owners, clients, builders, technicians, craftsmen, and developers who may have participated in a project; look at the life of buildings written in retrospect and the number of architects involved in their transformation; recount the history of changes of ownership over time; explore alternative sources of form creation in varied frameworks for researching and conceptualizing architecture; or critically revise the role played by institutions that legitimize the discipline of architecture. These discoveries and writings will shape a first step in taking a stand against a structurally established inequality in the practice of architecture.
With the digitalization and the rampant spread of social networks, we are observing the death of the single and individualist architect as traditionally known to the benefit of a more inclusive and sustainable means of practice. However, buildings are still often attributed to one architect, even though it is well known that designing architecture requires the efforts and ideas of many more individuals. By means of project analysis, both historical and contemporary, the aim of this seminar will be to distinguish voices, to expand the notion of design signature, to discover other authors who may have played an instrumental role in project gestation, and to reveal some of the absences and erasures that the canon has overlooked.
Students will search for different works and projects where authorship has not been sufficiently accredited and will write short essays to, among other themes, bring recognition to architects who have been overshadowed by their own partners; gauge the extent of individual authorship in corporate practice; reveal the identity of other actors, including owners, clients, builders, technicians, craftsmen, and developers who may have participated in a project; look at the life of buildings written in retrospect and the number of architects involved in their transformation; recount the history of changes of ownership over time; explore alternative sources of form creation in varied frameworks for researching and conceptualizing architecture; or critically revise the role played by institutions that legitimize the discipline of architecture. These discoveries and writings will shape a first step in taking a stand against a structurally established inequality in the practice of architecture.
- Dozent: Laura Martínez de Guereñu