The Asmara Factory / Peter Volgger
During our fieldwork trip to Asmara in March 2013 funded by the current FWF-project, we were able to visit the city’s archive. Due to present political conditions it is an unique opportunity to get at these collections. The archive has an impressive collection of plans of built and even unrealised (!) projects, which gives insight […]
The Sleeping Beauty – Impressum / Peter Volgger
The Project ‘The Sleeping Beauty. Architecture and Bio Politics’ is supported by the Austrian Fonds for Supporting Scientific Research (Österreichischer Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung – FWF).
From Mapping to Operating System / Bart Lootsma
Otto Neurath is known, among other things, as a philosopher, a sociologist, and as a political economist. His pioneering work, together with the artist Gerd Arntz, on the Isotype pictorial language is widely acknowledged among graphic designers and information designers. More recently, architects and urbanists have become more and more interested in Neurath’s role as […]
Research for Research / Bart Lootsma
Over the last decade, research has become a key issue in the debate on architecture and urbanism. Architects and architectural offices like Stefano Boeri and Multiplicity, Rem Koolhaas and OMA/AMO, Raoul Bunschoten and CHORA, Winy Maas and MVRDV; institutions like Harvard, the Berlage Institute, the Bauhaus and ETH Studio Basel; museums and galleries like Arc […]
Otto Neurath – City Planning / Sophie Hochhäusl
Architects are trained to distinguish between two kinds of maps: representational ones and those that serve as heuristic architectural devices. While representational maps are usually drawn to make observations more accessible to a larger audience, the map as an architectural tool serves as a device for design thinking. By means of drawing space it makes […]
Research for Research / Thesis Group Bart Lootsma
Over the last decade, research has become a key issue in the debate on architecture and urbanism. Architects and architectural offices like Stefano Boeri and Multiplicity, Rem Koolhaas and OMA/AMO, Raoul Bunschoten and CHORA, Winy Maas and MVRDV; institutions like Harvard, the Berlage Institute, the Bauhaus and ETH Studio Basel; museums and galleries like Arc […]