Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Bernhard Siegert
The focus in the course of study MediaArchitecture is partially a result of
the profile of the research and study field, insofar as the situation of settlements
and the creation of living spaces in general, as well as architectonic media
of the difference from inside and outside - windows, doors etc. - especially
represent elementary cultural techniques, and insofar as the fundamental differences
on which cultures are often based (although not always) at all take on the
form of architecture. The study of the history and the structural and media
anthropological theory of openings, thresholds and passageways, as well as
the reflection on the ramifications of their displacement form an important
integral part of the research and study field of the history and theory of
cultural techniques. A further research focus of the chair, which has already
found a place in the course, deals with the history of migrations since the
sixteenth century, the history of the establishment of settlements, vagrancy,
of non spaces and media positioning. In this context there is an interdisciplinary
research and exhibition project on the topic of barrack as “Utopia of
modern times and biopolitical practice”, in which cultural science,
art and architectural theoretical discourse meet. A third reference results
from the simple circumstances that architecture and media science have a common
tool in the drawing. Cultural techniques as drawing instruments, graphic operations,
presentation techniques, plans and planning, plotter and CAD at the Professorship
of History and Cultural Techniques are not treated as tools, but rather as
media. That means that it is not about how analogue and digital drawing machines
can lighten the load of the architect as “author” of the design,
but instead expand his cognitive capacities and perfection the result with
respect to exactness and speed. The demand is more for the media of architecture
as a condition of the potential for spatial design. A fourth aspect of the
study course is characterised by the term knowledge architecture. This ranges
from spatial models of knowledge and memory in philosophy and literature to
settlement and city topographies as data and address spaces, utopias of an
architecture of absolute knowledge through to the internet under the aspect
of EGovernment.
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