Hudson Valley Ecologies
The international orientation and transdisciplinary structure of the Hudson Valley Ecologies teaching research project considers the reciprocal relation between city and country and so ties in with the Chair's past projects on the urban periphery of Berlin and Rome, in addition to a project on the rural region of the Schwarzatal in Thuringia. The Hudson Valley extends for several hundred kilometres north of Manhattan and is of high economic, environmental and cultural value for New York City and the towns, villages and landscape regions along the Hudson River. Collective and individual research and design themes are identified in cooperation with the Hudson Valley Initiative at GSAPP, Columbia University, New York. The project is based on several interconnected teaching formats, including a seminar, an excursion to New York and the Hudson Valley in October 2019 and a design studio module in the winter semester 2019/20. It is aimed at particularly motivated students who are interested in the current international discourse in the field of architecture and urban design and who have good skills and experience in architectural design and its presentation in drawings, models and visualisations. Students on other courses and/or faculties who fulfil certain criteria are also welcome.
The studio module is devoted to an in-depth study of Wally Farms, land near the river that has been in agricultural and forestry use, and the formulation of individually chosen design themes on the Hudson Valley.
Allocation: M.Sc. Architecture project module, B.Sc. and M.Sc. Architecture thesis
Time: Winter semester 2019/20
Place: Weimar, New York and Hudson Valley
Tutors: Verena von Beckerath, Till Hoffmann
Guest contributions: Thomas Kröger, Kaja Kühl, Meg Walker, Momoko Yasaka, Maximilian von Zepelin
Participants: Johann-Andreas Baumgart, Clara Maria Blasius, Daniel Granzin (bachelor thesis), Mara Günther (bachelor thesis), Sebastian Jäger, Julia Anna Janiel (bachelor thesis), Karlotta Könneke, Danny Liu, Hannah Meisel (bachelor thesis), Lilo Nöske, Kai Pieper, Zeno Schnelle, Ernst Schubert (bachelor thesis), Kilian Schwartze, Sophie Weber (master thesis), Lennart Weski
Cooperation: Hudson Valley Initiative - GSAPP, Columbia University, New York