World and national exhibitions have been a phenomenon of modernity since the end of the 18th century, not only in France and Great Britain, but also in the German countries.…

“Architectural criticism is not a literary genre, nor is it a profession. It is, above all, an intellectual attitude by means of which discourse becomes – in loneliness and in…

The Queen Alexandra Sanatorium in Davos makes regular appearances in the historiography of modern architecture and yet it has never been addressed in depth. A pioneering structure toward an alpine…

Invading cities, occupying space, Covid-19 caused major disruptions in everyday design routines and brought some latent or hitherto invisible aspects of architecture making to the fore. Acting as a ‘breaching…

The origin of Europe’s dependency on carbon and nuclear power can be traced back to postwar architectural designs and energy policies of the European Community. Since the 1950s, architects have…

Buildings, projects, and even architects’ bodies exist a wider world—the world of socio-economic reality. Exploring architecture’s engagement with this reality, the lecture examines how a Fordist belief in maximizing efficiency…

Ioanna’s research operates at the intersection of feminist studies, architectural history and the commons discourse with the aim to enrich the latter as a radical theory and practice for conceptualising…

Nadja Gaudillière-Jami and Chris Dähne will present the joint work accomplished in past months within subprojects B3 and C1. The common research focuses on digital drawing tools, looking into the…

An open and technologically pioneering new district is being created on the historic Siemens site in Berlin Spandau, a district that combines architectural quality with a variety of uses and…

Horse-trading between the municipality and the big bank, real estate transactions between capitalists and communists, or speculative objects that become architectural icons: all of these (and more) have had a…

Der Workshop „Architektur im Buch“ steht im Zusammenhang mit den beiden Teilprojekten von Hans Aurenhammer und Christiane Salge im LOEWE-Schwerpunkt, die sich im weitesten Sinne mit Ordnungen des Wissens auseinandersetzen…

Ioanna Piniara’s research operates at the intersection of feminist studies, architectural history and the commons discourse with the aim to enrich the latter as a radical theory and practice for…

Architectural structures are a central component of computer game worlds. Their sometimes realistic, sometimes fantastically exaggerated forms and functions are diverse: game world architectures create atmospheres and tell stories (narrative architecture), but at the same time their design is primarily determined by playful requirements, so they serve as a playing field, an arena, or an obstacle course. ...

The interest in architecture informs Harun Farocki’s work on different levels. The observational film Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (2013) and the study on brick production In Comparison (2009) are direct expressions of this, but works such as Prison Images (2000) or The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (2001) also revolve around the relationship between built space, media technologies, and social conditioning. ...

Introducing the practices of Rotor and Rotor DC, the lecture will ponder on how designing with reused building elements thoroughly restructures the established modes of architectural production and the roles of the protagonists: the client, the building materials provider, the architect, the engineer, the contractor, etc. ...

A structural IPE steel-profile is a given in building practice, with standardized values to calculate corresponding loads, strength, and consistency. Only the last letter of the abbreviation suggests that there is something more to it: “E” stands for Europe, and for a history of steel architecture that was of great political interest for the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). ...

This talk explores the ways in which the architectural space of the lobby can be understood as a technique of differentiation, mediating between diverse spheres and protocols. The lobby is intimately related to other physical forms of architectural communications such as anterooms, passages and corridors, which frequently figured as conduits of modernity. ...

Based on methodological and psychological discourses and practices from the 1940s to 1960s, the lecture deals with an operational - namely combinatorial - understanding of creativity. At that time, combinatorial creativity methods, such as the morphological box, were not only used in scientific-technical and artistic-design contexts of invention and design, but also fundamentally influenced psychological models of creative thinking and problem-solving. ...

The workshop's title implies a bias in the practice of drawing, a bias through which the invention of the computer in the post-war period has challenged and changed traditional patterns of spatial order. Information transmission and cybernetic control systems initiated a paradigmatic shift in representation. ...

The empirical and interdisciplinary research by Séverine Marguin (sociology) and Henrike Rabe (architecture) focuses on the question of the interaction between space and knowledge processes. ...

Art and natural history and specimen curio cabinets and chambers were the early modern forerunners of today's museums. They are often regarded as places of wonder, given their bizarre collection items and disparate object ensembles. ...

This workshop aims to explore the ways in which built orders can be read in economic and financial terms. It brings together a group of researchers attentive to architectural and spatial formations of built orders and their relatonship to the strategic logics of finance. ...

The lecture offers a foray into how computational practices constitute since almost four decades an occasion to question the epistemology of architecture, by examining the conditions of emergence of this field of research and by analysing the algorithmic tools that are mobilized across this period of time. ...

While museums continued to differentiate themselves in the 19th century and special collections took the place of the integrative, “Naturalia, Artificialia, Scientifica and Exotica” model of the curio cabinet, new formats emerged with world’s fairs that claimed to be able to depict the world in a limited space. ...

This lecture explores the place of architectural production within the elaborate corporate geography of the modern Moravian movement—a renewed pre-Reformation Protestant group established in eighteenth-century Saxony. The global Moravian network spanned to every continent except Antarctica and was developed over a period of more than two centuries. ...

Twenty years after the launch of the competition for the headquarters of the European Central Bank, this lecture sets out to retrace and discuss the complex process that, after the introduction of the Euro, engaged with the challenge of housing such unique, supranational form of power in Frankfurt. ...

With regard to the theme of this lecture series ‘Built Order. Storing Knowledge' we will talk about re-use projects of mostly monumental heritage. Buildings that carry knowledge of the city. How can we try to activate and interpret this knowledge in a natural way. ...

How does architecture actually work? Today, the relationships between architectural and non-architectural orders are predominantly explored with a focus on the structuring forces and ideas that influence and shape building plans and implementations. ...

The institutions that we traditionally trust to manage our knowledge – the library, the museum and the university – are being forced in the digital age to redefine what belongs inside and outside their walls, both in a physical and virtual sense. To measure the historical impact of the reformatting of knowledge on these institutions, this lecture will return one century in time and revisit the “Mundaneum” or the institutional vision of the Belgian bibliographer and internationalist Paul Otlet (1868-1944). ...

The architecture of the space around us has a considerable influence on our everyday lives. The starting point for the thematic orientation of the lecture series “Built Order: Storing Knowledge”,…

Three speakers and a moderated discussion will address the question "How does architecture actually work?“.  HANNAH LE ROUX (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), KENNY CUPERS (University of Basel) and Daniel M. Abramson, Pamela Karimi, Laila Seewang and Meredith TenHoor for the AGGREGATE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY COLLABORATIVE will present their perspectives on the ordering power of built architecture. The evening thus invites us to adopt a point of view in which architectural practitioners fade out and architectural users fade in. ...

In 1954, Carl Schmitt proposed that it is the anteroom (Vorraum) rather than the official state room (Staatszimmer), in which power is negotiated and exercised. This suggestion draws attention to the necessary but often considered secondary sub-spaces, or architectural communications, that enable and provide access to power, rather than to the generally more visible representative spaces of power. What are the architectural implications of such a view? ...

What data are used in the planning and design of architecture and what are they supposed to represent? What types of visualizations do architects make use of in their daily routines and what information do they want to make visible? ...

The materiality of pre-digital documentary sources means that their preservation and organization in archives involved at least two simultaneous and separate architectonic contexts. Archivists sought to place physical documents within ordered spaces in a legible way; at the same time, as conveyers of information, documents were equally part of larger conceptual architectures, which were often spatially conceived in early modern Europe. ...

Organizers of the Workshop: Birgit Emich, Cecilia Cristellon, Sebastian Glunz (Research Group A1)   Wednesday, 7 July 2021 2:00 pm Birgit Emich, Sebastian Glunz, Cecilia Cristellon, (Research Group A1): Welcome…

The workshop, organized by AO Fellow Jasper Ludewig, offers members of the LOEWE research cluster an introduction to Digital Humanities. ...

In Florence, the Palazzo del Tribunale was opened in 2012, not far from the airport. It is based on plans from the 1970s and, due to its decentralized location and monumentality, is a source of heated debate. Taking this example as a starting point, my lecture examines processes of juridical center formation in Italy from a diachronic perspective. ...

Between March 1942 and October 1943, the Germans murdered at least 1.7 million Jews in the gas chambers of three camps built exclusively for this purpose. These camps were located in Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka, three villages in occupied eastern Poland. ...

The lecture series "Gebaute Ordnung" (Built Order) will investigate spaces of power during the 2021 summer semester. In particular, the speakers will explore how aspects of the architectural and spatial perceptibly interlock with political and social orders. Four evening lectures will touch on the topics of architectures of integration, exclusion and annihilation, representation and legitimation, and the securing of power. ...

Although the architectural discourse is often regarded as too Eurocentric and politicized, we have largely ignored the political dynamic that, more than any other, has been transforming the European archipelago over the past seventy years: the process of European integration. ...

How did ‘the global’ emerge as a scale of human society? What types of architecture were used to traverse the physical and cultural distance that this scale engendered? This lecture explores these questions through the prism of the modern Moravian movement. ...

The research proposes an exploration of the two parallel timelines of AI and computational architecture and their intertwining – analyzing debates and writings to grasp the theoretical issues at play, but also specific examples of programs, tools and projects in order to take the realities of practice into account. ...

A media studies approach to glass spaces and the subjects who appear in them already requires a dual focus in the case of the built environment. This focus allows grasping…

Frankfurt's theater is currently on the verge of setting a course that will shape it significantly well into the 21st century: What should the buildings, in which the city subsidized…

Could texts on buildings and cities, written to sell, be considered as a new and unexpected source of poetry? This lecture will discuss the production of architecture in a global…

Anaïs Nin, Sylvia Plath, and Marlen Haushofer are among a number of female authors who use the glass bell as a trope in prose texts and novels to depict the…

Frankfurt's theater is currently on the verge of setting a course that will shape it significantly well into the 21st century: What should the buildings, in which the city subsidized…

Cornelia Escher teaches the history and theory of architecture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She received her doctorate in 2014 from the ETH Zurich. Subsequently she was a postdoctoral fellow in…

Sonja Hnilica is an architectural theorist and historian. She currently holds the professorship of Modern Art History at the Institute of European Art History at the University of Heidelberg and…

Pietro Cesari is a member of the LOEWE research cluster „Architectures of Order“. Since January 2020, he has been a PhD researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal…

We commonly and ubiquitously use architectural metaphors in both everyday speech as well as various professional contexts. Yet we rarely, if at all, register this connection when we talk, for example, about software architects, thought constructs, pillars of society, the architecture of the brain or the façade a person puts up. ...

The lecture will be held in English.

This study re- and deconstructs discourses that understand architecture as writing, and also illuminates the opposite side of this intermedial metaphor, namely the notion of architecture as an image. With…