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The students acquire individual but broadly diversified knowledge and skills in various fields of architecture. They develop a strategic understanding for the integration of technical knowledge into the conception, planning, implementation and teaching of architecture.

FASHIONSHOW

Architects are becoming increasingly visible as an integral part of fashion shows. Understanding the fashion show itself as a curatorial practice and actively working with it is driven by ever- expanding possibilities to interweave physical and digital space and to construct a spatial and conceptual narrative.

Whereas fashion shows at their inception at the end of the 19th century were private events for affluent clients, they have now become complex productions in which the boundary between stage and audience becomes blurred, dissolved, or deliberately reversed. The occasion is used to create and stream a highly staged form of live advertising —generating clicks, followers, visibility, and, ideally, new customers for a brand.

From an architectural perspective, the fashion show can be understood simultaneously as a temporary building, a live event, and a space–time representation within the digital realm.

The aim of the seminar is to design a fashion show for an upcoming season — for a specific location and a specific designer. Central to the seminar is the development of an independent curatorial concept, as well as the production of a 10–15 page theoretical paper reflecting on a topic accompanying the seminar.

Topics accompanying the seminar include contemporary media, speed, density, illusion, light and time, human–body–space relationships, as well as different ways of reading space, city, topography, and social meaning through selected texts. In addition to the weekly seminar sessions, a study visit to Vienna is planned.

The seminar invites all students who are interested in zeitgeist and style and who consider fashion to be a relevant language for architecture.

Course examination according to § 7, statute section on "study-law regulations".

Will be discussed in the first lesson.