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Acquisition of advanced individual knowledge in various disciplines of architecture and ability to apply this knowledge reflectively and strategically to architectural applications. 

Obtain founded and wide-spread knowledge of scientific, curatorial und publicist adaptation and communication of architecture with a special weight on technology, enabling conceptional and communicating tasks; preparation for jobs, that reflect via architecture: Architectural theorist, architectural historian, architectural journalists, jobs in museums, cultural institutions etc. architectural journalists, jobs in museums, cultural institutions etc.

SHELTER IN COLLAPSE

Sixty years after Reyner Banham introduced the concept of the environmental bubble, it has become an analytical prism for the current debate on the relationship between humans, the environment and technology. The seminar examines Banham's utopian vision of a technologically generated microclimate – a portable, immaterial architecture – in the context of global ecological crises, digital networking and posthuman lifestyles. The focus is on questions of how architecture can be conceived beyond physical form, what political and energetic costs comfort zones generate, and to what extent Banham's radical shift of the architectural to infrastructure, control loops and atmospheres can be reinterpreted today (speculative design, new materialism, post-ecology). The Environmental Bubble serves as a conceptual model, critical tool and speculative scenario to visualise the shifts between autonomy and dependence, control and vulnerability, and body, environment and technical media networks. 

The aim is to jointly design an Environment Bubble for the present, which will be implemented for an exhibition in autumn 2026.

Literature: www.archtheo.eu

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

Literature will be shared during the first session and throughout the semester.