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Die Studierenden sind in der Lage, die Komplexität von Stadt und Landschaft zu erfassen, zu analysieren und mit den Diskursen der Architekturtheorie reflektiert in Verbindung zu setzen.

Formal Analysis of Cities

The course introduces students to disciplinary approaches to urban design. Students learn how to read a city - its architecture, its content and its form. Form and content have mutual relations. Every form has a content and every content comes in a form. The main aim of the studio is to study various urban morphologies and their underlying socio-economical and political ideas. Students will conduct a thorough formal analysis of urban structures and learn how they are manifested in different cities. Students will learn how to read a city, develop critical thinking, acquire techniques of analysing and representing urban design ideas.

Schriftlich - Lehrveranstaltungsprüfung gemäß § 6 Satzungsteil, Studienrechtliche Bestimmungen.

Relevant Literature:
1.The City As A Project, Pier Vittorio Aureli
2.The Architecture of the City, Aldo Rossi
3.The city in the city. Berlin: a Green Archipelago. A manifesto (1977) by Oswald Matias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas.  
4.Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas

Additional:
-Mumford, Lewis, The Culture of Cities, New York (Harcourt Brace and Company) 1938
-Mumford, Lewis, Die Stadt. Geschichte und Ausblick (band 1, band 2), München (dtv) 1979
-Benevolo, Leonardo, Die Geschichte der Stadt, Frankfurt (Campus Verlag) 1983
-Tafuri, Manfredo, Dal Co, Francesco, Architektur der Gegewart, Stuttgart (Belser Verlag) 1977
-Frampton, Kenneth, Die Architektur der Moderne. Eine kritische Baugeschichte, Stuttgart (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt) 2001
-Kostof, Spiro, The city shaped. Urban patterns and meanings through history, London (Thames and Hudson) 1991
-Kostof, Spiro, The city assembled. The elements of urban form through history, Boston (Brown Little) 1992
-Hobsbawm, John Ernest, Das Zeitalter der Extreme. Weltgeschichte de 20. Jahrhunderts, München (Carl Hanser Verlag) 1995

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