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The students gain in-depth insights into special perspectives and working techniques of the various topics within the architecture and set individual emphases.

The MOTEL and other NON-PLACES

The French philosopher Bruce Bégout writes, "The motel, as it is sprouting up on the periphery of almost all the world's cities today, is not a mere set piece of the American way of life, but rather a concrete expression of new urban forms of life, which are completely overshadowed by mobility, wandering and experienced poverty. We can read in it the metamorphosis of the city, which stands at the interface of economy, architecture and fiction and finds its appropriate place in the motel. It is precisely from the most ordinary elements of the profane world that we can attempt to grasp its complex and multiform texture".

The SE Architectural Theoretical Discourses is about an investigation of non-places and what spatial offers they offer their users or how the use of non-places is controlled by their spatial texture. Last but not least, it is about the question of how architects and urban planners (should?) approach them.

Weekly tasks.

Joint preparation of texts. Introduction to the processing of scientific literature, debate and discourse on reading in coordination with the concrete spatial experience of non-places.

Final paper (written with illustrations) and presentation (January 2021)

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

Will be discussed in the first lesson.