IoA Institute of Architecture

!! NEW Entry Exam Winterterm 2012/13

Exams: February 22, - 24, 2012!! / September 26 - 28, 2012

Submission of the Portfolio

February 20,  - February 21, 2012 / September 24 - 25, 2012

02/02/12

Lecture Wolf D. Prix in Berlin

Wolf D. Prix Lecture "Was ist der Unterschied #1" in Berlin, UDK

January 30, 2012, 7pm
Universität der Künste Berlin, Raum 310, Hardenbergstraße 33, 100623 Berlin

30/01/12

IoA Diploma and Final Reviews January 25-27, 2012

15/01/12

IoA Spring Challenge Design Workshop, February 13-18, 2012

IOA SPRING CHALLENGE is an international design workshop intended for architecture studen- ts interested in exploring integrated digital design and fabrication within the teaching environment of the Institute of Architecture at the University.

Integrated digital design and fabrication

Architectural Design at the Angewandte is taught as an integrated, multidisciplinary process. Fol- lowing this tradition, the design process will be enriched with structural testing of parametric models in Karamba, a structural analysis plugin for Grasshopper developed as a research project at the Department of Structural Design at the Angewandte. The research project was awarded the Austrian "Baupreis 2010/11". Specialists from Bollinger+Grohmann Engineers will co-tutor the workshop. The handling of virtual simulation methods in the fields of parametric and digital pro- duction will be a primary focus of the workshop.

This week long intense workshop will result not only in full scale built structures, but will also inform and prepare interested students for the MArch entrance exam (22nd-24th Feb. or 26th- 28th Sept. 2012) and the architecture study program at the Angewandte.

Format & Output

The Spring Challenge Program will be organized as a 6 day event. Participation is expected full- time starting 9am. Introduction to Rhino/Grasshopper/Karamba will be followed by project design development and daily reviews of group projects which will enter into a competition mode. Se- lected projects will be fabricated and assembled as a group effort. The workshop will close with a final presentation with guests. The output will be parametrically designed and digitally produced human scale structures. The used material will be corrugated cardboard.

Organization

Time & Location: 13th-18th February 2012 in Studio Greg Lynn / Angewandte

Info: www.springchallenge2012.wordpress.com

Application, Q&A: springchallenge2012@uni-ak.ac.at

Material Fee: early bird 150 € (until 25th January) 190 € (after 25th January)

Instructors: IoA Team: Andrei Gheorghe, Bence Pap Bollinger+Grohmann: Clemens Preisinger

Blog www.springchallenge2012.wordpress.com; www.facebook/springchallenge2012

11/01/12

IoA Sliver Lecture Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, January 12th, 2012, 7pm

Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director MAK, Vienna
Architects without Architecture? (The new quest for saving the world)

Inversing the title of Bernard Rudofsky’s famous exhibition „Architecture Without Architects“ Christoph Thun-Hohenstein’s lecture will be dealing with the changing role of architecture since the late 1990s and especially architecture’s new mission to be a driving force for positive change. Looking at this topic from different perspectives (reflecting Thun-Hohenstein’s former positions as director of the Raimund Abraham-designed Austrian Cultural Forum New York and managing director of „departure“, the City of Vienna’s agency for creating industries, as well as his new position as director of the MAK), he will be discussing the case for intercreativity and architects’ potential to contribute to social, ecological, and cultural innovations.

04/01/12