Studios
Studio Zaha Hadid
The agenda is to critically reflect the discipline of architecture as it is condensed in its most fundamental concepts, its most pervasive forms and habitual design media. The aim is to expand and proliferate the repertoire of the discipline, gearing up to cope with a new level of complexity and dynamism.
http://www.uni-ak.ac.at/architektur/
Studio Greg Lynn
The studio focuses on compositions of intricately connected, subtly varied, continuously differentiated elements in non-modular dimensional series. Our student's sensibilities are attuned to the rhythmic patterns and undulations of calculus as they apply to architecture. We critically and creatively embrace the digital tools that have recently burst into architecture and effloresced in a myriad of forms and shapes.
http://www.dieangewandte.at/archlynn
Studio Wolf D. Prix
In our studio future architects not only learn to develop ideas but also to argue them conceptually. Moreover, they learn to shape these ideas in the wind tunnel of reality - not the reality of constraints and clichés but the reality of possibilities. Students are taught to design space with physical models and organize and analytically display it in plan and section.
The dialectics between the conceivable (the model) and the abstract (the plan) is the feedback between physical models and the computer (the design tools). The goal is always true-scale architecture that is more than the fulfillment of function.