The research proposal must include a description of the dissertation as a research agenda and of the methodical approach. In the colloquium on the research proposal, doctoral students shall present their dissertation project and provide reasons for their chosen approach.

Details are listed in the Implementing Provisions concerning the Doctorate Regulations

The supervisor and the co-supervisor decide on the acceptance of the research proposal and recommend a grade.

Analytische Betrachtungen und Untersuchungen in kleinräumigen Siedlungsgebieten. Entwicklung eines Bewusstseins für den öffentlichen Raum in Verbindung mit gesellschaftlichen und sozialen Eigenschaften. Erarbeitung von möglichen städtebaulichen Entwicklungskonzepten im kleinräumigen Siedlungsgebiet. Darstellung in Zeichnung und Modellen in dem für die Aufgabe nötigen Massstab

Blockunterricht mit Projektstudio
angeleitetes Praktikum Experiment, Modell, Plan, Projektarbeit, Recherche, Reflexion, Skizze, Übung, Visualisierung, Vormachen, Diskurs, Exzerpieren, Foto, Zeichnung

Fachkompetenz

• Die Studierenden verfügen über einen Einblick in die grundlegenden Kenntnisse über städteräumliche Situationen und des städtebaulichen Entwerfens sowie von spezifischen verwandten Disziplinen.
• Sie kennen die Grundlagen des konzeptionellen Denkens und die Terminologie, welche für eine kritische Diskussion im Städtebau benötigt wird.
• Sie kommunizieren ihre Projektarbeit visuell, in Sprache und Schrift verständlich.

Methodenkompetenz

• Die Studierenden stellen einfache situationsbedingte sowie aufgabenrelevante Sachverhalte fest und wenden das in den theoretischen Vorlesungen gelernte Wissen praktisch an.

Sozialkompetenz

• Die Studierenden arbeiten gemeinsam in unterschiedlichen Gruppen an einem Projekt und gehen mit mehreren Sichtweisen zur gleichen Problematik um. Sie vertreten den eigenen Standpunkt im Rahmen einer Gruppenarbeit und der zugehörigen Diskussion.

Selbstkompetenz

• Die Studierenden entwickeln gegenüber ihren Entwurfsarbeiten ein kritisches Verhältnis.

Projektentwürfe, Präsentation mit Kritik, Mitarbeit im Unterricht

This module supports the development of basic communicative and cultural competence in Spanish.

Interaction, study skills

>understanding and passing on simple information
>taking part in simple everyday conversation
>reporting past events
>creating simple texts

Please bring the following book with you to the first meeting: eñe A1: Der Spanischkurs (Hueber Verlag).

80% compulsory attendance

Essay Writing, Dokumentation und Recherche, Sprache und Intertextualität, Schreibprodukt und Schreibprozess

Die Studierenden

Fach- und Methodenkompetenz

• schreiben einen Essay zur Architektur.
• geben fremde Texte mittels wörtlicher und sinngemässer Zitate wieder.
• führen Recherchen in unterschiedlichen Quellen durch.
• erstellen ein Inhaltsverzeichnis und Literaturverzeichnis.
• wenden aktuelle Literaturverwaltungssoftware an.
• wenden das Hamburger Verständlichkeitsmodell an.
• analysieren und bewerten eigene und fremde Texte in freiem und strukturiertem Feedback.
• unterscheiden zwischen Prozess und Produkt.
• können fremde Arbeiten im freien und strukturierten Feedback beurteilen und schaffen daraus für sich und die anderen einen Mehrwert.

Sozial- und Selbstkompetenz

• tolerieren eigene und fremde Positionen.
• kommunizieren offen und transparent.
• beeinflussen Schreibgruppenprozesse durch empathisches Verhalten.

Textportfolio, Peerfeedback

The design studio engages students with architecture as a responsible practice on a variety of scales applying a multitude of design- and research methods, preparing them for the demands of the broad field of architecture and planning. Architectural and urban design is practiced in the context of projects of varying complexity, ranging from constructive building details and structures, to devising groups of structures and entire settlements and habitats. Design projects are represented in drawings, models, images, and by using all other available media. Teamwork is conducted with particular attention to the internal organization and workings of the teams.

design studio, exercises, experiment, research, writing, visualising, modelling, presenting, case study, peer feedback

Professional competence

• Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
• Develop an architectural idea into a sustainable proposal, carefully taking into consideration the project's historical, theoretical, cultural, environmental (ecological) economic and social context.
• Communicate and articulate ideas and information fluently in English language and work comprehensively in visual, oral and written forms.
• Make formal presentations about specialist topics to informed and general/community audiences.
• Exercise autonomy and initiative in carrying out set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study.
• Demonstrate ability to manage time and physical resources in relation to set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study as an individual and a group member.
• Deal with complex ethical and professional issues.
• Show confidence in analysing case studies and the ability to infer principles and motivations.

Methodological competence

• Apply a variety of design- and research methods and visualisation techniques
• Have knowledge of scientific or artistic methods within an interdisciplinary context

Social competence

• Explain competently, discuss and critique own work through oral presentations, writing or visual communication
• Understand how to work with confidence in the complex organisational and community settings within which the applied methods and design processes are typically deployed.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments, exercises, experiments, presentations etc

Personal competence

• Assess own work and put it into a historical, theoretical and social context.
• Gain confidence in own role and the persuasive and accountable manner in which it is expected to be performed.

mid-term and final reviews, participation, minimum 75% mandatory presence

The design studio engages students with architecture as a responsible practice on a variety of scales applying a multitude of design- and research methods, preparing them for the demands of the broad field of architecture and planning. Architectural and urban design is practiced in the context of projects of varying complexity, ranging from constructive building details and structures, to devising groups of structures and entire settlements and habitats. Design projects are represented in drawings, models, images, and by using all other available media. Teamwork is conducted with particular attention to the internal organization and workings of the teams.

design studio, exercises, experiment, research, writing, visualising, modelling, presenting, case study, peer feedback

Professional competence

• Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
• Develop an architectural idea into a sustainable proposal, carefully taking into consideration the project's historical, theoretical, environmental (ecological), cultural, economic and social context.
• Communicate and articulate ideas and information fluently in English language and work comprehensively in visual, oral and written forms.
• Make formal presentations about specialist topics to informed and general/ community audiences.
• Exercise autonomy and initiative in carrying out set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study.
• Demonstrate ability to manage time and physical resources in relation to set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study as an individual and a group member.
• Deal with complex ethical and professional issues.
• Show confidence in analysing case studies and the ability to infer principles and motivations.

Methodological competence

• Apply a variety of design- and research methods and visualisation techniques
• Have knowledge of scientific or artistic methods within an interdisciplinary context

Social competence

• Explain competently, discuss and critique own work through oral presentations, writing or visual communication
• Understand how to work with confidence in the complex organisational and community settings within which the applied methods and design processes are typically deployed.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments, exercises, experiments, presentations etc

Personal competence

• Assess own work and put it into a historical, theoretical and social context.
• Gain confidence in own role and the persuasive and accountable manner in which it is expected to be performed.

mid-term and final reviews, participation, minimum 75% mandatory presence

Im Zentrum des Moduls Digitale Formfindung steht die Auseinandersetzung mit digitalen Werkzeugen zur Unterstützung des Entwurfs- und Planungsprozesses. Es werden grundlegendes theoretisches Basiswissen und Kenntnisse für den computerunterstützten Entwurfs- und Planungsprozess vermittelt, sowie in architektonischen Aufgabenstellungen praktisch vertieft.

Fachstudio mit Blockunterricht (Vorlesung und Übung)
In Form von Vortrag, Projektarbeiten, Übungen, Recherche,
Visualisierung, Peerfeedback, Zeichnungen und Plänen,
sowie analogen und digitalen Modellen

Die Studierenden …

Fachkompetenz

• erkennen die grundlegenden Geometrien eines Projektes/Entwurfes und klassifizieren diese für die digitale Formfindung.
• benutzen verschiedene digitale Softwareschnittstellen (Datenaustausch mit div. Softwareprogrammen)
• erstellen einfache digitale Visualisierungen.

Methodenkompetenz

• wenden die vermittelten digitalen Formfindungsmethoden in den Übungen, Projektarbeit und eigenen Entwürfen an.
• dokumentieren und illustrieren digitale 3D-Objekte in 2D-Plänen und -Zeichnungen.

Sozialkompetenz

• beurteilen sich und die Kommilitonen in Bezug auf digitale Formfindung.
• unterstützen einander im Selbststudium und entwickeln gemeinsam Lösungsstrategien.

Selbstkompetenz

• gestalten Lernprozesse und Lernsituationen eigenständig und effizient.

Fachprojekt, Übungen, Peerfeedback und der Mitarbeit im Unterricht

This Module deals with the basic elements of digital image making and visualization. This course explores how digital technologies are used to evoke and produce particular feelings or moods of places as architectural visualizations and images. This semester provides students with the necessary tools to successfully visualise their designs, including a multitude of techniques like 3D modeling, digital photography, montage, collage and rendering among others.

Students will be able to develop relevant techniques to translate original architectural ambitions and ideas into forms of illustrated atmospheres. During the course students will take part in workshops and lectures to develop skills for digital image making and visualization in a practical way. Students will be able to use specific tools to translate their architectonical ambitions and create visualized atmospheres for the communication of ideas in the practice of Architecture .

Lecture and seminar: visualisation, exercises

This module provides students with the necessary tools to successfully visualise their designs, including a multitude of techniques.

Professional competence
Successfully apply techniques and tools to best visually communicate architectonical atmospheres
Show awareness of composition and perception of visual material

Methodological competence
workshop in rhino
workshop in rendering / digital photography
workshop in photoshop / montage
workshop in collage / output / workflow
Social competence
Discuss and articulate ideas and information fluently

Personal competence
Being able to create a digital image to communicate Architecture.
Construct an image that expresses an particular mood of a place.
Being able to discuss the general aspects and qualities of visualized Architecture.

Portfolio

The module “Emerging Technologies in Architecture” introduces state‐of‐the‐art technologies emerging from research or industries, from within and outside architecture, to be applied in architecture in the near future. It assesses aims at building awareness and critical appraisal of these technologies and identifies how they might transform architectural practice and thus the role of the architect.

Lecture: case studies, discourse, writing

Architects and students today have to be acutely aware of the radical shifts in technology and its impact on the practice of architectural design. By the time students become architects most of the technological paradigms they believed in at the beginning of their studies will be outdated.

Professional competence
Identify the potential of emerging technologies
Critically assess their impact on architectural design, manufacturing and construction
Show confidence in analyzing case studies and the ability to infer principles and motivations
Explain competently, discuss and critique own design production and its theoretical contexts

Methodological competence
Differentiation between digital modelling/ prototyping technology and technological feasibility of architectural designs

Social competence
Discuss how state-of-the-art technologies and emerging technologies take influence on the practice of architectural design
Discuss how technology informs the idea of architectural practice
Demonstrate the ability to work with peer students in the context of interactive lectures and design sessions

Personal competence
Assess own work absorbs/ responds to technological developments
and put it into a historical, theoretical and philosophical context

Paper

This module investigates and identifies the various forms and methods used to successfully mediate architecture and urban design, with particular attention paid to communication processes during the design phase of a project. Communication strategies aimed for variety of stakeholders are being discussed and the role of architectural mediation in the successful implementation of a project defined. Through the presentations of architecture mediation projects, a set of best/bad practice case-studies will be studied and analysed.

Each of the four sessions will have an input lecture
an invitation of one guest speaker is planned (architecture mediator Boris Szélpal or Michael Emmengger)
exercices
question-anwser discussions

Professional competence

Evaluate and choose appropriate modes of mediation according to message, facilities and recipient (experts and non-experts)
Explain competently, discuss and critique own work through oral presentations, writing or visual communication
To understand architectural design as a negotiation process

Methodological competence
Identify key elements of problems and choose appropriate methods for their resolution in a
considered manner
To work within the extended definition of the discipline of architecture

Social competence
Discuss and articulate ideas and information fluently
Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments, exercises, experiments,
presentations etc.
Being familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures

Personal competence
Seek and make use of feedback.
Use appropriate methods to communicate to a range of audiences with different levels of knowledge and expertise.

Portfolio