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Content ADP Rituals on the Making of Concert Halls 2 – 3 ESC Ground Expansions 4 – 5 GLC Battery City Athens 6 – 7 Master Thesis 8 – 9 ADP Via Diagenesis 10 – 11 CMT Building Biodiversity 12 – 13 HTC The Political Ecology of the Spit 14 – 15 Manifesto of the Third Landscape 16
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On the Potential of Places, lecture by Anne Lacaton at Prospekthof, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna June 2023. Photo: Roxane Seckauer
This edition of the Review gives an insight in the production, research and events at the IKA during the summer term of 2023. This issue highlights the ongoing vibrant discourses and collective interventions of students and faculty, extending our practices and debates with guests for an interested public: IKA’s contribution to engage in the complex, planetary challenges of today. Production: The bachelor students dealt with the acoustic conditions of concert halls and chamber music halls, with forms of co-construction and the shared use of land, through to alternative designs for public spaces using the example of Athens. In the Master’s program, geological transformations and architectural deposits of the “Domus Aurea” in Rome were traced, designs and a 1:1 installation on biodiversity were made, and an artists’ colony on the Baltic Sea coast was examined and mapped with reference to archive materials, natural conditions and ownership of real estate. Four thesis works presents the wide range of architectural thinking and practice at IKA. The design approach for an urban hospice reconsiders the sensual experiences towards the end of life. An expedition by foot initiates a series of interventions on the urban border territories of Vienna. Different techniques of observing and measuring space accumulate to a digital narrative of a journey through underground storage spaces. A proposal for a no-waste architecture introduces strategies for the community to reuse materials and foster a sustainable relationship to the built environment on the example of a village in Luxembourg.
Research and Events: The IKA Lecture Series Ruptured Landscapes curated by Aristide Antonas continued: Writer, artist and technologist James Bridle lectured on More-than-human Being and Intelligence, curator Lucia Pietroiusti spoke about Curating Ecological Practices in relation to her recent performance project »Sun&Sea« (Lithuanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2019). The lecture series concluded with an evening organized in cooperation with the Institut Francais on the work of the Paris-based office Lacaton&Vassal. During her lecture On the Potential of Places Anne Lacaton shared insights into their design approaches working with the resources of the existing and engaging in its possible extensions. The conversation continued during an open-air film screening of two filmic essays directed by Karine Dana and a reception in the courtyard of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The IKA study project and exhibition Hitze takes Command (2020/21) was concluded with the book presentation Wiener Hitze, Architecture and Storytelling in Times of Heat. The publication with contributions by students as well as guest authors critically questions accustomed ways of living and coexisting in the face of climatic shifts. Former IKA guest professor David Gissen visited to present his new book Buildings, Cities and Landscapes beyond Access. Other guests at IKA included artist Christa Sommerer talking about The Artwork as a Living System – a focus on VR and AR works and neuroscientist Udo Maierhofer on Bionic Extremity Reconstruction. Christina Jauernik and Antje Lehn