Entwerfen und Gebäudekunde - FGvanR

This seminar explores architecture as something that acts. Rather than approaching buildings primarily as formal objects or programmatic containers, the course focuses on the spatial devices through which architecture organizes movement, perception, visibility, and social interaction.

Through selected readings and the analysis of contemporary spatial installations and performative environments, participants will examine how built structures shape encounters between bodies, spaces, and situations. The seminar develops a shared vocabulary for describing how architecture operates through concrete spatial elements.

The course is structured around four families of spatial devices: configuration of enclosure, mobility and access, regimes of visibility, and atmospheric modulation. Students will identify, map, and categorize these devices across a series of case studies.

Participants will work with texts, case studies, 3D models, drawings, and diagrams to build an analytical framework for understanding how architecture acts.