Corsi

Topic of the seminar is to jointly create knowledge on different global architectural cultures. “We have entered a period of a gradual Post-Westernization of knowledge and the coproduction of transnational and non-hegemonic knowledge” (Roulleau-Berger/Yuzhao). Most categories of analysis in our field derive from Western experience and are nevertheless seen as universal. The task is to deconstruct this claim and to create a reformed universalism. In the seminar we aim to produce Post-Western knowledge pieces on the historic or better time dimension of architecture, based on critical approach and on the experience of the participants.


"Jedes Dasein scheint in sich rund" (Every being seems in itself round) wrote Karl Jaspers. In the seminar, we study buildings and urban artifacts which are related to a particular form: roundness. Through case studies, collage and model making, we are on a journey to seek our own answers to the questions: how do we define roundness? How does it contribute to the spacial quality on both urban and architectural scale? Is it merely a manneristic trick or does it contain a deeper connection to our perception?