This semester, the seminar wants to reflect not only on types and their appropriation and transformation, but on typology as such and the way typological thinking is taught, theorized, and developed in the Master Architecture Typology program and beyond. We will ask: “If and how typological thinking as it is taught in the M-Arch-T affects our thinking about architecture and our future potential practice.”
We are at a critical turning point. The M-Arch-T was developed about 10 years ago by a dedicated team of researchers and educators. Since then, some of those are no longer part of the faculty, the planned course content was not covered or has changed, huge budget cuts have led the Institute for Architecture to pause the 2026 admissions, and we are discussing whether to continue the program or integrate successful M-Arch-T modules into our MSc Architecture program.
We want to take to opportunity to critically investigate the program’s content, structure, didactics and staff with students, educators and external experts. The current cohort will form a research team which will define the research questions and the set of methods: interviews, literature reviews, mapping (of discourses), course evaluations, (online) questionnaires. We intend to contact former teachers and students, current master thesis students and external experts.
- Trainer/in: Tomas Martinez Garcia
- Trainer/in: Jörg Stollmann
- Trainer/in: Beyza Uysal