Course detail

Culture Lab

FA-CUL-TEAcad. year: 2024/2025

The course consists of seminars where students will focus themselves with the research and analysis of existing urban and architectural places and capture this with drawing techniques and texts to be able to make architectural publications.
The course emphasizes the understanding of analysis and publication of built work and urban design.
The classes are based on individual work with communal agreements within the workgroups. During the semester students will analyze, draw and publish two locations in a joined publication within one agreed upon graphical style.
The main aim is to learn how to make a publication with a small team of contestants.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

M.Sc. Servie Boetzkes

Department

Department of Design (UN)

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Evaluation consists of submitted semestral work and its presentation.
80% attendance is compulsory. Students must develop, consult and submit a semestral work.
In the case of a student’s apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.

Aims

The aim of the seminar is to let students be part of a research lab that has the aim to investigate, analyse, document and critique the deeper cultural heritage and architectural layers of the city of Brno. This all with the focus on how we can harvest data and information that is to be published into an architectural publication. For this students conduct research and analysis on site, in archives and online.
We will corporate with a publisher and understand how to process information and convert research into visual material to make it feasible for architectural publications. Coorporation with several local cultural and heritage organizations will be part of the seminar.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Bart Decroos, Véronique Patteeuw, Asli Cicek, Jantje Engels. Oase #105 Tekentechnieken / Practices of drawing. 2020. ISBN 978-94-6208-554-1 (Online available) (EN)
Maria Claudia Clemente. Architecture of Public Space. Labics ISBN 978-3-03860-311-5 (EN)

Recommended reading

Andreas Lechner. Thinking Design – Blueprint for architecture of Typology ISBN 978-3-03860-246-0 (EN)
Lisa Desager, Lisa Janssens. Ingressi Milanesi – Designing the In-Between ISBN 978-9076714615 (EN)
Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Made in Tokyo ISBN 978-4-306-04421-0 (EN)
Tokyo Institute of Technology Tsukamoto Architectural Laboratory & Atelier Bow-wow. Pet Architecture Guide Book - Living Spheres 2. ISBN4 - 8465 - 2327 - 6 (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N_A+U Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    2 year of study, winter semester, elective