Architectural Translations: Drawing, Recoding, Tectonic

This MSc2 elective seminar course inquires into the link between representational and tectonic codes in architecture and how those translate dialogically. Although the term (code) gained currency in digitally mediated design practices, within the seminar, different modes of coding and codification will be explored in order to draw up spatial readings leading to tectonic translations: formulations between images and objects.

With the premise that there is an inherent link between the modes of representation and design, the seminar will inquire in architectural de/re/coding between images and media-constructs (drawing to tectonic). In this respect, departing from Karl Bötticher's distinction between core-form and art-form, the recent turn of materiality in architecture will be investigated with a specific focus on media discourse in architecture.

The course is a hands-on seminar with a theoretical framework, in which the students explore the medial connections between conceptual and procedural aspects while working with different media guided by thematic readings on a weekly basis. The analytical phase leads to the specification of the individual thematic mini-bibliographies supporting each student's individual work.