The symposium will be organized around three conversation topics: “Design
of Environments,” “Pedagogy in Action,” and “Exhibition as Media,” based on the work of the participants, Maria Auböck, Ingrid
Halland, Elisa Iturbe, Ana María León, Catherine Mosbach, Tatjana Schneider, and Michael Wang.
The conversations
will draw connections between architectural theory and environmental issues, highlighting ways to consider architecture in
relation to climate, energy, extraction, land, and production. The environmental lens on theory provides ways to encompass
all elements of building activities, allowing for connections to be made across a wide range of scales, from that of a building
detail to those of entire landscapes and cities. It also urges us to consider the representation of the environment in architecture,
bringing into view the limits and entanglements of the discipline, drawing new affinities, producing knowledge and advancing
the discipline.
The symposium will be convened by Tülay Atak from the Department of Theory of Architecture, Institute
of Architecture, and the conversations will be moderated by Brigitte Felderer, Sam Jacob, Baerbel Mueller, and Lina Steeruwitz.
In conjunction with the symposium, the exhibition, “Energy at the Threshold of the Visible World,” which brings together
historical visualizations of energy along with contemporary works on images and representations of energy, will be opening
at AIL – Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien.
Participants:
Maria
Auböck (Auböck + Kárász Landscape Architects, Vienna), Brigitte Felderer (University of Applied Arts, Vienna),
Ingrid
Halland (AHO, Oslo),
Elisa Iturbe (The Cooper Union,
New York), Sam Jacob (University of Applied Arts, Vienna),
Ana
María León (GSD, Harvard, Cambridge), Catherine Mosbach (Mosbach Paysagistes, Paris),
Baerbel
Mueller (University of Applied Arts, Vienna),
Tatjana
Schneider (GTAS, TU Braunschweig), Lina Steeruwitz (StudioVlaySteeruwitz, Vienna), and
Michael
Wang (New York).
Organized by:
Tülay Atak
(University of Applied Arts, Vienna)
10:00 / Welcome
Petra Schaper Rinkel
10:10 / Introduction
Tülay Atak
10:30 – 12:20 / Design of Environments
Catherine Mosbach and Maria Auböck in conversation
Moderator:
Lina Steeruwitz
13:00 – 14:50 / Pedagogy in Action
Ana María León
Tatjana Schneider
Moderator: Sam
Jacob
15:10 – 17:00 / Exhibition as Media
Elisa Iturbe
Ingrid Halland
Moderator: Brigitte Felderer
17:30 @ Postsparkasse / Keynote: Constructing Climates
Michael Wang
Response: Baerbel Mueller
19:00
/ Reception and exhibition opening
Energy at the Threshold of the Visible World
Links:
https://ioa.angewandte.at/news/symposium-building-environments-architectural-theory-beyond-a-changing-climate-may-3
