building Environments: Architectural Theory beyond a Changing Climate
Organisiert von der Abteilung Theory of Architecture
The “building Environments” symposium will address the current state of architectural theory in the context of numerous
ecological crises. If theory is what establishes the relationship between what is present and what can be imagined, allowing
us to look forward and backward, then it is the task of architectural theory to consider what remains constant and what changes
in the discipline as it addresses current challenges. “building Environments” asks the participants to think about how environmental
issues impact, affect, and shift theoretical work on architecture, landscape and design.
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 
