Geography, Landscapes and Cities
Montag, 20. April 2015 - 19:00 Uhr
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
IKA
Venue | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Main Buliding, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, IKA Lecture hall, R211a,
Lecture by Kathrin Aste (Professor Plattform GLC, IKA) within the Frame of Into the city, into the Territory, IKA Lecture Series Summer Term 2015, curated by Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Platform Geography, Cities, Landscapes.
The lecture series will focus on the question of representation and description of landscape, territory and the city. At what point does the description through drawings and other media become a project on its own?
The lecture will describe a position on the subject of landscape, architecture and cities- [laac], which was developed by Kathrin Aste together with LAAC and at various universities within the last fourteen years. This position will be mainly illustrated by realized projects. The lecture will highlight influences and parameters, which are essential to formulate a relevant architectural approach that applies to both teaching and research. The architecture is understood here as an operational tool to design landscape as a built reality. The landscape is understood not as a purely scientific, but also as a philosophical-cultural-scientific phenomenon. The landscape is according to their definition of terms, seen as a physical-material unit, as a tangible reality with a spatial extent and as a social construct, a mental unit or as an idea that will only exist within human perception. Consequently, the lecture tries to give an answer to why the concept of landscape is often referred to as "Compositional". (Lecture will be in German)
Kathrin Aste founded the company LAAC together with her partner Frank Ludin. LAAC tries to be an interface for implementation, teaching and research besides doing projects of architectural practice. The goal is to do research in architecture on the basis of appropriate projects. Based on key issues, they develop concepts for similar programs. The ideological goal of LAAC is to overcome the growing gap between architectural practice, research and theory. ?One of their research projects deals with a sustainable design for alpine power plants.?The aim of this applied research is to develop suitable forms of energy, conceive utilization concepts specially designed for the Alpine area and implement a reference plant. Recent projects include the realization of "Landhausplatz Innsbruck", Austria (with Hannes Stiefel), "Top of Tyrol", "P2 Tower" or "Nature on Stage - Nature Park Oetztal". Recently, Kathrin Aste was appointed guest professor at the University of Liechtenstein where, together with students she has made a deep spatial cut through a bank.
For many years the various discourses on landscape urbanism have called for the dissolution of the dividing line between the city as densely built fabric and the territory as the surrounding landscape - promoting an understanding of our living environment as a continuous milieu. Movements have developed in two directions: Into the city, as constructed artificial nature, as buildings evoking land formations or as intense verdure overgrowing the city fabric. Into the territory, as projects of extensive mapping describing the environment and it's geological, hydrological or biological phenomena in order to reveal potentials of the site and to cautiously integrate human settlements and infrastructure into the natural habitat. At the same time, European cities like Vienna seek to further densify the existing city fabric while looking for new strategies for spaces to breath. Yet they continue to understand the relationship of buildings and open space as binary conditions in opposition.
The forthcoming Institute for Art and Architecture lecture series continues the exploration of the relationship between city and landscape, focusing on the role of descriptions and representations in our understanding of territories and the urban realm.
The public lecture series at the Institute for Art and Architecture is the space were international speakers, students and teachers together with the Viennese public can explore and discuss specific topics in the field of art, architecture and urbanism, this summer term presented from the view of Geography, Landscapes, Cities.
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