Lectures

Building History II deals with the stratigraphy of building history in Europe from the Renaissance to the modern era. Building tasks, building typologies and building forms of the respective epoch are thematized, which, as “guiding fossils”, make it possible to classify or decipher the respective object in terms of building history. This also makes it possible to date and interpret the different “time layers” of complex historical objects. The lecture also addresses elements of historical building constructions that are important in order to be able to act appropriately in a historical context. We also look at how the respective historical epoch dealt with architectural monuments and how architectural monuments of the respective period are dealt with today.

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The "Construction History" lecture is dedicated to a different topic from the broad spectrum of historical architecture each year. The topic is examined from an architectural, constructive-static and production-historical perspective. The aim of the course is to familiarise students with the working methods of historical building research using specific case studies (working directly on the object), to understand and classify historical building constructions using the methodology of construction history (archive studies, analysis of historical image sources and specialist literature) and, based on this, to develop strategies for building assessment and preservation.

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