Lectures

Building History II deals with the architectural stratigraphy of Europe from the Renaissance to the modern era. It focuses on construction tasks, building typologies, and architectural forms of the respective era, which serve as “index fossils” enabling the architectural classification and interpretation of the respective object. This also allows for the dating and interpretation of the various “time layers” of complex historical objects. The lecture also addresses elements of historical building constructions that are important for acting appropriately in a historical context. We also look at how each historical era dealt with architectural monuments and how architectural monuments from each period are dealt with today.

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Each year, the lecture series “Historical Constructions” focuses on a different topic from the broad spectrum of historical architecture. The topic is examined from an architectural, structural, and manufacturing history perspective. The aim of the course is to use specific case studies to learn about the working methods of historical building research (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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