Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).
Part of course series: Re-store
The course is open to students from: Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Normally, we valuate buildings as singular and confined entities, naming their architects, concepts, forms and functions, and securely fixing them in time and place. Consequently, their components (construction, materials, colors, products, technical systems i.a.) gain value only by being parts of the whole, in place to support our conception of the work. Similarly, in historic preservation, valuable buildings are turned into monuments as wholes, leaving the components as servants to a grander idea.
This seminar explores alternative ways of valuating buildings by taking their components as points of departure: where they are from, how they have been circulated, who their producers and distributers were, how they age and accumulate value over time, and how they can be recycled in new forms of architecture.
The task is to investigate a number of existing buildings, using the conceptual framework of provenance to explore their reuse, transformation and preservation. The concept of provenance is normally used to document the chronological history of ownership, legitimacy, and display of artworks, manuscripts, and antiquities, but is also regularly employed in relationship to production of food, clothing, jewelry and building materials (fair trade, food miles, child-labor, etc.) To transpose this concept into architecture releases unexpected aspects of architecture traditionally not accounted for, like the histories of fluctuating ownership, dramatic events, political controversy, and social history. Triggering this potential might alter the way we reuse, transform and preserve our buildings.
The seminar is part of the research project “Provenance Projected. Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity”, run by Mari Lending and Erik Langdalen
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Drawing from a diverse pool of canonical, experimental, academic, poetic, speculative, contemporary, and historical texts, the students will be assigned readings relating to the week’s topic for discussion. Each student will be given one building as the focus of their research, and will through a number of assignments be asked to explore its alternative pasts and futures.
Students are encouraged to take a critical stand towards the discipline of architecture and preservation and to develop new methods of working through an experimental practice involving archiving, survey procedures, writing, drawing, physical model building, computer modelling, representational techniques etc.
Selections of texts from:
Otero-Pailos, Jorge (ed.): Historic Preservation Theory: An Anthology: Readings from the 18th to the 21st Century, Design books 2022
Vurderingsform | Gruppering | Karakterskala | Kommentar |
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Vurderingsmappe | Individuell | Bestått / ikke bestått | The final grade will be based upon weekly deliveries and the final review, as well as the quality and logic of the uploaded material to the platform Sanity. |
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Oppmøte | Students are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities. |