Ringvorlesung Architectural Research

Die Ringvorlesung "Architectural Research" bildet einen integralen Bestandteil der Grazer Doctoral School Architektur. Lehrende der TU Graz und internationale Gäste stellen aktuelle Projekte der Architekturforschung hinsichtlich ihrer Konzepte, Methoden und Ergebnisse vor.
In Workshops diskutieren die Vortragenden mit angemeldeten Teilnehmer*innen der Ringvorlesung über ihre Zugänge zur Architekturforschung und die sich daraus eröffnenden Forschungsfragestellungen.

Alexander Passer
TU Graz
„Assessing Life Cycle Related Environmental Impacts Caused by Buildings“
Donnerstag, 09. November 2023, 19:00 Uhr
HS L (PORR), Lessingstraße 25/1.OG, 8010 Graz

Alexander Passer is Professor for Sustainable Construction at Graz University of Technology. Since 2011 he has headed the Sustainable Construction Working Group, which deals with topics of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), its application in the design process and the optimisation of the life cycle performance of buildings, taking into account systemic interactions. His research focuses on operationalising sustainability in construction, esp. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA), Multicriteria Decision Models (MCDM) and Building Information Modelling (BIM). Passer is an Austrian delegate in the committees of CEN/TC350 and CEN/TC 442 as well as other national and international technical committees. Since 2018 he has been chairman of the Sustainability Advisory Board of TU Graz. He has been on the board of the Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA), the Climate Research Network Austria since 2018. In 2014, he was a visiting professor at the Chair of Sustainable Construction at ETH Zurich. He is also subject editor for the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment in the area of construction materials and buildings.

Robert Jan van Pelt
University of Waterloo
"The Little Engine That Could. A History of the Barrack"
Donnerstag, 16. November 2023, 19:00 Uhr
Halle, Kronesgasse 5/I, 8010 Graz

und via Webex, Meeting number: 2732 545 4450,
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Robert Jan van Pelt has been teaching at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture since 1987 and has held positions at many institutions of higher education worldwide, including the AA London, TU Vienna, University of Kassel, National University of Singapore, University of Virginia, Clark University, and MIT. He has published 13 books dealing with topics such as the cosmic speculations on the Temple of Solomon, relativism in architectural history, the history of Auschwitz, the history of the Holocaust, Jewish refugees, Holocaust denial, and his most recent work, An Atlas of Jewish Space, which coincided with the opening of a new synagogue at the Babyn Yar massacre site in Kyiv in 2021. Most recently, he has completed a book on the history of concentration camp barracks which will appear with Park Books. His forensic work on the crematoria of Auschwitz generated „The Evidence Room“, an installation, created in collaboration with Waterloo professors Anne Bordeleau and Donald McKay, first shown at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. Van Pelt is the chief curator of the international traveling exhibtion „Auschwitz. Not Far Away. Not Long Ago“. He was also a member of the KPMBDaoust Lestage architectural team that won the competition for a new home for the Montreal Holocaust Museum.

Salvatore Pisani
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
"Paris as a Furnished City. Rethinking Urbanity and Subpolitics in the 19th Century"
Donnerstag, 07. Dezember 2023, 19:00 Uhr
HS II, Rechbauerstraße 12/1.KG, 8010 Graz

Lisa Yamaguchi
TU Graz
"Design in the Focus of Research"
Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2024, 19:00 Uhr
HS II, Rechbauerstraße 12/1.KG, 8010 Graz

Ana María Durán Calisto
Yale School of Architecture
"The History of Bioeconomies in Amazonia"
Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2024, 19:00 Uhr
Halle, Kronesgasse 5/II, 8010 Graz