[rohrpost] Event City / Bauhaus

[Krystian Woznicki <krystian@snafu.de>]

Subject: Bauhaus Kolleg Event City 2. Trimester
Applications are being accepted until 7. January 2001

Bauhaus Kolleg 2 Event City
Trimester 2 Urban spatial node - an architectural blueprint

February 14th to May 11th 2001


Frankfurt am Main is planning to erect a new district, the European
quarter, around an urban entertainment center for shopping, entertainment 
and popular culture on disused railway sidings and a site not far from the 
trade fair exhibition center. This project is one of the many examples of 
urban redevelopment engineered by an alliance of private investors, 
transnational companies and commercial architectural interests. The ensuing 
transfer of the center to a homogenized commercialized and controlled event 
world is the subject of much discussion. The flashy shop window of a 
standardized urban future clearly reflects a loss of urbanity.

The interdisciplinary and international Bauhaus Kolleg group will devise a 
model for an urban center in the European quarter in Frankfurt as part of 
an architectural blueprint. It will be based on an understanding of the 
urban event world as an "urban
spatial node", as a flexible structure providing a fusion of local and 
global space, commercialized cultural events and everyday cultural practices.

The second trimester is subdivided in an Œexerciseš phase and a Œdesignš 
phase. The goal of the exercises is the extension of the traditional tools 
and concepts for analysis and design strategies for architecture. This 
methodological and didactical approach towards an extended perception takes 
the changing role of architecture in the event city into account: the 
traditional typological and infrastructure analysis informs only 
insufficiently the production of architecture.

The traditional combination and duties of program have to be challenged in 
the same way organizational principles have to be investigated.

Program, the generative element in architecture, has been explored in 
various combination, yet event cities incorporate ephemeral, disappearing 
program. Organizational structures in architecture and urbanism should 
assimilate the network structure of our society, developing from a 
traditional, static urban system to a more dynamic, participatory urban model.

Context, as a traditional parameter in architecture and urbanism, has 
gained a broader meaning. Every city can only be seen and understood in a 
relation to the global and local context. The impact of context onto any 
project within a city needs to address these two extremes of the global and 
the local, finding a balance between them, optimized for the particular 
situation.

Experience and atmosphere, the underestimated forces in urbanism and 
architecture, get a central position in the event city. How can a city 
provide diversity in experiences and atmospheres? How can we generate and 
control experience and atmosphere? Which innovative elements, beyond form 
and material, can create and support experience and atmosphere?

The Œdesignš phase of the trimester will incorporate the explored 
possibilities in an interdisciplinary urban/architectural design project 
for Frankfurt, an Event city.


Applications are being accepted until 7. January 2001
PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS:

ACADEMIC DEGREE

and/or

SEVERAL YEARS' PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

in the following disciplines; architecture, art, urban and/or landscape 
planning, design, the social sciences or humanities, documented in a 
curriculum vitae.

PORTFOLIO

STATEMENT OF INTEREST

PROOF OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH

KNOWLEDGE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

BASIC SKILLS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

BASIC SKILLS IN USING NEW MEDIA

A selection committee chooses a maximum of 25 international participants.


TUITION FEES are 3000 DM per trimester. Not included are housing costs, 
living expenses, travel costs or study materials.

Possibilities of privately financed scholarships are constantly examined.

HOUSING ARRANGEMENTS
Both the studio wing of the historic Bauhaus building and the dormitory 
located ca. 4 km away offer accommodation at very reasonable rates.
For further information and reservation please contact the Bauhaus Dessau 
Foundation.

STUDY FACILITIES
The participants will have access to all facilities at the Bauhaus, 
including the library, archive, and media lab. Studio room equipped with 
work space and computer access will be provided.

Applications are being accepted until 7. January 2001
Please contact:

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
BAUHAUS KOLLEG
Ute Lenssen
Project Manager

Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau

Tel: ++49 (0)340-6508-402,
Fax: ++49 (0)340-6508-404
E-mail: lenssen@bauhaus-dessau.de

http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de




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