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architecturaltheory.eu is the department for architectural theory of the University of Innsbruck, headed by Bart Lootsma. architecturaltheory.eu also publishes the websites architecturaltheory.txt and architecturaltheory.tv.

architecturaltheory.txt is a webzine with publications on architecture and culture : essays, papers, books, research projects , dissertations and habilitations written by the members of architecturaltheory.eu and their affiliations.

architecturaltheory.tv is a video based webzine about architecture and culture and features documentaries, interviews, lectures, symposia and congresses and all of the architecturaltheory.eu lecture series at the University of Innsbruck.

The Legacy of the Austrian Avant-Garde

Cooperation of Innsbruck University Faculty of Architecture & FRAC Centre Orléans Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans 2017/18 | Walking through someone else‘s dream   This exhibition is realized on occasion of the invitation by the FRAC Centre, one of the most prominent architectural museums in the world, to select works from its great collection, which relate to […]

Do You Avant-Garde? / Alexa Baumgartner & Davide Tommaso Ferrando

For the summer semester, the Master’s Studio at Architectural Theory will investigate the phenomenon of architectural avant-garde(s). Coming from the military field, in the 1820s the word “avant-garde” was applied for the first time to fine arts by Henri de Saint-Simon, who believed that artists had the responsibility (and the privilege) of introducing new ideas […]

Do You Avant-Garde? / Alexa Baumgartner & Davide Tommaso Ferrando

For the summer semester, the Master’s Studio at Architectural Theory will investigate the phenomenon of architectural avant-garde(s). Coming from the military field, in the 1820s the word “avant-garde” was applied for the first time to fine arts by Henri de Saint-Simon, who believed that artists had the responsibility (and the privilege) of introducing new ideas […]

M2 MIDTERM 2016: Other media, other architecture / Bettina Schlorhaufer & Davide Tommaso Ferrando

Program 07.12.2016 with a lecture by Giacomo Pala. 10:00 midterm presentations 14:00 lecture on “Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The rule of imagination” given by Giacomo Pala. Architekturtheorie, HSB 11 Architekturgebäude EG Technikerstrasse 21c 6020 IBK This semester, Architecturaltheory’s Master Studio will investigate the way in which social media are changing the production, interpretation and transmission of architecture. According […]

E4 & M2 New Social Housing / Bart Lootsma, Davide Tommaso Ferrando & Bettina Schlorhaufer

New Social Housing Against the Background of Individualisation, Globalisation and the Rise of Social Media   On occasion of the IBA (International Building Exhibition) Vienna 2022, the studio research of architecturaltheory.eu this year is dedicated to new forms of social housing. In this context, we aim at interpreting anew what is meant with “social”, as […]

Exhibition Architecture becomes Region

Exhibition Prösels Castle, Tischlerhaus Architecture becomes Region / Architektur wird Region / Dall’architettura alla regione May 1st until October 31st 2017 Opening: Friday, April 28th 2017, 6 p. m.   How much region can be found in regionalized architecture, i.e. in a typical “Tirolerhaus”? Questions like this constitued the starting point of this publication, in […]

Architectural Theory M / Bart Lootsma

Over the last twenty years new technologies have changed our lives. Also the urban landscape changed immensely. New media and a drastically increased individual mobility have altered the way we perceive, use and inhabit it. This has begun to change its structure from within. Digital technologies revolutionize architecture as a profession. They change the design […]

E4 Studio Bangkok / Bart Lootsma & Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen

The future of architecture is in Asia, not in Europe. Asian cities are growing at a speed unknown to Europe. Because of this, new urban planning methods, or the lack of them, develop. The growth gives opportunity to innovative architects to manifest themselves. Over the last five years, young Asian architects are among the winners […]

Studio Bangkok / Bart Lootsma & Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen

The future of architecture is in Asia, not in Europe. Asian cities are growing at a speed unknown to Europe. Because of this, new urban planning methods, or the lack of them, develop. The growth gives opportunity to innovative architects to manifest themselves. Over the last five years, young Asian architects are among the winners […]

Studio Bangkok / Bart Lootsma & Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen

The future of architecture is in Asia, not in Europe. Asian cities are growing at a speed unknown to Europe. Because of this, new urban planning methods, or the lack of them, develop. The growth gives opportunity to innovative architects to manifest themselves. Over the last five years, young Asian architects are among the winners […]

E4 MIDTERM 2016: Studio Bangkok

Programm 13.12.2016 Bart Lootsma, Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen and Alexander Gogl 10:00 – 14:00   midterm Presentation Architekturtheorie, HSB 11 Architekturgebäude EG Technikerstrasse 21c 6020 IBK   The future of architecture is in Asia, not in Europe. Asian cities are growing at a speed unknown to Europe. Because of this, new urban planning methods, or the lack […]

EX Excursion Bangkok / Bart Lootsma & Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen

Date: February 2017 (to be confirmed). 1st meeting: October 25th, 3:00 pm, Architectural Theory – Studio 2nd meeting: November 8th, 3:00 pm, Architectural Theory – Studio