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1-1 Integral project 1

Lecturers: 6 alternating professors

Credit Points: 10 cp

Attendance: Free activities: Total workload:

6 SWS 14 SWS 20 SWS

Entry qualification: Bachelor’s degree

Teaching method: Lectures, practical exercises, design corrections

Assessment methods: Term papers

Courses: M111 Advanced design

Associated modules: 1-2 Constructive systems 1 1-3 Architectural theory 1 1-4 Environmental science 1

Cooperation with external institutions:

Course content: The objective of the integral project is the training of holistic approaches in the planning process. The interlinking of influencing factors in interaction and interdependence is to be systematically practiced – in a methodical and interdisciplinary respect. It is intended to carry out the planning process both vertically and horizontally while continuing the individual planning phases with equivalent integration of the different disciplines, and this is performed, in contrast to an additive approach, right from the beginning in an interlinked form.

Course objective: Imparting approaches in terms of systems engineering and their impact on the planning process as well as management and methods of coordination and control within the planning phases.

Recommended reading: • Malik, Fredmund: Strategie des Managements komplexer Systeme: ein Beitrag zur Management-Kybernetik evolutionärer Systeme – Haupt, Bern; Stuttgart; Wien

• Vester, Frederik: Die Kunst vernetzt zu denken, DVA, Wiesbaden

• Andrea Deplazes (Hrsg.): Architektur Konstruieren; Birkhäuser 2005

• Hausladen; de Saldanha; Liedl; Sager: Clima Design; Callwey 2004

• Klaus Daniels: Technologie des ökologischen Bauens; Birkhäuser 1994



1-2 Constructive systems 1

Lecturers: Prof. Frithjof Berger Prof. Andreas Meissner

Credit Points: 4 cp


4 SWS 4 SWS 8 SWS


Teaching method: Lectures, practical exercises

Assessment methods: 2 written exams (90 min each) at the end of term + term paper

Associated modules: 1-1 Integral project 1

Courses: M121 Building construction M122 Force + form

Course content: Building construction: The interaction of formal, technical, static-constructive and energetic as well as formal law aspects in glass construction.

Force + form: The static basis of force and form elaborated in the Bachelor study program and its graphic representation as working technique of an architect is to be broadened and extended to complex structures of building construction. The main subjects are: • Fundamentals of statically complex (indefinite) systems and their

load flux • Problems of stability (bending, tilting, bulging) • Plane and three-dimensional suspension systems • Stretched membranes and nets • Arch constructions, bases, support line.

Course objective: Building construction: Understanding of the potentials and problems in glass construction Methodical design and construction with complex tasks from the field of glass construction.

Force + form: Broadening and extending the basic thesis of force and form and its graphic representation as working technique of an architect as prerequisite for treating complex building constructions in lectures and project management.

Recommended reading: • Cf. Course specifications



1-3 Urban planning + architectural theory 1

Lecturers: Prof. Florian Burgstaller Prof. Susanne Dürr

Credit Points: 6 cp

Attendance: Free activities:: Total workload:

6 SWS 6 SWS 12 SWS



Assessment methods: Term paper + written exam (90 min) at the end of term

Courses: M131 Contemporary architecture + urban planning 1 M132 Urban planning + development planning M133 Building typology



SAAI of Karlsruhe University Stadtplanungsamt Karlsruhe Communal planning authorities

Course content: Architecture und urban planning of the 20th and 21st century

Presentation of different theories, lines of development and ideologies

Consequences of planning principles and means of control for the quality of spaces and spatial structures

Course objective: Critical assessment of the current development of architecture

Appraising the opportunities as well as the risks harboured by planning

Deliberate application of creative design means to the various levels of planning

Recommended reading: • Posener, Julius: Vorlesungen zur Geschichte der Architektur 1750 – 1930, ARCH+ Verlag

• Benevolo, Leonardo: Die Geschichte der Stadt. 4. Aufl. Frankfurt 1990

• Braunfels, Wolfgang: Abendländische Stadtbaukunst – Herrschaftsform und Baugestalt, 4.Aufl. Köln 1987

• Curdes, Gerhard: Stadtstruktur und Stadtgestaltung, Stuttgart 1993



1-4 Environmental science 1

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Loeschcke

Credit Points: 6 cp


4 SWS 8 SWS 12 SWS



Assessment methods: Term paper + 1 written exam (90 min) at the end of term

Courses: B141 Cybernetics 1 / Sustained building B142 Building physics


Course content: Cybernetics 1 /

Cyberbetics: Understanding of the building as organism and within the cycle system, interactions and interdependences of factors relating to building physics, building technology and building climatology.

Sustained building: Consideration of the life cycle of a building under the criteria of building ecology, social ecology and building technology.

Building physics: Application of physics to buildings – energetics, heat insulation, sound insulation, protection against moisture.

Course objective: It is the objective to understand nature and the related processes as a functioning system in accordance with an organism. The transferability of these principles to technical disciplines is to be examined and demonstrated in the form of technical concepts. Especially the sustainability in accordance with the life cycle is emphasized – as basic principle in all natural processes – and is put into the context of construction. Building physics constitutes a substantial part of this consideration.

Recommended reading: • Paegelow, Martin [Hrsg.]: Modelling environmental dynamics: advances in geomatic solutions / Martin Paegelow ; María Teresa Camacho Olmedo (eds.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, 2008. - XXI, 390 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.; (eng)

• Randall McMullan: Environmental science in building. 1998 - ISBN: 0-333-73201-4

• Nachhaltiges Bauen - Hochbau : Ergänzungen zum Leistungsmodell SIA 112 ; Empfehlung SIA 112/1 / [Schweizerischer Ingenieur- und Architektenverein]. - 2. Aufl.. - Zürich : SIA, 2005



1-5 Elective courses 1

Lecturers: Cf. course specifications

Credit Points: 2 cp


1 SWS 3 SWS 4 SWS



Assessment methods: 2 written exams (90 min each) at the end of term

Courses: Two courses out of a list of the elective courses offered have to be taken:

MW01 Architectural photography MW02 Colour MW03 Free figuration MW04 Art history MW…. etc.

Course content: Cf. course specifications

Course objective: Cf. course specifications

Recommended reading: Cf. course specifications







6 SWS 14 SWS 20 SWS




Courses: M211 Advanced design

Associated modules: 2-2 Constructive systems 2 2-3 Urban planning + architectural theory 2 2-4 Environmental science 2


Course content: The objective of the integral project is the training of holistic approaches in the planning process. The interlinking of influencing factors in interaction and interdependence is to be systematically practiced – in the methodical and interdisciplinary respect. It is intended to carry out the planning process both vertically and horizontally while continuing the individual planning phases with equivalent integration of the different disciplines, and this is carried out, in contrast to an additive approach, right from the beginning in an interlinked form.

Course objective: Imparting approaches in terms of systems engineering and their impact on the planning process as well management and methods of coordination and control within the planning phases.

Recommended reading: • Malik, Fredmund: Strategie des Managements komplexer Systeme: ein Beitrag zur Management-Kybernetik evolutionärer Systeme – Haupt, Bern; Stuttgart; Wien

• Vester, Frederik: Die Kunst vernetzt zu denken, DVA, Wiesbaden

• Andrea Deplazes (Hrsg.): Architektur Konstruieren; Birkhäuser 2005

• Hausladen; de Saldanha; Liedl; Sager: Clima Design; Callwey 2004

• Klaus Daniels: Technologie des ökologischen Bauens; Birkhäuser 1994




Lecturers: Prof. Armin Günster N.N.

Credit Points: 4 cp


4 SWS 4 SWS 8 SWS





Courses: M221 Building construction M222 Force + form / force + form design

Course content: Building construction: The knowledge on building construction acquired primarily under the aspect of materials for the Bachelor’s degree is consolidated and extended in a new context. Special items may be: • monolithic versus skeleton construction methods • Tower and bridge structures • Serial building • Building constructions adapted to the climatic conditions (e.g.

„Passivhausbau“ (low-energy building))

Force + form / Force + form design: At the beginning complex supporting systems are treated in variants employing the means of module 1-2. The topics of the advanced design are treated in a broadened manner in lectures and are practiced by elaborating variants. Topics of lectures are: • Supporting systems for large spans • Complex hall constructions • Hybrid supporting systems • Bridges • Tower buildings

Course objective: Building construction: Broadening and consolidation of the knowledge and skills of building construction acquired during the Bachelor study program

Force + form / Force + form design: Combining the fundamental knowledge in complex force and form designs. Understanding of the supporting behaviour of classic and modern large-scale constructions in building. Thematic assistance of the design topic of building construction.

Recommended reading: • Cf. course specifications




Lecturers: Prof. Florian Burgstaller Prof. Susanne Dürr

Credit Points: 4 cp


4 SWS 4 SWS 8 SWS




Courses: M231 Contemporary architecture + urban planning M232 Urban planning + development planning



SAAI of Karlsruhe University Stadtplanungsamt Karlsruhe Communal planning authorities

Course content: Architecture and urban planning of the 20th and 21st century (Continued 1st semester module)

Seminar on individual trends, ideologies and characters of modern building history

Dealing with current topics of urban planning and architecture (especially urban repair, conversion and later use of industrial and trade waste land, revitalisation, removal)

Course objective: Understanding of the architectural and urban planning history as a process and of one’s own work as an update of such process

Integrating a broad spectrum of impacts (development of art, history of engineering, cultural and social sciences, politics, philosophy and psychology)

Recommended reading: • Giedion, Siegfried: Raum, Zeit, Architektur, Zürich, München 1976

• Pehnt, Wolfgang: Die Architektur des Expressionismus, Hatje-Cantz

• Hertzberger, Hermann: Vom Bauen

• Ruano, Miguel: Ökologischer Städtebau, Stuttgart 1998





Credit Points: 6 cp


4 SWS 8 SWS 12 SWS



Assessment methods: 2 term papers + 1 written exam (180 min) at the end of term

Courses: M241 Cybernetics 2 / Sustained building M242 Open space planning


Course content: Cybernetics 2 /

Cybernetics: Continuation of the parameters shown in Cybernetics 1 in the form of practical exercises.

Sustained building: Continuation of the parameters shown in Cybernetics 1 in the form of practical exercises.

Open space planning: Essential principles of the problems of urban ecology are conferred upon open space planning. Planning of open structures consistent in the aesthetic, ecological and social respect in implicit correlation with urban and suburban structures.

Course objective: Putting the fundamentals elaborated in theory into practice.

Recommended reading: • Daniels, Klaus Gebäudetechnik : ein Leitfaden für Architekten und Ingenieure / Klaus Daniels. - 3., überarb. Aufl.. - München

• Daniels, Klaus Technologie des ökologischen Bauens : Grundlagen und Maßnahmen, Beispiele und Ideen / Klaus Daniels. - 2., erw. Aufl.. - Basel ; Boston ; Berlin : Birkhäuser, 1999.

• Hegger, Manfred; Liese, Julia: Energie-Atlas - nachhaltige Architektur. Basel 2008




Lecturers: Cf. course specifications

Credit Points: 4 cp


2 SWS 6 SWS 8 SWS




Courses: Two courses out of a list of the elective courses offered have to be taken:











6 SWS 14 SWS 20 SWS




Courses: M311 Experimental building

Associated modules: 3-12 Constructive systems 3 3-13 Urban planning + architectural theory 3 3-14 Environmental science 3


Course content: The applied research within architectural planning constitutes a focus of the Master study program. On the basis of experimental studies regarding materials and possible applications thereof, statics and its technological correlations, building physics in respect of environmental and climatic conditions and realisation of simple building structures, it is to be practised to put design solutions into reality or into large-scale models.

Course objective:

Recommended reading: •




Lecturers: Prof. Armin Günster N.N.

Credit Points: 4 cp


4 SWS 4 SWS 8 SWS





Courses: M321 Building construction M322 Force + form

Course content: Building construction: In minor, partly practical exercises an independent handling of building materials and constructions is exemplified even beyondcommon methods of construction. The practical exercises are provided with a consolidated basis and a theoretical superstructure by a specific presentation of technical knowledge which in parts has to be independently elaborated.

Force + form: In respect of / connection with the topic of „experimental design“ the knowledge of complex or hybrid supporting systems is initially presented and broadened during lectures, then exercised by way of models and by elaborating variants. The general validity of the previously developed correlations of force and form is proved also in natural forms. The following are of particular interest: • Hybrid constructions • Stretched 3 D constructions • Area-covering supporting structures in engineering and nature • Analogy of blades of grass – tower buildings • Natural constructions • Tree supports • Supporting structures for modern glass fronts

Course objective: Building construction: Introduction to an independent handling of building materials and building methods

Force + form: Application of the previously developed concrete approach to the topic of force and form in the case of hybrid construction forms in the fields of engineering and nature that are difficult to understand.

Recommended reading: • Cf. course specifications




Lecturers: Prof. Florian Burgstaller

Credit Points: 4 cp


4 SWS 4 SWS 8 SWS




Courses: M331 Architectural theory / reception



Faculties of architecture of various universities and universities of applied sciences

Course content: History of architectural theory

Change of the understanding of architecture and of the evaluating system in the course of history

Current discussions on architecture on the media

Criteria of reception of buildings and spaces

Course objective: Developing an independent, historically substantiated system of classifying and judging processes of architecture and urban planning

Recommended reading: • Moravanszky, Akos: Architekturtheorie im 20. Jahrhundert, Wien 2002

• Neumeyer, Fritz: Quellentexte zur Architekturtheorie, München 2002

• Kruft, Hanno-W.: Geschichte der Architekturtheorie, München 1986

• Lampugnani, Vittorio M.: Architekturtheorie 20. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart 2004

• Frampton, Kenneth: Grundlagen der Architektur, München 1993





Credit Points: 6 cp


4 SWS 8 SWS 12 SWS



Assessment methods: 2 term papers + 1 written exam (180 min) at the end of term

Courses: M341 Lighting planning M342 Materials technology


Course content: The architect is increasingly confronted with a differentiated understanding of materials as regards the criteria of aesthetics, the characteristics of building physics, possible applications and the like. This development is growingly accelerated by new technologies and new developments on the market of materials technologies. This course is intended to give a survey of the potentials of a creative and innovative handling.

The lighting planning which plays a crucial role regarding the development of space, form, colour, texture etc. is closely related with this topic. Daylight and artificial light engineering is considered in its interaction and regarding the above criteria in a physical, physiological and creative design respect.

Course objective: Lighting planning / materials technology: The course contents are to be applied in practice by way of practical exercises.

Recommended reading: • Ganslandt, Rüdiger: Handbuch der Lichtplanung. Wiesbaden Vieweg, 1992

• Stattmann, Nicola: Handbuch Material-Technologie. Ludwigsburg 2003




Lecturers: Cf, course specifications

Credit Points: 4 cp


2 SWS 6 SWS 8 SWS




Courses: Two courses out of a list of the respective elective courses have to be taken:







4-16 Master thesis / Integral project

Lecturers: All professors



4 SWS 56 SWS 60 SWS


Teaching method:

Assessment methods: Thesis

Courses: M411 Master thesis

Course content: The course is concluded by the Master thesis. After successful graduation, the degree of Master of Arts (M.A. Architecture) will be awarded. This enables the graduates to do their doctor’s degree.

Course objective:

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