Start 27.09.2012
The elective course of this coming fall semester 2012 will focus on translating the city into print media, newspapers, books, blogs and websites! This course will generate discussions and debates, theories and practices. The result is a S.L.U.M. LAB magazine for Latin America.
No architect is complete without publishing his / her ideas through writings and drawings. Only through publications will the work and mindsets of architects live on. Architect Peter Eisenman said “you can not make architecture if you do not have a theorie”. He published ANY, Oppositions, a Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture, from 1973 – 1984. Hans Hollein, together with Walter Pichler, published between 1965-1970 Bau.
From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas, publishing and editing books, journals or newspapers has been part of architectural production and conscious construction. They became architectural manifestos and influenced the debate of architects and urban designers throughout different generations.
This is a personal chance to participate in the production of the current issue of the S.L.U.M. Lab Magazine on Latin America (release date winter 2012). The magazine will be organized around different Latin American cities on the topics of mobility and emerging / secondary cities.
Each student will take part on the production and editing of drawings, images, diagrams, maps and text, and will learn how to organize ideas into a limited space.

Latin America

S.L.U.M. Lab Magazine

Teaching

October 19 - 26
During Seminar Week, students will travel to Athens as an integral part of the REACTIVATE ATHENS design studio. This trip will be an opportunity to advance research and understand the city and the site; it will be an opportunity to expand analysis, challenge conventional understandings, and test conceptual prototypes. This week will not only serve as a vital step in the conceptual development of the project theses, but also as a critical study of the architecture, urbanism, culture, social exchange, and mobility in Athens.

Reactivate Athens Fieldtrip

March 18 - 25
During Seminar Week, students will travel to RIO DE JANEIRO as an integral part of the MOBILIZE BRAZIL design studio. This trip will be an opportunity to advance research and understand the city and the site; it will be an opportunity to expand analysis, challenge conventional understandings, and test conceptual prototypes. This week will not only serve as a vital step in the conceptual development of the project theses, but also as a critical study of the architecture, urbanism, culture, social exchange, and mobility in Rio de Janeiro.

March 14 - 22
During Seminar Week, students will travel to Shenzhen, (China) as an extension of the OPEN VILLAGE design studio. This trip will serve as a critical study of the architecture, urbanism, culture, and social exchange in Southern China, with a specific emphasis on high density urban villages. Students will take part in a series of lectures and site tours guided by local experts in architecture, city planning, and history.
The seminar trip aims to enable students an experience of extreme and more exotic conditions of urban concentration. This experience will potentially allow students to develop potent translations of urban villages into mixed-use low-income communities for more familiar environments such as Zurich and central Europe in general. In order to enrich the contextual understanding of the phenomenon of urban villages students will also visit urban locations in Hong Kong and its immediate region.

Kostenrahmen	F
Location	Shenzhen, China
Team	Prof. Alfredo Brillembourg & Prof. Hubert Klumpner, Gianmaria Socci, Arnd Bätzner

Urban Villages