Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna
Austria
The Institute of Architecture (IoA) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna / die Angewandte offers a three-year accredited masters program devoted to experimental and innovative design in architecture and urban practices. The Institute is embedded in an internationally renowned art university that fosters exchange between disciplines, provides state-of-the-art education in the fields of arts and research, and promotes global exchange.
With its international orientation and its profound artistic, technical and discursive educational program, the Institute of Architecture produces critical work and searches for visionary strategies that address the most urgent questions of our time and of the future: What is the role of architecture in regards to contemporary cultures and societies, urbanization processes, identity policies, climate change, environmental challenges, migration, and disruptive technologies? How do we want to live and work? What will our future look like and how does that manifest spatially, physically and virtually? What role do digital developments and technology play in this? What is the role of architecture in tackling questions on aesthetics?
To create new concepts, visions and realities in education, research and practice that address these challenges, architecture at the Institute of Architecture is taught as an integrative discipline by promoting transdisciplinary project processes and forms of work from the very local to the planetary.
Just as there are many areas and niches within architecture and the professional field of architects, the IoA proclaims diversity on all levels, including that of teaching. Consequently, the autonomy of all the Institute’s design studios and departments is crucial and considered to be productive, provoking more critical discourse, projects and dynamics.
The masters program spans six semesters and awards an M.Arch degree. The program is open to international students and is taught in English. For admission, proof of successful completion of a bachelors degree in architecture must be provided.
Architectural design is taught in three studios; each with its own focus.
Studio 1: studio díazmoreno garcíagrinda
Studio 2: Studio Lynn
Studio 3: Studio Hani Rashid
Studio1: studio díazmoreno garcíagrinda
The studio diazmoreno garciagrinda cultivates a contemporary, plural, non-dogmatic, social-culturally engaged and optimistic approach, while believing in the necessity for radically expanding the fundamentals of architecture.
Working as a laboratory and experimental office focused on the entangled relations between architecture and the urban rather than a conventional academic design studio, we strongly support the development of a change of paradigm that could break down the separation of our discipline from the reality around it. Therefore, our grounded and precise, yet experimental, methodologies are fully engaged with the deep study of specific situations and realities, and privilege the multiplicity and richness of sources and tools at play.
The ambition of the studio diazmoreno garciagrinda is to define architecturally new, radical, and truly contemporary models of beauty, based on and compatible with those immediate and expanded contexts.
We look forward to incorporate into our working team skillful and talented designers willing to expand their conceptual, theoretical, methodological and practical toolset in order to become independent practitioners with the intellectual goal of being able to shape the future field, nature and tools of architecture.
Studio 2: Studio Lynn
Our mission is to engage transformations in contemporary culture and technology with architectural innovation in order to create new spatial experiences and building types. Our vision is to educate designers as thought leaders representing civic society and a quality sustainable built environment.
Technological methods are accompanied by critical responses to changes in the way that people: occupy buildings; move with transportation; shop for goods and groceries; and use living, dining and office spaces that demand new emerging challenges such as social distancing.
Our teaching is located at the spatial and material intersection of the digital and the physical. We combine technical expertise with cultural awareness to secure the relevance of our students in the field of architecture for decades to come. From a position of rigorous dialogue with historic architectural precedents we are in exchange with parallel disciplines of the “applied arts” as are uniquely present at the Angewandte Vienna.
Studio 3: Studio Hani Rashid
Hani Rashid’s research and design studio focuses primarily on educating future architects on conceptual, pragmatic and intelligent design approaches in architecture. Essential to the studio’s approach is the questioning of architecture’s role in contemporary culture and society. In recent years, there has been a greater emphasis placed on sustainable and environmentally focused design issues, particularly those incorporating cutting-edge technologies, to design new building types and radical conceptual approaches to making architecture. Also key to the pedagogical model is a reliance on and critique of historically relevant models and methodologies, especially those that probe the essential questions of design excellence and design innovation. The preoccupations that are often explored in the studio curriculum include the atmospheric, the optical, the phenomenological, and other attributes and conditions that allow for practical and innovative design solutions and proposals. To achieve these goals, there is an emphasis on utilizing both physical and digital modeling while also employing computer-aided design methodologies, including scripting, animation, AI, and machine learning.
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