Summer Term 2024

This term we intend to cut and print a number of Darmstadt’s city views. Possibly these prints will be part of a currently planned book project. On one hand the book will deal with the comparison of historical and contemporary photos, depicting the city’s development. On the other hand, we would like to show by using many different linocuts, what the graphic technique can represent differently than photography. Together we will stroll through the city and talk about interesting perspectives as motifs. We will take our own photos and make sketches on site as templates for the linocuts.

Preliminary, we will discuss, what a postcard meant for a city and how important postcards for the cities had been in the past. And of course, we will scrutinize image relevant elements, developed by students in an analogue process such as composition, abstraction, structures, and so on.

In this term the gallery seminar will deal with the upcoming exhibitions and accompany these conceptually, creatively, and practically.

With »Am grünen Weg« and »Die Kopie« right at the beginning two exhibitions are planned to show the results of the last winter term. Joint visits at galleries and exhibitions outside of the architecture faculty are also intended and we would like to see in our talks on Monday evenings, what it means to show artworks in exhibitions, especially at an architecture faculty, and how or weather there is a difference in seeing originals.

All existing architecture is influenced by its natural environment. Time brings changes that may have been of little significance or non-existent during its creation.

In design disciplines, the ability to imagine in order to develop an idea from which an image then emerges is very important. In order to foster this ability, we need to perceive.

With regard to the influence mentioned at the beginning, we are concerned with the perception of space. Photography should help us to reflect on what we perceive and to understand the effect of what is depicted. To support this, we will work with texts by Gernot Böhme. The aim is to bypass the usual perception of architecture and approach other perspectives.

Following the path of last winter term, where students had built impressive balcony reliefs and partly had generated copies of fascinating cityscapes of famous artists’ works, we would like to use fun and energy, resulted from these tasks and go further in detail. We will walk through the city and take pictures, make sketches, and after this we will reproduce them (these photos and sketches) to take photos of this models again. And we will talk about questions like »What is the difference between a direct photo of reality and the picture of a reality model?

What can we learn from all these reflections, depicting, modelling? What do they do with our perception ability? And why is it so important to take a closer look in detail, especially in digital times? Joint image discussions within the seminar focus on seeing and building Darmstadt’s cityscapes.

In the course of the seminar, an independent photographic series on the topic will be developed. This will deal with a specific aspect of »Intermediate space« and will be accompanied by a discussion of camera technique, image composition and image processing, as well as a presentation form suitable for the individual work.

Please note!
To attend the course you have to hand in / represent the first exercise by April 18th, 2024 at 3.30 pm.

equipment:

camera, a Single-lens reflex camera or a system camera would be great (no mobile!)

a camera tripod is a good advice for many techniques and designs

IMPORTANT:

To hand in the first exercise is mandatory, for students looking for an option to slip into the course without having received an admission from the seminar bazaar, too.

First meeting: April 18th, 2023, 3:30 pm, Galerie Parkhaus (r177)

The magazine seminar is to go into the 4th round this summer. In the spirit of the previous magazine seminars, ideas are to be given a platform and grow in discussion with others. The participants of the magazine seminar organize themselves independently, form the editorial team together and develop formats, design ideas and topics in discussion with each other. Thus, the magazine should remain a place where political, emotional, important or simply entertaining topics that seem relevant to architecture students are given a space.

Magazines are published periodically and evolve over time. Thus, a new group of students is called upon to engage with magazines, to question what has emerged and to continue it. The students will analyze different magazines, discuss the magazine as a platform, salesroom as well as ideas in the context of their academic studies and realize the 4th issue of Blaupause.