This lecture series sets up an agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism from their focus on the city, or the urban in the narrow sense, to wider territorial scales, which correspond to the increasing scales of contemporary urbanisation. It discusses the concepts of territory and urbanisation, and their implications for the work of architects and urbanists.

MY WEATHER

Within the theme MY WEATHER, we will trace the uneven impacts of the environmental crises on the ground, and reflect on the entanglements of weather, atmosphere, and climate with the constructed environments and ecologies. Together we will address climate change as an architectural and territorial issue and challenge the politics of cartography, perform a critical walk, ask whether architecture is climate, and discuss the transformations of the Alpine regions due to climate change.

The course will enable students to critically discuss concepts of territory and urbanisation. It will invite students to revisit the history of architects’ works engaging with the problematic of urbanising territories and territorial organisation. The goal is to motivate and equip students to engage with territory in the present day and age, by setting out our contemporary urban agenda. The lectures are animated by a series of visual and conceptual exercises, usually on A4 sheets of paper. All original student contributions will be collected and bound together, creating a unique book-object. Some of the exercises are graded and count as proof of completion. There will be three graded exercises that will count as proof of completion. You may find the course reader here.

ARCHITECTURE OF TERRITORY—My Weather is curated and organised by Milica Topalović and Nazlı Tümerdem.