FUTURE ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL DESPERATE HOUSELIVES IDEAS FOR PERI-URBAN AREAS FUTURE ARCHITECTURE FIVE FRESH IDEAS SUMMER SCHOOL 16 VII. LIEBENAU: Imprinting Identity 4 TIMETABLE Liebenau’s Agora and Porticoes Francisco Moura Veiga, Elena Chiavi, 5 COURSE Francisco Adão da Fonseca 6 EXHIBITION 24 XIII. GÖSTING: Public Shelf Ibai Rigby 32 XV. WETZELSDORF: Gestures FUTURE ARCHITECTURE PLATFORM Therese Leick, Akil Scafe-Smith ARCHITECTURAL SUMMER 40 XVI. STRASSGANG: «EXQUISITE CORPSE» Lera Samovich, Benedict Esche, Elena Karpilova 48 XVII. PUNTIGAM: Infraçade Samuele Squassabia, Tao Baerlocher, Stefano Tornieri 56 PARTICIPANTS 58 BIOGRAPHIES 7 DESPERATE HOUSELIVES: IDEAS FOR PERI-URBAN AREAS 60 GALLERY to assist it’s course leader during Summer School. By Future Architecture bringing together two emerging architects from different architectural practices to lead one group together, new Summer School synergies and potentials could arise. Simultaneously the students had the opportunity to gain an insight into the working and thinking methods of their course leaders In 2018 the House of Architecture organized its first Future while developing a project together. Architecture Summer School in Graz. Ten international In order to end the Summer School with the projects week 1 week 2 and Austrian emerging architects who participated in the being exhibited, a conceptual framework of time and Call for Ideas of the Future Architecture Platform and space needed to be previously developed, with the aim Monday, August 26th Monday, September 3rd 25 young students from 9 different European Countries to let an exhibition emerge out of the work process. The 14:00 / Group formations: methods 10:00 / Project production were invited to work on five outlying districts of the city Summer School took place in the exhibition space of the 17:00 / Ice-Tea Time: interim report of Graz: VII. Liebenau, XIII. Gösting, XV. Wetzelsdorf, House of Architecture. Every group worked together at XVI. Straßgang and XVII. Puntigam. Five projects were one big round table. In the first week of Summer School developed – one for each district – to show architecture’s each group was settling on their methods, analyzing the impact on the built reality of these areas and promote given situations, formulating a task and developing their Tuesday, August 27th Tuesday, September 4th a more livable environment. The generated ideas were ideas step by step. Regular sum ups among the groups 10:00 / Fieldtrips: analysis 10:00 / Project production presented in a public exhibition at the end of Futureduring (ice) tea time - 5 p.m. were scheduled every day 17:00 / Ice-Tea Time: WHAT? 17:00 / Ice-Tea Time: interim report Architecture Summer School. to promote exchange between all participants. At the end of the first week every project was discussed with guests at a round up. In addition, each course leader had COURSE the opportunity to give a presentation of his office and Wednesday, August 28th Wednesday, September 5th The Future Architecture Summer School was conceived fields of interest at one of two public lecture evenings. 10:00 / Idea development: problem 10:00 / Project production as an experimental format of collective knowledge In the second week of Summer School participants and 17:00 / Ice-Tea Time: WHY? 17:00 / Ice-Tea Time: interim report production in which young professionals and students mentors developed their projects. The completed works 18:00 / Lectures by Resolve Collective, SKREI, investigated five outskirts of the city of Graz. The two were discussed with a number of guests on the course’s Studiospazio, Parallel Sprawl, Kollektiv A weeks of Summer School offered a time frame for a final day and publicly presented to a wider audience in an strong bond between it’s participants, developed during exhibition. A generic grid covering one of the exhibition Thursday, August 29th Thursday, September 6th their intense work but also during a diverse program of space’s walls was filled with content during the course. 10:00 / Idea development: location 10:00 / Exhibition set up after work activities such as trips through Graz and the It served as an organizational structure which created 17:00 / Ice-Tea Time: WHERE? region of southern Styria. An open work atmosphere a certain order between the individual pieces placed 18:00 / Lectures by TAB, Babau Bureau, fala, was generated with the aim to explore the possibilitieson the surface, offering simultaneously the necessary Architectural Thinking School, CARTHA of emerging ideas and strategies without any restrictionsfreedom for the presentation of individual projects while developing a scenario for the future of each in an adequate way. It enabled a dynamic placing and Friday, August 30th Friday, September 7th area. Since the participants were asked to work onreplacing five of all contents on the wall towards the final 10:00 / Idea development: project 10:00 / Exhibition set up outskirts of Graz, five groups were formed in orderlayout to for the exhibition. To document the results of the 15:00 / Ice-Tea Time: HOW? 16:00 / Final presentation and guest crit with react with architectural projects to the current situationSummer School and to attract more public attention to Round up and guest crit with Johannes Fiedler, Matevž Čelik, Gabu Heindl, Maik Novotny, Karin in these areas. Every group consisted of two course the developed projects, this catalogue and postcards Artem Kitaev, Petra Petersson, Heidrun Primas, Tschavgova, Martin Zettl leaders and five students of different backgrounds,containing key images of the interventions were created Radostina Radulova 19:00 / Exhibition opening ages and levels of education and experience. Oneduring the course. local student was assigned to each group as a host 5 EXHIBITION FUTURE ARCHITECTURE PLATFORM The exhibition shows five exemplary architectural The House of Architecture is part of the Future projects for five selected outskirts of the city of Graz: VII. Architecture Platform. Founded in 2015, the Future Liebenau, XIII. Gösting, XV. Wetzelsdorf, XVI. Strassgang Architecture Platform is the first pan-European platform and XVII. Puntigam. They were developed by young for architecture institutions, festivals and producers professionals from 10 emerging architectural practices to discuss ideas for the future of architecture and our and 25 national and international students during the cities and to communicate to a wider audience. Twenty Future Architecture Summer School. By making the institutions from 16 countries create an individual produced knowledge of this course accessible in this program with young, emerging creatives from various exhibition and other media we aim to raise awareness fordisciplines participating in the platform’s annual Call the built realities of these areas and inspire further publicfor Ideas. For 2018, 212 ideas by 492 creatives from debate on the issue among citizens and local authorities.43 countries were generated during the Call for Ideas The five developed projects unveil a reaction to theannounced by the platform at the beginning of the year. environment that was built with traditional means ofIn February 2018 the 25 most interesting projects were architecture in these districts. They are presented through presented at the so-called Matchmaking Conference at architectural drawings, models, images and through texts, the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, ordered by a generic grid covering one entire wall of the Slovenia. Discussions and thoughts on professional exhibition space. Each group had 12 fields of the grid at issues that evolved during this event were deepened in a its disposal to show individual strategies and methods variety of exhibitions, conferences, lectures and studios of architectural production as well as further meanings.all over Europe and documented in books and on the Its continuity conveys the extent of possibilities andweb. The Future Architecture Summer School took place ideas that architectural thinking can lay off. To make thein the context of this international network. projects comparable, each group produced a minimum of uniform material from the repertoire of classical architectural representation: A figure ground drawing ARCHITECTURAL SUMMER showing the location and expansion of the interventionIn 2018 the Architectural Summer in Graz, and the region with regard to the boundaries of the respective district,of Styria, a took place for the second time. It was initiated by site plan (1:3000) covering a large excerpt of the district the House of Architecture and invited the broader public to transport a sense of the surrounding structure and to deal with the environment that was built around us. The a detail plan and section (1:500) showing an essentialArchitectural Summer offers an opportunity to discuss part of the project. Furthermore, every group was asked and experience our designed everyday lives from the to build a model acting as a photo setting for the main most diverse perspectives and in different approaches. image of every project. A symptomatic perspective on 135 organizers (such as individual initiatives, institutions, site, near the intervention, was rebuilt in relation to their associations, educational institutions) presented during projects in order to show a possible new scenario. Those the summer in Graz and Styria at around 300 events, scenic models are exhibited on round tables, where the including exhibitions, lectures, guided tours, installations, participants were working during