UGLY DUCKLINGS
RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Art History, Research Seminar with Dr. Birgit Schillak-Hammers, in Cooperation with photographer Prof. Roman Bezjak, HSBI University of Applied Sciences and Arts, MSc in Architecture 2022/2023
This seminar proposed an investigation of the power of images in the context of the assessment of architecture and its preservation. The seminar touched issues of media theory, theoretical and art historical classification, aesthetics and sustainability in architecture. The attendees were taught through lectures, a photography workshop, and a final exhibition and publication, which were sponsored by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning and Regional Planning.
Publication:
Bunte L., Schillak-Hammers B. (eds.), "Hässliche Entlein. Nachhaltigkeit als Problem der Ästhetik." Aachen: RWTH Aachen University, 2022. ISBN: 978-3-00-073113-6
Exhibition “‘Ugly Ducklings.’ Sustainability as an Aesthetic Problem.” as part of the Zukunft Bau Pop-Up Campus in Aachen 2022., Images by David Herrmann
further publications:
Bunte L., Schillak-Hammers B., ‘Hässliche Entlein’: Nachhaltigkeit als Problem des Ästhetik, in: Zukunft Bau Pop-up Campus Aachen, edited by Guido Hagel, Arnd Rose, and Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung, 114–19. Bonn: Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR) im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBR), 2023. ISBN: 978-3-9865504-9-3