Maarten Delbeke: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2023

Name	Herr Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Lehrgebiet	Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur
Adresse	Geschichte und Theorie der Arch. ETH Zürich, HIL D 70.6 Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND
Telefon	+41 44 633 01 89
E-Mail	maarten.delbeke@gta.arch.ethz.ch
URL	https://delbeke.arch.ethz.ch/
Departement	Architektur
Beziehung	Ordentlicher Professor

Nummer	Titel	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
052-0804-00L	Architekturgeschichte und -theorie II	2 KP	2V + 2U	M. Delbeke, T. Avermaete, L. Stalder, P. Ursprung
Kurzbeschreibung	Einführung und Überblick zur Architekturgeschichte und -Theorie von der Renaissance bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. (Prof. Dr. M. Delbeke) Einführung in Methoden und Werkzeuge der Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte (Prof. Dr. M. Delbeke, Prof. Dr. L. Stalder, Prof. Dr. P. Ursprung, Prof. Dr. T. Avermaete)
Lernziel	Erwerb grundlegenden Wissens in Architekturgeschichte und -theorie bzw. der Methoden und Werkzeuge der architekturbezogenen Forschung. Fähigkeit, wesentliche Gegenstände und Debatten der Architektur von den im Kurs behandelten Epochen und geographischen Gegenden zu bestimmen. Erwerb eines Bewusstseins und der methodischen Herangehensweisen für ein historisch sensibles Verständnis der gebauten Umwelt. Erwerb der Werkzeuge für die Fundierung eigenen architektonischen Schaffens in der historischen, theoretischen und kritischen Forschung.
Inhalt	Die Vorlesung Architekturgeschichte und -theorie II bietet einen zeitlichen und thematischen Überblick über die europäische Architekturpraxis und -theorie vom 15. bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Thematische Vorlesungen über zentrale Fragen einer jeweiligen Epoche werden vertieft mit detaillierten Analysen einzelner historischer Bauten. Themen umfassen das Aufkommen und die Entwicklung des Vitruvianismus in Architektur und -theorie bis ins 19. Jahrhundert und damit verbundene Themen wie die Herausbildung des Architektenberufs; Medien architektonischen Entwerfens und Bauens (Zeichnungen, Modelle, Baumaterialien); Formen und Medien der Verbreitung und Einflussnahme (Klein-Architekturen, Bildmedien); Bautypen (wie Palazzo und Villa); Fragen von Schönheuit und Ornamentik; Fragen der Auftraggeberschaft (wie der Päpste in Rom); das Verhältnis von Bauten zur Stadt (beispielsweise die Entwicklung europäischer Hauptstädte); Positionen gegenüber der Geschichte (Ursprungsmythen, Historismus); das Problem des Monuments. Der Kurs Grundlagen der Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur II umfasst verschiedene Teile die sich jeweils einem bestimmten Forschungsbereich der Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte widmen. (1) Historiographie (Geschichtsschreibung) der Architektur (M. Delbeke) (2) Medien der Architektur (L. Stalder) (3) Architektur und Kunst (P. Ursprung) (4) Städtebau und die Commons (T. Avermaete)
Literatur	Literaturangaben und Handzettel werden im Laufe des Semesters zur Verfügung gestellt.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	Für die Vorlesung Architekturgeschichte und -theorie II müssen sich StudentInnen in selbständigem Studium grundlegendes Wissen der kanonischen Geschichte europäischer Architektur erwerben.
052-0830-23L	History of Art and Architecture: Special Topics - Marxist Architectural Histories Not eligible as a Compulsory GESS Elective for students of D-ARCH. The number of participants is limited. Enrollment on agreement with the lecturer only!	2 KP	2G	M. Critchley, M. Delbeke
Kurzbeschreibung	Marxist Architectural Histories How do we write history? Just as Marxism posed the most profound challenge to politics in the 20th century, it also confronted the way history could be told. We will uncover the origins of Marxist architectural history and the heated debates which surrounded its authors.
Lernziel	- To give an account of a number of different approaches to Marxist architectural history. - To understand some of the debates surrounding Marxist histories of art and architecture. - To develop one’s own critical position towards architectural history.
Inhalt	Marxist Architectural Histories How do we write history? Just as Marxism posed the most profound challenge to politics in the 20th century, it also confronted the way history could be told. We will uncover the origins of Marxist architectural history and the heated debates which surrounded its authors. We will look at the texts of Marxists, of those against Marxism and of those who while not Marxist were nevertheless part of a general adoption of Marxist ideas within art and architectural history. Frederick Antal wrote “Methods of art history, just as pictures, can be dated.” And many of these texts are clearly historically contingent. Antal himself was a revolutionary, becoming an official in Béla Kun’s short lived Hungarian Soviet Republic and his colleague the British art historian Anthony Blunt, was a Communist spy. In contrast, the conservative scholar Ernst Gombrich who opposed Marxist history, was closely aligned with neoliberal philosophy and economics. It was in history where their political positions played out. Participants will be encouraged to think through these debates and to question these positions with current ideas on race, gender and other forms of critical discourse. A reflexive need to critique historical writing is perhaps the most enduring legacy of Marxism’s entrance into architectural history. For any questions regarding the course please contact Matthew Critchley: matthew.critchley@gta.arch.ethz.ch
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	Not eligible as a Compulsory GESS Elective for students of D-ARCH.
056-0210-10L	MAS-Arbeit	15 KP	21D	S. Schindler Kilian, A. J. Bideau, M. Delbeke
Kurzbeschreibung	Benotete Master Thesis, mit der die Studierenden ihre Kompetenz nachweisen, ein individuell gewähltes Forschungsthema selbständig zu erarbeiten. Umfang: 90.000-120.000 Zeichen.
Lernziel	Kompetenz-Nachweis, ein individuell gewähltes Forschungsthema selbständig zu erarbeiten.
Inhalt	Ein individuell gewähltes Forschungsthema wird selbständig erarbeitet. Umfang: 90.000-120.000 Zeichen.
063-0316-23L	History of Art and Architecture VI: Antiquity and Medieval	2 KP	2V	C. Rachele, M. Delbeke
Kurzbeschreibung	This lecture studies Antiquity and the Middle Ages through their reception since the Renaissance. We will investigate the role of history for architects then and now through analysis of how architecture has been defined in relationship to the antique and medieval past. Short readings and class participation required.
Lernziel	Deepen basic knowledge, improve ability to critically analyze architectural history texts, develop humanities-based reasoning and argument skills.
Inhalt	In the Renaissance, the practice of architecture fundamentally transformed into the design-based discipline it is now largely assumed to be. Both then and especially in nineteenth- and twentieth-century architectural history, this change was understood in opposition to “good” ancient and “bad” medieval models. This course investigates Antiquity and the Middle Ages as variously fashioned in the mind of the architect and the architectural historian. How does our understanding of these periods inform our thinking about the use of history for the contemporary architect? This course is a combination lecture and discussion class. Occasional at-home reading and active in-class participation are required; the final assignment is a written research assignment (due during the exam period).
Literatur	Scans of the readings will be made available on the course website.
063-0802-23L	History and Theory of Architecture: New Brutalism	2 KP	2V	M. Delbeke, L. Stalder
Kurzbeschreibung	The course offers an advanced introduction into the practices and debates of architectural history and theory.
Lernziel	Basic knowledge of the history and theory of the architecture.
Inhalt	Maarten Delbeke, Rococo This lecture series explores and interprets the rococo church architecture of what is now Southern Germany, by examining its religious and political context, by proposing a close reading of a number of case-studies, and by offering a thematic analysis of some of its key features. The course is intended at once as a thorough introduction and an open-ended process of discovery, where preliminary observations will be weighed and discussed collectively. Laurent Stalder: What is new about New Brutalism? LIVESTREAM/RECORDINGS: https://www.video.ethz.ch/lectures/d-arch/2022/spring/063-0802-22L Taking the English avant-garde as an example, the lecture examines the deep transformations in architecture during the postwar period. The focus lies on the question of performance in architecture, from constructive questions (e.g., prefabrication), structural challenges (e.g., theory of plasticity), physical properties (e.g., isolation), infrastructural changes (e.g., pipes and machines), to spatial challenges and their aesthetic consequences for people, architecture, and the environment. The goal of the lecture is to use the recent architectural history to shed light on different concepts still relevant for contemporary architecture.
063-0856-23L	Subject Semester FS23 (Fachsemester) in the Field of History and Theory in Architecture (gta) Findet dieses Semester nicht statt. Enrolment only after consultation with the professor (meetings as required and after consultation with the chair). A student can only register once for a "Fachsemester" during the Master studies! The application deadline is Wednesday January 25, 2023, 8 p.m. You will receive a message about acceptance or rejection for the subject semester by Wednesday. February 1, 2023, 2 p.m. at the latest. Students who have been rejected have the opportunity to choose a design class.	14 KP	29A	M. Delbeke
Kurzbeschreibung	The theme of this History Research Studio is "'Exotic' Art and Architecture in Switzerland": We will discuss issues of exoticism, orientalism and other forms of “othering”, race and national stereotypes, colonial heritages and other related topics. The Studio aims at mapping different forms of Exoticism in buildings, but also material objects or ephemeral events of the early-modern period.
Lernziel	Working together, we will map “exotic” art and architecture in Switzerland, by identifying and collecting different case studies. You will collaborate on in-depth research through historical materials and methods (field research, archival material, secondary bibliography), and you will develop individual projects in whichever medium fits your interests and your topic (text, drawing, image, video). The outcomes will be presented together at the end of the semester, and can have different forms: essays, drawings or other visual materials, maps or guides, models, films or exhibition concepts. The course will be organized in weekly meetings: We will begin with some introductory lectures and reading sessions, but we will mostly focus on discussing your findings and work, sharpening your tools of analysis and fostering the development of each project. Rather than individual ‘desk crits’, we will discuss each project collectively, in a round table, to enable mutual feedback and a more collective exchange of ideas. As each project develops, there will also be individual feedback sessions.
Inhalt	Ever since Columbus’ ship reached the Americas and the Ottoman dynasty conquered Istanbul in the 15th century, Europeans have been obsessed with depicting, describing, understanding or spectacularizing the extra-European “other”. Whether fuelled by fascination or fear, this preoccupation generated a cornucopia of exoticizing imagery in books, art, architecture and household objects: From drawings of south-American “savage” natives and their houses in geography atlases, to pavilions in the form of “Turkish kiosks”, “mosques” and “tents” in the gardens of European aristocrats; and from “Chinese” vases, wall-papers or even entire rooms inside European palaces, to entire “African villages” in national expositions. Coined sometime around the 16th century and rooted in the Greek word “έξω” (i.e. “outside”), the word “exotic” summarizes the preoccupation of early-modern Europeans with defining a distant, peripheral or external “other”. This preoccupation runs parallel to the centuries-long anxiety for delineating the centre of a (European or national) “self”: The image of “exotic” places, cultures and peoples grew side-by-side with the ideological construct of a collective “European” identity, and the invention of national identities and traditions. Switzerland was also entangled in such acts of othering: As recent research has shown, the Swiss confederation did not technically have colonies, but numerous Swiss individuals participated in colonial networks, and partook in the production of exoticist imagery, art and architecture. A recent exhibition (Exotic? – Regarder l'ailleurs en Suisse au siècle des Lumières, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, 2020-21) has demonstrated that by the 18th century Swiss households were filled with “exotic” objects and images, often placed alongside folkloric idealizations of the internal “other”: the Swiss countryside, its inhabitants and their vernacular houses. By the 19th century, such exoticizing tendencies fuelled the construction of “Human Zoos” and other public displays of exotica (from objects to living humans) in Zurich and other major Swiss cities (as Rea Brändle has shown in Wildfremd Hautnah: Zürcher Völkerschauen und ihre Schauplätze 1835–1964. Rotpunktverlag, 2013). Many of these buildings and objects are still visible in the public space of Swiss cities or in the displays of ethnography museums; others are hidden in archives. The aim of this course will be to unearth such evidence and map out these objects, images and buildings in Switzerland and beyond. The aim of this mapping will be two-fold: - First, to understand these phenomena in their own historical context, and to understand the Where, What and Why: Where did Exoticism manifest itself (in what kinds of spaces or circumstances)? What themes and forms did it favour (what kinds of images and in what styles: figurative, allegorical, caricaturesque, idealized)? And finally, why did different people in different times and circumstances reconstruct the image or form of “exotic” peoples and objects in their houses or cities? - Secondly, to compare these historical phenomena to contemporary debates about race, colonialism and cultural appropriation in Switzerland and beyond; from the toppling of colonialist statues to tracing the provenance of museum collections, and from Black Lives Matter to discussions about Indigenous land rights, migration and displacement.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	A student can only register once for a "Fachsemester" during the Master studies! Places for this Subject Semester are limited. If you are interested in taking part, please send us an email with a 300-word motivation letter and a 300-word description of your topic of interest* to: professur.delbeke@gta.arch.ethz.ch *If you already have a specific case study in mind, please describe what this is. If not, you can describe a general idea or area of interest, and we will help you find a more specific object of study during the course sessions. For more information on the course, see the corresponding page on the website of the chair: https://delbeke.arch.ethz.ch/courses
064-0004-23L	Advanced Topics in History and Theory of Architecture: Read into it: Architecture through literature	3 KP	2K	M. Delbeke, T. Avermaete, L. Stalder, P. Ursprung
Kurzbeschreibung	This seminar avails itself of the complexities and richness of pre-1850 literary sources on architecture to explore and discuss some fundamental methodological questions: who writes about architecture and art, and why? What is a legitimate historical source? How can we gain access to it? How do we develop an at once historical and critical approach? How does mediation generate interpretation? Etc.
Lernziel	Acquiring insight in the different possible research methods available to PhD-researchers in the fields of the history and theory of art and architecture.
Inhalt	The course will alternate bi-weekly reading seminars with individual work on a selection of historical literary sources on architecture. Participants will be asked to work on sources proposed by the lecturer, and to bring sources of their own choice.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	In-person meetings on alternate weeks.