Seminar »Landscapes of Health in Vienna around 1900. Architectures and Spaces of Convalescence«

Joint Seminar of TU Wien and BOKU Wien focusses on the production of »healthy spaces«

Update July 2020: We published a booklet on the seminar’s topics (https://kunstgeschichte.tuwien.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/Wiener-Gesundheitslandschaften-und-Architekturen-der-Genesung-um-1900.pdf)!

Update March 2020: We moved the whole seminar into the digital space!

In the summer term 2020, this joint seminar is devoted to Viennese landscapes of health around 1900. Through the study of prominent examples of architecture and landscape design for recovery, we explore a specific look at the history of architecture in Vienna. We examine the development of different health and architecture concepts that were always closely interwoven with social changes and at the same time reflect technological and scientific progress. We aim for an overview of the architectural and historical development of Viennese health architecture and landscape design around 1900. By analyzing selected buildings, participants should learn to research building history, to grasp the typology of the respective building, to think about materials, construction, and equipment and to describe it with the correct architectonic terms. The history of the healthy landscape is revealed through the history of the hospital as a building type and through landscape design, which is why both will be contextualized and studied.

A collaboration of the Institute for Landscape Architecture (ILA) of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and the Research Unit Art History of the Technical University Vienna.

Staff:

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Ulrike Krippner

Maria Harmann, BSc.

Univ.Ass. Dr.phil. Oliver Sukrow, M.A.