Type:Module/Course/Examination
Language:English
ECTS-Credits:12.0
Scheduled in semester:3
Semester Hours per Week / Contact Hours:24.0 L / 18.0 h
Self-directed study time:342.0 h
Module coordination/Lecturers
- Prof. Dr. Daniel Stockhammer
(Modulleitung)
Curricula
Master's degree programme in Architecture (01.09.2024)Description
This optional module, allows for various kinds of research studies in collaboration with planned or ongoing re-search projects. It is closely linked to the five units of the School of Architecture and is undertaken individually or in small teams of students. Supervision consists of guiding students towards clear results in a particular area of research. The research project is reviewed before a panel of experts from the supervising research unit.
Built Heritage & Upcycling Unit:
Would you also like to be a border crosser and cross borders with us? Ernst Sommerlad (1895-1977) was one of the first architects in the Principality of Liechtenstein and brought the architectural language of Modernism here. Despite the most adverse political circumstances, he did not allow himself to be limited by borders either architecturally or physically, and also built in Germany, Vorarlberg, St. Gallen, Appenzell and Graubünden. On the occasion of a symposium at the University of Liechtenstein in the fall of 2025, we will analyze the fast and exciting oeuvre of Sommerlad under close scientific scrutiny in cooperation with the country and the OST (Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences)
Qualifications
- understand the broad issues of sustainability in a defined research and design area.
- follow a given research topic and develop it coherently into a research proposal.
- manage their own learning within a research project.
- identify a research topic and develop it coherently into a clear proposal.
- analyse data and situations under guidance, using a range of techniques and methods appropriate to the subject.
- critically evaluate evidence to support research topics, reviewing its reliability, validity and significance.
- explain competently, discuss and critique own work through oral presentation, writing or visual communi-cation.
- understand how to work with confidence in the complex organisational and community settings within which the applied methods and design processes are typically deployed.
- demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments, exercises, experiments, presenta-tions etc.
- gain confidence in their own role in collaborating with a research project.
Lectures Method
Research or design studies defined by research units and under the guidance of mentors, usually closely related to current research projects, developed individually or in groups. The offers of the research semester vary each se-mester depending on the units and are coordinated with the academic director of the Master's degree pro-gramme.
Admission Requirements
None. Recommended for the third semester of the Master´s degree programme.
Literature
Relevant reading will be made available at the beginning of the course. A list of recommended literature will be announced in the course and updated on an ongoing basis.
Exam Modalities
Minimum 75% compulsory attendance, continuous assessment and regular meetings with instructors.
The final grade is calculated according to the weighting of the following com-ponents: final submission (80%) and oral presentation (20%).
Comments
Individual appointments will be set with the tutor; group projects are also possible, as well as group work with individual submissions;
start, final submission and presentation can be individually
defined with the respective tutors.
Registration via the intranet of the University of Liechtenstein is not binding and is only valid in combination with the written consent of the respective unit. This applies to all Individual Electives in the Master's degree programme in Architecture.
Exams
- Research Semester: The Border Crosser Sommerlad (BH&U) (WS 24/25, bestätigt)