Faculty o Architecture - University o Ljubljana New elective subject:
The Architecture of Virtual Space dr. Or Ettlinger This new subject combines two distinct studies which proved to be complementary: a theoretical analysis o the elusive idea o virtual space, and a detailed study o works o pictorial art that are rich in architectural content. The subject will propose a theoretical model or defning virtual space itsel, in a lucid, down-to-earth, and systematic manner. This model will be presented through historical examples o architectural projects that were designed, planned, and intended rom their outset to be part o an image, while generating its visible space. Thus, it links the abstract idea o virtual space to the tangible experience o space that is available through images, whatever their medium may be. more...
Technical information This new elective subject (izbirni predmet) will be available at the Faculty o Architecture during the spring semester, starting February 2009. Lectures will be in English. It is open to any student who is interested in the topic. Third and ourth year students can take it as one o their elective subjects. Students rom other years are welcome as well, yet they will have to take it in addition to their reular program. The only requirements are an open mind, a healthy curiosity, and a willingness to actively explore new felds. Technically, this subject is not yet ofcial, so students will only be able to receive the credit points or it retroactively, ater it gets ormally author ized (probably next year). However, it will already ully unction as a subject, with lectures, exercises, and grades. Either way, ormal or not, it is an opportunity to join a unique course which is not being taught in any other university in the world. The lectures and the exercises are likely to be quite un, yet this does not mean that this is going to be an easy course. For example, you might be asked to play video games, or watch music videos, etc. (you can choose your preerred medium), and search or examples that have a lot o architecture in them. You will then be asked to produce a detailed analysis o what you fnd using the principles studied in the lectures. Additionally, by agreement with pro. dr. Fedja Košir, students o this subject who will also study his Architectural Theory subject, will be encouraged to produce research work which combines these two subjects: to analyze architectural designs in works o art and media using principles o architectural theory. Students who will do so will be able to receive credits or it in both subjects. The time and place or this subject will depend on the number o students who will join it and the years to which they belong. The larger the number o students, the easier it will be to get a convenient time slot in the timetable. If you are interested in studying this subject, please send an email to
[email protected] until 26.11.2008. Please write your name, your year o studies, and i you wish, also add a ew words about your own particular interests in the subject.
About the lecturer dr. Or Ettlinger is an assistant proessor and senior researcher o virtual architecture and media theory at the Faculty o Architecture o the University o Ljubljana, where he obtained his doctorate. His exploration o virtual architecture and virtual space has spanned both ormal education and proessional experience across the multiple disciplines rom which these emerging felds derive. This fteen-year journey has ranged rom architecture to computer science, rom product design to inormation design, rom classical drawing to digital imaging, and rom art history to media theory.
