In the “Basic Lectures” module in the Autumn semester of 2024, students in the Master’s in Architecture explored the language surrounding architecture. Starting from individually proposed word-chains, they realized a video essay, connecting records from Lucerne with their own different cultural backgrounds. Quotes from relevant critical texts and from their own considerations contribute to integrate and comment the visual takes.

Module leader Alberto Alessi writes: “Abstraction, Construction, Decoration, Expression, Invention, Organism, Permanence, Precision, Progress, Standard, Tradition, …: What is the value and the intention of such words in the world of architecture? Are they everywhere and by everybody meant and understood the same? Should they? How do they come to be? Are they of tangible or intangible nature? An individual or social result? What roles do places, forms, conventions, educations, intentions and expectations play?”

Harmony of Expressions in the Realm of Architecture

by Fedor Boshakov, Elena Patel and Hussain Wanas

The infinite loop

by Simona Galiová, Eléonore Susse and Tereza Ungerová