All School Charrette: Loos Hoch 3
In the summer semester of 2012, the architecture department at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern not only began to develop a completely new form of teaching with the "All School Charrette", but also to implement it for the first time. During the first week of the semester, all teaching staff and students in the faculty work on a joint architectural project. As an introduction, all professors give a lecture to the students of all semesters, discussing the topic from their subject-specific perspective. A weekly task is then issued and worked on in a group of four students. The condition is that the group is made up of students from the
undergraduate and postgraduate courses so that younger semesters can learn from the experience of the higher semesters. In sixty-five groups, all architecture students were able to participate in this form of teaching at the same time. During the working week, students are supervised by the teaching staff. At the end of the week, the group results are publicly discussed and critically scrutinized by all professors together with their assistants. The group must defend itself with a spokesperson. The best work is then presented and compared in a large plenary session. The entire school is present. At the end, all the works, drawings and models are exhibited and published in a publication such as this one. This cooperative teaching model, which was tested for the first time, was a convincing success and was received with broad approval by all participants, so that it will be continued in the upcoming winter semester, extended in time, and expanded under the heading "Rethinking architectural teaching". Bernd Meyerspeer, 2012, Kaiserslautern
"Loos Hoch 3" is part of the publication published by Park Book:
LOOS ASPLUND STIRLING DIENER
Hoch 3 1-4
Four case studies of exemplary architectural design, materialization and construction in an extraordinary architectural "book".
Published by the architecture department of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.
Model photographs by Bernhard Friese
1. Edition, 2014
Four parts folded in slipcase
Total 190 pages, 247 multicolored and 294 monochrome illustrations
21 x 42 cm
ISBN 978-3-906027-69-2