Contemporary architecture unfolds a huge variety of different thematic emphases, design approaches and forms of materialisation. Within this master course, students practice by understanding, explaining, interpreting and analysing how in contemporary architectural design practices approaches, concepts, developments, detailing, construction methods materialization are assembled and thus buildings are made. Based on a broad understanding of constructing it is retraced through selected case studies how architectural projects were made in non-linear and contingent design processes that were shaped through heterogeneous elements for instance interests, choices, building regulations, aesthetic preferences, costs, different scales, timeframes, materialities, etc.

Supervisors: Maarten Willems, Torsten Schröder.