SPATIAL INTERVENTION, REGENSBURG

This excursion-based course is a core foundational part of the Architecture studies at TUM, in the 4th semester of the BA studies.

Students spend a week exploring the relationship between space, perception, and artistic intervention within the historic fabric of Regensburg. The course centers on collaborative, site-responsive practices that engage architecture through sensory observation, artistic research, and spatial experimentation. Working in groups, students will be assigned a unique location within the city, such as a church attic, historic interior, city wall tower, or sacred nave, and develop an intervention that responds directly to the atmosphere, memory, and material presence of the site.

The course offers a dual-perspective learning experience through the collaboration of the teams of the Chair of Art in Architecture and Chair of Building History. In parallel to working on the artistic intervention, students work on a technical drawing and analytical exercise within the same historic site they are investigating artistically. This parallel approach encourages students to move between intuitive, sensory forms of understanding and precise architectural observation, creating a dialogue between artistic interpretation and technical analysis.

 Drawing from methods developed in the foundation course “Artistic Methods,” participants create an artwork in a medium of their choice, including installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, sound, performance, film, or hybrid forms. The course encourages experimental approaches that trace the unseen layers of history, perception, and spatial experience through artistic intervention.