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Final Conference "Tacit Knowledge in Architecture"

Tacit knowledge is a key characteristic of architecture culture. It plays a central role in the conception, design, construction and appropriation of buildings and cities. It characterizes architectural education, distinguishes the cultures of design offices and typifies the collaborations between different actors, including craftsmen, engineers and architects. Despite this central role that tacit knowledge assumes […]

Exhibition "Unausgesprochenes Wissen / Unspoken Knowledge / Le (savoir) non-dit"

Tacit knowledge is a key characteristic of architecture culture. It plays a central role in the conception, design, construction and appropriation of buildings and cities. It characterizes architectural education, distinguishes the cultures of design offices and typifies the collaborations between different actors, including craftsmen, engineers and architects. Despite this central role that tacit knowledge assumes […]

Insights from Architekturzentrum, Vienna
The second part of the Antwerp Foundational Meeting was hosted at the University of Antwerp in Belgium

Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing

‘TACK / Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing’ is a newly funded Innovative Training Network, as part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions within the European Framework Program Horizon 2020. It trains young researchers in understanding the specific knowledge that architects use when designing buildings and cities. TACK gathers ten major academic institutions, three leading cultural architectural institutions as well as nine distinguished architecture design offices. Collaboratively these partners offer an innovative PhD training program on the nature of tacit knowledge in architecture, resulting in ten parallel PhD projects.

NEWS
The TACK Conference and TACK Exhibition took place between 19-21 June 2023 in Zürich, July 13, 2023

  After three intensive years of research and exchanges, the TACK project reached its last big milestone: the TACK Conference welcomed 150 people at ETH Zürich to discuss tacit knowledge in architecture and its various forms. Read more

Infra-thin Magick: An Extended Reality (XR) Ceremony, by Paula Strunden, June 5, 2023

Paula Strunden guides into the space between physical and virtual reality in her Extended Reality (XR) installation *Infra-thin Magick* presented as part of the TACK Exhibition “Unausgesprochenes Wissen / Unspoken Knowledge / Le (savoir) non-dit”, from 19 to 21 June 2023 at ETH Zürich. Read more

The TACK Publishing Platform is Live!, May 21, 2023

  On 11th May 2023, the TACK Publishing Platform went live! Please share the link in your networks! On 21 June 2023, during the Final Conference, Helen Thomas will explain the process that informed the creation of this platform. Read more