BI - Talk Prof. Anika Neubauer

Concepts and Communication

Date: November 19, 2025, 11:00-12:30

Place: BI, Studio 4

Speaker: Prof. Anika Neubauer

Abstract: The lecture explores the role of graphic media in interdisciplinary architectural communication. Drawing on communication and media theory, it examines the sender–receiver model and introduces the medium as a carrier of information. Within this framework, visual architectural media are discussed through the concept of visual literacy, emphasizing the ability to read, interpret, and produce visual messages in architectural contexts.

Using examples from recent teaching and professional projects, the lecture demonstrates how shifts in modes of media representation can foster the development of an individual design attitude. The transformation from analog to digital, from image to diagram, and from representation to process visualization reveals how media shape architectural thinking and design strategies.

Building on these insights, the lecture presents the publication series Landscape for Architects as an interface medium combining minimal graphics and concise text to communicate complex spatial ideas across diverse audiences; from students to practitioners. Finally, the lecture introduces the speaker’s graphic contributions to the German Pavilion at the 19th Architecture Biennale in Venice, reflecting on how visual abstraction and clarity can support cross-disciplinary understanding in contemporary architectural discourse.

Short-Bio: Anika Neubauer is Professor of Architecture at the Faculty of Design at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Her teaching and research centres around architectural communication, presentation techniques and design. She is co-author and illustrator of the book series ‘Kiefer | Neubauer - Landscape for Architects’ and is doing her doctorate at the Department of Architecture | TU Braunschweig (Prof. Endres + Prof. Kiefer) on the use of minimal graphics as a tool for visual interdisciplinary planning discourse. As founder of the architecture collective ON/OFF and the concept studio ANICOWORKING, her work focusses on the interfaces between architecture, urbanism and society.