Fachbereich Architektur
Research at the Department of Architecture
Our department carries out research into architecture and cities as structural, technological and artistic manifestations of society, characterised by history and culture. Engineering expertise is used to develop visions of the future for – and with – society by utilising design and planning methodologies and insights gained in the humanities. Building culture is thus not only the result of sustainable design but rather the requirement for the sustainability of our constructed environment in the future.
Latest news on the research
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Architektur und Klima – Sind wir noch zu retten?
9. Tag der Forschung am Fachbereich Architektur
Die stetig wachsende Verbrennung fossiler Energien und großflächige Abholzung der Regenwälder verschärft den Klimawandel, bedroht die Lebensgrundlage und Ernährungssicherheit von Millionen von Menschen sowie die biologische Vielfalt, erzeugt Naturkatastrophen, Armut und Ungleichheit. Der 9. Tag der Forschung stellt Architektur und Stadtplanung in den Fokus potenzieller Lösungen der globalen Herausforderungen. Keynote Speaker ist Daniel Barber, Professor an der University of Sydney.
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Unite! joint international workshop on Sustainable Urban Regeneration
Our students took part in an international workshop in Grenoble, France
From 14 to 18 November, three Unite! partner universities–TU Darmstadt, Aalto University and Université Grenoble Alpes (where Grenoble INP – UGA operates) gave their students an opportunity to join the international and interdisciplinary workshop they developed, which focused on “Sustainable Urban Regeneration”.
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PRINT!Architecture
now on sale!
Turning ideas into successful and disruptive technologies is an extremely context-sensitive process. Place, time, resources, and parallel innovations in adjacent fields need to fall together to ignite innovation. This book portrays such a moment in time when Additive Manufacturing (AM) made the leap from the scale of product design to the dimension of entire buildings. Within a few years, AM matured from basic research to industrial applications in the Built Environment. The Built Environment – Additive Manufacturing (BE-AM) symposium, organized by the editors of this book, has been accompanying and moderating this process since 2015. The series of events did not only show the immense velocity of development, but it also revealed the vast amount of ingredients that need to be part of the recipe. This book seeks to shed light on those ingredients and how they together form novel technologies. While the presented projects in this book are witnesses of their time, they also form nodes within a larger network that spans over time, place, disciplines, technologies, and the demands of a broader socio-economical context. The time has come for AM to enter and disrupt the fields of architecture, engineering, and construction. This book aims at telling the stories and presenting the demonstrators, prototypes, and finally the projects that paved the road for an idea turning into a technology.
