Dear Students,
on 21 and 22 November, the ‘Climate Festival for the Bauwende’ will take place at STATION BERLIN at Gleisdreieck. Students can register for free at STUDI100. At the Climate Festival, you will also find our Windturm 2.0. The location is very beautiful, right at Gleisdreieck Park in the old Postbahnhof.

This documentation shows the content of the summer semester 2024 of the Architecture degree program of Department IV.

Like every year, architecture students from our Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology traveled to Copenhagen for a week to get creative with 100 students from around the world and from other disciplines. In a so-called “Design Charette”, a week-long workshop, students from different professional and cultural backgrounds came together with representatives of the Copenhagen community and local organizations to develop innovative solutions for current and complex issues in an intensive, collaborative workshop.

The Master's module Historical Constructions and Building Conservation will present some of the impressive results of students from the last two semesters at the Transferale 2024. The exhibition will take place at Silent Green - Kulturquartier - in Berlin, Wedding on September 25 and 26, 2024. The module focused on the biography and structural reuse of existing buildings. Students investigated the adaptations and conversions of buildings that are in their second or third life cycle and visualized these changes through building age mapping and plans. Models, photographs and textual descriptions of the respective atmosphere will be exhibited at the Transferale 2024.

Visions for the future of the Elbtower in Hamburg // This semester, as part of the NØEW FUTURE project, students of Prof. Volker Halbach from the Nuremberg Institute of Technology and Prof. Rüdiger Ebel from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology will be examining the phenomenon of “building in existing structures” using the example of the Elbtower in Hamburg, both analytically and in terms of design. The aim is to identify possibilities and ways in which the existing partially completed shell construction of the Elbtower can be programmatically and conceptually led into a new future. We warmly invite you to the exhibition opening as part of the semester project.

Vernissage 19.07.2024, 7:00 p.m.
Finissage 29.08.2024, 7:00 p.m.
open Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Silk scarf, mulberry tree leaf and Huguenot cross: The photographs in the exhibition visualize silk as a journey through time and homage to baroque still lifes in order to visualize an enriching cultural transfer. The collages thematize the green contemporary witnesses and living monuments in Berlin, partly playfully with AI and partly documentarily mapping them. In vitro plants point to the future.

Safe the Date August 24, 2024 from 6 pm at the Hugenottenmuseum for the Long Night of Museums. / The pop-up exhibition will be on display at the Hugenottenmuseum from August 24, 2024 to October 12, 2024.

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We warmly invite you to the second lecture of our lecture series “Young Architecture”! This time we are delighted to welcome the young Berlin architectural office Archiformus. The lecture will take place on Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 6:30 pm and will be followed by another casual after-lecture.

Come along and be inspired by innovative ideas and exciting stories. We are looking forward seeing you!

Kind regards, your Bautrieb-Team.

Dear all...

on Tuesday | 11.06.2024 | at 6:00 pm Prof. Hans-Christof Ernst would like to invite you to his farewell lecture in the lecture hall H1 and a following small get-together in front of the „Haus Bauwesen“.

“I would be very pleased to welcome you ... Kind regards”

Christof Ernst

This documentation shows the content of the winter semester 2023/24 of the Architecture degree program of Department IV.

Students of the first semester (summer semester 2024) have analyzed a given building in Berlin and explored its characteristics in teams as an introductory task for the semester. Inspired by the architecture, the students designed individual versions of the Berlin stool, developed by Van Bo Le-Mentzel, that were intended to refer to the respective building at first glance.

During the winter semester 2022/23, students of a Master's module in the history of architecture and architectural theory created a so-called “Book of References” as a collaborative project.

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This documentation shows the content of the winter semester 2022/23 of the Architecture degree program of Department IV.

The student group BAUTRIEB is once again organizing an exciting and informative lecture in the „Haus Bauwesen“ on the BHT campus. Under the title “Appreciating, interweaving, superimposing”, we welcome the architect and research associate of the Bern University of Applied Sciences Florian Berner.

In a collaborative project in the summer semester of 2022, Master's students from the architecture department of Department IV at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences designed a new high-rise building for the future AI Center of the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

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In June, after a long break, BAUTRIEB is once again organizing a series of lectures in the „Haus Bauwesen“ on the BHT campus. Under the headline “Architekt:innen schaut ma' über'n Tellerrand”, lectures on the topic of architects who no longer do architecture will take place at 7:00 pm. Among others, we are delighted to welcome a guest lecturer from Istanbul.

24 Master's students from the M10a and M16a modules visited the Botanical Garden Berlin, where they travelled around the world, looked at biodiversity and found inspiration for color concepts and mood boards. The day excursion is part of the interdisciplinary agritecture research and teaching collaboration between the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (BHT) and Humboldt University Berlin (HU).

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Designs for green follies and green campus houses created in the B34, M1b and M10a modules will be presented open air on the North Campus of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on August 16 and 19, 2021 at 4 to 6 pm. The works were supervised in interdisciplinary cooperation by Susanne Junker, Tino Brüllke and Marcel Robischon/HU.

The project incorporates audio-visual reflections on remembering conflicts, civil unrest, war, atrocities, destruction and death with the use of black and white photography, graphics, film, literature, music and sound in digital collages and montages.

© Florian Schwaighofer

Design and urban planning lab

We are “stadtalswohnzimmer” - a group of architecture students who organized - together with the professors - an excursion to Japan in September 2019. The focus of this trip was to explore the urban architectural language with its influence on public space and its inhabitants.

Design and urban planning lab

As part of the module B01 in the winter semester 2019/20, students created impressive and unique models from old cardboard boxes.

This Baunetz_Wissen_Beitrag was created in collaboration with Prof. Susanne Junker and the expertise of Prof. Dr. Eddy Widjaja, for project work and realizations with bamboo in Colombia and Southeast Asia - “The Work of Wiryanto Dewobroto”.

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Design and urban planning lab

“Regardless of technical, physical and medical aspects, windows and daylight play a decisive role in the mood, ambience, articulation and experience of space.” - Baunetz_Wissen

The BAUTRIEB lecture series is an independent initiative launched by students with the aim of creating space within the university to gain impulses and impressions in and around the field of architecture and to discuss these with guests, students and all interested parties.

Design and urban planning lab

Photographs of student projects from the modules B34 and M10a have made it into the INSAM magazine.

Design and urban planning lab

Model photos of the design results from module B01 from the winter semester 2019/20.

With pleasure we, the FB IV, would like to invite you to the following event on our semester topic ‘Democracy’: Democracy Forum 01. For this purpose, we would like to meet on Wednesday November 27th at 5:00 p.m. in the learning room E01, ‘Kleine Mensa’ and discuss the core question ‘We are the city?’ on the basis of various keynote speeches.

Every year, the BauWerke Excellence Prize is awarded to bachelor's theses that impress with their design quality, technical and constructive execution, and their presentation. Does this sound like your thesis? Then take part!

Submission: Monday, November 25, 2024, 10:00–15:00, Room D 331 (Bauwesen building) to Ms. Donner
Jury meeting: Thursday, November 28, 2024
Award ceremony: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 – The location will be announced

In the winter semester 2023/24, students of the Master's module in Building History and Architectural Theory at the BHT focused on the topic of “Architecture as Critical Practice”. The aim was to view architecture as a socially and politically responsible instrument that responds to social injustices.
Through intensive, research-based learning and collective discussions, they developed central concepts that were summarized in a final brochure. Each term was contextualized, critically questioned and linked to a specific building project in order to illustrate the transformative power of architecture.

We would like to congratulate the students Jan Kottkamp and Leon Schnitzler for winning the first prize of the Campus Masters for their bachelor thesis “Kollektiv Kaufhof - Transformation and Revitalization of the former Galeria Kaufhof in Halle Saale”.

Further information on the project can be found here.

The time has finally come: the Windturm 2.0 has opened in the „Haus Bauwesen“. Come by and get a coffee every day between 3-5 pm.

In order to be able to build the wind tower / coffee bar (DesignBuild Project FBIV Architecture degree program) for the „Haus Bauwesen“, the students who will build the tower will be working in the model making workshop from 03.06.2024 to 07.06.2024. As the components take up much more space on a much larger scale than the otherwise very small model components, we unfortunately have to close the workshop for this period from 3.6.24 to 7.6.24 for the usual model making.

The students Angie Tatiana Bautista Forero, Claudius Pompe and Jonas Schoeller won the “Special Prize for Cooperation” in the field of structural engineering with their work “Spree Metropons” in the renowned AIV Schinkel-Competition 2024 “über:morgen” organized by the AIV Architects' and Engineers' Association of Berlin-Brandenburg. The prize was donated by the Association of Consulting Engineers (VBI).

Instagram. Look forward to exciting projects, student research projects and announcements about architecture at BHT.

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This documentation shows the content of the summer semester 2023 of the Architecture degree program of Department IV.

COOL TOWN will be the meta- topic of the architecture seminars at the BHT in the winter semester 2023. We will go on a search, investigate problems and outline solutions.

The results will be presented on February 1st, 2024 as part of a joint exhibition across all modules.

Wallpaper doors are not only used in baroque castles as visually inconspicuous and camouflaged doors with an aura of mystery and concealment, but also in Ali Baba, the Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones, writes Prof. Dr. Susanne Junker in Baunetzwissen.

Link to Baunetzwissen

Once again, a new international workshop series has been launched. For the “Casa Viva” project, BHT Master's students are being invited to take part in a two-week workshop in which they will work together with students from Cuba, Mexico and Spain to investigate and develop individual usage and living concepts with new forms of living in the context of an existing building project.

Prof. Dr. Susanne Junker and Prof. Dr. Marcel Robischon met at a workshop on green urban planning and created the interdisciplinary subject “Agriculture”, in which architecture students learn to consider green spaces and building materials when planning their projects. This can help to transform even dark, unpleasant places in the city into pleasant green oases.

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Is it okay to freely help yourself to the wealth of architectural history? The answer to this question has long been clear – and everywhere. Prof. Dr. Eva Maria Froschauer wrote an article on the subject in the journal Bauwelt. 
Photo: Bauwelt, Florian Thein

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This seminar teaches the basics of communication and presentation, but above all, it is about communicating – practice makes perfect!

From April 21 to June 2, 2023, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. in room D306

Register at: veronika.brugger(at)bht-berlin.de

The model-building workshop has special opening hours during the semester break in February and March 2023, which apply from Friday 10.02.2023.

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The interactive eBook “Tableaux de Légumes” shows photographs as an interpretation of baroque still lifes. The works from the modules B34 and M10a are part of the design for a narrative folly, which was commissioned by the citizens' association of Französisch Buchholz in cooperation with the district office of Pankow and the district mayor, to commemorate the history of this Huguenot colony. Französisch Buchholz is historically known as the vegetable garden of Berlin.

To the eBook.

As part of this year's cross-semester theme “Low Tech - High Density”, the BHT's architecture degree program is hosting a series of lectures to which we warmly invite you. The lectures will take place at the BHT in the „Haus Bauwesen“ from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. We hope to see many of you there.

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This documentation shows the content of the winter semester 2021/22 of the Architecture degree program of Department IV.

The traveling exhibition on the subject of women in architecture as a follow-up to a preliminary study by the Technical University of Munich will be opened on May 2, 2022.A discussion with Elke Duda + Zeynep Karacorluoglu + Cornelia Locke + Nicole Zahner will take place in the lecture hall H1 of the “Haus Bauwesen” at 5:00 p.m. The exhibition on the topic of women in architecture can be seen from May 2, 2022 to July 1, 2022 on the ground floor of the “Haus Bauwesen” in room E00. 3G and face masks are mandatory.

Access to sources, knowledge and information is undergoing fundamental changes as a result of globalization and digitization. This also affects the process of generating scientific knowledge. The number of sources is increasing, as is their diversity and dissemination. Although sources are becoming more and more available, geographical and economic inequalities in accessibility remain.

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Yesterday, the first-semester students spent a day in the famous Peter-Behrens-Halle (today the TU Berlin campus) and captured it in drawings. This was done in small groups and under strict health and safety measures. Despite pandemic-related shortened time slots, the students created amazing and vibrant works in a good mood. The event was supervised by Prof. Gerd Sedelies, lecturer M. Sc. Katharina Hagl and the two student assistants Felix Bär and Stella Hellweg.

Urban mining is the concept of considering a city, in analogy to a mine, as a treasure trove of valuable and recyclable materials, in other words, as a kind of urban material mine. In this context, terms such as upcycling, reuse or the motto of the German Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale with “Reduce Reuse Recycle - Resource Architecture” have also emerged.

Laboratory for building history and preservation

Within the design, planning and construction processes, new valuations and revaluations are constantly taking place, and every decision that needs to be made draws on existing reference values. In construction, value is never static, but a process! Edited by Julia Ess, Eva Maria Froschauer, Elke Richter and Clara Jiva Schulte. Series: Cultural and Technical Values of Historical Buildings, Bd. 6, Birkhäuser: Berlin 2021. 

The focus of DAS MAGAZIN are the projects and final theses developed in all semesters – with a wide and colorful range of interesting works from the entire range of courses offered by the architecture degree program.

We cordially invite you to the lecture by Eike Roswag-Klinge, Professor of Climate- and Resource-Adaptive Architecture at TU Berlin and Director of ZRS Architekten Ingenieure. In his work, he uses natural materials and adapts his designs to cultural and climatic conditions in order to create innovative and sustainable construction methods. He combines research, design and practice to develop future-orientated solutions.

Wednesday 27 November 7 p.m.
Room D 102 - H2
Haus Bauwesen

This year's cross-semester theme for the Architecture program is democracy. Every winter semester, all design modules, from the 1st Bachelor's to the 3rd Master's semester, will design their projects under this topic. The design results will be displayed on February 6, 2025 at the large exhibition in the foyer of the „Haus Bauwesen“. Additionally, there will be exciting keynote speeches on the topic, with dates to be announced.

The Windturm 2.0 was built by the students for the Baukulur Convention in Potsdam. On June 19, 2024, they received one of the ten Baukultur prizes. Congratulations to the whole team.

The department IV warmly invites all graduates of the last two semesters to the summer party 2024 on June, 14th 2024 starting at 4 p.m. in the “Haus Bauwesen”. Look forward to an exhibition of excellent bachelor's and master's theses in the large hall, followed by a barbecue and music.

The Laboratory for Building History and Construction Maintenance invites you to an exciting lecture on the topic of prefabricated construction on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024. The lecture will take place at 6:00 p.m. in H5, “Haus Bauwesen”.

“10m² Baukultur: We make room for your ideas” // Jury awards the 10 best projects for repurposing parking lots. We are very pleased that students from our university participated and won the “10m² Baukultur” competition. We congratulate Ceyda Aksoy and Lara Cordes (2nd semester BA Architecture) as well as guest lecturer Heike Maria Dertmann and Prof. Z. Ayse Hicsasmaz-Heitele as cooperation partners, who are among the winners with their project Windturm 2.0.

From November 30th, 2023 to March 31st, 2024, we will be showing an exhibition in the Pankow city hall gallery about the Huguenot influences in the district of Französisch Buchholz. The opening ceremony will take place on Thursday, November, 30th 2023 at 6:00 p.m. at Pankow City Hall (Breite Str. 24a-26, 13187 Berlin) on the first floor.

As part of the bachelor's module Architectural History / Theory and Building Conservation 2 students explored the work of architects Paul Mebes and Paul Emmerich, focusing on reform-oriented residential construction in Berlin and Brandenburg in the 1910s and 1920s.

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The Master Module in Construction Research and Diagnostics at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, Department IV of Architecture and Building Services Engineering, presents its mid-term results on the construction sites of the two Taut architectures.
There will be students at the event to answer questions.

The Department IV cordially invites all graduates of the last two years to the summer party on June 9th, 2023, starting at 4 p.m. at “Haus Bauwesen”. You can look forward to an exhibition of excellent bachelor's and master's theses in the large hall.

BAUTRIEB cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr. Daniel Biau on the topic “THE BRIDGE AND THE CITY” on Wednesday, May, 24th 2023 at 6:30 p.m. in the lecture hall H 1, “Haus Bauwesen”. In his lecture, Dr. Daniel Biau, will discuss the historical role of bridges in the urban development of cities. The lecture will be followed by an get-together.

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In this anniversary issue, you can expect exciting interviews, articles and great designs from the winter semester 2021/22 and summer semester 2022.

This documentation shows the content of the summer semester 2022 of the Architecture degree program of Department IV.

August, 29th to September, 12th, 2022

Together with the Distance Study Institute of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, the Department IV is once again organizing an international summer academy on the topic “Concepts for Climate Resilient and Climate Neutral Cities” in the summer semester of 2022. Invited are students of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences as well as students of our international partner universities.

Alongside the semester topic planet [A]RCH, the Department IV -at the BHT is hosting a lecture series on current approaches in construction, civil engineering and architecture. Flyer.

Wednesdays from 6:00 p.m. online.

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This documentation shows the content of the summer semester 2021 of the Architecture degree program of Department IV.

After almost two years of online seminars, we finally had a face-to-face session in the Design and Presentation 2 module again. In the Friedrichwerdsche Kirche, students drew diligently based on their observations!

At this year's Summer School ARS 21, our BHT master's students won two first prizes with their international teams: Congratulations to Nisa Ohri, Ganna Petrova and Josephine Schuhmann! ARS 22 is already being planned and will be credited to module M09 (summer semester 22).

Sustainable Pavilion

Petropolis Next

This documentation shows the content of the winter semester 2020/21 of the Architecture degree program of Department IV.

Laboratory Design and Urban Planning

Medusa is present in our world today, in fashion, lifestyle, movies and computer games. The figure and the story are impressive. Medusa oscillates between beauty and terror, symbolizes transformation, is unmistakable with her snake hair, and is considered an iconic monster. E-paper.

Laboratory for Building History and Building Conservation

Transformation instead of demolition and new construction, development instead of disruption. Increasingly, the principle of continuing construction as a counterpoint to the modernist paradigm of new construction is becoming the focus of architecture and construction technology.

Edited by Eva Maria Froschauer, Werner Lorenz, Luise Rellensmann and Albrecht Wiesener.

Series: Kulturelle und technische Werte historischer Bauten. Bd. 4, Birkhäuser: Basel 2020.

Laboratory design and urban planning

As part of module B01, a study was conducted in the summer semester of 2019 using models to give students a better feel for and understanding of volumes and spaces.

This documentation shows the content of the summer semester 2020 of the Architecture degree program of Department IV.

In the winter semester of 2019/20, a cross-semester design topic was defined: the Berliner Ring. As a result, the various design modules in the bachelor's and master's programs dealt with properties located on the aforementioned ring road. At the end of the semester, there was a large exhibition at which the projects were presented.

In the winter semester 2018/19, a common design theme was defined across all semesters: The center of Berlin (Die Berliner Mitte). As a result, the various design modules in the Bachelor's and Master's degrees dealt with properties located in the center of Berlin. At the end of the semester, there was a large exhibition at which the projects were presented.

Design and urban planning lab

Before digital drawing is taught, the BHT attaches great importance to giving students an understanding of how to capture different spaces and volumes using analog methods.

Design and urban planning lab

Architecture comes in many forms. Capturing spaces and textures in a completely different way, students are introduced to their designs through diverse and unusual exercises.