Research focus of the Faculty

Underlying and overriding themes

• Knowledge Architecture (structural principles of knowledge production and innovation, strategies for knowledge-based designing of built rooms)
• Design methodology, design and representation in architectural education and practice
• Perception of space and spatial design
• Historicity
• Transcendence and common sense
• Demographic change and its impact on society
• Computer aided teaching and learning methods in architecture

City and landscape

• Environmental planning and testing
• Sustainable development, design and maintenance of city and countryside
• Revitalization of historic cities
• Morphology and typology of the city
• History of urban green, historic gardens and garden monuments

Buildings and structures

• Energetic optimization of buildings and assurance of comfort and well-being
• modern working environments
• Traditional and innovative construction concepts in developed and developing countries
• Efficiency in planning and building
• Ubiquitous Computing and ide effects on architecture and construction
• Live and work in the future

Existing building and monuments as cultural and social value

• Refurbishment, use and reuse of historic buildings as well as refurbishment and Conservation of historic buildings
• Technology of building maintenancepreservation of historical monuments
• Handling with existing buildings and urban ensemble in urban redevelopment
• History, theory and practice of

Natural disasters

• Prevention of flood and earthquake damage
• Landscape development and flood risk