The Architecture Days 2025
Under the motto "Living and housing on the Upper Rhine: 2000-2025-2050" the Architecture Days are celebrating their 25th anniversary this fall. The focus is on key questions for the future: How has life and living in the Upper Rhine region changed - and how can we make it sustainable? What does responsible building mean in the face of the climate crisis, social change and scarcity of resources? What impetus is the younger generation bringing to building culture?
From October 1 to 26, a diverse program invites you to a cross-border dialogue on architecture, landscape architecture and urban development in Germany, France and Switzerland.
Special highlight in Karlsruhe: Lecture by ChartierDalix
Since 2008, the Paris-based office has been combining architecture and landscape in a unique way and integrating the living into urban spaces. The multi-award-winning office realizes projects in France and internationally and was awarded the Équerre d'Argent 2022 for the new AP-HP headquarters in Paris, among other things.
ChartierDalix has been researching the integration of nature into the built environment for over ten years - documented in the book Accueillir le vivant - and is taking these approaches further with the SERP experimental office founded in 2024.
The lecture will be simultaneously translated into German and French.
Cultural Center Tollhaus Alter Schlachthof 35
Free participation.
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Faculty Events
Building blocks Karlsruhe: 200 years of polytechnic architecture
Monday, Sept. 8 to Sunday, Oct. 5, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
To mark the 200th anniversary of the KIT, the Faculty of Architecture is highlighting the interactions between its own institution and the city of Karlsruhe. The exhibition presents buildings and infrastructures that were created in collaboration with the faculty. Models, photos, drawings and projections from seminars of the last four semesters illustrate the functional, design and semantic connections in the urban context.
Finissage: Sunday 5.10. at 17:00
Karlsruhe Regional Council at Rondellplatz Karl-Friedrich-Straße 17, 76247 Karlsruhe
Admission free.
Urban Transformation Conference 2025 - Keynote in Dialogue
Wednesday, October 15, 18:30 - 19:30
The discussion is part of the international conference "Urban Transformation - Connecting Urban Sustainability Labs" at the KIT Faculty of Architecture. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the institute, the conference will develop innovative approaches for sustainable and livable cities with real-world laboratories, scientists, practicing architects and civil society actors.
KIT Faculty of Architecture Englerstraße 11, 76131 Karlsruhe
Free participation.
How will we build in the future? The RoofKIT prototype on the KIT Campus South
Friday, Oct. 17, 1 - 2 p.m. and 2 - 3 p.m. - Friday, Oct. 24, 1 - 2 p.m. and 2 - 3 p.m.
With the RoofKIT, the student team from the KIT Faculty of Architecture won the Solar Decathlon Europe 21/22 competition in Wuppertal in summer 2022. The prototype shows how construction can function in the future in a resource-saving, circular and energy-saving way. The Karlsruhe team beat 17 entries from other international universities. Several guided tours will be offered during the Architecture Days.
RoofKIT intersection Richard-Willstätter-Allee/Adenauerring, 76131 Karlsruhe
Free participation.
The saai - insights into the archive
Wednesday, 22.10., 4 - 6 p.m.
The saai, Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering at KIT, offers insights into unique architectural testimonies of the region on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Architecture Days. How have ideas of building and living changed over time? In the field of tension between retrospect and future vision, the archive shows how resilience, renewal and sustainability help shape our built environment.
saai - Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering Stephanienstraße 28a, 76133 Karlsruhe
Free participation.
We want to change the world: Exhibition of master theses
Thursday, 23.10. to Wednesday 29.10.
Master's students from the Faculty of Architecture present their final theses in the fields of structural and urban design. The works are freely accessible during the opening hours of the building (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.).
The graduation ceremony will take place on Wednesday, October 29, 6 p.m. in the Fritz Haller lecture hall.
KIT Faculty of Architecture Englerstraße 7, 76131 Karlsruhe
Admission free.