Yearbooks of the KIT Department of Architecture
Since 2012, the department yearbooks have provided insight into teaching, research, and diverse department life.
Transitions - The 2025 Yearbook
On 440 pages, the new yearbook "Transitions" shows the many facets and activities of our faculty and brings together selected student work and the results of research projects from the past year. The feature section shines a spotlight on selected highlights - of which there were plenty again last year - and paints a special picture of the KIT Faculty of Architecture in 2025.
The contributions to the feature section:
Prof. Christian Inderbitzin, Prof. i. V. Sebastian Multerer
Dialogue on Doubt and Error
The Doubts and Errors symposium questioned the foundations of the architecture profession and pleaded for nuances and openness towards error and doubt in the design process.
Moana Ühlein
Perspectives on sketches
The Skizzenwerk lecture series organized by students celebrates its tenth anniversary - Moana Ühlein looks back and ahead at this special format.
Prof. Dr. Riccardo La Magna, Prof. Moritz Dörstelmann
Komorebi
The artificial, mobile tree Komorebi on Kronenplatz combines craftsmanship with digital precision and demonstrates circular construction on an urban scale.
Generation change
A conversation moderated by Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow
With the departure of Prof. Ludwig Wappner and Prof. Meinrad Morger, a new era begins in which Prof. Andrea Klinge and Prof. Florian Kaiser will help shape the future of the faculty.
Alessandro Gess
Cergy Grand Center
The Cergy Grand Centre - Laboratory of Transformation design develops concepts for sustainable urban development and the responsible use of existing buildings.
Prof. Dr. Anna-Maria Meister
Coded Objects
The Coded Objects research project investigates how the programming of objects can be understood as a creative act.
Prof. Dirk E. Hebel, Elena Boermann, Prof. Dr. Peter Schossig, Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Henning
Climate-neutral building stock
The article shows ways to achieve a climate-neutral building stock - from efficiency measures and climate-friendly energy sources to political instruments for the energy transition.
Dr. Barbara Filser, Natalja Traboulsi-Wegner
CD-ROM art - images of the digital imaginary
The DFG project explores CD- and DVD-ROM as media of digital imagery and investigates how memory and remembrance are reinterpreted in the digital space.
Zegeye Cherenet Mamo
100 Mega Cities or 100,000 Towns?
The guest researcher from Addis Ababa is investigating whether villages can offer a sustainable alternative to megacities - through self-building, local resources and community planning.
Transitions
"The English term transitions offers a multitude of possible translations and interpretations. For me, the term means transitions and changes and, in the context of the yearbook - and with a view to the faculty - also includes the invitation to keep asking oneself whether one is on the right path. Change and transformation offer great potential and sometimes require courage and unconventional action.
The KIT Faculty of Architecture - Department in Transition.
This is what I wish for us: that we continue to develop and improve - professionally committed and focused, and with the desire and joy of trying out new things." (From the foreword to the yearbook by Dean Barbara Engel)
Yearbook 2025
Transitions
440 pages
17 x 24 cm
German/English
ISBN 978-3-9816504-9-5
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