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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On 420 pages, the yearbook published in October 2024 documents the teaching and research of the professorships and provides an insight into the diverse faculty life.
In addition to the documentation of the professorships and the data section, which covers all the important events of the 2023/24 academic year, the yearbook is dedicated to special events and projects from the documentation period in the "Features" section.

The contributions to the Features section:

Prof. Simon Hartmann, Federico Coricelli, Mariana Santana
Promises upon request

In October 2023, the Chair of Building Planning and Design, Prof. Simon Hartmann, organized the Karlsruhe Architecture Symposium Promises upon Request. The starting point was the assumption that the growing awareness of the challenges of climate change will enable architects to meet increasingly specific demands from society that are brought to the profession from outside.

TT-Prof. Moritz Dörstelmann, Prof. Dr. Riccardo La Magna
ReGrow

The ReGrow project is researching the potential of regionally renewable raw materials for sustainable construction. The focus is on digital design and production processes that make it possible to transform natural fibers and fast-growing plant shoots into sustainable building components.

Prof.'in Dr. Inge Hinterwaldner, Daniela Hönigsberg, Mayte Gómez Molina
COSE on show!

The COSE project is dedicated to researching and analyzing programmed Internet art. Innovative methods are used to examine works of art and the results are communicated in the form of models and interactive formats.

Sandra Böhm, Elena Boerman
The KIT Material Library

In July 2023, the faculty's materials library was ceremoniously reopened after three years of renovation and reorganization. It now houses a newly designed, extensive collection of material samples of known and alternative, innovative materials. The focus is on locally available or produced building materials, renewable raw materials and examples of so-called secondary materials.

Mechthild Ebert
Egon Eiermann+ Digital

The project of the Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai) provides
comprehensive access to the projects of the important architect Egon Eiermann and his partners.

Prof. Marc Frohn, Tim Panzer, Federico Perugini
R+EVUE

In 2021, the Chair of Space and Design launched the magazine R+EVUE, which serves as a platform for the reflection and communication of architectural ideas. It highlights exciting and often overlooked aspects of architecture.

Yearbook 2024

Promises
420 pages
17 x 24 cm
German/English
ISBN 978-3-9816504-9-5

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On 468 pages, the yearbook published in October 2023 documents the teaching and research of the professorships and provides an insight into the diverse faculty life.
In addition to the documentation of the professorships and the data section, which covers all the important events of the 2022/23 academic year, the yearbook is dedicated to special events and projects from the documentation period in the new "Features" section. Under the title "Contacts", the feature section brings together articles that deal with forms of university exchange. A particular focus is on the Sto Foundation's guest professorships on the subject of "Sustainable Materials for a new Architectural Pratice.

The contributions to the feature section:

Maarten Gielen, Gaspard Geerts
Guest Professorship of the Sto Foundation

Kerstin Müller, Oliver Seidel
Guest Professorship of the Sto Foundation II

Peter van Assche, Katja Hogenboom
Guest Professorship of the Sto Foundation III

Elena Boerman
RoofKIT - Carbon storage and material storage

Jens Hauser
Shrinking instead of gluing - De/Growth

Arturo Romero Carnicero
Building and planning in an international context

Sandra Böhm, Dr. Anette Busse, Dr. Manuela Gantner, Fanny Kranz, Dr. Nina Rind
M* 1:1 - *Hidden views and female perspectives
in architecture

Yearbook 2023

Contacts
468 pages
17 x 24 cm
German/English
ISBN 978-3-9816504-8-8

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On 382 pages, the yearbook published in November 2022 documents the teaching and research of the professorships and provides insight into the diverse faculty life.
In addition to the documentation of the professorships and the data section, which documents all important events of the academic year 2021/22 in text and images, the yearbook is again dedicated to discourse. Under the title "BestandTeile," the Discourse section explores the fundamental question of what actually constitutes architecture. The contributions range from the (re)semantization of architectural components in architectural history to considerations of architectural theory.

The contributions of the discourse section:

Nina Rind
BestandTeile - Introduction to the Discourse

Manuela Gantner
Bestandlücken - In search of a female perspective in architectural history

Lukas Großmann
Accept or reject? Is architectural heritage to be considered a treasure or a debt?

Josep Garriga Tarrés, Prof. Simon Hartmann, Prof. Dr. Inge Hinterwaldner
Upscaling / Crafts / of Repairing

Philipp Schmider
Seminato - What can we learn from the Art of the Terrazzo alle Veneziana?

Emilie Klump, Matthis Epp, Lorenz Hanstein
The desire for the new stopped at nothing - An interview with the component dealer Florian Langenbeck

Federico Garrido
KITbashing - Design by catalogue in architecture

Sophia Schmidt
Non-physical components

Yearbook 2022

BestandTeile
382 pages
17 x 24 cm
german/english
ISBN 978-3-9816504-7-1

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Published in October 2021, the 372-page yearbook documents the teaching and research of the professorships and teaching areas and provides insight into the diverse department life.
In addition to the documentation of the professorships and teaching areas and the data section, which documents all important events of the academic year 2021/21 in text and images, the yearbook is again dedicated to discourse. Under the title "Salutogenesis", the Discourse section brings together contributions on the history and theory of architecture as well as on aspects of architectural practice. Starting from the question of how architecture affects a "process of recovery" of man, society, the city, the environment, or perhaps even the planet, the articles provide an up-to-date insight into the discussions and research at the KIT Department of Architecture.

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The contributions of the Discourse section:

Nina Rind
Salutogenesis - Introduction to the Discourse
Sophia Schmidt
(Retrograde) Lobotomy
Prof. Dr. Joaquín Medina Warmburg, Nina Rind, Nikolaus Koch
Architecture and Urban Infrastructure
Dr. Peter Zeile
The Urban Emotions Initiative - Building Block for a Stress-Free City?
Luciana Alanis, Nicolás Carbonare, Isabel Miño-Rodriguez, Romina Rissetto, Prof. Andreas Wagner
Good design or an emotional design?
Prof. Dr. Barbara Engel
Trimm-Dich-City: The new support programme for more urban health
Daniel Lythgoe
Recovering from Totality
Prof. Christian Inderbitzin, Prof. Dr. Joaquín Medina Warmburg
Green and Psyche in Cities

Yearbook 2021

Salutogenesis
372 pages
17 x 24 cm
German/English
ISBN 978-3-9816504-6-4

On 364 pages, the yearbook published in October 2020 documents the teaching and research of the professorships and teaching areas and provides insight into the diverse department life.

In addition to the contributions from the professorships and teaching areas and the data section, which documents all the important events of the academic year 2019/20 in text and images, the yearbook is once again dedicated to discourse. Under the title "Future Pleasures", the contributions in the Discourse section explore the question of what role pleasure, delight and joy will play in architecture in the future. How is our understanding of the venustas from Vitruvius' famous triad changing in the face of the omnipresence of pressing issues such as sustainability, social and societal responsibility, resource conservation, modularization, and digitalization, all of which can be assigned to firmitas and utilitas? Which understanding of pleasure is suitable to meet the demands of sustainability and social responsibility?

The contributions of the discourse part:
Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow - Future Pleasures - Introduction to the Discourse
Daniel Louis Lythgoe - The discomfort in pleasure
Prof. Stephen Craig - Smart but Stupid
Prof. Dr. Joaquín Medina Warmburg and Prof. Meinrad Morger - "Sensual Typologies
José Ortega y Gasset - Aesthetics in the Tramway
Jannis Bruns and Daniel Fischer - Making architecture

Yearbook 2020
Future Pleasures
364 pages
17 x 24 cm
German/English
ISBN 978-3-9816504-5-7

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Published in July 2019, the 376-page yearbook documents the teaching and research of the departments and provides insight into the diverse department life. The Discourse section, with contributions from members of the department, is devoted this time to the significance of cyclical processes in architecture under the title "Heavy Rotation - The Recurring in Architecture". Among other things, Prof. Meinrad Morger reports on formative events that influenced his path to architecture; Bernita Le Gerrette asks whether architecture still has a future; Oliver Jehle relates Hermann Sörgel's Atlantropa project to a painting by Max Ernst; graduate Florian Bengert discusses the smartphone as an architectural machine; and Anna Krüger introduces the architect Myra Warhaftig.

Readings from the discourse section:

Prof. Meinrad Morger (Department of Building Science)
The Course of Things

Bernita Le Gerrette (Department of Architectural Theory)
Cycles, continuums and spirals - Does architecture still have a future?

Prof. Dirk Hebel, Felix Heisel and Karsten Schlesier (Department of Sustainable Building)
On reusing and recycling

Yearbook 2019
Heavy Rotation
378 pages
17 x 24 cm
German/English
ISBN 978-3-9816504-4-0

"With the 2018 Yearbook, the KIT Department of Architecture once again offers a look at the work of its students and teachers. In a new format, the approach was taken to present the work in the individual disciplines in a more pointed way and at the same time to create space for discussion contributions by members of the department.
This resulted in the new Discourse section, in which eleven authors express their thoughts or take a stand on the topic of Reality Check - How much practice do we need? What is interesting here is the different ways in which the topic is dealt with - ranging from the personal experience of students with practice-oriented projects during their studies to the presentation and discussion of their own teaching concepts and events by lecturers to more fundamental discussions of the question. All in all, in my view, a successful introduction to a necessary open discussion on architectural topics, which is also carried outward through the yearbook. The documentation section covers a broad range of exemplary courses and selected research projects, which impressively demonstrates the diverse range of topics covered in the individual disciplines.
It reflects content from historical and humanities subjects, design and creative subjects, as well as engineering and planning subjects, and combines a fund of discipline-specific knowledge with a variety of competencies and skills. It documents the period from April 2017 to March 2018.

The yearbook is supplemented by information on events, personalia, prizes and awards, publications, etc., as well as an overview of the department's facilities. A special highlight is the picture essay about Frei Otto's models, which at the same time refers to the great fund of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai), which belongs to the KIT Department of Architecture.
With this, I now cordially invite you to look at and read the book - but not without first expressing my great thanks to all those who have contributed to the redesign and publication of the book with their commitment far beyond the daily business."

Andreas Wagner, Associate Dean of the Department

Yearbook 2018
Reality Check
400 pp.
17 x 24 cm
German/English
ISBN 978-3-9816504-3-3

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The Yearbook 2015 provides a comprehensive insight into the teaching, research and life at the Department of Architecture on 265 pages.
It was published on 28.06.2016 and - like all older editions of the yearbook - is available at the Dean's Office and the Department  Library for 5,- Euro.