The next Student Information Day will be held virtually on Wednesday, November 17, 2021.

To the program

With the study information day, we would like to give you an insight into the exciting and interesting teaching and research activities at KIT. You can listen to sample lectures, take a look at courses, and talk to our student advisors. In this way, we would like to give you an impression of what studying at the KIT Department of Architecture means and what perspectives exist for your professional and personal future after graduation.

Course of studies architecture

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Study architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Info-Clip
What distinguishes the study of architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology? Students explain what you can expect. The video is the result of a student workshop as part of the "Studienstart" project in September 2020. Video: Louisa Schütz, Davina Dixon, Antonia Leicht and Estelle Wahl, Karlsruhe, 2020.

open.arch.kit.edu
open.arch.kit.edu is the online platform of the Department of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. On it, the professorships, students and facilities of the department present student work and projects from the courses of study in architecture and art history, thus providing an insight into the range of teaching and research.

take.build.repeat-Symposium 2018: Urban Mining & Recycling, Prof. Felix Heisel
Lecture
Prof. Felix Heisel presents the project "Urban Mining and Recycling" (UMAR) at the take.build.repeat-symposium at KIT in November 2018. The unit demonstrates how a responsible use of natural resources is compatible with an appealing design.

take.build.repeat-Symposium 2018: Build for more with less, Prof. Dr. Werner Sobek
Lecture
Prof. Dr. Werner Sobek gave a lecture at the symposium on the fundamental problem of our immense consumption of resources. He appealed to all of us to build for more with less material. Lightweight construction is, in his opinion, a possible solution.

Datatopia Summer School, 2018: Prof. Dr. Georg Vrachliotis: Opening
Lecture
The opening lecture of the Datatopia Summer School by Prof. Dr. Georg Vrachliotis addresses important issues concerning the digitalization of society. Within the framework of projekt bauhaus Werkstatt, the Datatopia Summer School explored current topics in internationally composed and interdisciplinary studios.

24h-arch.kit.edu
Film
A day at the Department of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology provides an insight into the daily routine of studying.
Film: Antonia Leicht, Music: Felix Booz

KIT Department of Architecture - Final Theses
Online Publications
The collections of the final theses give an impression of the design tasks and focal points of the architectural studies at KIT.

From shed to spatial object / Vom Gartenhaus zum Räumling
Film
The study project "From shed to Räumling" aimed at examining the potential of the urban mine. As a group, the students designed a spatial installation using only 'removed' elements of a garden shed without permanent attachments. Finally, this installation also had to be designed for disassembly and provide building material for another structure.
Chair of Sustainable Building, Prof. Dirk. E. Hebel, Felix Heisel

Take a look - The annual exhibition of the department
Film
Every year, the Department of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology holds its annual exhibition at the end of the summer semester. For one day, the departments, workshops and studios present the results of the past academic year and give an insight into the range of the department's teaching and research. The "Reinschauen" film was produced by students for the 2017 annual exhibition.
Film: Antonia Leicht, Music: Felix Booz

architecturalreferences.online
WebArchive
The WebArchive provides three-dimensionally navigable model photos and plan sets of an ever-growing number of architectural references. The materials are intended to support research and teaching. The web archive was initiated and developed by Prof. Marc Frohn and Tim Panzer, Professorship of Space and Design. All models and drawings were created by KIT students.

History of Art

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Why study art history?
Students and lecturers of art history at KIT report why art history is an exciting field of research that is needed today more than ever.

Art History at KIT
Welcome video in which students and lecturers of art history at KIT pronounce key terms that they associate with the subject.
Video clip

Origins and Cultural Transformations of "Popular Science
Lecture
(June 15, 2018) Dr. Dr. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo
In this lecture, Muñoz Morcillo proposes a new approach to science communication, focusing on rhetoric and visual and cultural techniques that have contributed to the popularization of knowledge since Greco-Roman antiquity.

How did optical drawing aids become popular 1800-1850?
Lecture
(June 15, 2018) Apl. Prof. Dr. Dr. Erna Fiorentini
In this lecture, Fiorentini looks at 19th-century manuals that addressed optical drawing aids. On the basis of a glaring discrepancy between the opinion on drawing instruments disseminated by the manuals and that of the market, Fiorentini examines different paths of knowledge dissemination and their respective effectiveness.

Exhibition-Virtual: Sequence and Variance
Virtual exhibition project
Dr. Alice Anna Klaassen, Dr. Dr. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo
This project was created as part of a course offered by the Institute of Art History at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), as well as the ZAK | Center for Applied Cultural Studies and Studium Generale in the summer to winter semester 2017/18. The students made film contributions as well as essays on ten selected exhibits from the collections of the Karlsruhe museums. Using the various examples from different eras, the theme of sequence & variance in the visual arts is to be addressed. Visitors can begin a virtual tour of our exhibition via this online platform, which has been specially designed for the project.

Contentful Surrogates? - Virtual Reality for the Conservation of Art Installations
Explanatory video: e-Installation: Virtualization of Media Art (Film)
Dr. Dr. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo
On the virtualization of media art: Although technology-based art has only existed since the early 1960s, the lifespan of many of these works of art is very short compared to more traditional genres such as painting or sculpture. A remedy for this is a new kind of documentation of media art using VR and telepresence technologies: the e-installation.

Johann Christian Reinhart - Landscape with a Bite
Reading
Prof. Dr. Oliver Jehle
From: Kirsten Voigt and Pia Müller-Tamm (eds.), Unter freiem Himmel. Landschaft sehen, lesen, hören, Bielefeld, Berlin 2017, pp. 166-172.

Department Teaching Award 2020: Architecture / Professor Dr. Inge Hinterwaldner
Video clip
Prof. Dr. Inge Hinterwaldner received the Department Teaching Award of the KIT Department of Architecture in April 2020.

"Venice Under the Sky."
Reading
Apl. Prof. Dr. Dr. Erna Fiorentini
From: Under the open sky : seeing, reading, hearing landscape, edited by Kirsten Voigt and Pia Müller-Tamm (Bielefeld: Kerber Art, 2017), 140-147.

Outlines of political art in the 20th century
Lecture
Apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Papenbrock
This lecture cursorily traces the lines of development of political art from the 1920s to the end of the 20th century. The focus is not on the state arts, but on the various forms of artistic resistance against political and social hegemonies of their time. It addresses the questions of the specificity of a political art, its forms of articulation and strategies, its themes and iconography, its relationship to the artistic avant-gardes and to the social movements of its time.

Resurrected Art in the Institute
Video project by students
Roberta Cebataviciute and Özge Kaya
In this video, prospective students are introduced to the place of teaching and learning. Empty rooms of the institute are filmed and enlivened with various works of art.

Study program flyer

Department tour

The Yearbook of the Department

On 374 pages, the yearbook published in October 2021 documents the teaching and research of the professorships and teaching areas and provides insight into the diverse department life.

In addition to the contributions of the professorships and teaching areas and the data section, which documents all important events of the academic year 2020/21 in text and images, the yearbook is again dedicated to discourse. Under the title "Salutogenesis", the contributions in the Discourse section explore the question of how architecture affects a "process of recovery" for people, society, the city, the environment or perhaps even the planet.

Here you can take a look at our yearbook

And one more treat at the end

Accompany students and lecturers of the department to special places in Karlsruhe and learn more about studying at the KIT Department of Architecture and the place of study.

Table Talk: Accompany students and teachers of the department to special places in Karlsruhe and learn more about studying and the city. Clicking on the image will take you to a YouTube video. External data is loaded and personal data (such as your IP address) may be transferred.