News
Here you find announcements and information on current events, teaching and research initiatives.
INTERNSHIP REPORTS
Internships are essential to prepare for later employment. Guided by concrete questions, students of the Master’s degree programmes can share their practical professional experience with students of the Bachelor’s degree programme.
The film screenings of the current seminar will take place on Wednesday, 24 January 2024 at 6 pm in lecture hall R140 of the Reiff.
Publications
Here you can find publications made by the architectural theory team.
EAMC
EAMC (Experimental Architecture and Material Culture) is an inventory platform for earth and stone architecture in India and Europe. It aims to gather knowledge about building techniques, crafts and manufacturing. The platform is an encyclopaedia that grows through the exchange of German and Indian students.
Upcoming courses
Here you find a preview of the courses for the upcoming summer semester 2024.
Current courses
The courses of the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programme in the summer semester 2024.
International Academy Certificate Course – Designing for sustainability
In the upcoming Summer Semester, the Department of Architectural Theory will join forces with the Chair for Building Technology, the Chair for Structures and Structural Design and the Junior Chair for Reuse in Architecture to teach a certificate course for post-graduates on Architecture and Responsible Building Practices.
Further information and details can be found on the official course website.
Team
The House of Theory introduces itself.
Cooperations
The DAAD-funded university cooperation with IIT Roorkee in India will continue in the coming semesters with the aim of exchanging knowledge, experience and developing sustainable construction techniques.
MONDAY EVENING
TALKS
The 46th Aachen Monday Evening Talks will be held in the winter semester 2023/24. The talks focus on the theme “Architectural criticism”.
Exhibitions
The Department of Architectural Theory organizes exhibitions that serve as platforms for presenting and exploring the creative and scholarly endeavors of students and researchers in the field of architecture.
ARCHIVE of courses
Collection of past lecture series, seminars and projects.
SUMMER SCHOOL
In August 2020, the teaching and research area organised a summer school on sustainable building with earth & clay in the former Hoogcruts abbey, not far from the Dutch municipality of Gulpen (NL).
student WORKS
examples of the projects from students from previous semesters.
Candide
Journal for Architecture Knowledge
Candide is a scholarly journal that focuses on investigating diverse areas of knowledge within the field of architecture.
Conferences
Lectures, readings, workshops and other research initiatives that took place in the department over time.
ARCHITECTURal THEORy
is the theory of an action-based science. Unlike scientific theories, tracing provisional paths through unexplored terrains, the field of architectural theory is primarily grounded on attitudes, beliefs and motives, which prepare the action of architects.
FRIENDS OF THEORY
Interesting and current project and research work by alumni or friends of architectural theory.
PhD students
Here you will find completed doctoral theses by doctoral candidates in the teaching and research area of architectural theory.