This research module is part of the Indo-German university cooperation with IIT Roorkee, supported by DAAD. It will extend a common inventory of Indian and European named “Experimental Architecture and Material Culture”.
In a series of workshops, we will use ethnographic methods (travel books, observations, interviews, mapping) to explore the history and the transformation of Uzunyayla. We will study exemplarily the two villages of Örensehir and Sacayagi, and their typical building and living culture.
In the frame of the Zukunft Bau Popup Campus 2022, the Department of Architectural Theory held the event: "Experimental Architecture and Material Culture" on 8 September. A morning trip to the Hoocruts Monastery was followed by the presentation of Candide –Journal for Architectural Knowledge issue
https://theorie.arch.rwth-aachen.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hoogcruts_workshopbamboo.mp4From 6 to 10 June 2022, the Department of Architectural Theory and Research at RWTH Aachen University, under the direction of Prof. Axel Sowa, organised the second Summer School on sustainable building with clay, earth and bamboo in the Hoogcruts monastery not far from the
During the excursionof the Pentecost week, the bamboo workshop from the previous winter term 2021/22 was continued in Hoogcruts. The students of RWTH succeeded in almost completing the roof construction for the rammed earth walls despite rainy weather conditions. To span the surface, the bamboo
From 22 to 26 March 2022, the teaching and research area of architectural theory in the Hoogcruts monastery continued the euregional bamboo workshop that started in November last year. Once again, the students of the Academy of the Chamber of Crafts Aachen "Gut Rosenberg" and
From 22 to 25 November 2021, the teaching and research area of architectural theory organised an euregional bamboo workshop at the Hoogcruts monastery. Students from the Academy of the Aachen Chamber of Crafts "Gut Rosenberg" and Master's students from RWTH Aachen University were involved in
"Sustainable Euregio - Care, Ecology, Recycling" is the programmatic title of the first ARCHIREG symposium. ARCHIREG, a federative network of the architecture schools of Aachen, Hasselt, Liège, Maastricht and the Academy of the Chamber of Crafts Aachen, unites teachers and students of the Rhine-Meuse region
An exhibition in the context of the 1st archireg symposium "sustainable Euregio" The project task: After the successful conclusion of our Summer Academy 2020 in the monastery garden of Hoogcruts, we would like to broaden our view once again and would like to explore the potentials of
„Enkyklios paideia“ is a Greek expression that means “Circular Education”. The actual translation of this expression is ‘Encyclopedia’ which stands for the most ambitious attempt to gather human knowledge into a single publication, like a book or a hard drive. Unfortunately, although being ideally affordable, publishing