TUM Department of Architecture

Last week, the Master theses of the winter semester 24/25 were presented. The work of our Architecture and Urbanism graduates is now exhibited until April 16th at the Königsaal (R3340, Thierschbau 3rd floor).

Everyone is invited to come and take a closer look at the exciting projects that were created throughout the course of th last six months!

Congratulations to all of our students for finishing another successful semester .tum . Thank you for sharing your work, discussing and celebrating your creative ideas! Once again brilliant projects were designed and important challenges were tackled.

We hope you can rest properly in this lecture free period!

Some impressions from the final presentations:
Paludi Prealps
Ressource, Research, Reset II - Transformationen sakraler Räume
was übrig bleibt
The Promise of Re-Use - Live/Work in Urbino
Fokus Großmarkt
Water Ever III

all images: Julia Makowka

Throughout this week the semesters final reviews have started at the TUM Department of Architecture. Congratulations to all of our students and good luck for the final submissions and presentations! Keep up the good work!

You can find an overview of all reviews and exhibitions here. If you’d like further information, check out our website and follow our daily and weekly stories!

All final reviews are open to the public and some are accompanied by exhibitions, talks or interventions. Don’t hesitate to stop by and check out the numerous exiting, innovate and creative projects that were developed at our department in the winter semester of 2024/2025!

Human rights violations are more present in the media than ever before due to the ubiquitous availability of image sources such as smartphones and surveillance cameras.
‚Visual Investigations‘ use data from these image and sound sources to shed light on violent and repressive events.

The exhibition VISUAL INVESTIGATIONS - BETWEEN ADVOCACY, JOURNALISM, AND LAW
uses seven examples to show how architects, in collaboration with experts from various disciplines, stand up for justice and responsibility.

Visit now until the 9th of February!
Opening hours:
Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Monday closed

Students of architecture, design and graphic arts as well as art, art history, art studies and art education receive free admission to the Pinakothek der Moderne. A valid student ID from the university or college is valid as proof.



Images: Sophie Lin

TUM Architecture wishes everyone a joyful festive season! Enjoy the holidays and take the opportunity to recharge, reflect and reconnect!



Image showing results from the gingerbread house competition held by the student-led Café photographed by Julia Makowka

From December 17, 2024, to January 12, 2025, the traveling exhibition WATER FUTURES will take place in Munich.

The joint exhibition by the Chair of Architectural Design and Participation (Prof. Kéré, TUM) .design.chair and the Chair of Theory of Urbanization and Urban Environments (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio) is curated by Alberto Pottenghi, Sascha Roesler, Alida von Boch-Galhau and Lydia Xynogala.

WATER FUTURES explores water as both a resource and a force shaping urban and architectural imagination. The exhibition addresses urgent water crises - scarcity, contamination, privatization - and highlights its role in fostering resilience, health, and community.

The Chair of Architectural Design and Participation .design.chair presents student projects from the design briefs COLLECTRA[SH], FOODTOPIA, [SUP]PORT, and WATER EVER. The works, collected over the past six semesters, address water challenges through site-specific, experimental designs.

The Chair of Theory of Urbanization and Urban Environments (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio) presents work from a seminar that explored the impact of rising sea levels on coastal cities, combining scientific and architectural insights to propose resilient global urban strategies.

more information on: go.tum.de/136450

Images: Julia Makowka, Sophie Lin

We congratulate our Chair of Architectural Design and the participating students for winning the 2024 Detail Award for Students and Schools of Architecture with the project „Realmontagen - Bauteile im Freien“.

Led by Prof. Uta Graff and Max Treiber, the project of the summer semester 2023 explored reuse and transformation in urban contexts through subtle interventions in the Alter Südfriedhof München. Using simple materials like ropes and textiles, master’s students created precise, sensitive works that evoked memories and cultural meanings.

The jury praised the critical engagement with existing spaces and the ability to craft universal experiences with minimal means, noting: „The research project is a reminder that all architectural actions have meaning, as they evoke memories and experiences and give individuals the opportunity to be part of a larger culture.“

participants: Yevheniia Skok, Katarzyna Lis, Alice Eising, Ilinca-Ioana Bucur, Martin Villa, Simon Bothe, Florian Roth, Tobias van Hecke, Phoebe Verschuuren, Zita Sabbe, Miriam Hagos, Luisa Holm, Sophia Miebach

more on https://go.tum.de/878502

images: 1+2 Max Treiber, 3 Jonas Virsik, 4 Florian Roth

Last week, as part of the vernissage of the exhibition ‘Comb Sisters: Architecture of a Women’s Collective’, the Christiane Thalgott Award 2024 was awarded to our master graduate Yingjia Tan.
The exhibition will be on display at from December 03 - 15 and will be accompanied by the following events:

Parity Jour Fixe No. 35: ‘Hearing Unheard Voices - on Oral History in Architectural Research’ with Yingjia Tan, Prof. Andres Lepik, Andjelka Badnjar and Eduarda Poubel
Thursday, December 12, 6 pm, Pavillon 333

Finissage: Film screening of ‘A Simple Life’ by Ann Hui
Sunday, December 15, 3 pm, Pavilion 333

Exhibition opening hours
Mon-Fri: 14.00-19.00
Sat-Sun: 12.00-18.00

Images: Sophie Lin, Lisa Clausen-Schaumann

Congratulations to architect Dilan Vural! Our guest lecturer and .tum alumna has been awarded the North Rhine-Westphalia State Advancement Award 2024 (NRW Förderpreis 2024) in the category of ‚Baukunst‘.
Dilan Vural’s teaching concept „Unlearn“ redefines architectural education by focusing on sustainability, social impact, and the transformation of existing structures. As head of her Cologne-based architecture firm , she integrates technical expertise with ecological and social responsibility.
The jury of the NRW Förderpreis, which honors exceptional artistic talents, highlighted her forward-thinking projects on existing buildings as a major contribution to contemporary architecture.

More on go.tum.de/147839

Image: Dilan Vural Architektur, Archive 2024, private

„City.Sphere. Stadt als Lebensraum - city + (bio)sphere“ was the theme of the summer semester 2024 at the Chair of Visual Arts (Prof. Karianne Fogelberg) . Students developed their own questions and aesthetic positions in the urban space.

The publication of the same name, published by shows the 51 student projects that were created. It is supplemented by contributions such as a discussion and a glossary, which situate the artistic works with their diverse questions about the city as a living space for human and non-human creatures between social discourse and contemporary design practice.

The publication thus opens up different perspectives on the topic in the field of tension between design and artistic approaches.

See „City.Sphere. Stadt als Lebensraum - city + (bio)sphere“ as open access publication on: go.tum.de/978065

Congratulations to our students Marlene Stechl, Paul Metzger and Xi Chen for being among the winners of the Hochschulpreis der Bayerischen Bauindustrie 2024!

On November 19, 2024, the Award of 2024 was presented by the . It honored outstanding scientific works in the field of construction. The awarded works cover current and future-oriented research areas, including Innovative Materials and Constructions (IMK), Computer-Aided Modeling and Manufacturing (CMM), and Circular and Regenerative Building (CRB).

In the IMK category, Marlene Stechl received the 1st prize for her master’s thesis „HopMaterials“, in which she investigates hop waste as a sustainable building material. In the KRB category, Paul Metzger was awarded the 1st prize for his master’s thesis „Form Follows Automation,“ while Xi Chen received the 2nd prize for her master’s thesis „Voxel-Based Approach for Canopy Design.“

The Hochschulpreis der Bayerischen Bauindustrie was established four years ago, honors innovative research, and strengthens the connection between academia and practice.

more information on https://go.tum.de/791732

Images:
01 - Marlene Stechl
02 - Paul Metzger
03 - Xi Chen

Congratulations to our graduate Yingjia Tan for receiving the Christiane Thalgott Prize 2024 for her Master thesis ‚Herland in the Canton Delta-Comb Sister Collective and their Living Space‘!

The Thalgott Award jury praised the work for ‚its compelling use of architecture as a lens to document and understand the cohabitation of intentionally unmarried women‘ and commended ‚the work’s success in providing a well-founded socio-political and historical discussion of the phenomenon, accompanied by a rich and original collection of material.‘

Annually, the Thalgott Prize is awarded for outstanding interdisciplinary and innovative projects by female architecture students at TUM.
The Thalgott Prize 2024 will be awarded on December 3 as part of the Vernissage of the exhibition ‚Comb Sisters: Architecture of a Women’s Collective‘ at Pavillon 333. The exhibition is an extension of Yingjia Tan’s master’s thesis and will be on display from December 03 - 15.

More on: go.tum.de/958875

All photo credits from Yingjia Tan’s Master thesis ‚Herland in the Canton Delta - Comb Sister Collective and their Living Space‘
Image 1: the Combing-Up ceremony, Hor Kwok Kin, ‚Hairdresser’, c. 1960s, photograph, National Museum of Singapore
Image 2: the distribution of Comb Sister movement in the Canton Delta, Yingjia Tan, map by the author, data based on Stockard, Daughters of the Canton Delta, 163
Image 3: Female workers in a silk filature, Shunde Archive, Shunde Ronggui Diqu Cansiye Qingkuang Yueying‘ [Snapshot of the silk industry in the Shunde Ronggui]
Image 4: the two spatial formations along with the Comb Sister movement, (left) Glenn T. Trewartha, ‚Field Observations on the Canton Delta of South China‘, Economic Geography 15, no. 1 (1939): 8. (right) Yingjia Tan, ground floor plan of Good Virtue Hall
Image 5: Patio of Good Virtue Hall, photograph by Yingjia Tan, Nov 23, 2023
Image 6: Axonometry of Good Virtue Hall, plan by Yingjia Tan, data based on on-site investigation
Image 7: exhibition poster by Yingjia Tan

The Parity Jour Fixe No. 34 ‚What are Feminist Spatial Practices?‘ hosted by Parity TUM Architecture took place this past monday.

Thank you from .tuwien and and the collective for your valuable insights into your inspiring work and perspectives on feminist spatial practices and beyond!

The talk was organized by Isabel Glogar from .tum and and included a student-led open call to participate in the PJF by SOFT - inviting feminist positions in architecture.

Images: Sophie Lin

The Closing the Circle exhibition opened last week on November 12, 2024, and will be on display until January 21, 2025. The exhibition showcases works and models made by students from the last semesters, which provide innovative and interesting impulses for the reuse of materials in model making.

In addition to the opening event „CTC x Lehre“ the Christmas special „CTC x Machen“ will take place on December 17 (6.30 pm) and the closing event „CTC x Stadt“ on January 21 (6.30 pm).

is an initiative that emerged from a semester project by students at the Professorship of Urban Design. The project investigated the resource demands of model making, focusing on temporal, financial, and material aspects. The initiative aims to establish a platform for student exchange while highlighting that the way we build is also influenced by the way we construct our models.

Visit the exhibition and events to explore the innovative use of materials and creative approaches to architectural model making!

opening hours:
mon-thu - 9 am to 5 pm
fri - 9 am to 3 pm

where:
Schnitzer& Studio, Lindwurmstraße 95a, 80337 München

pictures:
1 & 2 - CTC
3 Lilia Piperova

more on https://go.tum.de/216422

TUM architecture student Lisa Schneider successfully participated in this years autumn workshop 2024 of the Academy for Architectural Culture .hamburg in Hamburg.

In this workshop, 16 international students came together to conceptualise and develop designs for the WAI Woods Art Institute. In addition to tutorials and interim presentations, the workshop was accompanied by public lectures as well as an excursion to the site.

Located in Wentorf near Reinbek Castle along the Bille River, the WAI Woods Art Institute was founded by Rik and Anna-Julia Reinking in 2019. The art center features the Reinking collection, artist studios, event spaces, a boarding house, and a growing sculpture garden. The site includes a historic villa, thatched cottages, a modern exhibition hall and a 10-hectare park, designed in 1914, that offers scenic paths through art installations and trees.

Lisa Schneider was part of the first Group which channelled natural watercourses in order to guide visitors through the site with the help of flowing water.

In spring and in autumn of each year, the aac brings together outstanding architecture students and graduates from all over the world in order to deal with relevant topics in architecture.

more on https://www.aac-hamburg.com

image 01: aac Academy for Architectural Culture
image 02: group 01
image 03: group 02
image 04: group 03
image 05: group 04

participants:
Mouawya Al Abdullah, Jovan Theophilus Amin, Louis Aston, Martin Brem, Giang Bui Thi, Anastásia Burneuskaya, Eunate Etxebarria Abad, Fabian Frosch, Corentin Georgel, Alessandro Ghersi, Anna Ławecka, Reece Oliver, Conor Matthew Ryan, Lisa Schneider, Leonardo Silvera, Simon Spliethoff