Art History
Architectural history

"The future needs origins". This thought of the philosopher Odo Marquard also shapes the examination of architecture, which reflects social ideals and the dialectic of tradition and modernity. Architectural history is the historical perspective with which we view our built environment: Form, function, materiality of buildings, urban planning concepts, social contexts and the treatment of the built heritage.
© Eckart Wittmann

Team

Architectural history has always been an essential component of the study of art history at the TU Berlin. The following pages show who taught and teaches here.

© Eckart Wittmann

Research and projects

We are currently working on a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the communication of knowledge about theatre construction. We would also like to mention the already completed research on the "Bauhaus at the Baltic Sea" (Prof. Rafał Makała) and the architecture of post-war modernism, whose valorisation through mediation is one of our focal points. Our publication series "Research on Post-War Modernism" bears witness to this.

© Kerstin Wittmann-Englert

Dissertations

Here you will find an overview of the dissertations written at the Institute in the field of architectural history: completed and ongoing projects are listed.

Publications

Since 2006, the "Forschungen zur Nachkriegsmoderne" (Research on Post-War Modernism) has been published as a series by the Department of Art History at the Institute of Art History and Historical Urban Studies at the TU Berlin.

Aktuelles

New publication - OPEN ACCESS

Kämpfe um die Professionalisierung des Museum. Karl Koetschau, die Museumskunde un der Deutsche Museumsbund 1905 - 1939
by Andrea Meyer

now available as OPEN ACCESS

Around 1900, museum people in Germany recognised the need for professionalisation: work processes had to be standardised, binding ethical guidelines for museum practice had to be…

KuK-Tuesdays: Dislocation & Remembrance

It is with great joy that we, the Department of Art History as Cultural History (KuK) of Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy at Technische Universität Berlin, announce the coming session of the KuK- Tuesdays: Dislocation.

Date: February 13th, 2024, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Location: Hybrid Lab, Villa Bell, Marchstraße 8, 10587 Berlin

Experiences of dislocation…

KuK-Tuesdays: Dislocation & Object Lives

It is with great joy that we, the Department of Art History as Cultural History (KuK) of Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy at Technische Universität Berlin, announce the coming session of the KuK- Tuesdays: Dislocation.

Date: January 16th, 2024, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Location: Hybrid Lab, Villa Bell, Marchstraße 8, 10587 Berlin

The lives of “Asian” objects…

Job Posting

The Department of Modern Art History of Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy offers a position as Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG-funded project "Reverse Collection History. Art and Culture from Cameroon in German Museums" which has been ongoing in cooperation with the Université de Dschang in Camerron since 2020. 

The application deadline is December…

KuK-Tuesday: Dislocation & Indomania

It is with great joy that we, the Department of Art History as Cultural History (KuK) of Prof Dr Bénédicte Savoy at Technische Universität Berlin, announce the coming session of the KuK-Tuesdays: Dislocation.

Date: December 19th, 2023, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Location: Hybrid Lab, Villa Bell, Marchstraße 8, 10587 Berlin

Since the Romantic period, India…

Schöne-Lecture: Giving Voice to the Women of the Rijksmuseum

In 2021 the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, under the guidance of Jenny Reynaerts, embarked on the project Women of the Rijksmuseum, which aims to create a better balance in the museum’s collection and presentation, in particular by addressing gendered perspectives and female narratives. To achieve this much needed revision, the five-year project focuses…

Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites 27/10/23—11/02/24

On October 26, 2023, the exhibition Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites will open at Kunsthalle Mainz, co-curated with artist Sammy Baloji by Lotte Arndt. Some of the artworks shown in Mainz were created as part of the project Re-connecting "Objects. Epistemic Plurality and Transformative Practices in and beyonds Museums and will also be part of…

Guide to Academic Work

Dear students of art studies,

as of now, the Guide to Academic Work in Art Studies is freely accessible online as an ISIS course. This course is designed as a guide and reference book for students of the BA KulT Art Studies and the MA Art Studies at TU Berlin. The contents were created by MA students under the direction of Dr. Robert Skwirblies as…

"Atlas der Abwesenheit" at the International Literature Festival

On 12 September 2023, 6 pm, our publication Atlas der Abwesenheit on Cameroon’s cultural heritage in Germany will be presented on a panel discussion at the 23. International Literature Festival Berlin.

Participants:
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
 (Director of the House of World Cultures)
Charles A. Taku (Lead Counsel at the International Criminal…

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Call for papers

thinking techne

International Conference: DFG research group “Dimensions of techne in the Fine Arts. Manifestations / Systems / Narratives” // Technische Universität Berlin // Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 – Saturday, November 4th, 2023.

Deadline: August 25, 2023

What does it mean to think about artistic processes? How do they manifest…