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.
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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.

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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.

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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

Event

It is with great joy that we, the Department of Art History as Cultural History of Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy at Technische Universität Berlin, announce our panelists for the third evening of the series KuK-Tuesdays: Dislocation:
Historian of Science and Writer Dr. Edna Bonhomme as well as Filmmaker, Archival Artist and Curator Akram Zaatari. During the session on the 14th of February 6 pm, moderated by Dr. des. Sebastian Willert, reflections on “Dislocation and Love/Community” shall be shared.

Speaking on the restitution or more appropriately the refusal to restitute, a high ranking British official cited his love for the Benin bronzes. At first glance, dislocation of both cultural artifacts and people may seem unrelated to love yet if not parallel, they are intimately entangled. From the loss of loved ones to enslavement and trade in enslaved people, to the displacement of families during colonial punitive expeditions as well as the love so called “collectors” had for the objects they collected, we will interrogate how dislocation interrupted love lives, disrupted family structures and how love provided a sort of “way back” for the dislocated.

The series of events KuK-Tuesdays: Dislocation, curated by Fogha Mc and Jeanne-Ange Wagne is a continuation of the translocations-Tuesdays series which was initiated at our department a few years ago and aims to provide a space for exchange between the research at our institute, perspectives from the practice, as well as artistic and activist positions.

The event is free of charge and the conversation will be held in English.

As a safety precaution against Covid-19, we kindly ask that you refrain from attending in case of feeling unwell.

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