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UD HOME GROWN – Housing Alliances on the Rise Bengt Kröner, Sebastian Kunz, Yisha Zhang, Yue Zhang WiSe 15/16 By offering a variety of programs, the strip will…

Broxymoron

UD HOME GROWN – Housing Alliances on the Rise Hişar Ersöz, Anne Gunia, Mateusz Rej, Frederik Springer, Piroska Szabó Urban Design Studio WiSe 15/16 We determined several rules…

Hi, High-density

UD HOME GROWN – Housing Alliances on the Rise Madeleine Appelros, Jennifer Gehring, Benedikt Wieser, Bu Yijie WiSe 15/16 The Pankow Güterbahnhof site presents an extraordinary and rare…

KVV WS 2021/22

Dear students, the course catalogue for the winter term is finally out. Click here to download it.  

FAQ for Incoming Students 2021

Dear Incoming Students of the year 2021, We are looking forward to meeting you in the first semester of the Urban Design Master at the TU Berlin! At…

Student assistant position from October 2020 !

The Habitat Unit is looking for a student assistant to help with the organisation of the Dual Degree Master from October 2020! Applications until August 6, 2020  

Important Information: Covid-19 Online teaching in the summer semester 2020

© Alissa Eckert, MS, Dan Higgins, MAM

Regarding the current situation of COVID-19 TU Berlin has decided to start the summer semester on the 20th of April with online teaching. To stay informed regularly check…

1. Preis “Goldener Büffel 2019”

Das interdisziplinäre Team der TU Berlin mit den Studierenden Luisa Balz (Urban Design), Jonas Brodzinski (Architektur), Luisa Berßelis (Städtebau) und Sahl Kreish (Architektur) hat mit Ihrem Entwurf aus…

KVV UD WS 19/20

Updated! Download here the course catalogue for the winter term 2019/20!!     http://www.urban-design.tu-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/191021_KVV_UDMA-komprimiert.pdf

Berlin XX XL*

In the context of the forthcoming 2020 centenary of Greater-Berlin the studio will look at the city’s past (built, unbuild, destroyed, forgotten) and present (contested, procrastinating, path-dependent) to…

Introduction Urban Design

We invite all the Urban Design students starting their studies in the winter term 2019-20 to join the Introduction Day: WHEN:  Monday, October 7th @ 2pm WHERE:  A053…

Two scholarships for the UD Dual Degree in Shanghai!

We congratulate all the students which have been accepted in the Urban Design M.Sc. starting in October 2019! Two more students can get the chance to participate at…

Dual Degree Master Graduation 2019

The Urban Design Dual Degree students who started their studies at TU Berlin in the winter term 2017 succesfully graduated at Tongji University Shanghai this June. Congratulations!  …

Award Urban Design Studio – Friends of the TU Berlin Preis für vorbildliche Lehre

On the 8th of October, the Urban Design Studio (Prof Stollmann, Prof. Misselwitz, Katharina Hagg and Aine Ryan) was awarded the price for outstanding teaching (1.500€), donated by…

The Rhetoric and Challenges of the New Urban Agenda in African Cities An African Perspective

The New Urban Agenda (NUA) is the outcome document agreed upon at the Habitat III cities conference in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2016. It seeks to guide the…

Red Sea All-Inclusive

Tourism is one principal economic sector for Egypt. The Red Sea coast with its sandy beaches and appealing coral reefs accounts for more than 60 per cent of…

Tempohomes

Seit 2014 hat die sogenannte “Flüchtlingskrise” in Deutschland zu einer Vielfalt von praktischen Lernversuchen von Stadtverwaltungen und der Zivilgesellschaft geführt, um die Handlungs- und Verwaltungskrise auf kommunaler und…

Atlas of Digital Fragments

Digitalization and urbanization are deeply intertwined. Yet, the impact of digitalization in shaping urban transformation is highly contested. A frequent concern voiced by critics is the reliance of…

For what it’s worth II The Great Transformation

By 2050, 70% of the world’s population is likely to live in city-like concentrations. Our climate will have radically changed and natural resources will have dramatically depleted. Digitalisation…

INTRO UD 18

INTRODUCTION URBAN DESIGN 2018/19 October 8, 2018 2p.m. A053   We wish you all a good start!

Chinafrika. under construction

Africa is referred to as the last major growth region in the world. By 2050, the current population of nearly one billion people could almost double, and more…

Die Nachwachsende Stadt – Governing Transformation

Architects and planners are increasingly confronted with new challenges: Fossil energy resources as well as non-renewable materials are on the decline, the effects of climate change and pollution…

Taibat Lawanson Exploring Alternative Urbanisms for Lagos, Nigeria

Cities are shaped by multiple interests, often acting in pursuit of conflicting visions. In Lagos, there is a wide disconnect between the developmental policy thrust of government and…

Asef Bayat Street Politics in the Arab Revolutions

After completing his B.A. in Poli- tics from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences in Tehran, he received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of…

Marie Huchzermeyer Interrogating the New Urban Agenda from the perspective of pressing urban realities in Sub-Saharan Africa

The New Urban Agenda adopted in Quito in October 2016 was the culmination of extensive negotiations among member countries of the UN and of lobbying by the non-…

Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions Connecting Urban-Rural Spheres in Casablanca: edited by Undine Giseke

Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions Connecting Urban-Rural Spheres in Casablanca edited by Undine Giseke Maria Gerster-Bentaya, Frank Helten, Matthias Kraume, Dieter Scherer, Guido Spars, Fouad Amraoui, Abdelaziz…

10TH ANNIVERSARY MASTER URBAN DESIGN TU Berlin

The Master’s Program in Urban Design at the TU Berlin was the first of its kind to be implemented in Germany. The four institutes of Architecture, Landscape Architecture,…

Studio Rural+ / Alpine Commons Midterm Review

In case you are interested in the progress of our current Design Studio “Studio Rural+ / Alpine Commons” all of you are warmly invited to join our upcoming…

10. anniversary Master Urban Design

The Master’s Program in Urban Design at the TU Berlin was the first of its kind to be implemented in Germany. The four institutes of Architecture, Landscape Architecture,…

Vincent Möller Community Led Development and Design in Times of Climate Change

Two factors in particular make informal settlements particularly vulnerable to climate change: high built density, which amplifies the heat-island-effect during hot summer days, and the lack of household…

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