Ongoing dissertations
Since 2025
Architects engaged in the redevelopment of existing buildings are faced with the challenge of integrating ecological, economic, and cultural-heritage-related requirements. Regulatory frameworks are often perceived as restrictive in this context.
This dissertation adopts an alternative perspective, examining the extent to which principles derived from heritage conservation can serve as catalysts for sustainable strategies in dealing with the existing building stock. The central question is whether and how such principles can be transferred beyond the context of listed or protected buildings.
Against the backdrop of current processes of transformation, post-war architecture becomes a particular focus of attention. The aim of the study is to identify potentials for a resource-efficient and qualitatively informed approach to this segment of the built environment.
The research combines theoretical analysis with exemplary case studies and seeks to contribute to the further development of sustainable strategies for the transformation of existing buildings.
Completed dissertations
2024
Schmid, Benjamin: Measuring models in the network. Studies in the history of construction technology on network formation in the construction industry of the high modern age using the example of model statics
Lee, Dasol: 1960's Urban Reconstruction and Infrastructure in South Korea: Compared to the Cases in West Germany (Prof. Philipp)
2023
Becker, Friedrich: Studies on architecture in the late medieval Margraviate of Baden (1450 - 1530) (Prof. Philipp)
Guirguinova, Radoslava: The exchange of ideas between Western and Eastern European city: An exploratory analysis based on the research on Stuttgart and Plovdiv (Prof. Philipp)