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SHORT STORIES – HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR LONG STORIES – RESEARCH REPORTS, ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS

Doctoral course “Approaching research practice in architecture” commenced 8 “Update Architecture”—The Department’s Annual Exhibition 14 Prof. Regine Keller appointed as “Affiliate Professor” at RCC 8 Strengthening Architecture and Built Environment Research (SABRE) 18 TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professorship awarded to Kees Christiaanse 8 Climate Active Bricks 22 New Design Factory 1:1 9 An investigation into one-century-old gridshells 28 Blue-green infrastructure—Completion of Impulse Project in Stuttgart 9 Mapping Urban Transportation Innovation Ecosystems 31 Review #3 | 2020 Launch of TUM‘s Built Environment Venture Lab 9 “More architecture, fewer buildings!”—Interview 32 Prof. Elisabeth Merk appointed as an Honorary Professor in Planning Practice 9 Places for the Dying 36 Build Simply 2 40 German Colonial Architecture from a Global Perspective 48 Game.UP 54 SEED FUND RESEARCH PROJECTS 46 Stage vs. Emptiness—“Pavillon 333” 58 Opera of Ambiguities 64 Can we build with salt? 68 YOUNG TALENT AWARDS 56 The Key Role of Industrial Design at TUM 74 Suddenly online—Dialog on virtual university teaching 80 Housing and more 90 SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS OF RESEARCH ASSOCIATES 62 FOAM Network 94 Brain Train? High-speed railway stations as focal points of the knowledge economy 98 InnoSpacing 102 VISITING PROFESSORS 86

SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES 108

CLOSE UPS – INSIGHTS TO EXHIBITIONS & DESIGN PROJECTS STAFF INDEX 115 Master Project: Neues Giesing 10 Exhibitions 2020—Architekturmuseum der TUM 12 Corona Graphic Novels 16 PARITY ROAD MAP 118 Master Project: Multiple Realities | Mixed Perspectives 20 Bachelor Project: Memory, connections, souvenir 26 Model photo competition “homemade” 38 IMPRINT 119 Bachelor and Master Project: Towards the Intelligent Ruin 44 Bachelor and Master Project: The Architecture of the Block 45 Seminar: Lived Experience of Architectural Space 53 Bachelor and Master Project: Home of Generations 66 Bachelor and Master Projects: Mix it up 67 Exhibition “Caution: Hot!” 72 Bachelor Thesis: Final Countdown II 78 Master Thesis: Social Utopia 85 Publication “Schanitown” 92 Bachelor and Master Project: Architecture Institute 100 Bachelor Project: Urban Ropeways 106 Master Thesis: Images of the City 114 Review #3 | 2020 48 their academicreputation. (www.dfg.de) high-quality research andcontinuebuilding a future senioracademic role, carryonwith to apermanentprofessorship, toprepare for meet alltherequirements forappointment funding foroustandingresearchers who The DFG-Heisenberg Programme provides five-year period. heritage today“,startedinMarch 2020;ithasbeenawarded agrantforthree to “German colonialarchitecture asaglobalproject around 1900andtranscultural Chair ofTheoryandHistoryArchitecture, Art andDesignattheTUM.Hisproject, PD Dr.-Ing. Mag.MichaelFalserwasappointedDFG-HeisenbergFellowtothe from aGlobalPerspective German ColonialArchitecture the remaining traces ofGermancolonial architecture, urbanism, cultural colonially appropriated artefacts to formercoloniesin and , while currentprovenanceresearch comeswithpressingclaimstorestitute regards theissueofhowtodeal withtheGermancolonial era. However, global of field the history and global art history. in Today, years this approach is also hotly debated as past the over discussed been has which turn, history. This will be achieved by incorporating the global and transcultural methodologically innovative approach into the discipline of architectural developed. An exhibition presenting original archival material is another option tobe and journals tomulti-authored volumes),andpublisharticles and amonograph. workshops scientific organize , conferences, contribute to publications (from themed issues inspecialized and Asia Africa, in work field extensive out carry to planned is It Erben). Dietrich (Prof. TUM the into theChairof Theory andHistoryof Architecture, Art andDesignof heritage studies. Since March 2020, this new project has been embedded architectural historian specialized inglobal architectural history and cultural was conceived by, and awarded to Michael Falser, an Austrian art and Foundation (DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft—DFG). The project anew through research projectfundedbytheHeisenberg programoftheGermanResearch tackled now being is desideratum scientific twofold This viewpoint asakindof second, thematize structuresthatarestillstandingfromacontemporary building processes fromahistorical perspective as aglobally connected project colonial German conceptualize first, studies, comprehensive no history, architectural of field the in that surprising rather is it sense, this In today. towns to infrastructural networks and individual buildings, still exists production wassurprisinglyrichandmuchofit,from wholenew of (parts Oceania today’s NewGuineaandSamoa). Itsurbanistandarchitectural and area) Bay Jiaozhou the and of city Togo) to Asia (back then Tsingtau and Kiautschou, today the Chinese (colonies Africa of German East fromAfrica, , Cameroun, and 1): (Fig. several spanning project colonialism (ca.1884–1914)wasgeopolitically-speakingaglobal Despite its extremely short existence—a mere three decades—German From ageneral viewpoint, thisproject intends tointroduce a shared builtheritage

. and, into three different dimensions (analyzed separately and architectural production processeswill bebrokendown a truly global approach. To thisend,German colonial ( or Africa or Asia) andmakeitcompatible with as a discipline, from its classical area-based approach into itscolonies.Itaimsto free architectural history, transfer of architecture from animperial motherland the old-fashioned narrative of a mere one-dimensional project on Germancolonial architecture goes beyond by the new discipline of Global Art History, this With aviewtotheinnovative methodology employed 1884–1914 —aglobalproject Module 1:Germancolonialarchitecture Germany—as theformationoftransculturalheritage. continents and withitsongoingentanglement with to readits(today)contested legacy—across three historically within aglobaloverallstructure,andb) a) topresenttheimmense architectural production This project is structured into two modules that aim history andculturalheritagestudies. strangely under-researched topics in architectural landscapes, andinfrastructural planning arestill artefact collections at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin an appropriate strategytodealwith colonial-era discuss and historicpreservationin Germany. While experts has finally reached the disciplines of architectural history of colonial-era memorials all over the world, this debate present outbreaks ofracism and therelated taking down debate today” (Jürgen Zimmerer 2017). With the colonial heritage [has]advanced toacentral identity all its overseas colonies), the “dispute over Germany’s officially ended World implementation War I,wherebytheGerman Empire lost (whose 1919 of Versailles More than one hundred years after the Peace Treaty of transcultural heritage Module 2:Germancolonialarchitecture as conceptions ofstyleandrepresentation. and frameworks asregardsterms and taxonomies, and techniques, mental culture scales, , charting concrete building practices different and typologiesofcolonial building procedures;and the is, culture—that and implementation of buildingknowledge;material discuss thecolonial production andthelocal adaptation then re-connected), namely: farbphotographischen Abbildungen Scheel’s DeutschlandsKolonieninachtzig Africa, ChinaandOceania,asdepictedin Willy Fig. 1 An overviewofallGermancoloniesin social culture, inorderto (Berlin: 1912). 49 Review #3 | 2020 50 (1905–07) initspresentcondition(Falser2018). Fig. 3 The former 2018 (Falser2018). Bottom: ReconstructedQingdaorailwaystationin by BehmeandKrieger(Wolfenbüttel: 1904); structure in Figs. 2a&2b,top: A depictionoftheoriginal Führer durch Tsingtau undUmgebung Gouverneurs-Wohnhaus other excolonialfantasies. the same building next to a Gartenzwerg Häuschenand (primarily for Chinese tourists) providesaminiature of tour through the listed ensemble, the souvenir shop Heimatstil strange stylistic mix ofGermanregionalism, picturesque and Oriental Consciousness” weremerged hereintoa signboards tellsthestoryof how“ChineseElements the well-maintained building, aseriesofeducative years ago. While ascending the privatized road toward discipline that travelled to the East more than a hundred architectural history, altogether an originally European here withtaxonomiesandvaluejudgmentsof that a shared built-heritage construction is combined (1905–07) on top of the central hills (Fig. 3), reconfirms German colonial rule, the (Figs. 2a&2b). of the German colonial city having been demolished reconstruction of the last decade—the original landmark reveal that the current exterior is a recent in-style façade while investigating historical travel literature would the train station itself. Only detailed studies back home more ambivalent architectural vistas, oneofwhichis railway hall toward the central square opens upsome structures nestedinthisview. However, leavingthe only expertswouldspotsingularGermancolonial an aerial depiction of asurprisinglygreencityscape; Chinese, English, andRussianwelcome the visitor with Concession ofShanghaitothesouth. capital Beijing to the north and the former International the shoreof ,situatedbetweenChina’s much appreciated Chinese harborcityofQingdaoon colonial German marine base: aformer Tsingtau (ca. 1898–1914), today the to trip field preliminary a is presented here. Mostofthemweretaken during mentioned agenda, a small collection of photographs In ordertoexemplify somechallenges withintheabove- a preliminary fieldtripinDecember2018 (present-day Qingdao)in — Going backtoGermancolonialTsingtau which isconstantlybeingredefined. structure underlyingtheseactions(mentalculture), constant manipulation (material culture), andthevalue (social culture of techniques and practices specific the ), legacy of ongoing in-situ cultural-political negotiation German colonial period asahighlydynamic physical module investigates the present-day remains of the postcolonial and global space.Inthissense,thesecond transcultural heritage (inheriting/inheritance) in a the overall aim is to develop a sort of morphology of process (1920–2020) as a shared built heritage? Here, read themwithintheirhundred-yeartransformation fragments in Africa, China, and Oceania. How can we era architectures, infrastructural remains, and urbanist country, thisprojectquestionsGermany’s colonial- and manyformerethnographic museums all over the Approaching oneoftheformerkeybuildings When reaching the city by train, large signboardsin , andcolonial attitude. After anarchitectural Gouverneurs-Wohnhaus (Exhibition panelsinthe Right: A Japaneseurbandevelopmentplanafter1918 base of Tsingtao around1900; Figs. 4a&4bleft: A GermanEntwicklungsplan inside andaroundtheGermantimelayer(Fig.4b). vision ofamoderncitywithnewurbansubcenters Japanese planned andpartially implemented their own left when WWI brokeoutin1914. After thewar, the within anewcolonial regime after Germantroopshad was not enough, the urban fabric continued to develop hinterland Schantung-Bahn, oncedeparting into theKiautschou such asaharborandwholerailwaysystem:theformer has leftaphysicalimprintofhigh-techinfrastructure, 1900 foratotally new Germantown,which tothisday streets andsquareswasnotonlyimplemented around indicate the important fact that a rational urban grid of a seriesofinteresting photographs andmaps. These Strand Hotel.Inside,anexcellent exhibition displays the visitor to another historical structure, the so-called The path down tothe once peripheral beach resort leads and its coal mining sites (Fig. 4a); as if that Strand Hotel,Falser2018). ofthemarine (Falser 2018). the newgovernmentalquarter Right: Internationaliststylefantasiesfor day Qingado; towards thenewcitycenterofpresent- Figs. 5a&5b,left: The present-dayview hybrids isoneofthemanytasksthisproject. Coming totermswiththesepast-colonial architectural historians wouldcall“traditional Chinese architecture.” practices are farawayfromwhatproperarchitectural the workinghypothesisthatthesecontemporary building southwestern seashore(Fig.5b). new Chinese regional government quarter, onthe investment architecture, is foundaroundthemonstrous power, withaninterchangeable language ofinternational to this collage of former colonial styles and attitudes to reaction chain uncanny really the However, 5a). (Fig. stroll alongamarinawithfoodstallsandrestaurants new center around the inner bay, whereChinese couples Today, Qingdaoisatotallymodernmegacity with a For this reason, a first site visit to the city fostered city the to visit site first a reason, this For Michael Falser 51