Selected Lectures

May 2012 Christoph Wessling, Merging the Intercultural and Cross- Cultural: The Case of Joint Urban Design Workshops between Germany and Universities in the Arab World; City Debates 2012 - Re-Conceptualizing Boundaries: Urban Design in the Arab World; Department of Architecture and Design, American University of Beirut

18.10.2011 Public Lectures at the University of Cairo / Giza, Department of Architecture: Juliane Jäger: New building construction in the context of the historic town or: The interaction of old & new; Christoph Wessling: THE BERLIN EXPERIENCE - Urban Development Strategies for Inner City Unification

04.10.2010 Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Heinz Nagler, The Importance of Inner City Renewal to the Development of the complete city, University of Dohuk, Iraq

23.06.2010 Stay and guest lecture Ammar Ghazal, Director of "The office for the Rehabilitation of the Old Town of Aleppo" at the Faculty 2 of the BTU Cottbus, title of the lecture: The project for rehabilitation of the old city of Aleppo as catalyst for development

21.10.2009 Public Lecture Christoph Wessling: THE BERLIN EXPERIENCE - Urban Development Strategies for Inner City Unification, American University of Beirut, Architecture Lecture Hall

01.12. – 05.12.2008 Stay and guest lecture of Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Heinemann, scientific assistant at the chair for Urban Development and Design at the BTU, held at the American University of Beirut, title of the lecture: "The Common and the Specific, on adaptability of buildings and programs"

24.11.2008 Guest lecture of Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Wessling, scientific assistant at the chair for Urban Development and Design at the BTU, held at the University Hannover, Institute for Urban Design, title of the lecture: "Urban Development Damascus and informal Settlement Development"

19.11. and 20.11.2008 Stay and guest lecture of Prof. Dr. Robert Saliba, American University of Beirut at the Faculty 2 of the BTU Cottbus, title of the lecture: "THE SHAPING OF BEIRUT'S CENTRAL DISTRICT - From Colonial to Market Urbanism"

12.11. and 13.11.2008 Stay and guest lecture of Prof. Dr. George Arbid, American University of Beirut at the Faculty 2 of the BTU Cottbus, title of the lecture: "THE AMNESIC PHENIX - Modern Lebanese Architecture"

05.11.2008 Guest lecture of Orhan Esen, Istanbul at the Faculty 2 of the BTU Cottbus, title of the lecture: "Istanbul – City in Transformation. Informal Urban Design in Istanbul"

May 2008 Lecture Christoph Wessling: "The Importance of the Renewal of the Inner City for the Development of Greater Cairo", Conference at the University Kassel: Mega-Cities between Boom and Faint? Urban Renewal and Restructuring in the expanding Metropolis of the South

Winter Term 2004/05 Lectures within the Faculty's series of lectures: Dr. Anette Gangler, 5000 Years of Urban Design in Aleppo; Dr. Sonja Nebel, TU-Berlin, Habitat-Unit, Urban Development Damascus; Prof. Dr. Ghassan el-Badwan, University of Damascus / TU-Berlin, traditional and modern architecture in the inner city of Damascus