CONFERENCE: "Preserving and Shaping: On the relationship between architectural conservation and architectural design", Annual Conference of the Working Group on Theory and Education in Architectural Conservation (AKTLD), 2-5 October 2025 in Cottbus.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED: Zeido Zeido and Suna Suna Çağaptay, eds. Mapping Cities in the MENA Region: Visualising the Untold Narratives of Heritage, Basel 2025.
published 2024: Johanna Blokker, “Building a Global Citizenship from Cultural Heritage”?, in: Steve Kenner, Malte Kleinschmidt, Dirk Lange, Frank Reichert and Christiane Schröder, eds., Inclusive Citizenship - Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Bürgerschaft und politische Bildung, Wiesbaden 2025, pp. 71-83.
published 2024: Johanna Blokker, "Stürzen oder Bewahren. Der Umgang mit kolonialen Denkmalen aus Sicht der Denkmalpflege", in: Henning Steinführer and Meike Buck, eds., Aspekte des Kolonialen in der Geschichte Niedersachsens und Bremens, Jahrestagung der Historischen Kommission für Niedersachsen und Bremen, 17.-18. Juni 2022 in Cuxhaven, Göttingen 2025), pp. 333-335.
published 2024: Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir et al., Thementisch Quartier, in: Paul Bellendorf et al. (eds.), Anpassungsstrategien für Denkmale im Klimawandel. ICOMOS German National Committee 2024.
published 2024: Skedzuhn-Safir, A. (2024) Powerful Patina: The Value of Odors in a Tibetan Buddhist Temple. In: Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 1–17.
published 2024: Clara Rellensmann and Wint Tin Htut Latt, "Studio Bagan: Engaging with Cultural Heritage Conservation through Problem-Based Learning across Disciplines", in: H. Klumpner and K.E. Papanicolaou (eds.), Transitioning to Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG11), MDPI Book Series: Transitioning to Sustainability, MDPI 2024 (15 pages).
published 2024: Clara Rellensmann, Appropriating Sacred Spaces. Heritage Politics in Myanmar, (Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market, vol. 10), Cham 2024.
published 2024: Johanna Blokker, Sylvia Claus, Alexandra Druzynski von Bötticher and Albert Kirchengast, "...in die Jahre gekommen: ECA-Entwicklungsbauten in Stuttgart", in: db deutsche bauzeitung, 11 / 2024, pp. 42-48.
19 November 2024: The Chair in Architectural Conservation will host an evening lecture by Arch. Prof. Jens Casper (Erfurt University) as part of a new series presented by the Institute for Building History and Art History at BTU.
24 July 2024: Frank Rochow has received a special award from the Polish Academy of Sciences for his dissertation on "Architektur und Staatsbildung" (University of Halle / Saale 2022, published by Wallstein Verlag in 2024). Congratulations Frank!
1 July 2024: The grant period in the DFG-funded research project "Buildings of the Allied Occupation in Western Germany" has been extended for a further 30 months until 1 January 2027.
19-22 June 2024: Conference Theophil Hansen Transregional at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Read the Conference Report.
5 June 2024: Danica Petrovic MSc, Student Assisant in the DFG-funded project "Buildings of the Allied Occupation in Western Germany, 1945-55", has been awarded the prize for the best Master's thesis of 2024 by the Berlin State Architectural Conservation Authority's Student Prize for the best Master's thesis of 2024 for her work on "The L'Aiglon Cinema and Hotel in Berlin-Wedding".
published 2024: Frank Rochow, Architektur und Staatsbildung. Festungsbauten als Instrument habsburgischer Herrschaft in Krakau und Lemberg, Göttingen 2024.
published 2024: Johanna Blokker, "Challenging Monuments: Heritage conservation and the difficult legacies of colonialism", in: Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge Sezer and Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir, eds., Architectures of Colonialism. Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories, Basel 2024, pp. 231-244.
published 2024: Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge Sezer and Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir, eds., Architectures of Colonialism. Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories, Basel 2024.
published 2023: Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir, "Pushing Boundaries: Localisation of nineteenth-century prostitution in Florence", in: Sonja Dolinsek and Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, eds., Histories of Prostitution in Central and Eastern Europe, Paderborn 2023, 23-44.
published 2023: Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir, "Die Bedeutung des Unsichtbaren. Bordelle im Florenz des 19. Jahrhunderts", in: Eva von Engelberg-Dočkal, Svenja Hönig and Stephanie Herold, eds., Alltägliches Erben (Veröffentlichungen des Arbeitskreises Theorie und Lehre der Denkmalpflege e.V. Bd. 32), Holzminden 2023, 82-89.
2 November 2022: Clara Rellensmann won the Max Grünebaum Prize for her Dissertation on the "Rebuilt Landscape" of Bagan in Myanmar. Further information is available from the Press Office of BTU as well as from the Max Grünebaum Foundation.
published 2022: Prof. Dr. Johanna Blokker, "Heritage and the ‘Heartland’: Architectural and urban heritage in the discourse and practice of the populist far right", in: Journal of European Studies, themed issue on European Heritage and Citizenship, 9 Sept. 2022.
1 April 2022: Kick-off for the DFG-funded project "Buildings of the Allied Occupation". Welcome to our two new project researchers!
published 2022: Antoine Beaudoin, „Généalogie du projet de l’Olympiastadion de Berlin. Manipulations architecturales pour conquérir les masses“, in: Dietmar Hüser, Paul Dietschy, Philippe Didion, ed., Sport-Arenen – Sport-Kulturen – Sport-Welten / Arènes du sport – cultures du sport – mondes du sport. Perspectives franco-allemandes et européennes dans le ‚long‘ XXe siècle, Stuttgart 2022, 443-456.