Tenue-Track
New Research Focus Areas at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning
Through the establishment of tenured positions, the faculty aims to develop new research focus areas or strengthen existing ones. The process for filling these positions involves a multi-stage, internationally oriented application and selection process designed to attract the best talent and thereby further enhance the faculty’s research capabilities.
Tenue-Track
Establishment of career positions to expand research priorities at a high international level (profile development, position selection, and assignment take place within the framework of a highly competitive, multi-stage selection and application process)
Transformation of Existing Buildings and Design
Research Topics
Architectural design methods
Innovative pedagogical approaches in design education
Structural-spatial perspectives on renovation and the transformation of existing buildings
Integrated building solutions in the context of climate change
Qualification: since 2026 (ongoing)
Research Unit: Building Construction and Design 1
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Building and Planning Culture in Rural Areas
Research Topics
Building and Planning Culture in Rural Areas
Rural Transformation
Selected topics
Community Development Processes
Participation and Social Planning Processes
Community Living and New Forms of Housing in Rural Areas
Bridging the Gap Between Planning, Research, and Regional Practice
Qualification: since 2025 (ongoing)
Research Unit: Urban Planning and Design
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Regional and Urban Transformation
Reaearch fields
Sustainability Transitions, Transformation Research, Urban and Refional Development
Selected topics
Transformation conflict, Planning Cultures in Transformation, Resilient Metropolitan Regions, Energy Transition and Climate Change Adaptation, Social Innovation, Urban Experimentation
Qualification: since 2023 (ongoing)
Research Unit: Urban and Regional Research
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Evidence-based Design Support
Research Topics
evidence-based design
Human-Building Interaction
Sensing Technologies
Multimodal analytics
Social infrastructure
Empirical studies
Qualification: since 2021 (completed)
Research Area: Digital Architecture and Planning
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Health Care Design
Research Topics
healthcare design
enviroments for rehabilitation of stoke patients
evidence-based design
Qualification: 2025 (completed)
Research Unit: Building Theory and Design
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Social Infrastructure Research and Planning
Research Topics
Social Infrastructure
Health Economics
Regional Studies
Qualification: 2025 (completed)
Research Unit: Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy
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Urban Structure Studies
Reaearch fields
Urban structure research, urban morphology, urban development
Selected topics
urban (re)development in response to current global crises and challenges (resilient, climate-friendly urban planning), the 15-minute city, urban structures of the 19th -21st century, open-use building structures, the perception of architecture and public space, negotiations of mobility and place loyalty in urban discourse, UPM Urban Parterre Modelling and City Information Modelling CIM.
Qualification: 2019 (completed, Venia for Städtebau)
Research Unit: Urban Design
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Building Systems and Control
Reaearch fields
Building physics, monitoring, diagnostics, automation and control, communication networks, system and building simulation, energy efficient systems and buildings
Qualification: 2018 (completed, Venia for Gebäudesteuerung und -diagnose)
Research Unit: Building Physics and Building Ecology
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Resource Efficient Structural Design
Reaearch fields and Selected topics
Resource-efficient and sustainable planning and construction
Resource-conserving, resource-efficient, and circular design
Circular planning and construction processes
Life cycle assessment, waste and material flow management, building demolition, reuse, and recovery
Assessment methodologies and criteria for building certification
Life cycle costs and economic evaluation
Social sustainability, accessibility, and user comfort
Qualification: 2016 (completed, Venia for Resource Efficient Structural Design)
Research Unit: Structural Design and Timber Engineering
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Urban Culture and Public Space
Reaearch fields
urban studies, theories of space in the social sciences and humanities, international planning theory (foci: space, everyday life and urban democracy); everyday life, lived space and capitalist urbanization; social movements, and civil society in urban development, urban restructuring and urban extension schemes; democracy theory and intersectional research methodology
Selected topics
Public space between crises and innovation, urban care and uncare, relational space and relational age debates, social infrastructures and urban culture, social inequality, difference and everyday life, relational-material space, dissent, events and dissidence in architecture theory, urban vacancies and urban cultural appropriation of spatial resources
Qualification: 2016 (completed, Venia for Urban Studies)
Research Unit: Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (Head)
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Research Unit: Housing and Design
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European Spatial Development, with a Focus on Central and Southeastern Europe
Research Unit: Regional Planning and Regional Development
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