Dessau Institute of Architecture (DIA) is a graduate unit within the Faculty of Architecture and Building Engineering in
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Anhalt) in
Dessau,
Germany
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. The institute runs a four semester professional master's program in architecture, which is taught in English. The institute is located partly within the historic
Bauhaus
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building designed by
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one ...
. DIA's students come from more than thirty different countries, making it one of the most international schools in Europe. The institute was run by
Alfred Jacoby until 2017. The current director is Prof. Ralf Niebergall.
Teachers 2020
Faculty Staff
*Prof. Ralf Niebergall – DIA Director
*Prof. Johannes Kalvelage
*Prof. Johannes Kiste
*Prof. dott. arch.
:de:Christoph_Kohl_(Architekt), Christoph Kohl (Substitute Professor
*Prof. Dr. Natascha Meuser
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*Prof. Stefan Worbes
*Prof. Dr. Gernot Weckherlin (Substitute Professor)
*Juanfra Garcia Guillen
Guests Studio Masters
*Peter Apel
*Clément Blanche
*Roger Bundschuh
*Ivan Kucina
*Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügg
*Dr. Sina Mostafavi
*Amelie Rost
*Prof. Peter Ruge
*Fredrik Skåtar
Electives/CAD-Logic
*Torsten Blume
*Marco Mondello
*Esteban Lamm
*Alexander Lech
*Prof. Dieter Raffler
*Nico Steinborn
*Fredrik Skåtar
*Ines Toscano
Some of the visiting professors were:
*Gabriel Feld (
Rhode Island School of Design, RISD)
*Roger Bundschuh (Bundschuh Architekten
*
Neil Leach
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*''Digital Tectonics'' - co-editor with David Turnbull and Chris Williams (2004)
*''Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies: Architects'' ...
(
USC)
*
Lara Schrijver (
TU Delft
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*
Arie Graafland (
TU Delft
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*Max Cohen de Lara and David Mulder (XML Architecture Research Urbanism
*Jasper de Haan (Jasper de Haan Architecte
*Joris Fach (
Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
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The department is currently led by James ...
)
*Mathias del Campo (SPAN architects)
*
Lars Lerup
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Rice University
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)
*Christos Passas (
Zaha Hadid Architects
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Architectural work Conceptual projects
*Price Tower extension hybrid project (2002), Ba ...
)
*Daniel Dendra (Another Architect)
*Immanuel Koh
*Andong Lu (
Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
The Department of Architecture is part of the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art in the University of Cambridge. Both Departments are housed in Scroope Terrace on Trumpington Street, Cambridge.
The department is currently led by James ...
)
*Senan Abdelqader (Senan Abdelqader Architects)
External links
Official website
Architecture schools in Germany
Dessau
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