17-21 August 2011: Students of the Habitat Unit contribute to the "FESTIVAL ÜBER LEBENSKUNST" organized by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures).

June 9, 2011: Opening of the Exhibition: "Eingewanderte Baumeister - Architekturtransfer zwischen Deutschland und Chile 1852-1875
This exhibition presents results of an ongoing research cooperation between the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago and the Habitat Unit. It explores the direct migration of architectural concepts and house types to Chile during the late 19th century.
Venue: 'Forum' in the Architecture Building (Ernst-Reuter-Platz).
Time 07:00 pm.
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May 28, 2011: The Habitat Unit at 'Long Night of Sciences' (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften)
The Habitat Unit is involved in three events during the 'Long Night of Sciences" which takes places at all Berlin universities on May 28, from 5pm - 1am.
The U-Lab together with the 'Berlin Brownfields' seminar and our guests from the University of the Witwatersrand invites key stakeholders to discuss the future importance of the Obere Stadtspree for the city and the 'kiez' (neighbourhood).
Venue: 'house of the city' (Amerika-Haus) Hardenbergstr. 22-24. Time 5:15 - 5:45 pm.
The Urban Management program presents the student project of the year 2010 which took place in Cairo and Gizeh, Egypt. Venue: 'house of the city' (Amerika-Haus) Hardenbergstr. 22-24. Time 5:55.
Presentation of our research cooperation with the German University of Technology in Muscat about "Sustainable Settlement Patterns in Oman". Venue: Architecture Building. Time: 7:30 pm.

May 23, 2011: "Liverpool Brownfield Sites"
Lecture by Professor Paul Kotze from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Venue: H 0122 (main building of the TU)
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 13 January – Friday 14 January 2011:
International Symposium: Ernst Boerschmann and Early Research in Traditional Chinese Architecture.
An International symposium with speakers from Australia, China, Germany and Japan. The 2-day symposium aims to discuss the contributions of Ernst Boerschmann, Liang Sicheng and others towards the 'discovery' and documentation of traditional Chinese architecture.
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Begin: Thursday 13 January 2011, 13:00
Venue: Strasse des 17. Juni 153 Architecture Building at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Room A111.

Monday, October 19, 2009:
Open Lecture by Prof. Dr. Margarita Greene on "Housing and Sustainability: Continuity and Change"
Date and time: October 26, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Lecture hall A053

October 25-31, 2009:
Exhibition on the Conservation of the Old Water Towns in the Yangtze Delta, China.
Opening of the exhibition and introductory lecture by Prof. Ruan Yisan, Tongji University Shanghai. Prof. Ruan is one of China's leading experts in the field of urban conservation.
Date and time: October 26, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Architecture Building of the TU Berlin at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Strasse des 17. Juni 152, 10623 Berlin. Entrance Hall.
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July 8, 2009:
Special Lecture of Juan Ignacio Baixas Figueras
on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition about his works. Prof. Baixas is one of the most reputed contemporary Chilean architects. He is also professor at the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile.The exhibition is organized jointly by the Habitat Unit and the Chair for Climate Responsive Building Prof. Hascher as part of an ongoing cooperation project with the PUC.
Date and time: July 8, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Architecture Building of the TU Berlin at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Strasse des 17. Juni 152, 10623 Berlin, Forum Hall in the ground floor
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May 27, 2009:
Special Lecture of Miki Desai on "Modernist Legacy in India – Some Crystallized Notions"
Miki Desai together with Madhavi Desai are among the leading theorists of modern Architecture in India.
Date and time: May 27, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Architecture Building of the TU Berlin at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Strasse des 17. Juni 152, 10623 Berlin. Room 111
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May 28, 2009:
Special Lecture of Madhavi Desai on "Indian Architecture 1810to 1980 – A Search for Identity"
Madhavi Desai together with Miki Desai wife are among the leading theorists of modern Architecture in India.
Date and time: May 28, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Architecture Building of the TU Berlin at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Strasse des 17. Juni 152, 10623 Berlin. Room 111
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May 1, 2009:
TRIALOG Frühjahrstagung - Spring Workshop of the Society for Scientific Research on Planning and Building in Developing Countries (TRIALOG): “Redefining the Urban – Studies on Cities and Regions”. Organized by the Habitat Unit, TU Berlin and TRIALOG.
Date and time: May 1-2, 2009
Venue: the 'Forum' of the Architecture Building of the TU Berlin at Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Strasse des 17. Juni 152, 10623 Berlin
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Contact: Dr. Astrid Ley

June 26, 2008:
Presentation by Arch. Anupama Kundoo.
Anupama Kundoo is architect, planner and researcher with a focus on sustainable building technology. In March 2008 she conducted a 1:1 hands-on building workshp developing a prototype house with TU Berlin students in South India. Her presentation will reflect on the lessons learnt by the experiment in 'baked-in-situ earth construction' following a tehnology pioneered by Ray Meeker.
Venue: Lecture hall A053, Architecture Building at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz
Date and time: June 26, 2008 at 14:00.

June 18, 2008:
Inauguration lecture of Prof. Günter Meinert. Antrittsvorlesung Prof. Günter Meinert
Günter Meinert is Senior Urban Specialist with the Cities Alliance, Washington and senior staff member at GTZ Dept. 42. He has recently been nominated as honorary professor by the Academic Senate of the TU Berlin. Prof. Meinert is one of the initiators of the Urban Management Masters Program at the TU Berlin and will primarily teach in this program.
Venue: Lecture hall A053, Architecture Building at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz
Date and time: June 18, 2008 at 19:00.

April 01- 15, 2008:
Workshop in Leh, Ladakh, India
This workshop is organized in cooperation with the L.O.T.I. (Leh Old Town Intiative). The work will focus on the analysis of traditional building construction and settlement patterns. This study trip is part of a 2-semester project.Organization and supervision: André Alexander (THF) and Prof. Herrle.

March 01- 31, 2008:
Workshop on Experimental Building Construction: "A Baked-insitu Mud House in Pondicherry, India"
This prototyp house follows a technology poineered by Ray Meeker to bake life-sized mud houses insitu. Houses are stabilized by converting them to ceramic, thereby making them water restistant and lasting. Organization and supervision: Anumapa Kundoo
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December 13, 2007:
Holzbau in der Stadt
Fachtagung mit Beiträgen von Julius Natterer, Hermann Kaufmann, Robert Niess, Tom Kaden, Thomas Jocher, Peter Schürch, Josef Hämmerl und Arno Lederer. Die Veranstaltung wird organisiert in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Landesbeirat Holz Berlin/Brandenburg und dem Informationsdienst Holz.
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December 10 - 15, 2007:
Holzbaupreis Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen-Anhalt 2006 - Ausstellung der prämiierten Projekte.
Mit diesem Preis werden herausragende Bauten, die unter überwiegender Verwendung des Bau- und Werkstoffs Holz erstellt worden sind, asugezeichnet. Preisträger: Helm Westhaus Architekten, Sauerbruch Hutton, Gil Wilk Architekten mit Thomas Freiwald, Chestnutt_Niess, Wacker Zeiger Architekten.
Ort: Foyer des Architekturgebäudes der TU Berlin am Ernst-Reuter-Platz

December 03- 05, 2007:
Symposium on "Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development of Historical Cities in the Himalayas"
This symposium is organized by André Alexander, Director of THF in collaboration with the Habitat Unit. Speakers from Ladakh, India, the Humboldt University, TU and GTZ will present expamples of how development issues can be combined with conservation.
Venue: will be publicized soon
Time: 17:00 - 19:00

June 19 - 20, 2007:
Symposium on Urban Governance in Latin America organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Habitat Unit. The event compares experiences in citizens’ participation in German and Latin American cities and discusses the challenge of fragmentation and segregation. Speakers include Dr. Paula Santos from Brazil, Ana Sugranyes, Chief Secretary of the Habitat International Coalition as well as representatives from German municipalities and universities. The event is hosted by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Persons interested to participate are invited to contact Alexander Jachnow.

June 1 - June 9, 2007:
Study visit by the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg to Berlin. A group of MSc Housing students from the University of the Witwatersrand is visiting the Habitat Unit. A workshop on “Housing Finance and Law” will be held together with Berlin students. Habitat Unit, Faculty VI, and Wits are cooperating since 2000. Workshop and study trip are organized by Prof. Marie Huchzermeyer and Astrid Ley, Habitat Unit. The event is partly funded by the DAAD.

April 12 - April 20, 2007:
"Keeping our Cultural Heritage Alive". Exhibition about urban conservation and development programs in three outstanding historic cities: Aleppo (Syria), Shibam (Yemen) and Sibiu/Hermannstadt (Romania). The exhibition shows contexts, concepts and results of three long-term projects of German development cooperation and has been produced by GTZ.
Venue: Forum of the Architecture Building, Strasse des 17. Juni 153, 10623 Berlin
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April 19, 2007:
Closing event of the exhibition "Keeping our Cultural Heritage Alive" with contributions from
Peter Herrle (Habitat Unit, TU Berlin),
Steffen Mildner (GTZ Sibiu),
Meinolf Spiekermann (GTZ Aleppo).
Venue: Forum of the Architecture Building, Strasse des 17. Juni 153, 10623 Berlin
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

March 27 - April 14, 2007:
A summer school on international trends in urban development is organized by the Habitat Unit for students from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. The UNAM is Mexico's largest university and one of our key partners. The event is funded by the DAAD.
Deadline for Application: 03/18/2007
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January 03 - 09, 2007:
Workshop "Zwischen Behelfslösung und Rekonstruktion" in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Lehrstuhl Prof. Hascher und der Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago, Chile. Es sind noch Plätze für deutsche Studenten frei.
Kontakt: paola.alfarodalencon@tu-berlin.de
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December 11, 2006:
Lecture "Urban Design in Contemporary China" by Prof. Dr. Wang Yi, CAUP Tongji University.
Venue: A060, Architecture Building | Time: 6:00 pm
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December 1, 2006:
Lecture "Spatial and Urban Planning in Transformation Countries - the Case of Montenegro" by Thomas Waldraff, Head of GTZ Office Montenegro.
Venue: A606, Architecture Building | Time: 10:00 pm

November 29, 2006:
Lecture "Ulaanbataar - Urban Development in Mongolia" by Isabel Jaden.
Venue: A606, Architecture Building | Time: 6:00 pm

November 9, 2006:
Lecture "Tibetan Architecture – Preserving a Living Tradition" by André Alexander from Tibetan Heritage Fund.
Venue: A003, Architecture Building | Time: 4:30 pm

October 23, 2006:
Lecture "New Urban Systems in Greater Shanghai" by Prof. Dr. Li Zhenyu from CAUP Tongji University Shanghai.
Venue: A060, Architecture Building | Time: 6:00 pm
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July 10-19, 2006:
Series of lectures on architecture and development cooperation. Organized by the Habitat Unit in cooperation with "Praktikumsseminar Mexico".
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July 13, 2006 at 5 p.m.
Lectures on housing and urban development in South Africa by Kathrina Rohde ("Urban Fabrics") and Sae Kyung von Stuckrad ("Matchbox City – The Developmentof the Township Standard House") Venue: Architecture Building, lecture room A606
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September 3-15, 2006
Summer School in Montenegro and Albania -
Cross Boundary Planning and Regional Development
The Habitat Unit in cooperation with GTZ Montenegro and the universities of Tirana and Montenegro is organizing a summer school in the border region around Skutari Lake. Students of the three participating universities work together on concepts for sustainable regional development. Topics of the summer school vary from improving economic conditions by sustainable tourism to developing case studies.
Contact: Habitat Unit, A 623, Alexander.Jachnow@TU-Berlin.de

6-7 April 2006
13. Forum Globale Fragen: "Die Welt als Stadt, die Stadt in der Welt – Globalisierung, Urbanisierung und Internationale Politik"

Eine Veranstaltung des Auswärtigen Amtes in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Städtetag, der GTZ und der Habitat Unit der TU Berlin. 6.-7. April 2006 im Konferenzzentrum des Auswärtigen Amtes, Berlin.

Die Entwicklung eines Landes, die Gestaltung der bilateralen und multilateralen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit wird zunehmend von den Potentialen der urbanen Zentren bestimmt; in globaler Perspektive hat dies auch Konsequenzen für die Verwirklichung der UN-Millenniumsziele. Ziel des Forums Globale Fragen ist es, sich mit der Stadt als Resultat wie auch als Gestalter des globalen Wandels auseinanderzusetzen. Es wird nach den Auswirkungen der Urbanisierung auf die internationale Politik und die Rolle der Städte darin gefragt.

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November 08, 2005, at 6 p.m.
habitat unit 10+
The Habitat Unit invites students, colleagues, alumnis and friends to celebrate its 10 year anniversary.  Partners from GTZ and the Berlin Senate will speak about the cooperation with the Habitat Unit and the importance of joint research on global urban changes and development trends. The event will complemented by the opening of an exhibition of student works.
Venue: Entrance hall of the Architecture Building of the Berlin University of Technology, at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Strasse des 17. Juni 152.

November 05, 2005
22nd Conference of the Society for Scientific Research of Planning and Building in Developing Countries (TRIALOG): “Urban Coalitions”. Organised by habitat unit.
Contact: urban-coalitions@habitat-unit.de
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June 2005
Summer School "Berlin Spreebogen": In cooperation with the Berlin Senate, the Queensland University of Technology Brisbane and the University of New South Wales in Sydney the Habitat Unit organizes an international summer school from 23 June to 9 July. Under the guidance of Australian and German teachers 22 students from Australia and 10 students from the TU Berlin develop concepts for the so called “Forum” of the “Band des Bundes” and the extension of government buildings into the eastern “Luisenblock”.

July 2005
Professor Hong Bae Kim from the Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea explores the urban development implications of the shift of the German government from Bonn to Berlin. He has been granted a one-month scholarship by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

June 2005
Dr. Jeong Soo Lee from the Chungnam National University, Daejon, South Korea is visiting professor at the Habitat Unit for 3 months. His research focuses on policies for the rehabilitation of multi-storey housing in Germany. His stay is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

June 2005
A group of students from EPAU (Ecole Polotechnique d’Architecture et Urbanisme) Algiers is visiting the Habitat Unit. A workshop on “Urban conservation” will be held together with Berlin students. A cooperation between Habitat Unit, Faculty VII and EPAU Algiers has been established recently. Workshop and study trip are organized by Dr. Mariam Chabou, EPAU and Dr. Sonja Nebel, Habitat Unit.

April 13, 2005
Participants from India, Indonesia and Thailand report on the reconstruction and development-programmes in the Tsunami-affected areas.
Organized by Habitat Unit and MISEREOR.

April 12 – April 17, 2005
Exhibition of student projects on “Building in the Existing Urban Fabric of Damascus/Syria” with opening session on April 12,2005, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Building of the Faculty ‘Architecture Environment Society’ TU Berlin Ernst Reuter Platz, entrance hall
Organized by Visiting Scholar Prof. Dr. Ghassan El-Badwan, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin/University of Damascus.

February 20 - February 27, 2005
Erik Wegerhoff is currently attending a workshop entitled "Culture of Living" in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The workshop is organized by Nariman Mansouri and Stephan Schwarz of Vienna University of Technology on cooperation with numerous other European and Asian institutions. Erik will
contribute a short paper on recent research about cultures of living and the making of identity in Southeast Asia based on the 2004 conference in Berlin.

December 6 - December 8, 2004
International Conference "Architecture and Identity"

June 2004
Lecture by Prof. Erman, University of Ankara, about "Migrant Associations and Local Politics".

June 8, 2004
Fikiswa Mahote of the Development Action Group (DAG) will lecture and discuss with us about community housing and sustainable development in Cape Town.

May 26, 2004
Sheela Patel, director of SPARC (one of the most prominent NGO’s in the field of housing in India) will lecture and discuss with us about Urban Upgrading in Bombay and the role of SPARC.

May 17, 2004
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Eman Mohamed Eid about "Tradtional Techniques - How to Apply Them in Arid Regions"

May 07, 2004
Lecture by Prof. Herrle on "The own and the foreign: The making of cultural identity in architecture - Report on a research project funded by the VolkswagenStiftung"

May 3 – May 23, 2004
“Sustainable Urban Conservation” (Course No UCO 2004-05). Short Course within the „Urban Management Studies Program”, Habitat Unit, Prof. Dr. P. Herrle, Faculty Architecture Environment Society, TU-Berlin. 3-week program for high-level professionals and decision makers

April 22 - April 25, 2004
Exhibition in Yangzhou/China. Projects of the Yangzhou “Sustainable Urban Conservation Project” are presented at the ECO-City Conference in Yangzhou

March 2004
Study trip to Cape Town, South Africa. Studies and proposals for the public spaces in Nyanga, in cooperation with the City of Cape Town and the University of Cape Town (UCT). The project and study trip are organized by MA Astrid Ley.

January 12 – January 16, 2004
Global context. An exhibition of student projects from the Habitat Unit. The opening ceremony is on January 12, at 5:00 p.m. Venue: Building of the School of Architecture,
Ernst-Reuter-Platz, entrance hall