 Vernacular Architecture in the Himalayan Region between China and India. An Inventory of Vanishing Traditions
The Habitat Unit has been awarded funding for a 2-year project by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to explore the diversity of traditional Tibetan residential buildings and prepare an inventory of the rich architectural heritage spreading over an area of the size of central Europe on the Tibetan Plateau and in the adjacent regions.
 Abstract (in German)....
Housing for the Urban Poor: From Local Action to Global Networks
The Habitat Unit has been awarded a grant for a 2-year research project by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The project explores new forms of civil society involvement in local housing processes that tend to be internationally networked, issue-, as well as power- and knowledge-based.
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Carriers of Space Patterns and Construction Types: German architecture and migration in Chile 1852-1875
This research project is about the migration of formal and structural patterns of architecture from Germany to Chile in the 19th century. It is conducted at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, and sponsered by the Consejo Regional de la Cultura y las Artes de la Región de los Lagos, Chile. Faculty and Students of both institutions take part in it.
Details on the project homepage....
Contact person at the Habitat Unit: Gastdozent Renato D'Alençon Castrillón, (MArch).
Die Bedeutung von Ernst Boerschmann im Kontext des Kulturtransfers: Rezeption und Wirkung seiner Forschung über traditionelle chinesische Architektur zwischen 1902 und 1949. (The Significance of Ernst Boerschmann for Cultural Transfer: Reception and Impact of his Research between 1902 and1949 on Traditional Chinese Architecture).
Das Projekt wird durch die DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
gefördert. Bearbeiter: Dr. Eduard Koegel. Abstract.
The dynamics of peri-urbanization in the Pearl River Delta: Emerging
land use patterns, urban villages and their linkages to global mechanisms.
This project is funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
and carried out by the Habitat Unit (Prof. Herrle) and University
Kassel (Prof. Ipsen). It is part of a 6-year Priority Program
(Schwerpunktprogramm 1233) on "Megacities
– Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change"
etablished by DFG.
Governing emerging megacities: water, health and quality of life
in Pearl-River-Delta/China and Pune/India.
This project is part of a BMBF (German Ministry of Education and
Research) initiative on "Research on the Sustainable Development
of the Megacities of Tomorrow" that has been launched in 2004.
Research partners are the Institute
of Geography University Cologne, UFZ
Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig and InWent
Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung GmbH.
The "own" and the "foreign" in architecture.
Achitecture and the making of identity in the developing world
A comparative study with reference to Brazil, Mexico, the Middle
East, India and Singapore has been launched. The project is funded
by the Volkswagen-Stiftung. Duration: 2003-2005.
For details see www.architecture-identity.de
Kulturelle Identität als Konstruktion
in der zeitgenössischen Architekturproduktion in Entwicklungsländern
am Beispiel von Brasilien, Mexiko, dem mittleren Osten, Indien,
und Singapur.
Environmental
Management in Low-income Urban Settlements, cross country study
and guidelines for improvment (GTZ). Duration: 2000-2002
Informal
Urban Development in Metroplitan Cities of India, in collaboration
with Prof. Neelima Risbud, School of Planning and Architecture,
Delhi
Duration: 1996-1999
Physical
Densification and Metropolitan Development in Lima and Mexico City,
supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Completed. Duration: 1995-1999 |
