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Consultation Hour

Mondays, 4pm to 5pm | Appointments to be requested via e-mail

 

Verena Hake is co-responsible for the supervision of the design projects in the Master's program as well as for the Master's and Bachelor's theses. She regularly gives lectures and organizes seminars, fields of research as well as building survey excursions to Rome. At the Chair, she is also responsible for all questions of public image and for the design and editing of its website. Verena Hake is a member of the Faculty Awards and Honors Committee.

 

Curriculum Vitae

2005-2012 Studies in Architecture at RWTH Aachen University, diploma with honors with Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Pieper and Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Hartwig N. Schneider, RWTH Aachen University Springorum medal | 2010 Internship at gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, Aachen, collaboration on the "Neues Hans-Sachs-Haus" in Gelsenkirchen | 2012 Nomination for the Young Talent Award, awarded by the Stiftung Deutscher Architekten | 2012-2014 Research Assistant at the Chair of Architectural History and Conservation at RWTH Aachen University with Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Pieper, collaboration on the DFG-funded research project "Die Hochkorridore von Sabbioneta" and various smaller research projects, member of the Faculty Committee of Academics and Evaluation | 2014-2016 Architect at hks architekten, Aachen, deputy leader on new construction, extension and conservation projects as well as on competitions | 2015-2017 Teaching assignment for design at the Chair of Architectural History at RWTH Aachen University with Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Naujokat | 2016-2017 Teaching assignment for design at FH Aachen with Prof. Ulrich Hahn | since 2016 Freelance architect | since 2017 Research assistant at the Chair of Architectural History at RWTH Aachen University with Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Naujokat | 2018 and 2022 Nomination for the Teaching Award by the Student Body of the Faculty of Architecture

Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Chamber of Architects | Member of European Architectural History Network

 

Research

Current Research Projects

The Fontana dell'Acqua Felice in Rome. Creation and genesis, typology and meaning of a counter-reformatory urban water architecture (ongoing PhD project)

Blue Architecture

St. Hubertus by Gottfried Böhm – Building Survey and Documentation

Main Research Areas and Interests

Architecture for the display of water | Color in architecture, especially blue architecture | Villa and garden architecture of Cinque- and Seicento Italy, especially in and around Rome | Vernacular, anonymous, rural architectures in alpine and prealpine regions, especially methods of conserving and responsily redeveloping them | Architecture of critical regionalism and postmodernism, especially in the oeuvre of Ricardo Bofill | Architectural History and Historical Building Research as auxiliary design tools, especially the reactivation and creative interpretation of established building typologies and traditional architectural themes for solving contemporary building tasks | Interactions between architecture, literature and philosophy, especially spatial descriptions and theories and their architectural translation and interpretation | Biographical architecture

 

Main Publications

A complete list of Verena Hake's publications is available via RWTH Publications.

Editorships

Jan Pieper, Reto Bellinger, Daniel Buggert, Ines Finkeldei, Anke Fissabre, Verena Hake, Caroline Helmenstein, Bruno Schindler, Björn Schötten (eds.): Messen - Zeichnen - Verstehen. Eine kritische Retrospektive auf Themen, Methoden und Trouvaillen der Baugeschichte von Jan Pieper und seinen Mitarbeitern an der TU Berlin und der RWTH Aachen (1983-2013), Aachen 2013. (= Arbeitsblätter zur Baugeschichte, 3)

Articles

Verena Hake: Prinzip: Patchwork, in: Bauwelt, 2 (2020), p. 30-35.

Tobias Glitsch, Verena Hake: Wie Phoenix aus der Asche?, in: Bauwelt, 17 (2019), p. 12-15.

Verena Hake: Spa. Glanz und Vanitas des Café de l'Europe, in: Bauwelt, 13 (2018), p. 36-39.
(= StadtBauwelt, 218)

Verena Hake: Neues Stadtarchiv und Museum im Servitenkloster zu Sabbioneta. Methoden des Entwerfens im Kontext eines idealen Weltkulturerbes, in: archimaera 7 (2018), p. 107-115.

Catalogue Entries

Jan Pieper, Verena Hake: Pücklers Pyramiden. Andeutungen eines Romantikers über den Tod. Chiffren der Unsterblichkeit, in: Jan Pieper etc. (eds.): Messen - Zeichnen - Verstehen. Eine kritische Retrospektive auf Themen, Methoden und Trouvaillen der Baugeschichte von Jan Pieper und seinen Mitarbeitern an der TU Berlin und der RWTH Aachen (1983-2013), Aachen 2013, p. 46-47. (= Arbeitsblätter zur Baugeschichte, 3)

Jan Pieper, Verena Hake: Gropius Vitruvianus Meyeri. Die Maßfigur im Vestibül der Fagus-Werke in Alfeld. Manifest einer humanistischen Gesinnung, Schlüssel des metrologischen Konzepts, in: Jan Pieper etc. (eds.): Messen - Zeichnen - Verstehen. Eine kritische Retrospektive auf Themen, Methoden und Trouvaillen der Baugeschichte von Jan Pieper und seinen Mitarbeitern an der TU Berlin und der RWTH Aachen (1983-2013), Aachen 2013, p. 58-59. (= Arbeitsblätter zur Baugeschichte, 3)

Published Design Projects

Verena Hake: Neues Archiv und Museum im Servitenkloster Sabbioneta, in: Fakultät für Architektur (ed.): Serie A 2012, Aachen 2013, p. 84-89. (= Jahresberichte der Fakultät für Architektur der RWTH Aachen, 3)

Verena Hake: Neues Archiv und Museum im Servitenkloster Sabbioneta, in: Hartmut Miksch etc. (ed.): Förderpreis 2012 der Stiftung Deutscher Architekten, Düsseldorf 2013, p. 39.

Reviews and Conference Reports

Verena Hake: Monastero Arx Vivendi, in: dbz Sonderheft Hotel (2021), p. 10

Anna Graff, Verena Hake, Caroline Helmenstein: Review "Ein Tag Böhm". Gottfried Böhm zum 100. Geburtstag, published online, Aachen 2020

 

Talks (Selection)

Verena Hake: Triumphal verborgen: Überlegungen zum unbekannten Nukleus der Fontana dell’Acqua Felice in Rom (Triumphally hidden: reflections on the unknown nucleus of the Fontana dell'Acqua Felice in Rome) | Lecture in the frame of the 'Forschungsfrühstück' hosted by the Chair of Architectural History and the Department of Historic Building Conservation and Research at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, December 8, 2022.

Verena Hake, Caroline Helmenstein: Die unbekannte "Vorstadtikone", oder: St. Hubertus in Aachen von Gottfried Böhm (The unknown "Vorstadtikone", or: St. Hubertus in Aachen by Gottfried Böhm) | On-site talk / tour in the scope of the "Open Monument Day 2022" | Aachen, September 11, 2022.

Verena Hake, Caroline Helmenstein: Am Objekt entdeckt: Die "Vorstadtikone" St. Hubertus in Aachen von Gottfried Böhm (Discovered from the Object: The "Vorstadtikone" St. Hubertus in Aachen by Gottfried Böhm) | Invited on-site talk / tour for the aachen_fenster – raum für bauen und kultur e.V. association | Aachen, August 25, 2022.

Verena Hake: La Vigna Panzani. Un Giardino Rinascimentale Dimenticato sul Quirinale | Talk at the international and interdisciplinary scientific conference "Il Giardino degli Dei. Il paradigma dell’Antico nelle Arti della Villa. / The Garden of the Gods. The paradigm of Antiquity in the Arts of the Villa." | Tivoli, Villa d'Este, April 21 to 23, 2022.