Research at the Chair of Architectural History is usually based on the object itself and starts with meticulous in situ building research.
Photo: Tim Scheuer
The DFG-funded research project on Scherpenheuvel analyzes the genesis, shape and concept of said pilgrimage site at different scales.
Photo: Tobias Glitsch
The DFG-funded research project baureka.online will develop an overarching digital platform that connects the field of building archaeology.
Logo: Felix Martin
The DFG-funded research project explores the ways in which written descriptions of the vanished Mausoleum of Halicarnassus informed Early Modern architects and artists.
Image: Public Domain
The research project addresses the origins of stylistic pluralism in Great Britain and investigates typological and stylistic developments beyond its borders.
Photo: Tobias Glitsch
The research project "Blue Architecture" systematically deals with searching and finding, documenting and interpreting blue architecture from Babylon to the present. Photo: Verena Hake
The PhD project examines the Casino at Marino in Dublin and traces the emergence of public monumental architecture in the Enlightenment.
Photo: Tim Scheuer
The publication project aims to publish an architectural guide to the Protestant churches in Aachen, which was developed together with students.
Photo: Imbi Leitaru
The research project deals with the sustainable redesign of the cultural landscape of the Ahr valley based on a comprehensive study of its identity-forming features.
Photo: Yannick Ley
The research project deals with early modern buildings at the Imperial Abbey of Kornelimünster, the display of relics and imperial representation at a foundational site of the Holy Roman Empire.
Photo: Carsten Hensgens
The PhD project examines the creation and genesis, typology and meanings of the core building of early modern urban water architecture.
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In 2020, RWTH Aachen University celebrated the 150th anniversary of its foundation. The Chair is taking this as an opportunity to document, analyze and scientifically review the university's building stock.
Photo: Anina Janich
The project will systematically examine the subterranean parts of the sacred buildings of Renaissance and Baroque Rome and capture them in all their functional and iconological complexity.
Photo: Tobias Glitsch
The PhD project on S. Andrea al Quirinale has produced the first wide-ranging monography covering the architecture of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's oval church.
Photo: Tobias Glitsch
A comprehensive study breaks down the planning and construction history of this church built in Aachen by Gottfried Böhm.
Photo: Archive St. Hubertus / Charleen Dierkes
The publication project includes extensive building documentation of the church of St. Johannes in Merkstein (1961/62, Emil Steffann) as well as scenarios for its future conversion.
Photo: Felix Mayer
In and around the Aachen church St. Hubertus by Gottfried Böhm, the exhibition "Vorstadtikone" about the church itself was launched. Image: Graphics team "Vorstadtikone"