Academics
- Bachelor Architecture
- Master Architecture
- Master Urban Design
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European Master Transforming City Regions
- Programme and Application
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Winter Semester 2023/24
- MT: Transforming City Regions
- Urban Transformation I
- Planning and Design for Changing Cities
- Evolving Environment. Transforming Landscape
- Multiple Scales of Urban Planning and Design
- IP I: Digital Design and Decision Support Systems
- IP I: Adaptation and Innovation in Stolberg
- IP III: Shaping Eu(regional) Meuse-Rhine Rhythms
- IP III: Beirut within its regional Context
- IP III: Superlocal Southern Dutch Limburg
- Layers of the Anthropocene
- RM: Uuurble - Plattform for virtual City Exploration
- FT: (re)cycle Limburg
- FT: Mapping everyday practices in downtown Amman
- Visualizing TCR Personas
- EC: Research Methods
- EC: Environment and Development International Seminar
- Student Competitions & Offers
- Project Leonardo
- Best of
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Awards
- 2023 | wa Promotion Award
- 2023 | Promotion Award of the Foundation of German Architects
- 2022 | wa grant award
- 2021/2022 | 10. Schlaun-Wettbewerb
- 2022 | Competition of the Cultural Circle of German Business
- 2021 | NRW.BANK.Study competition „Living & City“
- 2021 | Regional competition "Future Urban Space"
- 2021 | Innovative Thinkers Fellowship Prize
- Johannes Göderitz Prize "The new city"
- 2019 | Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft - 1st Price
- 2018 | Stiftung Deutscher Architekten
- 2017 | NRW.BANK Student Competition
- 2017 BDB Student Awards
- 2017 AKG Student Awards
- 2016/2017 6. Schlaun-Award
- Urban Main Campus
Research
- Publications
- Graduate Colleges
- Research Projects
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Project Archive
- 2022: R2Q - Ressourcenplan im Quartier
- 2022: Future of large housing estates
- 2022: Resilience and built heritage
- 2001: Université Notre-Dame du Kasayi
- 2004: Solar Urban Development
- 2004: Temporary Architecture
- 2006: Masterplan Facultés Catholiques de Kinshasa
- 2006: Village Development - Eicherscheid, Floisdorf, and Vlatten
- 2006: Development Perspectives
- 2006: Urban History Aachen
- 2007: GUtech Oman
- 2007: Contemporary Spaces
- 2010: Study on the Municipal Association of Burmerange-Schengen-Wellenstein
- 2011: Building Culture LEADER-Region Eifel
- 2011: Wireless Charging
- 2012: Resettlement of Keyenberg, Kuckum, Berverath, Ober- and Unterwestrich
- 2012: LEADER Project - Internal Village Development, East Belgium
- 2013: Summer School Istanbul
- 2014: Patterns of Urbanization and Settlement Development in Oman
- 2014: Blankenheim
- 2013: Moderated Development Plan Process
- 2015: Design survey Roetgen
- 2016: Partnerships with the Universities of the Kasayi
- 2016: IHK Kall
- 2018: Map of the Ruhr energy system transformation
- 2018: Energy Efficiency in the Quarter
- 2018: Urban Factory
- 2018: DIEK Venrath/Kaulhausen
- 2019: DeWaK: Managing Demographic Change
- 2020: Flexible Electric Grids I
- Doctorates
The Chair and The Institute
- Team
- Profile
- News
- UNESCO Chair
- Job Offers
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Press and Announcements
- [De Limburger] For someone from Beijing or Mumbai Heerlen is indeed very quiet
- [AZ] RWTH City Planning Colloquium
- [AZ] Semester thesis about Stolberg begins
- The neighborhood as the future of the city and the real estate market
- [AKNW] RWTH receives UNESCO Chair for Cultural Heritage and Urbanism
- [P@L] On the way to sustainable and resident urban development
- [WZ] Monument protection
- [stadszaken] Heerlen gets a German university
- [Die Architekt] Building on evidence
- [DeLimburger] Heerlen and the RWTH
- [Bauwelt] "Gold of the city"
- [AZ] Debate about Aachen city center
- [AZ] Urban planning forum with great response
- [AZ] Interview with Prof. Christa Reicher
- [TG] Portrait of Christa Reicher
- Interview with Prof. Christa Reicher
- [AZ] Aachen receives Unesco Chair
- [WAZ] Urban development
- [Tagesspiegel Background] Public health
- *** [AZ] Ausgezeichnetes Lebenswerk ***
- *** Zeitung Region Creglingen ***
- [Bauwelt.de] Housing
- *** [Börsenblatt] Stadtentwicklung ***
- *** Franken-Magazin "Stadtgespräch" ***
- [ZEIT] Hellhörig Magazin:Welcome to the neighborhood of the future
- Transformation of the German lignite mines an opportunity for South Limburg
- [ZEIT] Hellhörig Magazin:Welcome to the neighborhood of the future
- [local] A place of learning for urban development
- [Spiegel] Giant Lego for Germany's cities
- [AZ] "Make some space- also your the head!"
- [SP] New Talk »Business Unusual«
- [AZ/AN] Ideas for Schophoven of the future
- [Deutschlandfunk] What do you consider to be part of a liveable city?
- [BWT] Bonn Business Talk: Urban and Spatial Planning
- [AZ] "Make some space- also your the head!"
- [Deutschlandfunk Kultur] "Combining the social with the ecological".
- [AZ] "What happens, if...?"
- [Welt am Sonntag] "Vision with sea view"
- [AZ] "Students look far ahead"
- [faz] "It takes courage to say there will be no building here."
- [P@L] The role of Public Space
- [Publik Forum] A plan for more quality of life
- [ZDFinfo] Brennpunkt Deutschland: Dortmund, Nordstadt
- [AZ] "Searching for alternatives to the automobile"
- [AZ] "Mobilität und Bürgerbeteiligung"
- [Böblinger Kreiszeitung] Playful beginning for a new quarter
- [AZ/AN] "Aus dem Reiff in die ganze Welt gesendet"
- [AZ/AN] "Make some space!"
- [hwk-aachen.de] "Mach' mal Platz!"
- [Welt] "Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof to close 62 stores"
- [WDR] "Summer in the City: Strategies against Heat"
- [Deutschlandfunk] "New skyscrapers in the cityscape"
- [AZ] "How does a university become a city?"
- [DAB] "Land must become common property!"
- [AZ] Campus West still remains a "big construction site" socially too
- [AZ] The Kármán Auditorium should be filled with life again
- [WDR] The future of our cities
- [WDR] "Mit cleverem Städtebau gegen die Hitze"
- [SP] Interview mit Prof. Reicher
- [AZ] Aachen muss sein Potential viel besser nutzen
- [AN] Shopping der Zukunft
- [AN] Marienhospital Aachen
- [AN] Büchel: Guggenheim in die Altstadt pflanzen?
- [TC] Transforming Cities 02/19
- [Bauwelt] Ist die Lehre der Stadt an den Hochschulen noch zeitgemäß?
- [inHerne] Hochkarätiges Forschungsprojekt mit namhaften Universitäten startet in Herne
- [halloHerne] Das Herner Davids-Prinzip
- [WAZ] Ressourcenschutz in Quartieren: Herne wird Modellstadt
- [WILA] Die DNA der Stadt entwickeln
- [WILA] Fachkräfte für die Städte von morgen
- [RN] Doppelter Abschied für Stadtplanerin
- [AN] Kolloquium an der RWTH Aachen
- [AN] Prof. Christa Reicher will die Stadtentwicklung voranbringen
- [WP] Schön und groß: Architektur-Preis für AVZ der Fernuni Hagen
- [idw] Big Beautiful Buildings: Sanierung einer Stadt
- [MM] Vortrag über öffentlichen Raum
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Events
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Urban Design Colloquium
- What constitutes healthy living spaces? [1/3]
- Of the risks and side effects of city life [2/3]
- What does health-promoting and integrated urban development look like? [3/3]
- Summer Semester 2023
- Winter semester 2022/23
- Summer Semester 2022
- Winter Semester 2021/22
- Sommersemester 2021
- Winter Semester 2020/21
- Winter Semester 2019/20
- Summersemester 2019
- Wintersemester 2018/19
- CBC Talks
- TCR Talks
- Past Events
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Urban Design Colloquium
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Exhibitions
- 2022: Visions for the city of the future ... what if
- 2021: 17th architecture biennale
- 2020: IBA 27 StadtRegion Stuttgart
- 2020: "Sustainable Housing" Exhibition Euskirchen
- 2020: Make some space!
- 2019: Annual Exhibition Architecture
- 2014: Urbanization Patterns Oman
- 2008: NRW Urban and Regional Planning Exhibition
- 2002: Ruhr Region - the Masked Metropolis?
- 2002: Rhein-Ruhr City
- KOOP Library