Academics
- Bachelor Architecture
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Master Architecture
- MT: Master Thesis
- M1: ICOMOS Competition 2023
- M2.1: All around the Church, Aachen-Hörn
- EC: TRANSURBAN RESIDENCY
- DI: Navelli - unbewohnt lebendig
- EC: Technical infrastructure
- RM: Urban Building Block Energy
- RM: Superimposed and virtual realities in urban design
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Winter Semester 2022/23
- MT: Master Thesis
- MT: Kunsthaus im Reisholzer Hafen, Düsseldorf
- M1: Schlaun Competition 2022/23
- M2.2: Future of Reisholzer Hafen, Düsseldorf
- L: Planning Law and Urban Land Use Planning
- S: Urban- and Regional Planning
- RM: Campus of the future
- RM: Offline Spaces Cologne
- EC: Between house and garden
- EC: Patient Inner City - Urban Practice
- QD: Conversion - an urban dialog
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Master Urban Design
- MT: Masterthesis Urban Planning
- M1: ICOMOS Competition 2023
- M2/3: All around the Church, Aachen-Hörn
- EC: TRANSURBAN RESIDENCY
- DI: Navelli - unbewohnt lebendig
- EC: Technical infrastructure
- RM: Urban Building Block Energy
- RM: Superimposed and virtual realities in urban design
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Winter Semester 2022/23
- MT: Master Thesis
- MT: Reisholzer Hafen, Düsseldorf
- M1: Schlaun Competition 2022/23
- M1/M2/M3: Postfossil village of the future
- L: Planning Law and Urban Land Use Planning
- S: Urban- and Regional Planning
- RM: Campus of the future
- RM: Offline Spaces Cologne
- EC: Between house and garden
- EC: Patient Inner City - Urban Practice
- QD: Conversion - an urban dialog
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European Master Transforming City Regions
- Programme and Application
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Summer Semester 2023
- MT: Masterthesis
- L: Urban Transformation II
- IP I: Sustainable university campus transition and serious gaming
- IP II: Urban-Rural Development in Thüringen: Housing | Working | Mobility
- IP III: Networked urban systems in Europe
- RM: Uuurble
- RM: Data-based, scenario-driven urban design
- RM: Rethinking Amazon Cities from Rondônia State
- CC: Unfolding City Complexity
- I: Master Thesis Outlinie
- EC: Urban Contestation in New Migrants Settings
- EC: Neapolitan Complexity: the Everyday Life of a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Student Competitions & Offers
- Project Leonardo
- Best of
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Awards
- 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
- 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
- [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
- Congress "Innovative Neighborhood Development
- CBC-Talks
- NEQ Talks
- TCR Talks
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Revier_Talks_Raum
- #1: Towards a spatial strategy for the Rhenish Mining Area 2038+
- #2: From Innovation Valley Garzweiler to Indeland
- #3: Reinventing the Rhenish Revier: New city foundation and new university campus?
- #4: New Opportunities in Rural Areas: "Places of the Future"
- #5: Culture and identity as a backbone for spatial development
- #6: What contribution can research make to sustainable spatial development in the Rhenish Mining Region?
- #7: Climate-sensitive spatial development - reconstruction after the flood disaster
- #8: Interim presentation on the integrated spatial strategy 2038+
- #9: Agriculture
- Results of the multiple assignment
- Digital launch event for public participation on spatial strategy 2035+
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Urban Design Colloquium
- From the end of downtown as we knew it [1/3]
- A breath of fresh air for city centers [2/3]
- Inner cities as magnets for people [3/3]
- 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
- Past Events
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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