"You can't control the wind, but you can always adjust your sail." Ancient viking wisdom And that's exactly what we do once a year when we go on a sailing trip to the Veersemeer, an Dutch inland sea. As part of our excursion week, we spend a

Eckhardt, Hartmut , Prof. Dr. Professorship for Design and Building Theory Dorn, Kurt , Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Professorship for Planning and Construction Management /Building Law Goerdt, Marion, Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Professorship for Urban Design

3D reconstruction and simulations of the performance of a seagoing Roman merchant ship In a large-scale project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the potential and intensity of Roman sea trade are to be investigated with special

"Ruined architecture has always fascinated me – that someone once lived here, the events that took place in the space. It is this passing of time in an architectural space and its aura, that has inspired my investigation of the notion of

"The term “magical thinking” describes, among other things, the peculiarity of man to emphasize similarities between the most diverse objects and living beings and to conclude from this to further similarities. This process

Downloads Sustainable and Improvised Construction: The Primitive Hut The international workshop project brought together Trier University of Applied Sciences and the Nagaoka Institute of Design in Japan. In times of scarce resources and

"In my research, I am interested in: how do transformations reflect imaginations towards one’s life history and personal experiences?  It is unfolded with the interpretations of what “transformations” and “imaginations” could be from