Institute Institutes - Fakultät für Architektur - TUM

Baugeschichte, Historische Bauforschung
und Denkmalpflege
Building History, Building Archaeology and
Heritage Conservation
Building history deals with the history of construction considering a very broad basis
from Ancient Times to Modern Era. Contrasting the architectural history in the field
of history of art, building history explores all facettes of building, not just the topclass
achievements of building art. Not only cathedrals are of interest, but as well
vernacular buildings dating from mediaeval times. Building archaeology represents
the research-orientated branch of building history. Building archaeology aims at the
decryption of historic buildings, using the edifices themselves or their remains,
respectively, as source. Since approx. 130 years, building archaeology as scientific
field has been developed within German research and countes among the key disciplines
in the approach of historic building substance. The Munich institute with its
tradition for about a century mainly has concentrated on the research on ancient
architecture until 2006. With the new cast research horizons have enlarged explicitely.
Key interests range from Antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century. Still,
the Mediterranean with its top-class architecture tradition forms an objective,
extended by research in the former GUS states and Central Asia. Next to pure scientific
interest, building archaeology serves as refurbishements´ scientific foundation
for the assessment of historic constructions in respect of age, state of repair, alterations,
potency or shortcomings. Since more than 60% of the building tasks throughout
Europe have to deal with historic substance in conservation, re-use and re-orientation,
the correct method of proceeding the projects will be increasingly valued.
Therefore, building archaeology proves practice orientated as well as research led.
Building archaeology, being an exceedingly specialised discipline itself, has always
been relying on cooperation with other scientific fields. So, interdisciplinary collaboration
with the disciplines of history of art, archaeology and sciences belongs
to everyday life. Of outstanding importance is the cooperation with other higly specialised
partners, taking place in a unique form at the Faculty of Architecture, considering
the close team play with the Chair of Conservation, Art Technology, Conservation
Science and the Chair of Structural Design.
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Leitung Professor
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Schuller
Sekretariat Office management
Elisabeth Sollinger-Fiuza
Wiss. Mitarbeiter Research associates
Miriam Knechtel, Clemens Knobling, Birte
Todt, Tobias Busen, Elke Nagel, Wolf Koenigs,
Katarina Papajanni, Aenne Ohnesorg, Dr. Andrij
Kutnyi, Karin Uetz, Arnd Hennemeyer, Kerstin
Leicht, Klaus Müller, Rudolf Dellermann