Institute Institutes - Fakultät für Architektur - TUM

Städtebau und Wohnungswesen
Urban Design and Housing
This studio, developed by a close collaboration of two international architects,
Bruno Krucker and Stephen Bates, explores themes of urbanism and housing in
the European city and beyond. Both professors teach together, developing a studio
environment of discussion and dialogue. They are actively involved in the
progress of design and research work of each student in the studio and are supported
by well-qualified teaching Research associates. Studio Krucker Bates is
a place of experimentation where convention and preconceived methodologies
are challenged, historical and everyday references are widely used and encouragement
given to a way of designing spatially and without linearity. We consider
the complex ways in which the city can engender dignity on the part of the
user. We try to anticipate the consequences of design decisions in terms of an
emotive response. We seek a rigorous and conceptual understanding of construction.
We are interested as architects and urban strategists to engage with this
complexity in the making of buildings, interiors and urban spaces. Through coordinated
design projects Studio Krucker Bates seeks to provoke a questioning of
and enquiry into the ‘art of inhabitation’.
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Leitung Professor
Prof. Stephen Bates
Prof. Bruno Krucker
Sekretariat Office management
Susanne Nwabuodafi
Wiss. Mitarbeiter Research associates
Claudia Düll-Buchecker, Daniela Heyland,
Katharina Leuschner, Clemens Nuyken,
Jessica Zarges