Reminder: Re-registration until February 15th

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Dear DIA students,

Please remember that the deadline for re-registration for the Summer Semester is Sunday, February 15th.

After this date, you would need to pay a late fee. The deadline for late re-registration is the 30th of March.

All the information about the process can be found here: https://www.hs-anhalt.de/en/study/during-your-studies/formalities/re-registration.html

After the re-registration you can download your semester payment confirmation from your SSC account (not on HISQIS).

Please enter your SSC-Portal and check for the documents here: The documents are in German language only. Sorry for that. But as most of it are fees you should be able to understand it (see attached image).

We wish you a good semester break!

Your DIA Team

Studio Finals - Material Matters

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Final presentations, Studio Material Matters with Prof. Peter Apel.

February 16th, 2026 / 12:20h. 
Building 8, Room 154.

For further information about the schedule, please check the poster.

Studio Finals - Island Matter

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Final presentations, Studio Island Matter with Alexine Sammut.

January 29th, 2026 / 9:00 am. 
Building 3, Room 106.

For further information about the schedule, please check the PDF.

Studio Finals - Alternative Blocks

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Final presentations, Studio Alternative Blocks with Philip Rieseberg.

January 29th, 2026 / 10:00 am.
Building 8, Room 174.

Studio Finals - “Hard and Soft: The Architecture of Layered Life Cycles”

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Final presentations, Studio „Hard and Soft: The Architecture of Layered Life Cycles“ with Julian Meisen.

January 29th, 2026, 10:00 am.
Building 8, Room 022.

Studio Finals - New Now: Typologies of Climate Regimes

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Final presentations, Studio “New Now: Typologies of Climate Regimes” with Prof. Bilyana Asenova.

Studio Finals - O+ Ocean Observatory

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Final presentations, Studio “O+ Ocean Observatory” with Huong Vu.

Studio Finals - Housework

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Final presentations, Studio „Housework“ with Jennifer O'Donnell and Jonathan Janssens.

STUDIO FINALS WiSe2025/26

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Tomorrow begins the semester's final exam period, and we would like to invite you to visit the different presentations, discover new projects, and support your friends and classmates.

On the PDF, you may find the schedule for all the Studios, including the rooms and, in some cases, the guests.

We'll also be publishing the posters, so that you may have a more detailed view of the presentations.

We wish you a very successful end of semester!  
Your DIA Team

"Playing a Day" - Dance Performance from the DIA elective course "art techniques"

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We're happy to invite you to the presentation of „Playing a Day“, a dance performance by our DIA students from the elective „Cosmically Eccentric“ - Tribute to Xanti Schawinsky, taught by Torsten Blume, Matthias Lipeck and Tomoya Kawamura.

Since 2024, the elective course “Performative Architectonics” (Art Techniques) has been negotiating and experimenting with the question of how human bodies can transform themselves into different materials and spatial concepts and express these transformations performatively on the Bauhaus stage. In the winter semester of 2025/26, the course focused primarily on the Bauhaus stage experiments of Xanti (Alexander) Schwawinsky. 

Date: Monday, February 2nd, 2026. 
Time: 5:00 pm. 
Place: Bauhaus Aula.

"Form follows Process - Open-end Planning, Experiments, Co-Production" a ‘Dessauer Gespräch’ with Marta Toscano + Exhibition

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Marta Toscano is an architect, urban planner, and founding partner of Studio Malta. Her work focuses on the interplay of planning, participation, and education, with an emphasis on co-creative and performative planning processes. She currently works as a project collaborator in the research department of the German Association for Housing and Urban Development (vhw e.V.), focusing on actor and governance research within the framework of the City Makers Academy.

The lecture will be held in German and translated into English.

It starts at 6.30 p.m. in the lecture hall of building 08, Dessau.

Date: January 14th, 2026. 
Time: 6.30 p.m. 
Place: Lecture Hall of Building 08.

Following the lecture, the BDA (Association of German Architects) invites you to the opening of the exhibition for the 2025 Konrad Wachsmann Study Prize. (Beginning at 8:00 p.m.)

The Konrad Wachsmann Study Prize has been awarded annually since 2018 by the BDA regional associations of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Brandenburg. Eligible entries are outstanding bachelor's, master's, and diploma theses completed within the last three semesters at universities in these four states.

The submissions covered many current topics, including greening, regionalization, alternative energy systems, and cradle-to-cradle concepts. In addition, there was a growing focus on densifying existing building structures, their reuse and transformation instead of new construction, as well as innovative functional and spatial typologies.

The works will be on display from January 14–30, 2026, in the foyer of Building 08 at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau.

Further events in Winter Semester 2025/2026:
January 21st: Ulrike Dix, AFF Architekten Berlin.

Conference: Discourse | Cracks | Narrative - Bauhaus Matters: Materials of Modernity

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The international conference under the banner of “Bauhaus Matters” interrogates the physical materials and the ideas at the core of the Bauhaus and its role within the narratives of modern architecture. Across three thematic blocks, the iconic building will be scrutinized in the lectures and panel discussions. The findings could result in model practices for taking care of the Bauhaus Building in the future. At the same time, they are an invitation to debate contemporary architecture in dialogue with the architectural heritage of the Bauhaus.

The Bauhaus Anniversary 2026 will explore the material foundations of the iconic building with three exhibitions in the historic workshop wing of the school building, which have been less considered in the history and reception of the Bauhaus. Steel, glass and concrete were considered pioneering building materials for modern industrial society at the time. Whilst their cultural implications and charge of meaning have been examined and addressed many times in the architectural history of modernism, the economic, geopolitical and ecological contexts of these materials have remained unconsidered. Today, the buildings of classical modernism, of which the Bauhaus Building in Dessau is considered an outstanding representative, have become problematic, precisely, because of their materiality. The “lightness” of the building, which was praised in the 1920s, was part of a long debate about a new form of architecture, which also linked the new industrially manufactured building materials with a completely new form of space as a built expression of a society determined by the dynamics of mechanization. At the same time, it is precisely these industrially produced materials, based on the overexploitation of ecosystems and natural resources, that celebrated their triumphant advance in the construction industry of the 20th century and contributed massively to the growing damage to the climate and environment, the planetary consequences, we are confronted with today. The production sites and global trade routes of these materials, which are often interwoven with colonial exploitation structures, have also been ignored.

By looking at the Bauhaus materials, the conference aims to contribute to a new perspective on the narratives of architectural modernism. This is not only about knowledge that has been ignored by historiography, but also about a general readjustment of the discipline.

For some years now, architects, architectural historians and theorists have been striving to decenter their discipline. While the architectural history of modernism was determined by the canon of a history of the designing architects and their buildings, multidisciplinary research approaches now examine architecture as a field of collaborative practice of the interaction of the most diverse actors, economies, matters, types of knowledge and technologies. With the decentration away from the object of the building towards the process of making and the activity of the materials within the production of architecture, buildings become relevant not as fixed but as dynamic structures of the interaction of climate, soil, different material cycles, energy flows and power relations. This also includes their pre- and afterlife, the landscapes and ecosystems that were destroyed for the extraction of building materials, the mountains of rubble, piles of debris and material stores that house the buildings that have become obsolete.

The Bauhaus Matters conference will explore the iconic building in depth in three thematic blocks. The term ‘Matter’ deliberately has multiple connotations: ‘Matter’ in the sense of questioning its current cultural and social relevance, but also as a physical material activity that includes its processuality and changeability. These conceptual facets are permanently present in the Bauhaus Building: e. g. in the tensions between concrete ceilings and stone wood floors, which can be seen in the cracks in the floor, in the building research archive as a reservoir of the cycles of materials, economies and technologies, within which Bauhaus buildings underwent changes, and in the various narratives and attributions of meaning with which the building made of glass, steel and concrete is still conveyed today. 

The conference thus proposes new perspectives on the material artifact of the Bauhaus and, on this basis, sees itself as an invitation to negotiate approaches for contemporary building. The conference asks which concepts of material and matter have determined the discourse on the physical aspects of building to date? And what strategies of building as a co-production of material cycles, energy flows, and ecosystems could look like from the criticism and distancing from static concepts of architecture as a final product turned to stone? 

The program consists of lectures, panel discussions, building tours, and walks. The English-language conference will be simultaneously translated into German.

See attached PDF for further information on dates, venues, and activities.

This is a joint project between the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau.

Text: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 

Update 6 of the schedule is available

Dear all,

please pay attention to our newest update of the schedule.

It relates to the Monday lecture in CADlogic of Elaine Bonavia.

Best regards

Heike

Lecture: "How do I become an architect and can I call myself one?" with Prof. Ralf Niebergall

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How do I become an architect, and can I call myself one?

In Germany and many other countries, „architect“ is a protected professional title that is subject to certain requirements. 
Qualification as an architect often also requires membership in a professional chamber or association. The requirements and bureaucratic procedures are a thicket that is often difficult to navigate. 

Until autumn, Prof. Ralf Niebergall was Vice-President of the Federal Chamber of Architects for Europe and International Affairs and Head of the German delegation to the Architects Council of Europe. He is an expert on the subject in Germany, the European states, and, to some extent, beyond. 

In this lecture, he will shed some light on the process, point out differences, and explain what you need to pay attention to so that, despite your studies, you don't one day find yourself being told: „Sorry, but you're not an architect!“

You are all welcome to join!  The conference will be in English.
DATE: Wednesday, October 15th, 2025.
TIME: 18:30 (6:30 pm.)
PLACE: Auditorium of Building 8 (AudiMax).

Update 4 for your schedule is available

Dear All, we had some changes in rooms for the Friday classes. 

Please check the new schedule, evailable now.

Best regards

Heike

Update of the schedule available

for information please always take the last updated version.

Best regards

Heike

CADLogic Lists (version 1) are online

The first version of the CADLogic lists is already online. You may find it in the „Files&Links“ Section.

Please remember that Prof. Schlecht's class begins today at 16:30 in room 106 of Building 15.

We'll publish the final CAD lists soon.

We're also working on the Elective lists and will publish them as soon as possible.

Version 2 of Compendium, now available!

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In the “Files&Links” section, you may find an updated version of the compendium.

This version includes 1st-Year Studios, Electives, CADLogic and Compulsory Modules.

We'll be publishing Version 3 soon. Make sure to check the folder for updates.

Photos of our Graduation Ceremony

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Last 11th of July, we celebrated our annual DIA graduation ceremony and the traditional Campus Fest. 

Students from 7 Master Studios graduated at the Bauhaus Aula, where we also enjoyed a music concert, and presented the DIA Awards 2025. 

Our guest speaker was Timo Panzer, architect and founder of his own Berlin-based studio (timopanzer.com), member of grru collective and co-founder of the Initiative anders Urania. We had special speeches by Prof. Vesta Nele Zareh, Director of DIA, and Prof. Stephan Pinkau, Dean of the Architecture Faculty. 

To see more images of this event, you can click here.  

Thanks to our photographer, Óscar Marco Sánchez.

Congratulations to all our graduates!

CORRECTION - Winter Semester Kick-Off - NEW DATE

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We would like to make a correction to the previous announcement about the semester Kick-Off:

Winter Semester 2025-2026 Kick-Off will take place on Monday, October 6th. We will post further information about the places and times once we have the final information.

On that day, we'll have our traditional Winter Semester Meeting, where we'll welcome our new students and teachers, we'll have the introduction to the courses offered in the semester, and we'll explain the selection process for the different Studios, Electives and CADLogic courses.

The selection process will begin on that day, so we recommend that you thoroughly read the Compendium (it will be published in September) and attend the Kick-Off, so you can ask questions about the subjects directly to the teachers.

We wish you all a very relaxing and happy summer break, and we look forward to seeing you again in October.

Best,

Your DIA Team