Education

Knowledge about cities is crucial. More than half of the world’s population currently lives in urban areas and, as a result, the history and theory of urban design is undergoing a phase of rich experimentation. The Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design accordingly investigates the histories and theories of urban development as critical and prospective capacities, which can forge connections in the present between the past and the future.

The Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design offers a range of lectures and seminars on the understanding of the histories, contemporary conditions and future possibilities of urban development. It aims to reclaim the history of urban design as a cross-cultural field of knowledge that engages with the architecture of the city as an integrator of scientific, economic and technical innovation, as well as of social and cultural progress.