In order to make research as interdisciplinary as possible, the professorships of the Department of Architecture are active in various networks, clusters and initiatives. Together with TUM-internal as well as external partners, competences are bundled in order to implement comprehensive research projects.
The Cluster Sustainable Real Estate (CSRE) is founded on a newly created interdisciplinary platform based on the tradition of TUM. The CSRE aims to create a discourse between academics and professionals, to place innovative concepts in the context of social and environmental responsibility, and to increase the resilience and prosperity of real estate-based assets. more
TUM DesignBuild offers architecture students the opportunity to design, plan and realise socially involved projects while gathering practical experience over the course of one year under the supervision of the teaching team. more
The Leonhard Obermeyer Center brings together the scientific expertise of over 80 researchers at the Technical University of Munich. In dialogue with our partners from industry and government institutions, we jointly define technological research priorities. more
To strengthen gender equality work at all levels, a Parity Board was established at the Department of Architecture at the end of 2019.
It serves the joint development of goals and strategies for an equal working environment at the TUM Department of Architecture. Initial goals include anchoring equality principles at the department, end-to-end parity monitoring, and a clear institutional anchoring of the board. The Parity Board was founded from members of the student body, mid-level faculty, administration and professors. It is currently an open format with no set number of people. more
Contact if interested in participating: gender.arc(at)ed.tum.de
The Energy + Innovation project platform combines the practice-oriented experience and needs of the construction industry with innovative solutions from scientific research work. It is open exclusively to members of the Bavarian Construction Industry Association and offers a hitherto unique range of knowledge, consulting and mediation services. more
Reused is a cooperation of eleven professorships and chairs of the Department of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of TUM, which deal with the complex of topics of existing buildings, their conversion, restoration, repair or retrofitting in research and teaching. more
Sustainable mobility is a vital issue for the future. Consequently, at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the specialized field “Sustainable Mobility • Intelligent Traffic and Transport Systems” is a key component in the future concept TUM Agenda 2030, which is being implemented within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments. More than 40 research chairs at TUM are engaged in interdisciplinary research in the mobility of the future, with their efforts bundled in the TUM.Mobility research platform. more
TUM.wood is a cooperation of ten professors at the Technische Universität München, who all are focused on the material wood. The common vision of the group is to strengthen the use of the material, to intensify its contribution to a responsible use of the available resources. The path into a new wood age needs to be found. more
The ZSK has combined the disciplines of urban and landscape planning, architecture, engineering and ecology. The goal of the interdisciplinary team of scientists is to develop practical recommendations for cities and municipalities in Bavaria, which show how the ecosystem services of urban green infrastructures (e.g. shading, water storage and humidification) can be used to adapt the sustainable city of the future to the consequences of climate change. more
The aim of the alliance is to push the boundaries of current practices in pedagogies, research and practice and raise awareness of the value of research and innovation in Architecture and the Built Environment for the wider benefit of society, economy and cultural life. BauHow5 Partners are The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment of the University College London, the School of Architecture of Chalmers University of Technology, the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the Department of Architecture of the Technical University of Munich and BK Bouwkunde of Delft University of Technology. more
MCube comprises a unique network of actors from science, business, the public sector and society from the Munich region who are jointly developing sustainable solutions for mobility in metropolitan regions. more
The New European Bauhaus is a creative and interdisciplinary initiative that connects the European Green Deal with our living spaces and experiences. more
As an international forum where people from diverse construction-related disciplines can meet and exchange ideas, the Oskar von Miller Forum contributes exciting ideas and inspiration to the education of a new generation of civil engineers, environmental engineers and architects at the Technische Universität München, the University of Applied Sciences and of construction technicians at the Städtische Baufachschule München. more
The Sustainability Working Group of the Faculty of Architecture at TUM is an association of students, teachers and researchers.more
Contact: nachhaltigkeit(at)ar.tum.de
The group of students from the Technical University of Munich is pursuing a common goal: to rethink the way in which resources are used in architectural studies. more
In a community-oriented and co-operative way, club loko works in an activating, sustainable and inclusive way on solutions for a sustainable, resilient city/society of Munich in the face of global crises. more
Initiative für studentische Kultur und gegen universitären Leerstand. mehr
Association of architecture and urban studies students at the Technical University of Munich. United in the search for a more beautiful city. What is the "beautiful" of the city and who determines that? What is the "city" and who are its actors? more
Collective of architecture students that discusses space through intersectional-feminist, anti-classist, and decolonial lenses. more