Welcome
Barbara Steiner
Presentation of the 2025 Dessau Student Prize for Architecture and Urban Planning
Between Museumskreuzung and the Job Centre in Dessau
Paul Oliver Sell, Wilhelm von Ardenne
Moderator: Nadja Häupl
The prize is intended to recognise and support outstanding student work that addresses relevant issues in architecture and urban planning within the city of Dessau-Roßlau.
Presentation: “Breathing new life into old concrete slabs”,
Christoph Henschel, UdK Berlin
Film collage
curated and presented by Florian Wüst
Impulse 1
The standardisation specialist Ernst Neufert
Walter Prigge
A global market leader from the Bauhaus: Neufert’s 1936 Handbook of Building has been translated into 22 languages to date and has sold over a million copies.
Impulse 2
“Modification of prefabricated building methods” (1st International Walter Gropius Seminar), 1987
Hans Götze, participant at the time and architect at the Bauhaus Dessau
Food and drink
Urbane Farm
Game: “Der kleine GROSSBLOCK Baumeister”
Introduction: Heike Brückner
The set, manufactured by VEB Kombinat Chemisch-technische Erzeugnisse Gotha, can be tried out on site.
Reading: Excerpt from “Franziska Linkerhand” by Brigitte Reimann
Juliane Aleithe
The book centres on the architect Franziska Linkerhand. She reflects on her life, her background, her education, her first marriage, and her professional development from research assistant to architect on the “Old Town Regeneration” project in Neustadt.
Discussion: What prevents the large-scale use of prefabricated concrete elements?
Walter Prigge, Hans Götze, Christoph Henschel
Moderator: Juliane Aleithe, Barbara Steiner
In total, the large-scale use of large-format concrete elements can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 95 to 97 per cent. Construction projects could thus be completed in a relatively short time. Nevertheless, there are only a few pilot projects that make use of this.
