»Drawing I«


Lecture and Exercise
On Monday
9.00 – 12.00 am resp.
13.00 – 16.00 pm
alternating locations
Introduction for all groups
on Monday, October 13th, 2025
8.00 am, Gr. Hörsaal A93
Prof. Katharina Immekus
Stefan Schwarzer, Diploma of Fine Arts
PLEASE NOTE !
- Lecture addressing »Perspective I« takes place for all students on October 20th, 2025 at 8.00 am, L3|01 A93 (Gr. HS).
- presentation for all groups
on Monday, November 24th, 2025
9.00 am/1.00 pm, L03|01, R A95 (Ostbau) - Midterm Exam on Monday, February 9th, 2026, 10.00 am L03|01, R A95 (Ostbau)
»Visual Arts I – Drawing I«
The subject of the course is the training of perception, understanding and graphic representation of architectural and spatial relationships. In weekly exercises, students transfer their perceptions at the faculty or directly in the urban space into analogue freehand drawings.
Accompanying the exercises, theoretical and practical aspects of freehand drawing such as perspective, proportion, incidence of light, surface texture and composition are introduced.
This course is dedicated to the basics of analogue drawing representation and should encourage students in finding their own way to the different possibilities of drawing, and to help them to implement drawing as an essential tool for developing their own formal language.
Participation in the exercises and representation of the winter semester’s exercises at the Midterm Exam on February 9th, 2026, 10.00 am in L03|01, R A95 (Ostbau) are mandatory.
– Successful completion of the sub-modules in the winter and summer semesters is a prerequisite for passing the overall module 15-21-0413 Design I – Drawing in summer 2026 –
Higher Semesters please note !
Submission deadline for the complete Portfolio I and II for those who are taking the exam outside of the regular schedule in the winter semester takes place on Monday, 9th February, 2026, 10.00 am too. Please hand in your works at office L03|01 R150).
Those who take the examination outside the regular schedule should inquire well in advance at the institute's office about which works can be submitted.
Linocut Seminar »Tailor-made Cutting«


Master/Bachelor WF
on Monday 4 pm
registration via seminar bazaar
introduction on Monday, October 13th, 2025 at 4 pm, Gallery Parkhaus (room 177)
submission on February 9th, 2026
Prof. Katharina Immekus
M. A. Kai Altheim
This winter term we are planning to work on five different DIN-formats in a certain way, from smallest to biggest format. At the beginning all participants will buy lino plates at the unit in A6, A5, A4, A3 and A2. These five lino plates should be thought and worked on as a five-part exhibition object.
Topics of your exhibition contribution could and should be developed essentially from your own. What we are expecting in detail from you, will be explained at the first meeting on the October 13th, 2025.
To get inspiration some short excursions, half day or daylong, are planned.
Furthermore – like always – we will print and talk about the works on Mondays at four o’clock pm.
Gallery Seminar »Open Space«


Master/Bachelor WF
on Monday 6pm
registration via seminar bazaar
introduction on Monday, October 13th, 2025 at 6 pm, Gallery Parkhaus (room 177)
submission on February 9th, 2026
Prof. Katharina Immekus
M.A. Kai Altheim
Stefan Schwarzer, Diploma of Fine Arts
Last Gallery Course started bringing student’s ideas on the walls of the Gallery Parkhaus. We would like to continue and to deepen this, not at last because of the upcoming moving from our unit and the Gallery Parkhaus, too.
Before we move the walls of the gallery should become to an »open space«, resp. to a site, where on certain »opening times« there it will be possible to work f r e e on the three gallery walls.
We are hoping that at the end of the summer term there will be a lively and convincing exhibition, three walls filled with interesting, exciting, and different works.
It is important to us to monitor the progress weekly in our gallery talks and to document the process with photos. Reactions to the work of other people, handling and continuing of other student’s design ideas, are an essential element of this course, so that we do hopefully surprise ourselves every week again and again with the on-going development of the walls.
With our »Open Space-Project« we want to encourage participants to be brave and in a free artistic way to express themselves on the walls, giving them opportunity to exchange ideas about aesthetic issues and visual representation.
The »open« working times on the walls will be on Monday from ten to twelf in the morning and two to four in the afternoon. Other times can be arranged individually.
Inspiration and further information will be given at the first meeting on Monday, October 13th, 2025 at 6.00 pm in the Gallery Parkhaus.
»Painting Recycled«


Master/Bachelor WF
On Tuesday 10 am, fortnightly
registration via seminar bazaar
Introduction on Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 at 10 am, Gallery Parkhaus, (room 177)
Submission on February 10th, 2026, 10.00 am
Prof. Katharina Immekus
Stefan Schwarzer, Diploma of Fine Arts
We all have unfinished projects, images or leftover materials at home, or we see something suitable in our shared university rooms. Materials that inspire us and could be used in one way or another for new image ideas.
In this term we would like to apply the process of recycling to painting, rethink »failed« or unfinished projects and images again and take a closer look at them, reusing them, or continuing to paint them.
Perhaps, we pass on our works to other participants in the course and receive them back with new suggestions and ideas for further development and we work on our images with new inputs and ideas. Mainly focuses the course like all our others on further painting, further building, further thinking based on already existing works, reflecting the history of an image, too.
An image does not arise out of nowhere; it is always a reaction to something we have seen or perceived. Fortnightly we will discuss the working results and try to get to individually compelling paintings and works of art.
Lecture Series »Design and Art«


Master Lecture
Lecture Series »Design and Art«
on Tuesday, 11:40 am
introduction and first lecture on Tuesday, October 14th, 2025, 11:40 am, A93
Prof. Ariel Auslender, Prof. Katharina Immekus, Prof. Oliver Tessmann
Dipl.-Ing. Fabian Luttropp, Dipl.-Ing. Manuel Pfänder, M.A. Kai Altheim, Stefan Schwarzer, Diploma of Fine Arts
With six lectures and three optional exercises, subject module B gives Master's students an overview of the contents of visual, digital and plastic design.
While the focus in the seminars of the respective subject areas is on concrete topics and techniques of design, the lectures of the subject module are designed to establish a larger context and thus to present and clarify the interests of the individual subject areas in the context of architectural teaching.
Within this subject module, Visual Design will give a lecture on free art and intuitive perception as well as a lecture on “the applied image”. Plastic Design will hold a lecture on “Design at the interface from two- to three-dimensional space” as well as a lecture on “Experimental design in 1:1 at the interface to applied research”. Digital Design will hold lectures on “Computer-based design and digital fabrication”.
Exercises will develop from the resulting differences and interfaces of approach and will be issued at the end of the lecture series.
Photography Course »Home«


Master/Bachelor WF
on Thursday 3.30 pm
Registration via seminar bazaar
Introduction and representation of the mandatory first exercise on Thursday, October 16th, 2025, 3.30 pm, Gallery Parkhaus (R177)
The first exercise can be found on the website (menu »Semester Programme«) in kalender week 41.
Submission and representation with following exhibition of all works on March 5th, 2026, 3.30 pm
Dipl.-Des. (FH) Nina Kaußen
We understand home as a place associated with a feeling of connection and security. Architecture is also closely linked to the concept of home, as settlements and buildings fulfil more than just the practical purpose of providing shelter.
The term home can mean different things and is sometimes also used incorrectly. Examining the concept of home is important for coexistence in our society. This seminar aims to explore this concept. Over the course of the semester, students will develop their own photographic series on the topic. This series will explore a specific aspect of »home«.
In addition, camera technology, image composition, and image editing will be discussed, and a presentation format appropriate for the individual work will be developed.
IMPORTANT:
To hand in the first exercise is mandatory, for students looking for an option to slip into the course without having received an admission from the seminar bazaar, too.
First meeting: October 16th, 2025, 3:30 pm, Galerie Parkhaus (r177)
Figure drawing teaches the basics of proportion, perspective, and composition. It trains the perception of physiognomy, posture and movement as essential signs of human appearance.
The aim of this course is to interpret one's own perception and to express it through a free choice of artistic means (graphite, ink, colours).
Submission on February 10th, 2025, 10.00 am, r150
Material and Nature »FB15 Architectural Zine«


Master/Bachelor WF
block seminar
registration via seminar bazaar
Monday, February 23rd, 2026, to Wednesday, February 2th, 2026, 10.00 am – 3.00 pm, Galerie Parkhaus (room 177)
Thursday + Friday: free project work
Monday, March 2nd, 2026, to Wednesday, March 4th, 2026, 10.00 am – 3.00 pm
submission/representation on Wednesday, March 4th, 2026, 3.00 pm
M.A. Kai Altheim
In the two-week block seminar “FB15 Architectural Zine”, students develop a zine that deals with the visual and atmospheric qualities of the FB15 building.
The aim is to perceive the Department of Architecture’s building not only as a place of learning, but also as an independent architectural object, and to reflect on it through design.
At the center is a research-oriented and creative approach to the building’s spatial qualities, materiality, and atmosphere – represented through photographic and graphic means.
The process begins with intensive spatial observation. Conscious perception forms the basis for a photographic process, which is later enriched by an in-depth examination with historical and constructive aspects. The photographs are jointly analysed and reflected upon, serving as a base for further photographic work. In parallel, students deal with architectural drawings – in particular floor plans – which are to be reinterpreted and staged graphically.
Through this iterative working process, the content of the zine gradually emerges. In a final editorial phase, layout, narrative, and image sequencing are developed collaboratively.
In addition, participants address production-related aspects: questions of binding, paper selection, text integration, as well as the use of color in the risograph printing process form the seminar’s design conclusion. The release of the zine is scheduled for the summer semester of 2026.
Images »Re-Action«


Master/Bachelor WF
Block Seminar
Registration via seminar bazaar
Mo, February 23rd, 2026, 12.00 am – 6.00 pm
Tu, 24.02.2026, 10.00-6.00, Wed, 25.02.2026, 10.00-6.00,
Thu, 26.02.2026, 10.00 – 8.00 pm
Gallery Parkhaus (R177)
Submission on 26.02.2026, 6.00 pm
Prof.'in Katharina Immekus
Stefan Schwarzer, Diploma of Fine Arts
In line with current debates in architecture, the block seminar also deals with the reuse and recycling of found materials and visual material. Together we will go through the faculty to look for suitable material and try to recycle images and models in order to generate new ideas from old stuff.
The result should be something forethought in its unique artistic way, convincing especially by not being created on a blank white sheet of paper, but building on an already existing form. So that it will be possible to link the old to the new in a credible manner.
Together we will talk about the possibilities to work further on existing material, and we will explore strategies to unleashing the inherent artistic potential.