Press release
Inaugural lecture by Prof Dr Andrij Kutnyi
To mark his appointment as Professor of Digital Building Surveying and As-Built Analysis at the Department of Civil Engineering, Prof. Dr Kutnyi will give his inaugural lecture entitled "Measuring, Recording, Understanding - Building Surveying in the Age of Digitalisation".
The development of technologies and digital possibilities is changing the approaches and methods of building surveys and as-built analyses - especially in the recording of historical buildings. The lecture provides a brief overview of the work processes and surveying equipment used, based on a number of student projects and research projects that were created under his supervision or participation during his work at various universities and colleges.
Kutnyi's presentation not only shows the technical development of the methods, but also offers the opportunity to familiarise oneself with buildings from other countries and cultures.
Personal details
After studying architecture and urban planning at the National Polytechnic University in Lviv, followed by postgraduate studies in monument preservation at the University of Bamberg, Prof. Dr Andrij Kutnyi began his professional career with an internship at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in 1999. Prior to this, from 1996 to 1999, he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Urban Planning at the National Polytechnic University in Lviv. In 2005, he took on a teaching position at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg, where he also completed his doctorate in 2007.
Between 2006 and 2013, he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich at the Chair of Building History, Historical Building Research and Monument Conservation, where he was involved in the project "Monument and Context in Bukhara, Uzbekistan" and was the scientific director of the sub-project "Construction Knowledge of Early Modernism. Shukhov's strategies of economical iron construction". In 2010, he was honoured with the prestigious European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage (Europa Nostra Award) for his work.
In 2014, he was a Senior Lecturer at the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck before working as a freelance building researcher and research assistant at the Technical University of Munich from 2015-2016. This was followed in 2017 by his work as a building researcher in the EU project ViSIT for the digital and touristic development of cultural heritage in the city of Passau. From 2018 to 2021, he led the BMBF research project "Norwegian Stave Churches. Building research on the oldest wooden churches in Europe" at the Technical University of Munich. He then worked as a research assistant in the KulturGutRetter project at the architecture department of the headquarters of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin (2022-2024) and at the same time as project coordinator at the Blue Shield National Committee Germany. Since 2023, he has been a member of the subgroup of technical experts at the European Commission. In 2025, he was appointed Professor of Digital Building Surveying and Inventory Analysis at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences.
Inaugural lecture
When: 08 December 2025, 18:30 - 20:00
Where: House D, Room 0.11
Online: Zoom link for online participation
The event will take place on site in presence and will be broadcast live in parallel. Interested parties are welcome to attend. Following the inaugural lecture, there will be a small reception in the gallery of the main building.