All News of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

From 3 to 5 June 2024, the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences will host the symposium "Duration and Transience. Reflections on the Lifespan of Buildings" will take place. The event, organised by the Institute for Building Research and Conservation (ibb), aims to contribute to placing the…

Students and lecturers at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam are organising a free themed semester on democracy and are exploring the future of the free democratic order. Questions of democracy, diversity and openness will be discussed as part of courses, action days and workshops.

From the 27th of April to the 25th of May, the exhibition "Peter Behrens in Berlin and Brandenburg" invites visitors to explore the architectural legacy of the pioneer of modernism in a new way. Using a variety of presentation methods, the exhibition with its multiple exhibits opens up a stimulating…

The choir stalls of the village church in Gägelow are the oldest choir stalls in Germany, according to research by Lea Morath, a Master's student of conservation and restoration at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, and building historian and dendrologist Tilo Schöfbek. The sensational find…

The winners of the 169th AIV Schinkel Competition have been announced. Architecture students from the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP) are among the honoured works. They received two of this year's special prizes.

On the occasion of her appointment as Honorary Professor of Culture and Management at the Department of CITY I BUILDING I CULTURE, Prof. Dr. Vera Allmanritter will give her inaugural lecture entitled "The cultural audience of the future. How can cultural institutions become sustainable 'places of…

To mark his appointment as Honorary Professor of Conservation Science at the Department of CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Prof. Dr. Eberhard Wendler will give his inaugural lecture entitled "Plausible chemical and physical auxiliary models for understanding material properties, weathering and…

On the occasion of his appointment as Professor of Design and Building Construction at the Department of CITY I BUILDING I CULTURE, Prof. Peter Eingartner will hold his inaugural lecture on the 8th of January 2024 entitled "Windows, façades, city. The window as an element shaping the cityscape".

In the podcast Gründungsgeist Berlin-Brandenburg, Uwe Hanf, lecturer and luminary in the cultural work programme, meets cultural manager Doreen Löwe and talks to her about image, idealism and the compatibility with a living wage.

To mark her appointment as Honorary Professor of Conservation and Restauration at the Department of CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Prof. Dr. Bärbel Arnold will give her inaugural lecture "Conservation and Natural Science – A Journey through Time and Forgetting".

On the occasion of her appointment as Honorary Professor of Restauration in Monument Conservation at the Department of CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Prof. Dipl.-Rest. Mechthild Noll-Minor will give her inaugural lecture entitled "Restauration in the Conservation of Monuments: Highlights, Structures and…

The DAAD-funded project "Interdisciplinary on Buildings" has been successfully completed. The three construction disciplines of architecture and urban planning, civil engineering and conservation and restoration at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam were involved in the realisation of the…