Dessau Institute of Architecture explained

Dessau Institute of Architecture (DIA) is a graduate unit within the Faculty of Architecture and Building Engineering in Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Anhalt) in Dessau, Germany. The institute runs a four semester professional master's program in architecture, which is taught in English. The institute is located partly within the historic Bauhaus building designed by Walter Gropius. DIA's students come from more than thirty different countries, making it one of the most international schools in Europe. The institute was run by Alfred Jacoby until 2017. The current director is Prof. Vesta Nele Zareh.

Teachers 2024

Faculty Staff

• Prof. Johannes Kister https://www.ksg-architekten.info
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Reich. http://www.reich-ingenieure.de/
• Prof. Stefan Worbes
• Juanfra Garcia Guillen
• Prof. Vesta Nele Zareh https://www.europan.de
• Prof. Nadja Häupl https://www.ortegestalten.de/Personen.html
• Prof. Peter Apel https://www.sauerbruchhutton.de/en/
• Prof. Jonas Tratz (Substitute Professor) https://fakt-office.com
• Prof. Catharina Foerster (Substitute Professor) https://reichwaldschultz.de
• Prof. Dr. Elke Richter (Substitute Professor)

Guests Studio Masters

• Bilyana Asenova https://www.unas-studio.com
• Clément Blanchet http://www.clementblanchet.com
• Roger Bundschuh https://bundschuh.net/
• Ivan Kucina
• Dr. Sina Mostafavi http://sinamostafavi.com/
• Amelie Rost http://www.rost-niderehe.de
• Prof. Peter Ruge https://www.peter-ruge.de/
• Fredrik Skåtar http://skatar.com/
• Prof. Eric Helter https://www.ahw-ing.com/index.php/de/profil.html
• Leonhard Clemens https://lncl.de
• Thu Huong Thi Vu

Electives/CAD-Logic

• Torsten Blume
• Marco Mondello
• Alexander Lech https://buerohallo.de
• Prof. Dieter Raffler
• Nico Steinborn
• Fredrik Skåtar http://skatar.com/
• Ines Toscano https://www.couplingstactic.com
• Egor Kuzmin

Some of the visiting professors were:

• Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge https://www.meyer-grohbruegge.com
• Sam Chermayeff https://samchermayeffoffice.com
• Gabriel Feld (RISD)
• Roger Bundschuh (Bundschuh Architekten) http://bundschuh.net/
• Neil Leach (USC)
• Lara Schrijver (TU Delft)
• Arie Graafland (TU Delft)
• Max Cohen de Lara and David Mulder (XML Architecture Research Urbanism) https://web.archive.org/web/20130530183201/http://public.x-m-l.org/
• Jasper de Haan (Jasper de Haan Architecten)http://www.jasperdehaanarchitecten.nl/en/jasper-de-haan-architects.aspx
• Joris Fach (Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)
• Mathias del Campo (SPAN architects)
• Lars Lerup (Rice University)
• Christos Passas (Zaha Hadid Architects)
• Daniel Dendra (Another Architect)
• Immanuel Koh
• Andong Lu (Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)
• Senan Abdelqader (Senan Abdelqader Architects)

External links

• Official website
• https://dia.incom.org