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The HOCHWEIT yearbook provides an insight into current teaching and research across the nine institutes of the highly regarded Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences at Leibniz University Hannover. The yearbook focuses on student projects both in Germany and abroad: numerous design and teaching events, research activities, lectures, excursions, workshops, exhibitions, and expert discussions provide an overview of teaching and research and demonstrate the enriching power of interdisciplinary cooperation. Newly appointed professors Jochen Hack (Digital Environment Planning) and Ann-Katrin Kößler (Behavioral Aspects of Environmental Planning), are introduced in personal profiles. An essay on timeless architecture by Hilde Léon rounds out the volume.

Armin Linke's night photography reveals the vacancy of the Bauakademie as a trace of Schinkel in Berlin's urban fabric. The rudimentary replica of the corner construction raises questions about the future use and form of this centrally located site. Despite current majority support in Parliament for a reconstruction of the historical envelope―analogous to the recently completed Humboldt Forum―there are clearly more differentiated ideas among architects and urban society in Berlin about the future of the Bauakademie building. There is strong resistance to the appropriation of this important institution and building task by representational politics, that actually threaten to obscure more historical traces than they are supposed to make visible with the motto "As much Schinkel as possible". At this important moment, Bauakademie Berlin offers conceptual perspectives for a contemporary Bauakademie in the form of texts, architectural drawings, and artist's photographs. With texts by Sandra Bartoli, Stefanie Endlich, Philipp Oswalt, Tanja Scheffler, Dubravka Sekulic, Axel Sowa, Stephan Trüby, and Andreas Zeese. Photographs by Armin Linke and Gili Merin

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) The HOCHWEIT yearbook offers an overview of current teaching and research at the multiple award-winning Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences at Leibniz Universitat Hannover. Student projects and designs, based on sites in Germany and abroad, are at the heart of the yearbook. Numerous design and teaching events, research activities, presentations, excursions, workshops, exhibitions, and academic discussions provide an insight into teaching and research under the changed conditions of the pandemic. HOCHWEIT is a window for the faculty and its nine institutes, and it reflects the potential for enrichment offered by interdisciplinary cooperation. The yearbook also features an essay on classicism in the twenty-first century by Andre Kempe und Oliver Thill.