2022

Professor Stefan M. Holzer has been awarded the Golden Owl of the VSETH for his outstanding achievements in teaching. We cordially congratulate him for this award.  

The spotlights of the 29th edition of the European Heritage Days will be directed at sites of art, recreation and sport on 10 and 11 September 2022 under the motto "Leisure - Temps libre - Tempo libero - Temps liber".

The respective dissertations by Martina Diaz and Martin Gantner on timber structures in Italy and Switzerland are now available in the Research Collection.

On Thursday, 30 June 2022, our chair will host the second edition of the Building Archaeology Colloquium in cooperation with the Gesellschaft für Bautechnikgeschichte.

The 52nd Conference for Excavation Science and Building Archaeology of the Koldewey Society on the topic "Sacral Buildings as 'Speaking' Witnesses of Jewish History" will take place in Strasbourg from 25 to 29 May 2022. Free participation via Zoom is provided as well.

Patrick Fleming and Petronella Mill have been awarded first prize in the annual SNSF Image Competition for their entry, 'Section of a library', in the competition’s main category, Objects of Study.

Wilko Potgeter's book "Die Erfindung des Verblendsteins: Bautechnik des Backstein-Rohbaus im Zeitalter der Industrialisierung" was recently published in Stefan M. Holzer's new series "Berichte zur Bauforschung und Konstruktionsgeschichte" by Michael Imhof Verlag.

The 9th CHS Conference will be held in Cambridge from April 1-3. All sessions of the conference will also be available as free Zoom webinars.

At the beginning of March, three new doctoral students started at the Chair of Building Archaeology and Construction History. This also marks the start of the latest SNSF project on medieval masonry bridges.