Since 2008, the BDA Landesverband NRW has awarded the annual BDA Masters study prize. The study prize pursues the intention of motivating good and ambitious bachelor graduates to train as comprehensively as possible. This year, the BDA NRW once again sifted through, juried and awarded the best bachelor theses of the next generation of architects. Among the other prizes, the prize of the nominees went to Leonie Kratzner for the project B4 "Mitten in Richterich"- The new center at the castle park. The project was offered by the Chair of Landscape Architecture cooperation with Prof. Fred Humblé and supervised by Silvia Beretta and Prof. Dr. Frank Lohrberg.

Another semester that is so different from what students imagine. A "normal" student life is out of the question. In addition to the uncertainties caused by the pandemic, everyday life is spent more or less sitting, staring at the screen, and social contacts and the associated exchange hardly take place anymore.

As part of a digital health week for students from March 01-05, 2021, the Student Health Management of RWTH in cooperation with other actors offers some events that focus on the mental health of students in this challenging time. Digital lectures and workshops of about 45 minutes duration will briefly provide some helpful tips and tricks that may offer some support to students learning at a distance.

This year, the Chair of Building Construction takes the changed and further changing reality of life as an opportunity to interrupt the conference series Identity of Architecture with a digital intermezzo.

The Institute of Landscape Architecture within the Faculty of Architecture has recently become involved in the coordination of a new H2020 Research and Innovation project involving the development of a European Forum on Urban Agriculture.

Theresa Kotulla wins the special study prize of 1000 euros with her dissertation "Price-linked rental housing construction in Germany - identification of relevant development potential for the promotion of new construction".

Oliver Schulz is awarded for his M3 work " BIM for renovation of residential buildings
A Linked Data approach" was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Prize 2020.

A gleaning by Anna Graff, Verena Hake and Caroline Helmenstein

The annual exhibition "work in progress" on integrated project work could not take place in April 2020 in the foyer of the Reiff as usual. We are pleased to be able to make up for it now in a digital format. Selected project works from the summer semester 2019 are presented. The task was the design of a sports performance center for young soccer players in Aachen's Tivoli Sports Park.

Information event about the master thesis in SoSe 2021 via ZOOM

Ava Mronz, Master's graduate of the winter semester 19/20, wins one of three 1st places of the "Förderpreis des Deutschen Instituts für Stadtbaukunst" and additionally the "DASL Förderpreis NRW".