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Implementation of Architectural Policies – New ExpectationsPrague, April 2009

Joined up thinking: The founding of the

HafenCity University Hamburg

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Tradition of Excellence in the Built Environment

Foto: www.mediaserver.hamburg.de

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Tradition of Excellence in the Built Environment

Foto: W. Meinhart

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Policy: Quality architecture and urban design for competitive advantage and as motors of growth

» Growing City» Leap across the Elbe» HafenCity» International Building Exhibition » International Garden Show» Klimastadt Hamburg» The HafenCity University

Foto: www.mediaserver.hamburg.de

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Importance of architecture, urban design and planning education

» Architecture courses at the Fachhochschule and at the Art College

» Long standing desire from the profession to raise the quality of architecture education in Hamburg

» Founding of the HafenCity University in January 2006» Architecture from the Fachhochschule and the Art College» Civil engineering and Geomatics from the Fachhochschule » Urban planning from the Technical University» On five locations across Hamburg until completion of building

in the HafenCity in 2012

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The University of the Built Environment and Metropolitan Development

» Premise: Challenges facing the built environment are urgent and complex and require new ways of working.

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Starting Points for the HCU

» Sustainable solutions address spatial, ecological, social, cultural and economic challenges

» Academic Content» Disciplinarity: excellence in a subject» Interprofessionalism: understanding of and respect for related

disciplines--how they think, what they value, as a precondition for creative cooperation

» Transdisciplinarity: openness towards radically different ways of thinking, seeing and responding

» Focus on metropolises» Issues facing the built environment are public ones

» The HCU has the responsibility to inform and challenge public and professional opinion

» The new building must support these values architecturally

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Transcending Boundaries

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Object and subject of urban development in Hamburg» Public forum» Set standards in sustainability

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Autumn 2012