Aim of the course is the communication of specific knowledge to qualify architects to work in cultural heritage preservation. Including an overview about professional correlations, know-how, the ability to interdisciplinary and well-founded scientific work just as to communicate the results and to apply them in practice. Synergies and interdisciplinary collaboration will be found within the Institute of History of art, building archaeology and Restoration. In addition there are internal and external cooperation with further disciplines and departments. The courses are linked with real circumstances, archive- and fieldwork and the examination (analyses) of monuments on-site. International involvements and cooperation are favored.
History of monument preservation, monument values, fundamentals, terms and definitions, theoretical discussion, charters, conventions, memoranda, international, national, local. Discourse about social and political relevance, formulation of current research topics, medium and long term perspectives. Fundamentals of inventory, regulatory framework, embedding of monument preservation in current and interdisciplinary requirements (sustainability, resources, urban and regional planning, infrastructure, etc.), organisation and processes, media competence, confidence in argumentation. Introduction to the fundamentals of the renovation of monuments. Different approaches and strategies, requirements for design projects from an urban scale to individual buildings. Special fields such as the research, inventory and preservation of technical and industrial monuments with links to the history of technology, economic and social history. Communication of terminology, history of industrial archaeology, building heritage, monument values, endangerment of industrial monuments, laws and public relation, methods of inventory and preservation methods.