Indo-German Seminar: Bauhaus @ 100

Former President, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany

Dr Zimmerman studied architecture in Weimar (Germany), got his doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) in architectural theory, worked from 1973 to 1980 as research fellow in the Department of Theory and History of Architecture of the Building Academy in Berlin with contributions in architectural psychology, semiotics of architecture and empirical investigations in the cognitive impact of architecture. In 1980, he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Architecture and Building in Weimar and in 1992, as university professor for „Design and Theory of Architecture.” He was elected vice-president of the university in the same year. In 1996 when the university became Bauhaus-University Weimar, he was re-elected as vice-president of the university. He served as the Dean of the Department of Architecture at Bauhaus University as vice-president of the university with a six year term, beginning 2004. Since 2016, he has been President of the Architecture Foundation Thüringen. Member of numerous boards, he has been conferred with The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Professor for Digital City Science, CityScienceLab at HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Director, WISSENSARCHITEKTUR Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture, TU Dresden.

From 1992 to 1998, Prof Noennig studied architecture at Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Polytech Krakow and Waseda University Tokyo. Between 1998 and 2001 he practiced as architect in Tokyo, among others at Ishiyama Experimental Underground Architecture Factory, at Arata Isozaki & Associates, and as a freelance architect. From 2001 he was Research Associate at TU Dresden, where he was appointed Junior Professor for Knowledge Architecture (2009-2015). In 2007 he received his doctoral degree from Bauhaus Universität Weimar. He taught at different universities in Japan, USA, China, Italy, Switzerland and Angola, and was Visiting Professor at Universit degli Studi dell l´Aquila, ISEN Toulon and Voronezh State Technical University. He has published several books and more than 100 scientific papers and essays. He has won several prizes, scholarships and awards, incl. the Grand Prize of the European Association for Architecture Education (EAAE). Since 2007 he is married to Yoco Fukuda-Noennig; they have two children.

Head, Department of Architecture and Planning, IIT Roorkee.

Dr. Chani completed his undergraduate and postgraduate programme in architecture from IIT Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee). He then completed his doctorate in embodied energy in buildings in 2002 from IIT Roorkee and joined as a faculty in this institute.

His core area of research is energy in buildings, particularly low carbon construction and his research team is now venturing into the domain of life cycle energy in buildings. He has supervised more than 25 postgraduate dissertations and 4 Ph.D. thesis. He is currently supervising 9 Ph.D. thesis. He is also a member of the Project Source Committeee of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) on energy efficient building materials in India and an advisory member to the Airport Authority of India (AAI) on the design of the upcoming Dehradun airport.

His teaching interests are in the area of modern architecture and he teaches the history and evolution of modern world and specifically modern Indian architecture in the undergraduate programme, besides being involved in undergraduate and postgraduate design studios.

Associate professor, IIT Roorkee

Dr. Raheja is an architect with social thinking outlooks and a well-known expert of accessibility and universal design from India. He is an Associate Professor as well as Co-Cordinator of Design Innovation Center at IIT Roorkee.

Dr. Raheja has been an expert member and has played key advisory roles to the Department of Disabilities in Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India. He has been awarded the Mphasis Universal Design Award, 2010 for his professional and research contributions in the field of universal design. He received the Guest Research Fellowship at T U Berlin in 2017, DAAD IIT Faculty Exchange Fellowship 2016 and DAAD Science Tour Fellowship 2016 amongst others.

With a vision of researching urban futures of human inclusion in built and mobility environments, he has set up Laboratory of Inclusive Design at the Department of Architecture & Planning, IIT Roorkee. Dr. Raheja has delivered several invited talks at national and international platforms including DLR, Berlin, WHO, New Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad, TISS Mumbai, Accenture, Bangalore and several others.