Pfeiffer Foundation for Architecture

An important sponsor of the faculty is the Pfeiffer Foundation for Architecture. The purpose of the Pfeiffer Foundation is to promote science and research, artistic development as well as education and training, primarily in the field of architecture at the University of Kassel, both nationally and internationally.

The Pfeiffer Foundation pursues exclusively non-profit purposes. In particular, it aims to promote innovative and resource-conserving as well as health-friendly and health-promoting processes and products.

Another focus is on internationalisation and international exchange.

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Announcement of the Pfeiffer Prize in Winter Semester 2025/2026

This year, the Pfeiffer Foundation for Architecture is once again awarding prizes for the best final theses at faculty 06. Nominations can be sent by 30/11/2025 with the following details to the email address: pfeifferpreis@asl.uni-kassel.de.

Pfeiffer Prize in Winter Semester 2024/25

As part of the New Year's reception at the ASL faculty, the Pfeiffer Foundation for Architecture once again awarded prizes for the best final theses on February 12, 2025.

Recognition and prizes were awarded in the following three categories

  1. Design-conceptually oriented final theses
  2. Planning-conceptually oriented final theses
  3. Analytical-reflective, scientific theses

In category 1 , Hussam Alrai and Mouawya Al Abdulla received recognition for their work Brücke+ Nachhaltige Reaktivierung und Aufstockung der Siemensbahn für eine lebenswerte Stadt - Berlin. Another award went to Malte Glubis for his work Zwischen Geschichte und Gedächtnis. Checkpoint Charlie as a place of education and remembrance and to Björn Simon for his work Back to the Future Clay. Aus der Grube ins Gebäude. Nachverdichtung und das Potenzial von Aushubmaterial.

The work Re:Arrange by Yannick Herzmansky received an award.

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Category 1 award, Yannick Herzmansky

In category 2, Mira Irmer and Antonia Lüdicke received recognition for their work Konnektiv +-. Marc Roggenstein for eben mit dem Wasser. Städtebau im Umgang mit Hochwasser und Starkregen. 

The prize was awarded to Celina Ebbert and Paul Fleckenstein for their work OSTKAS. Von der Brache zur Brücke.

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Category 2 award, Celina Ebbert and Paul Fleckenstein

In category 3, Vera Louven and Johann Taillebois were each honored with an award. Vera Louven's work is entitled Der Effekt von Störungen auf Schmetterlinge der Kalkmagerrasen im Werra-Meissner-Kreis unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von punktuellen Brandstellen aus der Schnittgutverbrennung. Johann Taillebois' work is entitled Experimentelle Klimaanpassung im öffentlichen Raum. Der Einfluss von Realexperimenten auf die Implementierung von Klimaanpassungsmaßnahmen. 

Prizes in this category were awarded to Lara Hesse with her work Kultur Raum Commons Kassel. Zur Praxis, Bedeutung und Gefährdung alternativer, selbstgemachter Kulturräume and David Rothfuss with his work Implementing Discomfort.

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Category 3 award, Lara Hesse
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Category 3 award, David Rothfuss

Award-Winning Works

20 years of the Pfeiffer Foundation

Together with many interested visitors, the Pfeiffer Foundation at the Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning (ASL) at the University of Kassel celebrated its 20th anniversary on December 11, 2024. Dr. Oliver Fromm, Chancellor of the University of Kassel and Chairman of the Foundation Board, Prof. Ariane Röntz, Dean of Studies of the ASL Faculty, and Prof. em. Wolfgang Schulze, Board Member and former student of Herbert-Theodor Pfeiffer, thanked the Foundation for its many years of exemplary commitment and invited visitors to look back together.

To the press release (in German only), 12 December 2024

Image: Andreas Fischer
Image: Andreas Fischer

Aims and Organization

Board of Directors
Prof. Wolfgang Schulze

Board of Trustees

  • Dr. Oliver Fromm, Chancellor of the University of Kassel, Chairman
  • Dipl.-Kfm. Peter Basedow, Deputy Chairman, auditor/tax consultant, Hamburg
  • Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Postlep, Marburg, former President of the University of Kassel
  • Prof. Claus Anderhalten, Faculty 06 ASL, University of Kassel
  • Matthias Fleischer, lawyer, Celle

The objectives of the foundation are to be realised by

  • awarding scholarships to students, doctoral candidates and artists
  • awarding prizes for very good theses and dissertations
  • supporting and organizing academic and artistic events
  • supporting research and development projects
  • awarding research contracts and scholarships
  • awarding grants for investments including hardware and software
  • issuing and otherwise promoting relevant publications
  • supporting international exchange, for example through excursions
  • supporting other institutions, facilities and associations that pursue the same purposes as the foundation

Funding applications from the Pfeiffer Foundation should be sent informally to:

Pfeiffer Foundation for Architecture
at the University of Kassel
Prof. Wolfgang Schulze
Gottschalkstraße 30
34127 Kassel

The applications should outline the financing of the respective project.

Prof. Wolfgang Schulze is personally available to answer any questions.

E-mail: pfeifferstiftung[at]uni-kassel[dot]de

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