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04/03/2023 | Berichte aus den Bereichen

The University of Kassel mourns the death of Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Michael Wilkens. *27.02.1935 +05.03.2023

Prof. Mike Wilkens was appointed to the still young organizational unit Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning at the then Gesamthochschule Kassel in 1974. He was intensively involved in the discussions on the establishment of the integrated study program Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning and the development of the "Kassel Profile".

From the beginning, he stood for an architectural education with the goal of understanding and assessing planning activity as social and political action. He lived and advocated this principle until his retirement in 2000. In 1981, Wilkens founded the architectural office "Baufrösche" in Kassel, which grew out of his collaboration with students on a project for the documenta urbana in Kassel. The office, with which he has always been associated, is still successful today with its core task of "low-cost housing". From 1988 on, Prof. Wilkens established a cooperation between the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Universidad Central de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba and the Department of Architecture of the University of Kassel, which still exists today. With great commitment, he initiated and supervised the events and student exchanges in Santa Clara and Kassel. In Kassel, he was a versatile citizen with a high level of social competence and participated in a variety of ways in urban development issues. He was an unconventional thinker who shaped and challenged the department for many years. For the students, he was a partner and role model.

We will not forget him with his energetic commitment and enigmatic humor, and we bid him farewell with great respect and sympathy.

President
Dean, faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Landscape Planning at the University of Kassel.