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Revolutionary mobility on historic rails: The European Commission has honored the EU-funded MONOCAB project from North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany, with the prestigious Regiostars Award. This prize recognizes EU-supported projects with
6 months ago
EU COMMISSION Honors MonoCab

The Department of Civil Engineering at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and Arts (TH OWL) invites you to the Symposium on Sustainable and Digital Planning, Construction and Operation Kreativ
8 months ago
SYMPOSIUM for Sustainable and Digital Planning, Building and Operations

Grid-2-Shell & Add-On Construction Second-semester students from the Master of Integrated Design (MID) Façade program at TH-OWL participated in an engaging one-day workshop at Schüco’s headquarters in Bielefeld. The event,
8 months ago
Facade Workshop: Grid-2-Shell & Add-On Construction at Schüco Bielefeld

What if bricks could grow, adapt, and disappear when no longer needed? This is not science fiction—it’s the future of sustainable architecture. In Sustainable Facades vol.3, Luis Alfonso Gutierrez Suarez
9 months ago
Exploring the Potential of 3D-Printed Clay Components for Sustainable Building Construction

Can you capture high-quality 3D scans without professional hardware? MID student Aram Badr set out to answer this question by experimenting with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)—a cutting-edge technique for rendering
1 year ago
Exploring 3D Gaussian Splatting

Apply now… …for our interdisciplinary and international four semester MID program (Master of Integrated Design) at the TH OWL. We offer two specializations: COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN and FACADE DESIGN starting each
1 year ago
Apply Now / WS 2025

Shapes of the Future – Marta Museum Exhibition 01.12.2024 – 23.03.2025Luigi Colani was a visionary who challenged the rigid design norms of his era, introducing fluid, organic forms that redefined
1 year ago
Luigi Colani Exhibition MARTA Herford

Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis The Blended Intensive Programme “Housing Solutions in the 21stCentury Cities: Facing the Affordable Housing Crisis” is a short-duration course promoted under the Erasmus+ initiative. Adopting
1 year ago
Blended Intensive Program – Housing Solutions LISBON 2025

For the final jury, representatives from Friedwald Kalletal selected the top four (two third prices) pavilion designs, envisioning their potential for future realization as serene shelters to host visitors during
2 years ago
Final Presentation Pavillon Friedwald Kalletal

‘Do we ever have to understand anything again? When all that can be learned through hard work and persistence is replaced by these new synthetic tools, what are we left
2 years ago
Book release: SYNTHETIC REALITIES

AI in Construction: TH OWL and MID showcases Innovation at NRW.Tag in Cologne On the weekend leading up to the 78th anniversary of North Rhine-Westphalia, the NRW Day in Cologne
2 years ago
KI.BAU \ NRW.Tag 24

All MID first semester students are welcome to participate in our welcome workshop at the Detmold School of Design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The workshop
2 years ago




