The Faculty's research seeks to activate and collate knowledge from a range of separate fields in order to find solutions to the problems at hand. These research approaches are frequently interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, collaborative and integrative.
It is precisely this interdisciplinary approach, combining both engineering and design disciplines, that make the Faculty's work unique and which in the past led to it being described as the "Stuttgart school". The many current research projects underline the Faculty's prominent role and its commitment in research.
The following institutes have current research projects:
Institute of Urban Planning and Design (SI)
Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design
INSTITUTE OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, IBK2
Chair for Building Construction, Building Technology and Design
Institute of Landscape Planning and Ecology
Institute for Computational Design
Achim Menges
Prof. AA Dipl.(Hons.)Head of Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD)
Jan Knippers
Prof. Dr.-Ing.Head of Institute of Support Structures and Structural Design