Dessau Institute of Architecture

Dessau Institute of Architecture (DIA) is a graduate unit within the Faculty of Architecture and Building Engineering in Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Anhalt) in Dessau, Germany. The institute runs a four semester professional master's program in architecture, which is taught in English. The institute is located partly within the historic Bauhaus building designed by Walter Gropius. DIA's students come from more than thirty different countries, making it one of the most international schools in Europe. The institute was run by Alfred Jacoby until 2017. The current director is Prof. Vesta Nele Zareh.

Teachers 2024
Faculty Staff


 * Prof. Johannes Kister
 * Prof. Dr. Stefan Reich.
 * Prof. Stefan Worbes
 * Juanfra Garcia Guillen
 * Prof. Vesta Nele Zareh
 * Prof. Nadja Häupl
 * Prof. Peter Apel
 * Prof. Jonas Tratz (Substitute Professor)
 * Prof. Catharina Foerster (Substitute Professor)
 * Prof. Dr. Elke Richter (Substitute Professor)

Guests Studio Masters
 * Bilyana Asenova
 * Clément Blanchet
 * Roger Bundschuh
 * Ivan Kucina
 * Dr. Sina Mostafavi
 * Amelie Rost
 * Prof. Peter Ruge
 * Fredrik Skåtar
 * Prof. Eric Helter
 * Leonhard Clemens
 * Thu Huong Thi Vu

Electives/CAD-Logic
 * Torsten Blume
 * Marco Mondello
 * Alexander Lech
 * Prof. Dieter Raffler
 * Nico Steinborn
 * Fredrik Skåtar
 * Ines Toscano
 * Egor Kuzmin

Some of the visiting professors were:
 * Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge
 * Sam Chermayeff
 * Gabriel Feld (RISD)
 * Roger Bundschuh (Bundschuh Architekten)
 * Neil Leach (USC)
 * Lara Schrijver (TU Delft)
 * Arie Graafland (TU Delft)
 * Max Cohen de Lara and David Mulder (XML Architecture Research Urbanism)
 * Jasper de Haan (Jasper de Haan Architecten)
 * Joris Fach (Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)
 * Mathias del Campo (SPAN architects)
 * Lars Lerup (Rice University)
 * Christos Passas (Zaha Hadid Architects)
 * Daniel Dendra (Another Architect)
 * Immanuel Koh
 * Andong Lu (Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)
 * Senan Abdelqader (Senan Abdelqader Architects)