Wednesday, 10.06.2026 , 18.00, hybrid

Building culture and resilience: The importance of built heritage for urban resilience

Resilience and built heritage
Vanessa Ziegler
REICHER HAASE ASSOZIIERTE Aachen

Resilient Building Culture in Ukraine
Liubov Apostolova-Sossa
KNUCA Kyiv

Panel discussion

Alirza Mamedov
KNUCA Kyiv

Anna Kuzyshyn
at RPTUKaiserslautern

Moderation
Prof. Dr. Detlef Kurth, at RPTU

The built heritage is an important foundation for a resilient city. The existing urban structure not only contains gray energy, it is also a carrier of identity, design quality and social cohesion. Particularly when it comes to climate resilience, there are always conflicts between monument preservation, design specifications and requirements for contemporary adaptation of existing buildings. This is exacerbated by other resilience aspects such as safety, protection and robustness.

The aim should be to understand building culture as part of urban resilience and to cooperate on an interdisciplinary basis between heritage conservation, urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture and other disciplines.

Vanessa Ziegler gives an introduction to the importance of architectural heritage for resilient urban development. Liubov Apostolova-Sossa will present examples of resilient building culture from Ukraine. Together with other guests, we will then discuss how building culture can be holistically conceived and practically implemented as a factor that promotes resilience.

The colloquium will take place in hybrid form - in person at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Pfaffenbergstraße 95, Building 1, Room 01-160, 67663 Kaiserslautern, as well as digitally via Zoom.

The event is recognized as further training by the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Architects. For the certificate of participation, please send an e-mail with your personal data including your membership number to: stadtplanung@ru.rptu.de

The Urban Planning Colloquium is a series of events organized by the Chair of Urban Planning at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (since 2017) - a forum for discussing and networking on current urban planning topics.

The event is supported by the SRL - Association for Urban, Regional and State Planning, the German Academy for Urban and State Planning and the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Architects.

The link for digital participation will follow shortly.