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Person

Prof. Dipl.-Ing.

Thomas Schmitz

Univ. Prof.

Department of Visual Arts

Head of department

Address

Building: Reiffmuseum

Room: R 225

Schinkelstraße 1

52062 Aachen

Contact

WorkPhone

Phone: +49 241 80 95062

Fax Fax: +49 241 80 92207

Email: schmitz@kg.rwth-aachen.de

Website

Consultation-hour

Wednesday 8am to 8:45am, only to be booked via the secretary's office at Mrs. Heimes

CV

Thomas H. Schmitz (Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing.) had been head of the Department of BILDNERISCHE GESTALTUNG Since 01.10.2007 and has been head of the Department of Visual Arts since March 2019 at the Faculty of Architecture of the RWTH Aachen University.

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1985. 1985-1987 he was research assistant at the Chair of Architectural Drawing and RAUMGESTALTUNG at the TU Braunschweig. 1987-1989 he worked as a freelancer at the office of Prof. Thomas Sieverts in Bonn. From 1988 he increasingly focused on artistic activities, especially in the field of painting and graphics. In addition, he developed projects in the wider field of architecture and art through competitions, such as the Land Art project 'Halde im Wandel' in Gladbeck, which was presented at the Architecture Biennale in Venice in 1996, and from 2005 also projects for the artistic space rearrangement of church. In 1993 he was appointed Professor of Freehand Drawing, Artistic Design and Design at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern. 2002-2003 he was a co-founder of their new bachelor course "Virtual Design", where he played a major role in its conception and in the development of a cross-media design theory.

Research topics are colors and their effects, creative processes and the role of the human body in desiging. He is co-editor of the interdisciplinary anthology "Werkzeug-Denkzeug, Manuelle Intelligenz und Transmedialität kreativer Prozesse".

*** Publikationen Schmitz ***