Although the load-bearing structure is always an essential component of realised or to-be-realised architecture, many "seasoned architects" but also, and in particular, students of the subject often find it difficult to objectively assess or evaluate the load-bearing effect of a design. The stylistic, formal and material pluralism of contemporary architecture on the one hand, the design side, as well as the increasingly sophisticated calculation procedures and methods on the other, the engineering side, contribute to increasing or at least not reducing the existing uncertainty with regard to the assessment of the load-bearing function of an architectural design.

"It is always the construction that is built!"

In line with the aforementioned guiding principle, structural engineering as a structural training programme teaches the mathematical and physical principles of the effect of forces and loads on the building and its components. The Bachelor's programme lays the foundations for developing a feeling for the load-bearing effect of a structure. Teaching is based primarily on the visually appealing approaches of graphical statics. This makes it possible to visualise the flow of forces in a structure in a memorable way and to make the "secrets" behind the "invisible" effects of the forces visible without extensive mathematical representations.
Interested students have the opportunity to deepen their basic knowledge and apply it in a structural design context through elective courses in both the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes. To this end, seminars and designs with contemporary topics are offered, which move in the field of tension between load, material, form and construction and attempt to promote an appropriate categorisation of the structural design in the architectural design.