Dorothée Sack

Dorothée Sack (* 1947 in Aldekerk ) is a German building researcher specializing in Islamic architecture .

Dorothée Sack initially did an apprenticeship as a carpenter in the Wald monastery from 1964 to 1967 , which she completed as a journeyman . In 1968 she began studying architecture at the University of Karlsruhe . She completed that in 1975 with a thesis on the subject of Karlsruhe, Südstadt green corridor - urban design . The doctorate took place there in 1982 with a thesis on Damascus. Development and structure of an oriental-Islamic city . For 1979/80 Sack received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). Between 1990 and 1998 she was a lecturer for building research and Islamic archeology at the Universities of Frankfurt, Mainz and Bonn , and in 1992/93 she was visiting professor at the University of Bamberg . In 1994 she completed her habilitation at the University of Frankfurt with the thesis The Great Mosque by Resafa-Rusafat Hisham . At the same time, she received the venia legendi for building research, which was based in the field of classical archeology , including Islamic architecture . Sack has been a full professor at the Technical University of Berlin since 1998 , where she headed the newly established department of historical building research until September 2014, as well as the post-graduate study program coordinated by the department (master’s degree since 2004). Thekla Schulz-Brize was her successor .

Sack is nominator for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture , special reviewer of the German Research Foundation , since 1995 Corresponding and since 2004 full member of the DAI and was a member of the board of the Koldewey Society until 2012 . She is sub-area editor for the Islam section of Beck's Archaeological Library and, with Johannes Cramer, editor of the journal architectura . In 2001 she received the Ferdinand von Quast Medal for the Taut Pavilion in Berlin. So far, she has carried out research in Castel del Monte , Beirut , Resafa , Tripoli and Damascus, among others .

Fonts

• Damascus. Development and structure of an oriental-Islamic city. von Zabern, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-8053-0977-5 ( Damascus research , volume 1)
• The Great Mosque of Resafa - Ruṣāfat Hišām. von Zabern, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-8053-1790-5 (Resafa, Volume 4)
• 5 years postgraduate study of monument preservation at the TU Berlin. Historical Building Research of the TU Berlin, Berlin 2004
• with Thomas Dittelbach : La chiesa inferiore della Cappella Palatina a Palermo. Contesti - progetti - rilievi = The lower church of Palermo's Palatine Chapel = The lower church of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2005, ISBN 3-89929-058-5

Web links

• Employee presentation on the website of the TU Berlin
• Portrait on the TOPOI website