Werner Sobek: Badly Built World
There is an urgent need for action in the direction of a circular economy: Werner Sobek is one of the world’s most renowned engineering scientists and construction researchers. With the […]
Sustainable building materials. Keep building cities – but build them for the future!
Recycling, reuse, and extending service life within reasonable limits are the core ideas of sustainability. Of course, buildings also fall within this. The preservation and remodeling of a home is […]
Transformation of the City: How Do We Want To Live In The Future?
Green City # 4: The transformation of the city is extremely complex. It requires many actors in the most diverse places to network in order to develop, implement and continuously […]
Karl Schwanzer: A Modernist – Cosmopolitan And Dance-like
He has been an architect of world class. The Viennese Karl Schwanzer was a visionary, an artist, a university lecturer, even a poet. His BMW high-rise in Munich is still […]
The Garden City: Fresh air, more space and close to nature
Green City, Part 3: Arduously greening large cities? Or rescue the countryside through new garden cities? Ebenezer Howard developed a city model at the end of the 19th century that […]
Dorte Mandrup: “We need to share our knowledge.”
The building sector is considered one of the biggest polluters worldwide. But how can architecture become more sustainable? With her projects, Dorte Mandrup wants to encourage greater awareness of the […]
Architectural Communication on Instagram: How can digital presentation be successful?
With the digitalisation of communication across all industries, architectural communication has also changed fundamentally. The importance of social media, especially the image-heavy platform Instagram, is taking on an increasingly important […]
The good Spirits of Wood – on the book “Touch Wood”
Never before has wood been so highly in demand as a building material. The Zurich exhibition “Touch Wood” explores the future of building with wood. The book that accompanies it […]
Spatial concepts for brand communication of the future
In a time of rapid developments in hybrid communication, companies across all sectors are faced with the great challenge of communicating their brand identity confidently on all channels, both internally […]
Space capsules for nomads or who likes to live in a box?
Mobile housing containers and plug-in cities – can we still learn from the urban utopias of the 1960s and 1970s? Do concepts of modular architecture still have an influence on […]
“From climate sinner to climate saint”. Interview with Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is one of the most renowned climate researchers in the world. He is an advocate of limiting global warming, and considers the building […]
Low Tech Architecture. The (re)discovery of sustainable buildings
Our cities are dominated by buildings made of mineral building materials such as concrete and steel, whose raw materials endanger ecosystems during extraction and are very CO2-intensive in production. Low-tech […]
Fritz Eichler. Birth of the Cool
Fritz Eichler (1911 – 1991) was perhaps the most important design manager of the young Bundesrepublik. Long before this job title became customary, he played a decisive role in shaping […]
Christopher Alexander. A “Pattern Language”
Between structuralism and postmodernism, he developed an architectural language from patterns and structures: an obituary for the architectural theorist and architect Christopher Alexander, who passed away at the age of […]
Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fascinating facts about the culture and architecture of a continent
With the seven-volume “Architectural Guide Sub-Sahara Africa”, Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai have succeeded in creating a compendium that not only presents a panorama of Africa’s diverse architectures, but also […]
Urban mining and adaptive reuse for the ecological shift
Demolishing old buildings and replacing them with new ones is often a losing proposition from an ecological point of view, because many building materials cannot be recycled. Renovation, urban mining […]
The Language of Spaces: How to catch and direct the eye
Of cabinets of curiosities, showcases and displays: Erika Thümmel has written a richly illustrated introduction to the history of staged spaces and presentation strategies with “The Language of Spaces”. An […]
Li Xiang: Design a surprise for the future
Over the past ten years, architect Li Xiang, founder or X+Living, has explored interior design with her unique and rebellious style. Her many works in diverse fields such as culture, […]
Gio Ponti. Cheerful, Mediterranean, modern
Ornament and pleasure: He designed the Pirelli skyscraper in Milan, breathtaking villas in Caracas, a super-light chair and interiors of shimmering elegance. Now publisher Taschen-Verlag celebrates Gio Ponti’s versatile oeuvre […]
3D printing – new technologies in design and architecture in the age of Tectonism
New technologies, digital processes and forward-thinking manufacturing methods make entirely new ways in design possible. Architect and designer Patrik Schumacher examines the potential of 3D printing. By Patrik Schumacher. 3D […]