aed on tour: Architecture, Engineering and Design in Berlin
Berlin is always worth a trip. Especially in recent years, a lot of new things have been created here – often with reference to planners and designers from Stuttgart. Together […]
Architecture Communication on Instagram: How can digital presentation be successful?
With the digitalisation of communication across all industries, architecture 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 […]
otl aicher 100: “we have bread, we have games”
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Games, the IDZ invites you to a discussion on the vision of the Munich Games and the status quo […]
Alvar Aalto Week 2022 in Wolfsburg
Like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto is one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. His buildings, from […]
Facets of 20th century architecture. The online magazine moderneREGIONAL
The online magazine moderneREGIONAL is dedicated to the architecture of the 20th century. What began in 2014 as a project of a freelance team was transformed into a non-profit institutional […]
A work by Andrea Zittel around the garden house of Haus Esters in Krefeld
Born in Escondido, California, in 1965, the American artist Andrea Zittel consciously works on the border between art, design and architecture. She became known in this country through her “Escape […]
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 […]
Two exhibitions. “The Olympic City of Munich” and “Design for the Olympics”.
On April 26, 1966, the International Olympic Committee chose the Bavarian capital of Munich as the venue for the 1972 Summer Olympics. On Oberwiesenfeld, four kilometres from the city centre, […]
Modular, sustainable, flexible. Proposal for a tower made of wood according to the modular principle
Building land in city centres is notoriously scarce and in many cases also expensive, which is why the solution is often sought in tall slender towers. Since the buildings should […]
Design for a regenerative future. The 27th Biennial of Design in Ljubljana
The Biennial of Design (BIO) in Ljubljana has been taking place since 1963, making it the oldest design biennial in Europe. The 27th edition will take place from 26 May […]
Forensic Architecture at the Lousiana Museum Humlebæk
Architectural structures can also be viewed and used in a completely different way. The research agency “Forensic Architecture”, founded in 2011 by Eyal Weizman and based at the Centre for […]
Centre Pompidou shows “Germany / 1920s / New Objectivity / August Sander.”
For the first time, an exhibition in France is dedicated to the artistic wealth of the Weimar Republic. Until now, there has been none that has united architecture, design, film, […]
Nakagin Capsule Tower is being demolished
When discussing Kikutake’s 1958 design of Marine City, Noboin Kawazoe used the Japanese term “shinchintaisha”, which is called “metabolism” in English. Kawazoe used the term to describe the exchange of […]
The Barragán Archive is transferred to the Vitra Design Museum
The oeuvre of the Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902 to 1988) unfolded over a period from the late 1920s to the 1980s. Barragán, who is regarded as the most important […]
For Zaha Hadid. Drawings by Antonio de Campos at the DAM
Buildings of all kinds, proposals for competitions, but especially designs by the stars of the architectural scene circulate in the media today in the form of renderings and drawings long […]
“Dwelling – Between Shelter and Design”. Event series of the KWI
Whether it’s “My Home is my Castle” or “Are you still living or are you already living?”, there is always more to living than a simple protective function. One’s own […]
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 […]