Cities make a decisive contribution to climate change. At the same time, they are particularly affected by its impact due to their location and building structures. While the population in […]
As part of the Rotunda Project 2023/24, the architects from Matri-Archi(tecture) are bringing their own and others’ experiences of life in the diaspora to Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne. According to […]
As building director of the Goethe University, Ferdinand Kramer (1898 to 1985) and his team realised a general plan as well as a total of 23 university buildings including interiors […]
“The Great Repair”, they say, “is an oxymoron”. In the title, two seemingly contradictory principles collide: “The revolutionary ambition of radical system change, a characteristic of great solutions, collides with […]
The German-American artist Lyonel Feininger (1871 to 1956) has long been considered one of the classics of modern art. As early as 1919, when the State Bauhaus was founded, he […]
He documents iconic buildings by famous architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Kazuyo Sejima and Tatiana Bilbao in impressive images, photographs informal buildings and accompanies the growth […]
The Czechoslovak Republic came into being in 1918 as a new democratic state in Europe. In the general spirit of optimism that spread in the following years, artists from almost […]
Six of Alvar Aalto’s projects in Germany were completed: two churches, two residential buildings and two cultural buildings. This contrasts with eight designs for public building projects that could not […]
The ICONIC AWARDS 2023: Innovative Architecture – organised by the German Design Council – have been awarding prizes for the best achievements in architecture, pioneering interior and product design, outstanding […]
Protests, it says in the announcement for the exhibition „Protest / Architecture“, which the Deutsches Architekturmuseum is presenting from 16 September to 14 January 2024 in its interim quarters at […]
What will become of the brutalist building of the central animal testing laboratories in Berlin nicknamed “Mäusebunker” (Mouse Bunker), which currently houses a research facility for experimental medicine? Does a […]
True to his “system philosophy”, the architect and designer Rodolfo Dordoni not only designed individual products but often entire collections, including the exhibition stands, showrooms and shops in which they […]
Their best-known building is certainly the GSW high-rise in Berlin from 1999 with its rotating sunshades in gradations of pink, orange and red. But the three-dimensional shell of the Brandhorst […]
Planning and building hospitals requires special expertise. Whereas for a long time the architectural type developed closely along the lines of the successes and findings of medical research, hospital construction […]
Italo Lupi is one of the most influential figures of Italian post-war design. Now the renowned architect, graphic designer, art director and journalist has died at his home in Milan […]
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are without question among the best-known architects of our time, and their office, founded in Basel in 1978, is one of the most renowned […]
Plastic is everywhere, in the rubbish of the present as well as in the archives of art museums. Plastic is cheap and readily available. Plastic can be hard or flexible, […]
In the daily rush, we hardly notice them, even though they are all around us. Maybe it’s because of their omnipresence and the fact that we simply can’t do without […]
The construction of buildings using 3D printing processes is reaching ever greater dimensions. Together with Peri 3D Construction and Heidelberg Materials, the Kraus Group is currently realising the largest building […]
We spend up to 90% of our lives indoors, and our indoor environments often neglect our needs. Stress and pollutant levels are known to be higher in enclosed spaces with […]