THINK, DESIGN, BUILD 2018Type, Typology andTypogenesis in Architecture

ProgramSymposiumNovember 8—9

09.30 am Welcome/Opening: Jörg Gleiter, TU Berlin

10.00 am Introduction: Lidia Gasperoni, TU Berlin Klaus Platzgummer, TU Berlin

10.30 am Marina Lathouri, Architectural Association, London Types, Typical Objects and Typologies

11.00 am Matthias v. Ballestrem,Hafen City University, Hamburg Not Types, Typology

11.30 am Alessandro Armando,Politecnico di Torino, TurinTypes of buildings, types of objects. Can we describe the projectual action in typological terms?

12.00 am

12.30 pm-01.30 pm 01.30pm

-03.00pm

Kasper Laegring,Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen The Performative Turn: Thoughts on the Managerialist Typologies of Post-Criticality

Panel discussion

Lunch break

Timetable

Welcome

Panel IThink

Architektur-forum

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03.00 pm Introduction: Rainer Hehl, TU BerlinBettina Kraus, TU Berlin

03.30 pm Gilles Delalex, Studio Muoto, Paris Typical Figures

04.00 pm Anne-Julchen Bernhardt,BeL, Köln  Overloaded

04.30 pm Arturo Scheidegger and Ignacio García Partarrieu Umwelt, Santiago de Chile Infrastructuralism

05.00 pm Guillermo Lopez,MAIO architects, Barcelona Typology and Error

05.30 pm Philippe Viérin,NoA Architecten, Brüssel Resilience

06.00 pm -06.30 pm

Panel discussion

07.00 pm-08.30 pm 08.30 pm

Mathias Müller, Daniel NiggliEM2N, Zürich/Berlin Reception in the Foyer

Timetable

Panel IIDesign

Architektur-forum

KeynoteLecture Lecture hallA151

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10.00 am-01.30pm

01.30pm-03.00pm

03.00 pm

Parallel sessions

Lunch break

Introduction: Philipp Misselwitz, TU BerlinNina Pawlicki, TU Berlin

03.30 pm Marina Tabassum, mtarchitekts, Bangladesh Re-generation

04.00 pm Amica Dall,Assemble, LondonLove and Garbage 

04.30 pm Eike Roswag-Klinge, Natural Building Lab, TU BerlinNatural Build - design the post fossil society

05.00 pm Philippe Block,BRG, Zürich

05.30 pm Roger Boltshauser,Boltshauser Architekten, ZürichHigh or Low

06.00 pm-06.30 pm

Panel discussion

07.00 pm-08.30 pm

08.30 pm

Arno Brandlhuber,Brandlhuber+, Berlin

Reception in the Foyer

Timetable

Doctoralcolloquium

Panel IIIBuild

Architektur-forum

KeynoteLecture Lecture hallA151

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Panel I

MARINA LATHOURI directs the Graduate Program-me in the History and Critical Thinking at the AA and lectu-res at Cambridge University. Lathouri studied architecture, philosophy of art and aes-thetics. She writes and teaches on a variety of subjects that lie in the conjunction of histo-ry and modernity, writing, the city and political philosophy.

MATTHIAS V. BALLESTREM is professor of architecture and experimental design at Hafencity University Hamburg. He was a visiting professor at Cornell University and Tech nical University Berlin. At TU Berlin, he had a leading role in the development and introduction of its internatio-nal master‘s program M-ARCH-T, with a focus on typology.

MARIA SHÉHÉRAZADE GIUDICI is the coordinator of the histo-ry and theory course at the School of Architecture of the Royal College of Art and to-gether with Pier Vittorio Aureli Studio Master of Diploma Unit 14 at the Architectural Association. Giudici holds a PhD from TU Delft with a thesis on the construction of modern subjectivity through the project of public space.

ALESSANDRO ARMANDO architect, is Assistant Profes-sor for Architectural Design and Architectural Design Theory at the Politecnico di Torino since 2011. His current research focuses mainly on the political and bureaucratic effects of architectural de-sign on the urban processes.

KASPER LAEGRING is an architectural theorist and currently a Ph.D. Fellow at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, as well as an Exter-nal Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. He holds research degrees in Architec-ture, University of Pennsylva-nia and Art History, University of Copenhagen. His research interests broadly include meaning in architecture and the aesthetic experience of architecture.

KLAUS PLATZGUMMER is currently a teaching and research associate at the Department of Architectural Theory, TU Berlin and a tutor for History and Theory Studies at the Architectural Associati-on, Undergraduate and Gradu-ate School. Platzgummer studied architecture at the ETH Zürich and holds a mas-ters with distinction in History and Critical Thinking in Archi-tecture from the AA.

LIDIA GASPERONI is currently a teaching and research associate at the Department of Architectural Theory, TU Berlin. Gasperoni studied Philosophy in Rome, Freiburg, Briesgau and Berlin and has been teaching inter-disciplinary seminars between philosophy and architecture at the TU Berlin, UdK Berlin and at the University of Kassel. In her research, Gasperoni explo-res the role of aesthetic practices and media in design processes.

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Panel II

GILLES DELALEX is co-founder of the office Studio Muoto in Paris, and is professor and head of the department History, Theory, Project (THP) at the School of Architecture of Paris- Malaquais. Since 1998, Delalex is an associate researcher at the Laboratory of research on infrastructures, architecture and territories, coordinating research on the imaginary of infrastructures. ANNE-JULCHEN BERNHARDT established together with Jörg Leeser BeL Sozietät für Architektur in Cologne and is Professor for Building Typo-logies at the RWTH Aachen University. Bernhardt’s and Leeser’s practice worked on more than 150 projects of which 25 were completed. Bernhard worked previsously as an architect in Berlin and Cologne and studied architec-ture in Aachen and Düsseldorf.

ARTURO SCHEIDEGGER AND IGNACIO GARCÍA PARTARRIEUare the founders of studio UMWELT in Santiago. Both graduated from the Univer-sidad Católica de Chile, where they currently teach at the Research and Projects Workshop: Energy and Territory. Their projects won

different prizes and competi-tions, and have been widely exhibited at biennials, as well as at MoMA, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and LIGA.

GUILLERMO LOPEZ   is partner of MAIO archi-tects, an architectural office that works on flexible sys-tems where notions such as variation, ephemeral or ad hoc, permit theoretical positions materialize. MAIO is led by Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López and Anna Puigjaner, architects based in Barcelona, that combine professional activities with academic, research and edito-rial ones.

PHILIPPE VIÉRIN is a partner at noAarchitecten in Brussels and is the principal of Viérin Architecten in Bruges. Viérin worked previously for Stéphane Beel and Kees Christiaanse, and taught at the Université Catholique de Louvain and and Technische Universiteit Delft from 2013 to 2018. Until 2015, he was member and chairman of the West Flanders Quality Cham-ber for ten years.

BETTINA KRAUS is architect and currently guest professor at the TU Berlin. She directed the design program

Northeastern University in Berlin and the chair of archi-tectural design and building in context at the BTU Cottbus. From 2000 to 2012 Bettina Kraus was partner of Wiel Arets Architects in Amsterdam and she is currently running her own practice with Thomas Baeker based in Berlin.

RAINER HEHL is architect and urban resea-cher currently teaching at the TU Berlin as a guest professor and directing the international Master program M-ARCH T focussed on typology. Rainer Hehl holds PhD from the ETH Zurich on urban transforma-tions based on informal de-velopments.

Keynote Lecture

MATHIAS MÜLLER AND DANIEL NIGGLIare principles of the office EM2N based in Zürich and Berlin. The practice of EM2N covers a variety of projects in the international cotext with a particular interest in large scale complex programs. Mathias Müller and Daniel Niggli were visiting professors at the TU Berlin, at the EPFL Lausanne, as well as the ETH Zurich.

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Panel III

MARINA TABASSUM is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architecture in Dha-ka, Bangladesh. The projects are ranging from community center, public school, muse-um and eco resort. She is the academic director of the Ben-gal Institute for Architecture, Landscape and Settlements, has taught Design Studio at Harvard GSD and was visting professor at the University of Texas and BRAC University.

AMICA DALL is a founding member of As-semble, a non-heirarchical collective whose work focu-ses on the social and material processes through which cities are made, producing archi-tecture, art, urban design and research. Amica works across the practice leading much of Assemble's research lead and interdisciplinary work.

PHILIPPE BLOCK is Professor at the Departe-ment of Architecture at the ETH Zürich and director of the Swiss Centre of Research (NCCR) in Digital Fabrication. Block studied architecture and structural engineering at the VUB in Belgium and at MIT. He is an expert on shell structures in unreinforced masonry and concrete.

EIKE ROSWAG-KLINGE is the director of ZRS Architek-ten Ingenieure. With his ap-pointment as professor at the TU Berlin in 2017, he founded the Natural Building Lab, fo-cusing on circular construction with natural building materials.

ROGER BOLTSHAUSERis the founder of Boltshau-ser Architekten AG in Zurich. Boltshauer and his team work on projects including all work phases, mostly wonby competition. In addition to his practice, he has engaged in teaching at EPFL Lausan-ne, HTW Chur and the Chur Institute of Architecture CIA. Currently, Boltshauser is guest lecturer for architectural de-sign at the ETH Zurich. PHILIPP MISSELWITZ Is an architect and urban plan-ner based on Berlin directing the Chair of Habitat Unit at the Institute for Architecture of the Technische Universität Berlin—a globally networked research and teaching centre focused on the study of urba-nization processes in the Global South. He received his PhD from Stuttgart University for research on socio-spatial development within urbanized refugee camps.

NINA PAWLICKIis assistant professor for teaching and research at the TU Berlin since 2013. Previously with the Habitat Unit and since 2018 at the Natural Building Lab, her teaching, research practice are dedicated to DesignBuild methodology.

Keynote Lecture

ARNO BRANDLHUBER is architect and urban planner who directs since 2006 the collaborative architectural practice Brandlhuber+ based in Berlin. His work ranges from architecture to research pro-jects, from exhibitions to pub-lications and political interven-tions. In his research research work he delves with aspects of the legislative and the archi-tectural and urban produc-tion. Since 2017 Brandlhuber is professor for architecture and urban research at the ETH Zurich whose research focuses in the realm of new media and technology, as an argument of future architecture.

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