Our December issue, guest-curated by David Chipperfield Architects, continues to expand: On January 24, a panel discussion will take place at the University of Stuttgart, where the issues raised in it will be discussed once again.
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin and the Institute for Public Buildings and Design at the University of Stuttgart curated our December 2016 issue. This Baumeister was concerned with architectural form. How do we perceive it, how do we understand it and: what is its own self-image? Gottfried Semper’s theory of metabolism, published a good 150 years ago, was taken as an opportunity to get to the bottom of material and form – to examine their origins and at the same time to reflect on the design and form-finding process of David Chipperfield Architects.
The issue and its questions were once again the subject of lively discussion during an office talk at David Chipperfield Architects Berlin. This discussion will now be continued in Stuttgart: Alexander Schwarz, Partner and Design Director at David Chipperfield Architects, Jan Klaus Philipp, Head of the Institute for Architectural History at the University of Stuttgart, and Alexander Russ, Baumeister editor responsible for the guest-curated issue, will talk about the idea and background of the magazine as part of a panel discussion. The event will be moderated by Hannah Jonas, responsible for research at the Stuttgart Institute for Public Buildings and Design.
The magazine’s questions will be taken up and applied to teaching, research and publication: What role does the designing architect play today? What can we learn from the architectural theory of the 19th century? How is a design created? And finally: can we learn to design?
The panel discussion will take place on January 24, 2017 at the University of Stuttgart.
Location: 7th floor, Keplerstrasse 11, 70174 Stuttgart
Time: 7.30 pm
The event is free of charge. It will be followed by a drink and further discussion.