Application Process 2013-14
Opens January 2013
Städelschule Architecture Class's 2013 lecture lineup
SAC's 2013 Lecture Series has been announced.
Specialisations
SAC offers a choice of three specialisations: Advanced Architectural Design; Architecture and Performative Design; and Architecture and Critical Spatial Practice. Specialisation is chosen at the end of the first year of studies. Overview of the specialisations
the Architecture Class
The Architecture Class of the Städelschule – Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Frankfurt) – is a two-year, post-graduate Master of Arts program in Advanced Architectural Design. The Architecture Class offers one of the leading international training programs in the field. Led by its dean, Ben van Berkel, and Johan Bettum, the Architectural Class provides an intense research setting for the creative exploration of current architectural issues
more about SAC...
Dean's Statement
From Gaudi’s suspended constructions to Le Corbusier’s five points of the new architecture, architects have sought to formulate new models...
full Dean's Statement...
Ben van Berkel presents his visions for SAC
Stiftung Städelschule für Baukunst
The Stiftung Städelschule für Baukunst wants to strengthen and support the significance of the architecture class by offering international activities which in its name and possibly with its participation will take place, such as competitions, summer-academies or conferences. Furthermore prizes concerning certain topics will be awarded as well as guestprofessorships.“, Günter Bock
Baukunst Prize 2012
The Foundation Städelschule für Baukunst has announced its first ever Baukunst Prize for 2012. The competition for the prize is open to alumni of the Städelschule Architecture Class and seeks unrealised or realised projects that embody the inter- or trans-disciplinary ideal that the foundation promotes. Projects can thematise architecture, landscapes, urban or other, abstract spatial qualities. The jury includes Sir Peter Cook and Tobias Rehberger, the first prize is awarded €1000 and the submitted work will be exhibited in the German Architectural Museum.
25 May 2013
A workshop in Processing :: a graphic programming tool
Student work : Damjan Jovanovic, Damjan Jovanovic, Adil Bokhari, Vasily Sitnikov
Student work : Adil Bokhari, Curtis McLean, Amin Eivani, Curtis McLean
Conducted by Anton Savov, this three-day workshop hi-jacked the concept of sequencing from the discipline of genetics to use it as an interface between relational data and algorithmic architectural drawing. Students were equipped with a generative framework that allowed them to explore graphically the aesthetic categories of proportion, symmetry, rhythm and visual weight in the 2D realm.
www.processing.org
23 May 2013
Watch Mirco Becker's lecture on design thinking online
Guest professor at SAC, Mirco Becker gave a lecture on Design Thinking in our Summer Lecture Series 2013.
watch it online here!
23 May 2013
A lecture on Systemic Ecologies :: Luis Etchegorry
Luis Etchegorry graduated from SAC in 2006 after having received his initial training as an architect in Buenos Aires. From 2008 till 2010 he was a Guest Professor at SAC and co-directed the research project, 'The Space of Communication', which culminated with the exhibition, 'Ben van Berkel and the Theatre of Immanence' in the Portikus Gallery. Luis worked for UNStudio in Amsterdam from 2008 before establishing establishing his own practice, DiA, in 2012. Luis Etchegorry's research and design work has been exhibited at several institutions and exhibitions, including the 1st International Architectural Biennale in Rotterdam and the Portikus Gallery in Frankfurt am Main. While working at estudio Claudio Vekstein in Argentina from 1999 till 2005, he took part in several large scale, public projects. In 2008 he joined UNStudio (Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos) where he became Senior Architect/Associate in 2010. His work at UNStudio included several realised and award-winning projects. His newly-established, own practice, DiA, focuses on projects on various scales, and pursues a contemporary integration of building programme with innovative structural solutions and formal geometry.
dia-studio.net/studio/
This is a Stiftung Städelschule für Baukunst Lecture.
16 May 2013
A lecture on Performance Driven Design :: Foster+Partners
Irene Gallou is joint head of the specialist modeling group at Foster + Partners. Her role involves assessing the impact of buildings and public spaces on the environment, leading on-site research and analysis as well as working closely with the design teams to integrate environmental design strategies at all stages. The Specialist Modeling group at Foster and Partners combines two principal areas of expertise: environmental analysis and simulation; and parametric modeling and the development of strategies for fabricating complex geometric forms. Where the two converge – as wind or solar patterns influence the geometry of a building – the design process is completely integrated. The group’s projects range from research into building lunar habitations to the development of a new type of ceiling system. Irene Gallou graduated in 2003 and was awarded a scholarship for experimental thesis research at the Architectural Association, focusing on the influence of urban geometry on outdoor thermal comfort and microclimatic simulation techniques. She then gained a masters of science from the Architectural Association in Energy and Environment. Before joining Foster + Partners, she worked for Buro Happold Consulting Engineers in London as an environmental engineer.
www.fosterandpartners.com
3 May 2013
WATCH Jürgen Engel's lecture online
Jürgen Engel lectured us about functionality and identity in architecture through his practice at KSP Architekten :
watch it online here!
23 May 2013
A LUIS ETCHEGORRY LECTURE
Luis Etchegorry of DiA Studios, and an ex-Staedelschule student, lectures us about Systemic Ecologies on Thursday 1900hrs.
20 May 2013
PETER TRUMMER VISITS SAC
Peter Trummer, former head of Berlage Institute's Associative Design Research Program, visits the first year studios.
16 May 2013
AN IRENE GALLOU LECTURE
Joint head of the specialist modelling group at Foster+Partners, Irene Gallou talks about Performance Driven Design to us on Thursday 1900hrs.
13 May 2013
PROCESSING WORKSHOP
First Year Group kicks off a new week with a 5 day workshop on Processing, a visual programming language!
8 May 2013
STUDY TRIPS
The First Year Group is preparing to go to Vienna while the AAD Master Thesis Group is going to Berlin within the month
