30. OCTOBER: David Adjaye
Art and Architecture
London-based architect, David Adjaye, kicks off this fall's lecture series when addressing "Art and Architecture" ...more
6. NOVEMBER: Jürgen Mayer H
Re:Activators
Jürgen Mayer H, one of Germany's leading, young architects, returns to Städelschule to lecture on his work that frequently...more
13. NOVEMBER: JOCHEN VOLZ
UNFOLDING AN INSTITUTION: FINDING INHOTIM
Artistic Director Jochen Volz, at the Instituto Cultural Inhotim (Brazil), shares the unique history of this institution with...more
20. NOVEMBER: TOMAS SARACENO
In Conversation
Meeting with Klaus Bollinger, Nikolaus Hirsch and Johan Bettum, SAC-alumni Tomas Saraceno will discuss aspecst of...more
27. NOVEMBER: BEN VAN BERKEL
SWITCHING ON AND OFF
SAC professor and UNStudio partner & principal, Ben van Berkel, speaks about the numerous pavilions...more
4. December: Tobias Rehberger
Halbe, Viertel und ganze eier
Tobias Rehberger, Städelschule professor and international art star, spends an evening with SAC to...more
11. DECEMBER: NIKOLAUS HIRSCH
EXQUISITE CORPS
Guest professor in Städelschule, Nikolaus Hirsch, presented a prominent pavilion at the current Manifesta and...more
18. DECEMBER: PHILIPPE RAHM
METEOROLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE
Presented with work both at the current Venice Biennale and Manifesta, Philippe Rahm easily straddles art and architecture...more
15. JANUARY: BEATRIZ COLOMINA
THE PAVILIONS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Beatriz Colomina, renowned theory professor at Princeton University and guest professor in the Städelschule addresses...more
22. JANUARY: CHARLES WALKER
GET REAL!
Charles Walker, trained as an architect and working for years with Cecil Balmond, is presently with Zaha Hadid and...
29. January: Frank Barkow
Revolutions of Choice
Frank Barkow, of Barkow Leibinger (Berlin), is currently a design critic at Harvard (USA). Over the last fifteen years...
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Ben van Berkel: "Switching On & Off"
27. NOVEMBER 2008
Ben van Berkel and UNStudio designed and developed over the years a series of pavilions with which they have explored specific themes in architecture. These themes have ranged from the problem of formal and geometric continuity, via circulation and time, to informed surface conditions.
According to Ben van Berkel small and temporary projects are often a great way to test new ideas, to advance themes that form part of longer-lasting preoccupations. ‘What we like to do is work in series. To us, each project is like a still from a film.’
For the Architecture Biennale 2008 in Venice, UNStudio produced the pavilion ‘The Changing Room’. The pavilion explores inside-outside relationships with a geometric organization that twists and folds into itself. As the continuous surfaces peel back and expose the interior, the visitors are confronted with a choreography that summons the intimacy of the changing room and weaves the public and private domains to one another.
Ben van Berkel is Dean of the Städelschule Architecture Class.