24 June 2010

Ben van Berkel -The New Understanding

Since it became apparent that we needed to readjust to new economical and environmental situations we have had to live and work under new conditions.Read more

22 June 2010

Joseph Grima -UNBUILT SPECULATIVE: ON THE DEATH OF THE MAGAZINE AND THE RISE OF THE BIENNALE

Joseph Grima is the editorial director of Domus, the internationally renowned magazine of contemporary architecture, design and art founded by Gio Ponti in 1928.Read more

18 June 2010

JEFF MALPAS - VIEWS FROM THE SOUTH: THINKING AGAIN ABOUT BUILDING, DWELLING, THINKING

Jeff Malpas is Professor of Philosophy and ARC Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at LaTrobe University.Read more

9 June 2010

COMPUTATIONAL FORM AND MATERIAL GESTALT: ARCHITECTURAL PHENOTYPES

Professor Achim Menges is an architect and the director of the Institute for Computational Design at Stuttgart University. He is also a Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and Visiting Professor for the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Program at the Architectural Association in London.Read more

2 June 2010

Almost Everything

Caruso St John was established by Adam Caruso and Peter St John in 1990. Projects by the practice include; New Art Gallery Walsall, Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, Brick House, London and Gagosian Galleries in London and Rome.Read more

27 May 2010

HOW TO BE RELEVANT?

Lecture by Ingo NiermannNiermann is a novelist, freelance writer, and editor of the book series Solution.Read more

9 May 2010

Theory Seminar

World renowned Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer two days of intensive theory sessions revolving around the notion of "The Architectural Model".

6 May 2010

The Colonial Modern

SAC’s guest lecture series begins on 6 May 2010 with Marion von Osten presenting “The Colonial Modern”. Read more

13 April 2010

Guest Lecture by Professor David Mainwaring

On Tuesday 13.04 at 14:00/SAC Large Seminar Room, Professor David Mainwaring of RMIT University in Melbourne gives a lecture on material research and innovation. Professor Mainwaring is a leading specialist in advanced material science and product innovation. His work includes explorations with nano technology and new material systems for lighting.

25 January 2010

Space and Time in Architecture and Exhibitions

Public Panel Discussion with Jeffrey Kipnis, Ben van Berkel, Nikolaus Hirsch and Johan BettumLocation Städelschule Aula, Monday, 25.01.10,18:00h

15 January 2010

ACTnet

SAC is pleased to announce the completion of its second EU proposal in six months. ‘ACTnet’ was submitted in collaboration with ICD, University of Stuttgart, under the Marie Curie EU-FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN call.

8 December 2009

Fluid Kimono

Fashion designer Kostas Murkudis will return to SAC from 8th to 10th of December 2009 to complete his workshop on surface articulation with the Diploma group.

7 December 2009

Fibreglass Composites Workshop

From 7th to 12th December 2009, SAC welcomes back Institute for Computational Design (ICD) students for an intense week of hands-on modelling ending with joint reviews on Friday. Various textile techniques and strategies for introducing "spatiality" to laminates will be investigated.

19 November 2009

Johan Bettum Lectures at the ETH

Johan Bettum lectures at the ETH / Architekturforum Zürich. The lecture is hosted by Gramazio & Kohler, Architektur und Digitale Fabrikation, ETH Zürich.

18 November 2009

Ecotect Workshop

Students of SAC and ICD (Stuttgart University) will join a 3-day workshop to be introduced to Ecotect, an environmental modelling and analysis software.

11 November 2009

Lars Nixdorff lectures at the FH Frankfurt

Returning to where he studied for his first degree in architecture, Lars Nixdorff lectures at the Fachhochschule in Frankfurt. Nixdorff presents earlier research and recent projects.

12 October 2009

SAC is BACK

Induction week is currently underway.

5 August 2009

SAC Summer break

The Städelschule Architecture Class has summer-semester break.Winter-semester 09/10 will commence on 12th of October.

10 July 2009

Dean's honorary Lecture: Brett Steele

Brett Steele, the Director of the Architectural Association, London delivered this year's Dean's Honorary lecture.

9 July 2009

End-of-year Presentations

The program for the End-of-Year 2009 presents the most momentous series of final events in the history of SAC. The series of events take place in the German Architecture Museum (Deutsches Architekturmuseum, "DAM") on July 9 and 10 ...more

25 June 2009

MARIE ANGE BRAYER LECTURE: TOWARDS MACHINIC ENVIRONMENTS/ FROM MODEL TO MACHINE

The conceptual practices that emerged in the 1960s through radical architecture in Europe were linked to a networked society in which architecture is no longer a built object, but becomes...more

18 June 2009

GEORGE L. LEGENDRE Lecture: SURFACE GOODNESS

Exploring the intersection between spaces, mathematics, and computation, George L. Legendre has developed a body of work that oscillates around the notion of “surface”...more

2 June 2009

JESKO FEZER Lecture: DESIGN PROBLEM REALITY

If anyone out there still believes that architects are people with strong mathematical skills who build houses...more 

14 May 2009

SYLVIA LAVIN LECTURE: KISSING ARCHITECTURE: SUPER DICIPLINARITY AND CONFOUNDING MEDIA

Sylvia Lavin is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at UCLA, where she was Chairperson from 1996 to 2006. Currently, she is Visiting Professor of Architectural Theory at ... more

7 May 2009

Takaharu Tezuka Lecture: Roofless Architecture

“Roof House”, “Wall-less House” and ”Sky House” are the programmatic names of the projects of Tokyo-based Tezuka Architects. Takaharu Tezuka is giving the next lecture of the POST-MEDIUM ARCHITECTURE series ...more

30 April 2009

Harun Farocki Lecture: Shopping / Risk

Shopping is an everyday cultural act, taken for granted, inevitable, yet the result of a highly complex planning process...more

23 April 2009

Mark Wigley: Network Radicals: The Architecture of the Streaming City

Starting the summer semester lecture series on „Post-Medium Architecture“ Mark Wigley focuses coming Thursday at 19:00 in the Aula on the “network” as a primary medium of contemporary architecture...more

5 February 2009

Nikolaus Hirsch: Exquisite Corpse

Giving his lecture, Exquisite Corpse, Nikolaus Hirsch ends the winter semester lecture series...more

29 January 2009

Frank Barkow Lecture: Revolutions of Choice

Frank Barkow, of Barkow Leibinger, lectures in SAC series on pavilions. In July, an exhibition of a Barkow Leibinger pavilion design open in DAM...more

20 January 2009

Charles Walker's Lecture 22. January Cancelled

Charles Walker's lecture, which were to take place on Thursday, January 22, has been canceled. SAC will seek to reschedule the event for a later date.

15 January 2009

Beatriz Colomina: "The Pavilions of Modern Architecture

Beatriz Colomina, professor at Princeton University and renown architectural theorist, re-commences the current lecture series on pavilions...more

15 January 2009

Dan Graham Guest Lecture

Dan Graham gives a public lecture at 17:00 in the Städelschule Aula.

18 December 2008

Philippe Rahm: "Meteorological Architecture"

Philippe Rahm, Paris-based architect, lectures in the Aula this Thursday at 19:00. Rahm will discuss how climate can replace typology in architecture. His many pavilion projects bespeaks his hypothesis...more

11 December 2008

Nikolaus Hirsch Lecture on Pavilions

Guest professor in Städelschule, Nikolaus Hirsch, lectures on pavilions this coming Thursday at 19:00 in the Aula...more

4 December 2008

Tobias Rehberger Lecture On Eggs and other Things.

Städelschule professor, Tobias Rehberger, gives a talk in the Architecture Class' public lecture series on Thursday 04.12 at 19:00. Read more...

28 November 2008

Sanford Kwinter on Art and Architecture

Sanford Kwinter, professor at Harvard University and one of the most eminent theorists there is in architecture, discusses architecture and art with SAC in three daily sessions commencing this Friday, 28.11.

27 November 2008

Ben van Berkel Lecture on Pavilions

Over the years, Ben van Berkel and UNStudio have designed a series of pavilions exploring specific themes in architecture, from the problem of formal and geometric continuity, via circulation and time, to informed surface conditions. At 19:00 on 27.11...more

13 November 2008

Jochen Volz lectures

Artistic Director Jochen Volz, at the Instituto Cultural Inhotim (Brazil), speaks about the unique history and pavilion program of this institution in his lecture this coming Thursday. The lecture begins 19:00 in the Aula.

11 November 2008

Point-Credit for Attending Lectures

SAC is pleased to announce that attending a SAC public lecture gives "zwei Fortbildungspunkte" for architects registered in the State of Hessen.

6 November 2008

Public Lecture

Jürgen Mayer H, one of Germany's leading, young architects, returns to Städelschule to lecture on his work that frequently touches on issues related to art and design at large...more

1 November 2008

Alumni Meeting

In collaboration with DAM, the Stiftung Städelschule für Baukunst is hosting the first alumni event for SAC. The event takes place in DAM on Saturday, 1. November from 10 AM, and includes exhibition of work by select alumni, a lecture by Peter Cook and the exhibiting participants, plus a presentation of SAC by Johan Bettum. For more, see: www.stiftung-baukunst.de

30 October 2008

Public Lecture: David Adjaye

SAC proudly announces its first guest in the public lecture series for the winter semester. The series commences with a visit by David Adjaye. For more, CLICK HERE or see the menu.

29 October 2008

SAC Pavilion Competition Exhibition

Commencing the current semester, SAC has organized an internal competition for the design of a pavilion structure to be located on the grounds of INHOTIM- Centro de Arte Contemporânea, in Brazil. The students work is on show in the Städelschule Halle on Friday 31.10 and Saturday 1.11. Prizes will be given to the best work, voted by SAC Alumni.

16 October 2008

Friedrich von Borries Gives a Talk in Städelschule

On Thursday October 16 at 19:00, Merve Verlag presents Friedrich von Borries (raumtaktik, Berlin) in the Städelschule. Borries is co-curator of the German contribution at the current 11th Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale Di Venezia. He will the questions that motivated their exhibition "Updating Germany" by introducing the accompanying catalogue and interview reader.

27 July 2008

End-of-Year Events: Report

SAC completed its End-of-Year events on the 10th and 11th of July. The series of events was a great success and a report will be published on these pages during the coming week. Stay tuned!

10 July 2008

End-of-Year Events

SAC Work and World-Class Critics

13 June 2008

Pre-Final Diploma Reviews

The Diploma Group, presenting their respective thesis proposal on July 11, has their pre-final jury this coming Friday from 10 AM. The panel includes Beatriz Colomina, Sanford Kwinter, Oliver Tessmann, Ben van Berkel, Harald Kloft and Johan Bettum.

12 June 2008

Le Corbusier – Film and Television

A half-a-day conference on Le Corbusier, film and television. Featuring Beatriz Colomina, Véronique Boone, Sanford Kwinter, Ben van Berkel, Daniel Birnbaum and Johan Bettum.more about Le Corbusier...