Miscellaneous scientific news/publications

This term’s Summer Talks will discuss architecture´s transformative power that is needed more than ever in a world characterized by major crises and transformation processes, such as the climate crisis and digitization. Who are the transformers that help to shape the discipline’s capacity to embrace sustainability, inclusivity, material efficiency, circularity and spatial polyvalence in order to establish a meaningful and future-proof architecture in practice, research and teaching?

Starts every Thursday at 6:00 p.m
Blue Box Auditorium, Am Hochschulcampus 1, D-44801 Bochum

06.06.2024
dmvA ARCHITECTEN, Mechelen
Tom Verschueren: Urban Layers
dmvA, ‘door middel van Architectuur’ (‘by means of Architecture’) is a Belgian architecture office, based in Mechelen founded by David Driesen and Tom Verschueren. Together they see dmvA as a noble goal to provide a critical answer using architecture to respond to social, economic, and collective matters. The creative process doesn’t follow a manifesto but is expressed through experimenting in architecture. While dmvA has built a diverse portfolio over the past 25 years from public buildings to large-scale residential projects to private projects & installations, Tom and David nurture a predilection for projects that focus on reusing and restoring existing structures within a dense urban fabric. Their approach reflects a deep understanding of the contextual and historical aspects of a site, while providing innovative and contemporary design solutions.

13.06.2024
SNØHETTA, Oslo
Jette Cathrin Hopp: Transformation für die Zukunft
The revitalisation of cities through creative reuse of existing buildings and spaces plays a central role in sustainable urban development by preserving existing historic fabric and reducing environmental impacts. Through the focussed application of sustainable practices and materials in repurposing, cities can foster vibrant, environmentally responsible communities. These approaches help to transform urban space and offer innovative solutions to the challenges of urban living by combining social, economic and environmental sustainability.

20.06.2024
ALBUS, Köln/Leverkusen
Jutta Albus: Robust anpassbar (Antrittsvorlesung)
Sustainable solutions for architecture and construction require an examination of the demands of our time - sustainable planning and building is a basic premise for this. Characterised by rapid change, we are faced with the challenge of designing the enclosed space in an adaptable way, while at the same time the fundamental conditions of the context and building as well as their users must be preserved. In terms of sustainable architectural design, Jutta Albus sees the interweaving of these requirements - complexity and simplicity, recyclability and durability, beauty and functionality, efficiency and sufficiency - as the task of harmonising them and thus creating a high quality of the building that is sustainable and resilient.

04.07.2024
DÜSING, Berlin
Gustav Düsing: Skins
Gustav Düsing is an architect and researcher with an interest in the relationship between people and their immediate climatic situation. The aim of his Research by Design is to develop new architectural prototypes that show new ways of sustainability as an alternative to over-engineered building envelopes and an increasing decoupling of interior and exterior spaces. Many of his projects question western standards of comfort and at the same time attempt to continue the architectural achievements of modernism.

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Wissenschaftlicher Ansprechpartner:
Prof. Erhard An-He Kinzelbach
T +49 (0)234 32 10 136
M +49 (0)151 568 44 229
E erhard-an-he.kinzelbach@hs-bochum.de