And Now!

What does the future of architectural practice look like? The present provides an answer to this question. An answer is provided by those who are shaping tomorrow today, who have to live with the consequences of today's actions longer than others. It is clear that traditional concepts and working methods are only partially suitable for meeting current challenges, that the professional profile must be reformulated in order to be able to encompass what is now pending, what must be fulfilled and mastered: climate change, preservation of existing buildings, conversion, co-production, circular economy, resilience, social cohesion, community, fairness, demographic change.

We must learn to reuse, maintain and repair things and houses. We should treat buildings with the same care as the people who use them. We can recognize and promote the social qualities in built space. We can share resources and learn from one another.
It turns out that designing and creating is always interwoven with the tasks and expectations placed on architecture. That new challenges are an opportunity to formulate a position on the present and future of coexistence through design. That architecture as a cultural practice is as much a medium of exchange and understanding as it is a framework and structure for people's everyday lives.

The exhibition presents five offices as examples of a new practice, whose work opens up perspectives for future architectural practice. They show that our understanding of architecture must change with the demands we place on it. But they also show that this is exactly what is possible. Not soon, not at some point. But now.

Opening: 16.10.2024, 7 pm

Syposium on the exhibition: 22.11.2024, 3-7 pm 
Keynote speeches & discussion in three panels on teaching, practice and professional profile: Anne Bergner, Bettina Kraus, Vera Krimmer, Jan Keinath, adapter, Felix Goldberg, Alya Rapaport, Lorenz Hahnheiser