Knauben as a cultural technique

For some time now, discussions about the future of architecture and urban development have been calling for a change in building. There is general agreement about the fundamental need for a rethink. However, there are also strong differences of view on the specific design and thus also subliminally insoluble paradoxes. We are therefore confronted with the question of whether this paradigm shift does not mean that we must radically question traditional principles. With the change in building, must we not question the disciplinary canon of architecture that has been in place since Vitruvius and develop other production processes and forms of expression?

This is where the installation by the SAS/LARD collective in the BDA gallery comes in, presenting the study of the cultural technique of knauben, which is particularly widespread in Saarland, as a model and expanding the reference space to include an important, previously marginal position whose future potential must be discovered.

Practical examples clearly convey a lived culture of permanent expansion and change. A rhizomatic representation shows an example of the narrative of a building process determined by Knauber and traces spatial, temporal and social references. With terms such as "gift", "storage", "intuition" and "building type K", lived practices are traced back to their complex cultural origins and Knauber is thus put up for discussion as a sustainable basis for a future expression of building culture that is still to be negotiated.

SAS/LARD (School of Architecture Saar / Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design) is a collective at the School of Architecture Saar (SAS), in which Malik Al Bosta, Ferdinand Arends, Ludwig Arends, Hendrik Kronenberger, Jens Metz, Frederic Omlor, Ulrich Pantle and Marco Schneider are researching "Knauber as a cultural technique" in the Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design.

The exhibition was curated by Tillmann Wagner and Constantin von der Mülbe from the board of trustees of the BDA Galerie Berlin.

Opening: 2.9.2024, 7 pm

Discourse evening with guests: 26.9.2024, 7 pm

Finissage as a discussion evening: 8.10.2024, 7 pm