To publicly commemorate the patronage of donor couple Johanna and Eduard Arnhold and the civic engagement of the Jewish bourgeoisie in Berlin, the project of a new Johanna and Eduard Arnhold Platz in the center of Berlin, initiated by Peter von Becker, was presented for the first time on Thursday, June 17: with the first drafts and statements for an artistic-urbanistic design by GRAFT founding partner Lars Krückeberg and the artists* Tatjana Doll, Julian Rosefeldt, Karin Sander. Lars Krückeberg was 2018/2019 scholarship holder in the Villa Massimo in Rome, donated by the Arnhold couple to the German State, where he realized the project Relative Cosmos - Fragmented Oikos.

Essay by Lars Krückeberg
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Hotels and residential buildings are two architectural typologies that cater to very similar fundamental human needs, on the one hand providing shelter and privacy and on the other acting as stages for social interaction. As boundaries between the private and public blur, we are seeing a transformation of residential typologies. But have apartment buildings been learning from hotels? Or is it the other way around, as the “home away from home” slogans of hotels around the world would have us believe?

Essay by Lars Krückberg, Thomas Willemeit, Wolfram Putz
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We’re happy to share the realized projects of our two TRAVEL GRANT 2019 winners: Brooke Adams’ UNBUILDING HERE and Antonio Giráldez López’ MORE THAN WALLS.

Essay by GRAFT
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A city’s development is inextricably linked to mobility—the movement of people and goods. Urban planning in the 20th century was based on the separation of dirty, noisy traffic from the unpolluted, human urban fabric, but global megalopolises today still suffer from the growing implications of traffic. The combination of zero-emission, low-noise mobility with deep digitization and AI will have an enormous impact on the evolution of cities and rural areas, while new mobility concepts are expected to change our understanding of communal spaces and infrastructure.

Interview by GRAFT & WeWork Co-Founder Miguel McKelvey
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For many years GRAFT has been working intensively and also in cooperation with medical professionals and scientists on the topic of "Healing Architecture" and the question of how a carefully planned environment can contribute to health as well as accelerate recovery processes. We would like to present you some examples of projects planned and already realized by GRAFT, which are not only architecturally convincing, but also link the topics of building and health in a forward-looking way. Language: German

Essay by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit
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How urbanization affects cities and the countryside, what trends will shape urban planning and development, and what this means for society and the economy. Language: German

Essay by Lars Krückberg, Thomas Willemeit, Wolfram Putz
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