24 June 2022

GRAFT at the Greentech Festival: Panel participation at the "Smart City Plaza" by Urban Beta and Drees & Sommer

On Friday, June 24, GRAFT partner Dennis Hawner is scheduled to speak at the Smart City Plaza by Urban Beta and Drees & Sommer as part of the Greentech Festival in Berlin.

The panel "Building Transformation" kicks off at 12 p.m. and addresses the topic of Environmental Social Governance. What does ESG mean in the context of new building technology and evolving company culture in a post-pandemic landscape? The panel discusses overarching strategies and solutions for implementing long-lasting and impactful ecologic, social and governnance standards.

Complementing the Greentech Festival conference program, the Smart City Plaza will feature keynotes, panel discussions and in-depth sessions on Circular Construction, Future Mobility and Green Building Technology.
The full program is available here:
https://www.smartcityplaza.berlin/program

23 June 2022

GRAFT founder Wolfram Putz gives keynote at SELUX Days of Light

On June 22 and 23, SELUX organizes their Days of Light! The two-day event focuses on current issues related to ecological design and planning responsibility in urban spaces. With this exceptional format, SELUX aims to inspire and share ideas about the future. The Selux Light Summit features keynotes and seminars with experts from science, society and industry. On June 23, GRAFT founding partner Wolfram Putz will speak about need-oriented urban planning and architecture in a lecture titled "Urban Spaces of the Future."

Further information and registration via:
https://www.selux.com/int/de/landing/days-of-light

01 June 2022

GRAFT keynote at digitalBAU in Cologne

On June 1st, GRAFT founding partner Thomas Willemeit presents the keynote "Digital Design and Anamorphosis - Perception-based Architecture" at this year's digitalBAU in Cologne on invitation of Bauverlag. Between 2 and 3 p.m. he will speak in Forum Halle 1 about the perception of spatio-temporal and scenographic experiences, and how new digital tools shape our design methods.

https://digital-bau.com/de/rahmenprogramm/forenprogramm

20 May 2022

GRAFT partner Georg Schmidthals is a jury member for the award "Foerderpreis Deutscher Stahlbau"

On May 20, the seven-headed jury convenes at the Technical University of Cologne to choose the winners of this year's Förderpreis des Deutschen Stahlbaus. Along with GRAFT partner Georg Schmidthals, the jury also includes Prof. Helmut Hachul, Prof. Rainer Hempel, Prof. Bernd Naujoks, Thorsten Pollok, Prof. Jürgen Reichardt and Boris Schade-Bünsow. The Bauforum Stahl has awarded the prize every two years since 1974, setting an example in research and teaching for sustainable construction.

https://bauforumstahl.de/wettbewerbe/foerderpreis-des-deutschen-stahlbaues

19 May 2022

GRAFT keynote at Occhio flagship store in Berlin

Occhio opened its Berlin flagship store on Ku'damm on May 5. Today, Lars Krückeberg will give a lecture there about the development of mobility infrastructure, the reinvention of workspaces and the influence of digitalization on architecture.

19 May 2022

MediaWorksMunich jury for Architecture Matters

We are excited about the Architecture Matters conference and the MediaWorksMunich concept workshop, where GRAFT founder Lars Krückeberg will be a juror today.
The six participants (FAKT from Berlin, Timb.Space from Leipzig, NVO from Munich, KSP Engel, SALT from Cape Town and a group of students from TU Munich) are working on ideas for an interdisciplinary campus in Munich's Werksviertel. The jury includes Christiane Thalgott, a representative of Hines, and Lars Krückeberg.

Architecture Matters is an international conference on the future of architecture and cities. A provocative platform for the curious and the courageous – exploring urban utopias and entrepreneurial visions. The conference brings together stakeholders from architecture, real estate, industry, and politics. The platform was launched in 2016 by Nadin Heinich.

https://architecturematters.eu/#MediaWorksMunich

18 May 2022

GRAFT lecture at the Schöck Supervisory Board Tour

GRAFT founding partner Wolfram Putz will give a talk today on neo-ecology, new work, connectivity and urbanization alongside the founder of the Zukunftsinstitut Matthias Horx as part of the Schöck Supervisory Board Tour. The Schöck Group with headquarters in Baden-Baden is an internationally active company in the construction supply industry with over 1000 employees in 19 locations. The 2-day tour was conceived by Katrin Schwarz and Kathleen Schröter to allow the supervisory board members to continue to look to the future as forward thinkers.

16 May 2022

GRAFT founder Wolfram Putz acts as jury member in Braunschweig architecture competition

GRAFT founder Wolfram Putz will act as a juror for the competition "Nachnutzung des Klinikums Holwedestrasse" in Braunschweig, Germany. The jury convenes today to determine approximately 10 submissions for the second phase of the competition. We are looking forward to the open urban and landscape planning process!

13 May 2022

Guided Eiswerk tours at Tag der Architektur

On Tag der Architektur (June 25-26), members of the Berlin Chamber of Architects will show the wide range of their work and invite you to discover architecture in the capital.
GRAFT offers architectural tours together with rw+ for the nearly completed project Eiswerk:

Sunday, June 26, 2022, 11 a.m.
Sunday, June 26, 2022, 1 p.m.
Sunday, June 26, 2022, 3 p.m.

By registration only via pr@graftlab.com

For information on other project tours and open offices in Berlin, please visit www.ak-berlin.de/tda-programm

Photo: Trockland, Noam Rosenthal

10 May 2022

Panel discussion "Zurueck in die Zukunft" at ANCB - The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory

Tonight, GRAFT founder Thomas Willemeit will join the panel discussion "Zurück in die Zukunft: ein neues Leben für das ICC". Niklas Maak (architecture critic), Silke Neumann (BUREAU N, Initiative ICCC Berlin), Thomas Oberender (author and curator), Frank Oehring (artist, Oehring + Lux) and Elena Schütz (Something Fantastic, Initiative ICCC Berlin) are also on the panel. The lab talk of ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory starts at 18.30h and will be moderated by Lukas Feireiss.
You can sign up here: Zurück in die Zukunft