Projects + press services 2024
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January 2025
Yorck Förster, Christina Gräwe, Peter Cachola Schmal (Eds.)
German Architecture Annual 2025
The winner of the DAM Prize 2025 is an open house for cultural and educational work: the Spore Haus in Berlin by AFF Architects. The jury, chaired by the former Berlin Senate Building Director Regula Lüscher, unanimously selected this project from among the finalists. In addition to the award-winning project and the finalists, the German Architecture Annual 2025 also showcases the shortlisted buildings in and from Germany.
November 2024
Kateryna Malaia / Philipp Meuser
Mass Housing in Ukraine
Building Types and Catalogue of Series 1922-2022
The type catalogue Mass Housing in Ukraine, written by the building historians Kateryna Malaia and Philipp Meuser, represents basic research and serves as a basis for further discussions about the future of housing construction in Ukraine. By revealing the Ukrainian context as well as showing the work of Ukrainian architects, design institutions, contractors, and developers, the authors emancipate the history of Ukrainian housing from the Russian narrative of the Soviet past. This enables them to write the history of a specifically Ukrainian building tradition and embed it in the context of all-European architectural history.
September 2024
Vécsey Schmidt Architekt:innen, Basel
A Pavilion for Pop Culture
From provisional tent to permanent concert club: the new Kuppel Basel is an impressive venue for the music scene
Basel-based Vécsey Schmidt Architekt:innen have built a permanent concert venue for the city’s pop music scene – right in the middle of an idyllic park on the edge of the city centre. The shape of the Kuppel Basel refers to a temporary dome tent from 1988 that stood on the same location, and which was known far and wide for the concerts that were held there. The new, permanent institution will help to promote upcoming bands and provide a venue for concerts and parties. An unconventional piece of architecture, that is focussed entirely on its interior and at the same time – together with a neighbouring extension building – solves urban planning questions.
June 2024
Vittorio Pizzigoni and Michelangelo Sabatino (Ed.)
Mies in His Own Words
Complete Writings, Speeches, and Interviews 1922-1969
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed his buildings: even in language he celebrated the art of omission. Mies in his Own Words. Complete Writings, Speeches, and Interviews 1922 – 1969 is the comprehensive collection of all of his accessible written and spoken contributions from a period spanning almost 50 years. Read together, they reveal the breadth of Mies’ deep engagement with architecture and education in Germany and the USA.
April 2024
Degelo Architekten, Basel
Heidelberg Congress Center: a compact cube with many-faceted interior
Heidelberg, the city of science and research, now has its first major dedicated congress and convention venue. The Basel-based architectural bureau Degelo Architekten has developed a characterful building that on the exterior appears compact and plain, but which turns out to have a complex and many-faceted interior.
April 2024
Sandra Hofmeister (ed)
Natural Building Materials S, M, L
30 x Architecture and Construction
The new title Natural Building Materials S, M, L presents examples of how climate-friendly architecture can be achieved based on 30 international projects of all sizes and uses. The buildings present the entire spectrum from “small” to “large”, from less than 400 m² to more than 2,000 m² of floor area, illustrating a wide range of different design and construction options across all kinds of typologies.
March 2024
Benjamin Hossbach, Christian Lehmhaus, Christine Eichelmann
Competitions Panels and Diagrams 2
Planning competitions are used in public and private projects as an instrument for optimising the design and selecting planning partners. For both small and large projects, the organised, fair, transparent and specialist process helps to sustainably improve the quality of urban development, buildings, open spaces, and public art. The title Competitions Panels and Diagrams 2, from the Construction and Design Manual series, presents a selection of examples showing the calls to tender and results of competitions that have been completed. 27 international projects from 2016 to 2022 illustrate the design methods and visualisation techniques employed by some 100 architectural bureaus.
January 2024
Kostas Grigoriadis, Guan Lee
3D Printing and Material Extrusion in Architecture
3D printing as an additive production process is said to revolutionise architecture. This is not least due to the environmental advantages that this technology offers. It is not only plastic, concrete, or metal, but also natural resources such as clay that can be extruded in a liquid state and then hardened into its final form. In the Design Manual 3D Printing and Material Extrusion in Architecture, the architects and researchers Kostas Grigoriadis and Guan Lee, who both work at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, take a look at the current state of affairs regarding 3D printing in architecture.
January 2024
Yorck Förster, Christina Gräwe, Peter Cachola Schmal (Eds.)
German Architecture Annual 2024
For the first time the DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany 2024 has been awarded to the debut project of an architectural practice. The Studierendenhaus der TU Braunschweig / Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University Braunschweig by Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke convinced the jurors through its elegance and transparency, the masterful lightness in its structure, and reduction in materiality and technology. The German Architecture Annual 2024 presents the winning project and the finalists together with the shortlisted entries from Germany and by German architects.