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A symposium for architects and planners

Interest in innovative materials, intelligent construction, visionary ideas, concrete demands or simply the pure pleasure gained from designing – the reasons for designing new products and buildings can vary widely.

At the symposium, international experts from the fields of architecture and design will present their outstanding projects and provide insights into the design process.

The themes

SHAPE AND DESIGN

The plain severity of recent years is now being replaced by increasingly softer shapes, whilst innovative materials and improved production processes have opened up a wide spectrum of design possibilities to product designers, enabling them to radically reassess traditional product shapes.
Speaker: Werner Aisslinger – Studio Aisslinger, Berlin

NEW MATERIALS

New materials are being developed all the time, while existing materials are continuously being improved and production processes optimised. Intelligent solutions are in greater demand than ever, while companies such as material ConneXion are seeking new materials all around the world and working on groundbreaking new production processes
Speaker: Rolf Warda – Material ConneXion Cologne, Köln

EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE

New offices in particular are seeking to create new ways of living and working, and are not afraid of adopting experimental approaches. Not everything that is experimental needs to be constructible and implemented in the exact way laid down by the architect. Much more important is the idea that lies behind it, which in itself can give birth to the new.
Speaker: Martin Lesjak – INNOCAD, Graz

EXCEPTIONAL BUILDING PROJECTS

GRAFT consider their work as an interplay and -action of multiple architectural influences, styles and methods, of individual taste and different cultures, that merge to a new shape and so create their own character.
Speaker: Lars Krückeberg – GRAFT, Berlin

VISIONARY CONCEPTS

Urban planning, large cultural buildings, internationally-prestigious projects – construction undertakings of this kind are desirable challenges for planners but at the same time involve considerable responsibility. This is because only the successful balancing of aesthetics, functionality and design, as well as the right sensitivity for social needs, turns large building projects into unique architecture.
Speaker: Erick van Egeraat – eea architects, Rotterdam

TRENDSETTING CONSTRUCTIONS

Large spans, daring tower blocks and complex structures are sought out by structural engineers and engineering offices as welcome challenges, and the inclusion of the latter in the design process during its early stages can allow seemingly poetic constructions and light supporting structures to become reality.
Speaker: Prof. Klaus Bollinger – Bollinger und Grohmann, Frankfurt

Speaker

Erick van Egeraat
Erick van Egeraat associates architects, Rotterdam

Lars Krückebeg
GRAFT, Berlin

Prof. Klaus Bollinger
Bollinger und Grohmann GmbH , Frankfurt

Werner Aisslinger
Studio Aisslinger, Berlin

Martin Lesjak
INNOCAD Planung und Projektmanagement GmbH, Graz

Rolf Warda
Material ConneXion Cologne, Köln

Programm

Programme is subject to change.

Date

Wednesday, 7 March 2007
ISH trade exhibition, Frankfurt, Forum 1, Hall Panorama
2 to 7 pm, followed by buffet and music
Conference language: German with simultaneous English interpretation

Entry free of charge

The number of participants is limited. The entry to all lectures is free of charge.
After your registration you will receive a voucher for a free day ticket to the ISH trade exhibition.
Inclusive: beverage, catering and conference documents.

Contact:
Zorica Ivancic, email: passionforstyle@detail.de

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