Mutation means change. In biology, this means a lasting change in genetic material.
The upcoming SKIZZENWERK asks how current architectural practice is mutating and what can be learned from it. The focus will be primarily on young offices and collectives, whose work not only serves as a role model for us students, but also changes and shapes the reality of building in the long term.
Together with our guests, we will talk about the future - about fears, uncertainties, hopes, goals and visions.

Dates:

14.05. Menu Surprise (Berlin, Germany)
Made famous by the award-winning project Freimundo (2024), which was created through interdisciplinary collaboration, the Berlin architecture collective menu surprise, founded in 2022, is now a pioneer in terms of communication and cross-thematic collaboration. The collective's projects surprise with their imagination and enjoyment of narrative. Their way of working also mutates from the generally prevailing tradition in architectural offices: initial studies to test the compatibility of all participants, team coaching, reflection and a non-hierarchical working culture characterize the collective's practice in an unconventional way.

21.05. Studio Meier Unger (Leipzig, Germany)
The Leipzig-based architecture firm Meier Unger, founded in 2016 by Lena Unger and Jan Meier, focuses intensively on the technical and constructive aspects of architecture. Their focus is not only on the finished building, but on the entire process of designing, building and continuing to build. This sets them apart from the design techniques of the 20th century and strengthens the shift towards sustainable, contemporary architecture. They combine traditional craft techniques with modern production processes and question established design methods in order to further develop the constructive expressiveness of architecture. In addition to their practical work, they are also involved in teaching and have been awarded several architecture prizes, including the Bauwelt Prize 2023.

28.05. Traumnovelle (Brussels, Belgium)
The Brussels-based architecture firm Traumnovelle, founded in 2015 by Léone Drapeaud, Manuel Léon Fanjul and Johnny Leya, fundamentally questions the relationship between architecture and politics and examines the public role of architecture and space creation. The focus is on both practical, built and theoretical projects, exhibitions, curations and teaching. Architecture itself becomes a critical and provocative tool. This approach gives it a new meaning and thus mutates the role and understanding of architecture. The aim of the projects is to promote and rethink human interaction. The current image of society is questioned.

04.06. Truwant Rodet (Basel, Switzerland)
After studying and working in Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark and Japan, Charlotte Truwant and Dries Rodet founded their Basel-based architecture firm Truwant+Rodet in 2015. They design "without cynicism or nostalgia", whereby the projects can be understood as abstract ideas that reveal themselves with their surroundings and the available means. The aim of remaining curious and open drives the work on various scales - from furniture to urban plans. Themes and motifs such as adaptive reuse, processes of transformation, interstitial spaces and uncertain encounters run through the work.

18.06. Bessire Winter (Zurich, Switzerland)
Céline Bessire and Matthias Winter met during their studies at ETH Zurich. After working and teaching in Geneva and at ETH, they founded their joint office in 2019. In their practice, they deal with issues of conversion and transformation, "parasitic" interventions and hidden potentials. In doing so, they question competition programs and building law options. In their work, they are always characterized by critical thinking that goes far beyond the spatial program. In their projects, they constantly try to take a stand and reassemble themselves - "like a phantom image that becomes more concrete through superimpositions, but is never conclusive".

Further information will follow.