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INFORMATION of 6 June 2013 Frankfurt am Main

THINK GLOBAL, BUILD SOCIAL! Architectures for a better World

Architects Rudanko + Kankkunen: Sra Pou Berufsschule, Sra Pou, Kambodscha, 2010–2012 © Anssi Kankkunen

8 June — 1 September 2013

Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM,

Schaumainkai 43, Frankfurt am Main, Ground Floor

EXHIBITION OPENING:

Fri, 7 June 2013, 19.00

PRESS CONFERENCE:

Thu, 6 June 2013, 11.00

GUIDED TOURS:

On Saturdays and Sundays 15.00

OPEN:

Tue, Thu — Sun 11.00 — 18.00 \ Wed 11.00 — 20.00

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION 2

PUBLICATION 4

LIST OF PROJECTS 5

COINCIDING PROGRAM 7

IMPRINT 8

COMING SOON / CONTACT 9

Think Global, Build Social! Architectures for a better World Frankfurt/ Main, 07.06.13

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EXHIBITION SHOWS SOCIAL RELEVANCE OF ARCHITECTURE

Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt and Architekturzentrum Wien (AzW) have

jointly developed the exhibition on “Think Global, Build Social – Architectures for a Better

World!” which focuses on a key trend in contemporary architecture. Well before the economic

crisis of 2008 triggered by the sub-prime crisis in the United States the issue of architects’ social

responsibility had already returned to the public agenda. Given the explosive growth in faceless

megacities and the likewise soaring number of people living worldwide in slums, the compelling

questions are: What solutions can architecture today offer those parts of the global population

who cannot themselves act as developers? How does architecture as a discipline positioned

between artistic, economic and ecological standards, define its own social relevance?

Even before the 2008 financial crisis, at the beginning of the 21st century there was a series of

important new approaches in the direction of an “architecture engagé”, i.e., architects who took

the initiative themselves and sought out jobs and projects for which in the classical

understanding of the profession there was no client. Unlike similar efforts as had arisen in the

1960s, these initiatives are not politically motivated, but are instead radically pragmatic. For

example Anna Heringer decided when studying Architecture in Linz that her graduation project

should not be some academic exercise on paper, and designed a school that was actually built in

a village in Bangladesh. Or take Francis Kéré who grew up in Burkina Faso. He resolved while

studying Architecture in Berlin that he would stop sending money to his family back home and

instead build a school for all the inhabitants of his village, Gando. Such relatively small projects

won big international prizes such as the Aga Khan Award, the highest distinction in the Muslim

world and which has since the 1970s rewarded the social relevance of architecture. The global

attention since shown these buildings and projects has substantially boosted their local impact.

Often, such initiatives have been launched by architects who have trained and worked

internationally and it would seem as if precisely the knowledge of global conditions is a

necessary basis on which to bring about real change in the local context.

The exhibition presents a selection of 22 positions that address the social relevance of

architecture the world over. It is subdivided into five thematic chapters: Materials, Dwellings,

Participation, Culture, Design-Build Programs. These categories are flexible and mutually

compatible, many of the examples on show present several aspects at once. The selection centers

on building realized roughly over the last decade and where there has already been a visible

local impact. It is curated by Andres Lepik, the new Director of the Munich Technical

University’s Architecture Museum, who in the prior exhibition on “Small Scale, Big Change” in

2010 in New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) addressed the same theme.

Materials: Modernist architecture relies on industrially manufactured construction materials

such as steel, glass and concrete. Yet precisely in the poor countries of the world, the use of


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materials that are easily found such as clay or bamboo is ecologically and economically far more

appropriate, whereby they tend to be looked down on. In order to reanimate partly forgotten

traditions or enable such traditions to arise in the first place, the projects on display by Emilio

Caravatti in Mali, Anna Heringer and Martin Rauch in Morocco and Bangladesh, Al Borde in

Ecuador, not to mention John and Cynthia Hardy‘s Green School in Indonesia are immensely

important. Their increasing recognition in the developed world also leads to greater

appreciation for them in the countries where the projects are located.

Dwelling. In the absence of sufficient residential spaces, many of the world’s countless

migrants and refugees set up home themselves, without the help of architects. The Elemental

group in Chile has dedicated itself to redefining the notion of “incremental housing,” i.e.,

dwellings that can be adapted to economic conditions. The young architects at a.gor.a design

refugee structures for the borders of Thailand. By contrast, Cologne’s BeL and Paris’ Druot,

Lacaton, Vassal aim their strategies to preserve or provide socially affordable dwellings in

Europe’s developed nations.

Participation: An architecture project can be included and accepted in a local setting more

durably and successfully by involving the users in the planning, and even in the construction

process. Both Boston’s Mass Design Group (MASS), Francis Kéré in Berlin and Los Angeles’

Kounkuey Design Initiative with its projects in Africa not to mention Atelier d’architecture

autogérée (AAA) in Paris have developed strategies for such participation.

Culture: Specifically in informal settlements (i.e., slums, favelas, townships) not only is there a

lack of sufficient infrastructure but usually also of the institutions that able a cultural identity to

emerge. Peter Rich, from Johannesburg, South Africa, and Finland’s Hollmén Reuter Sandman

have realized trailblazing projects in this regard in Africa, while the young Norwegian office of

TYIN and the Finnish company Rudanko + Kankkunen have achieved something similar in

Southeast Asia – in the form of libraries, schools, women’s centers and cultural centers. Urban-

Think Tank designs cultural buildings for South American favelas that function as the catalyst of

social change.

Design/Build programs: For some time now various architectural schools have run so-called

“design/build” programs to give their students a hands-on reference to the social dimension to

their later profession. Here, students can experience how what they have learned can be of

benefit, for example when building schools or kindergartens abroad. Many European groups,

such as Baupiloten (TU Berlin), Bauen für OrangeFarm (TU Munich), design.build Studio (TU

Vienna), BASEhabitat (Kunstuniversität Linz) and architecture students from RWTH Aachen

have established durable relationships with locations abroad and thus contribute to knowledge

transfer to the respective countries.


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The “Think Global, Build Social – Architectures for a Better World” presents projects that are

exemplary for how that linkage of ethics and aesthetics that Classical Modernism already called

for can be realized. Even if to date no uniform movement with a clear agenda of its own has

arisen, there are many common values or characteristics that would indicate that beyond the

pale of “iconic architecture” for some time now another movements has emerged in

contemporary architecture that insists on addressing the social issues of a global society.

PUBLICATION

A special edition of ARCH+ will accompany the exhibition with articles by Andres Lepik, Frei Otto, Elke Krasny, Aram Ziai, Peter Cachola Schmal and Dietmar Steiner in german and english.

ARCH+, Journal for Architecture and Urbanism, features 20:

Think Global – Build Social

Sommer 2013, G 5416

ISSN 0587-3452

prize: 18,- EUR


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LIST OF PROJECTS SHOWN IN THE EXHIBITION

Emilio Caravatti

School Djinindjebougou, Djinindjebougou, Katì, Mali, 2006-2007 School Kobà, Kobà, Katì, Mali, 2008-2009 Primary school N'tyeani, N'tyeani, Mali, 2008-2009 Primary school Fansirà Corò, Fansirà Corò, Katì, Mali, 2010-2011 Rehabilitation Center „Jigiya So“, Katì, Mali, seit 2009

Anna Heringer and Martin Rauch

METI school (Modern Education and Training Institute), Rudrapur, Bangladesh, 2005-2006

DESI school (Dipshikha Electrical Skill Improvement), Rudrapur, Bangladesh, 2007-2008

School for sustainable development, Marrakesch-Chwitter, Morocco, since 2010 John and Cyntia Hardy

Green School Bali, Badung, Bali, Indonesien, since 2007 Al Borde Arquitectos

Nueva Esperanza school, El Cabuyal, Provinz Manabí, Ecuador, 2009 Esperanza Dos school, El Cabuyal, Provinz Manabí, Ecuador, 2011

Diébédo Francis Kéré

Primary school Gando, Gando, Burkina Faso, 1999-2001 Houses for teachers Gando, Gando, Burkina Faso, 2004 School extension Gando, Gando, Burkina Faso, 2008 Public library Gando, Gando, Burkina Faso, 2010-2013 Secondary school Gando, Gando, Burkina Faso, since 2010

Mass Design Group

Butaro Hospital, Butaro, Distrikt Burera, Ruanda, 2008-2010 Cancerhospital Butaro, Butaro, Distrikt Burera, Ruanda, 2008-2010 Extension of an maternity hospital, Nyanza, Ruanda, seit 2012

Atelier d'architecture autogérée (AAA)

Passage 56, Paris, France, 2006 R-Urban, Colombes, France, 2008, 2011-2015 (1. Phase)

Kounkuey Design Initiative

Kibera Public Space Project (KPSP), Nairobi-Kibera, Kenia, since 2006 Elemental

Siedlung Quinta Monroy, Iquique, Chile, 2003-2004 BeL

Grundbau und Siedler – Mehrfamilienhaus im Selbstbau, Hamburg, Germany, 2012-2013


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Druot, Lacaton, Vassal 3 rue des Ajoncs, Saint-Nazaire, La Chesnaie, France, 2010-2013 Le Grand Parc, Bordeaux, France, since 2013

a.gor.a Architekten

temporary dormitories, Mae Sot, Thailand, 2012 School and Officebuilding, Mae Sot, Thailand, 2012

Teddy Cruz

Living Rooms at the border, Senior Housing with childcare, San Ysidro, Kalifornien, USA, since 2001

Manufactured Sites, Tijuana, Mexiko RWTH Aachen

Architects: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen) – Fakultät für Architektur, Lehrstuhl für Gebäudelehre und Grundlagen des Entwerfens; Bernadette Heiermann, Nora Elisabeth Müller, Judith Reitz mit Studierenden; Mitarbeit: buildcollective: Elias Rubin, Marlene Wagner: Ihtuba Science Center on Ithuba Campus, Montic, South Africa, 2011-2012

Baupiloten

With students of TU Berlin, Fakultät VII Architektur Umwelt Gesellschaft: Modernisierung der Erika-Mann-Grundschule I – „Silberdrachenwelt“, Berlin-Wedding, Germany, 2002-2003

With students of TU Berlin, Fakultät VI Planen Bauen Umwelt: Modernisierung der Erika-Mann-Grundschule II – „Das Schnauben des Silberdrachens“, Berlin-Wedding, Germany, 2006-2008

„Der Blickfänger“ für die Ausstellung „Building Blocks“ in den Nordischen Botschaften, Nordische Botschaften, Berlin and Berlin-Neukölln, Germany, 2012

With: Architecture and Urban Design Program, german University, Kairo: Upgradig of schoolyards „Learn-Move-Play-Ground“, Kairo, Ägypten, 2012

Bauen for OrangeFarm

Markus Dobmeier with students of TU München, Fakultät für Architektur; Collaboration: buildcollective: primary school Mzamba, Mzamba, Provinz Ostkap, South Africa, 2010-2012

design.build Studio

With students of TU Wien, Fakultät für Architektur und Raumplanung, Institut für Architektur + Entwerfen: community center for the orphanage St. Antonius, Gidö, Insel Nias, Indonesia, 2006-2007

With students of TU Wien, Fakultät für Architektur und Raumplanung, Institut für Architektur + Entwerfen: YoungCaritas competence center, Wien, Austria, 2011-2013

BASEhabitat

With students of Kunstuniversität Linz, Fakultät für Architektur und Raumplanung, Abteilung die Architektur: Dorfentwicklungs- und Bauprojekt „Phoolna“, Sunderpur, Bihar, India, seit 2012


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Peter Rich Alexandra Heritage Centre, Alexandra, Johannesburg, Südafrika, since 2004 Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South

Africa, 2002-2010 Ukumbi

Architects: Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects; Saija Hollmén, Jenni Reuter, Helena Sandman: Womencenter, Rufisque, Senegal, 1995-2001

Architects: Architects Rudanko + Kankkunen; Hilla Rudanko, Anssi Kankkunen; with Students of Aalto University, Helsinki: Sra Pou Berufsschule, Sra Pou, Udong, Kambodscha, 2010-2012

TYIN tegnestue Architects

Cassia Co-op Training Centre, Sungai Penuh, Sumatra, Indonesia, 2011 Old Market Library, Min Buri, Bangkok, Thailand, 2009 Safe Haven Bathhouse, Ban Tha Song Yang, Thailand, 2009 With students of Norwegischen Universität für Wissenschaft und Technik (NTNU),

Trondheim: Safe Haven Library, Ban Tha Song Yang, Thailand, 2009 Urban-Think Tank

Centro de Acçao Social por Música, Grotão, Paraisópolis, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009-2012

Sat/Sun, 3 p.m. Open guided tours by curator Yorck Förster; admission to the museum EUR 8 Euro/ EUR 4 reduced 7 June 2013, 10.30 - International Symposium In addition to the exhibition, which focuses on social architecture in disadvantaged regions, architects and planners report on their experiences and work on site. The range of lectures encompasses projects across the globe. 10.30 Greeting Peter Cachola Schmal, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Director

Introduction Andres Lepik, Architekturmuseum TU München, Director Design Build projects in Africa and Europe

Moderation Dietmar Steiner, Architekturzentrum Wien, Director A1 Bernadette Heiermann, RWTH Aachen, Lehrstuhl für Gebäudelehre

und Grundlagen des Entwerfens A2 Marcus Dobmeier, Bauen für OrangeFarm e. V., Munich A3 Susanne Hofmann, Die Baupiloten, Berlin Discussion


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12.30—13.30 Break Social Engagement by architects in Europe, Asia and South America

Moderation Anh-Linh Ngo, Editor ARCH+ B1 Hubert Klumpner, Urban-Think Tank, Zurich, Switzerland B2 Anne-Julchen Bernhardt & Jörg Leeser, BeL Associates, Cologne B3 Line Ramstad, a.gor.a Architects, Mae Sot, Thailand Discussion

15.00—15.30 Break Innovative Construction with traditional local materials

Moderation ANDRES LEPIK, Architekturmuseum TU München, Director C1 ANDRES BÄPPLER, Schule fürs Leben, Cali, Colombia C2 EMILIO CARAVATTI, Monza, Italy C3 ANNA HERINGER, Laufen C4 PETER RICH, Johannesburg, South Africa Discussion 17.50 end 19.00 Opening of exhibition Lectures will be held in English. The fee for the symposium is € 8 or €4 for students with valid student ID. Registration is not required.

IMPRINT Think global, build social! Architectures for a better world 8 June – 1 September 2013 Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Ground Floor 12 March – 30 June 2014 Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) An exhibition by Deutsches Architekturmuseums (DAM) in Cooperation with Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) and ARCH+

Curator: Andres Lepik

Director DAM: Peter Cachola Schmal

Coordinating Curators DAM: Peter Körner, Philipp Sturm

Curatorial Assistance DAM: Evelyn Steiner

Exhibition Design: Sanaz Hazegh-Nejad

Catalog: ARCH+, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Anh-Linh Ngo, Sabine Hansmann mit Team

Public Relation DAM: Stefanie Lampe, Susanne Lehmann

Corporate Design DAM: Gardeners, Frankfurt am Main

Registrar DAM: Wolfgang Welker

Director’s Office and Administration DAM: Inka Plechaty, Jacqueline Brauer


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Installation DAM: Marina Barry, Paolo Brunino, Ulrich Diekmann, Enrico Hirsekorn, Caroline

Krause, Eike Laeuen, Michael Reiter, Jörn-Luca Schön, Angela Tonner, Beate Voigt, Herbert

Warmuth, Gerhard Winkler, Valerian Wolenik under the direction of Christian Walter

Museum Technician DAM: Joachim Müller-Rahn

In Cooperation with:

Kindly supported by:

Press images for announcements and reports during the exhibition period at www.dam-online.de

20 September 2013 – 12 January 2014

Nove Novos. Emerging Architects from Brazil

2 October 2013 – 12 January 2014

Interferenzen/Interférences. Architektur. Deutschland-Frankreich 1800-2000

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