mperial Kiln Museum, aerial view, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, CN; Studio Zhu Pei © Tian Fangfang
2. Februar 2024 In

Poetic Imaginations

Studio Zhu Pei, Beijing at Aedes Architecture Forum

POETIC IMAGINATIONS

Interweaving Architecture With Traditional Values

Exhibition  17 February – 27 March 2024
Opening  Friday, 16 February 2024, 6.30pm
Speaking 
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss Aedes, Berlin
Dr. Eduard Kögel Urban Planner and Curator, Berlin
Martino Stierli Chief Curator for Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Zhu Pei Studio Zhu Pei, Beijing

Venue: Aedes Architecture Forum . Christinenstr. 18–19 . 10119 Berlin

Exhibition Talk: A public debate will be held as part of the opening of the exhibition:

16 February 2024, 5pm
Poetic Imaginations
Venue: ANCB Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory

Welcome
Hans-Jürgen Commerell Director ANCB Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Introduction: Eduard Kögel Urban Planner and Curator, Berlin
Lecture: Zhu Pei Studio Zhu Pei, Beijing
Talk: Zhu Pei Studio Zhu Pei, Beijing / Martino Stierli Chief Curator for Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Deutsch-Koloniale Baukulturen
4. April 2023 In

Deutsch-Koloniale Baukulturen

„Deutsch-koloniale Baukulturen„

AUSSTELLUNG // DEUTSCH-KOLONIALE BAUKULTUREN. EINE GLOBALE ARCHITEKTURGESCHICHTE IN 100 PRIMÄRQUELLEN

am Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München

20. April bis 30. Juni 2023

Kommentiert wird die Ausstellung durch einen Katalog mit insgesamt 100 Fallstudien. Die Ausstellung wurde konzipiert von PD Dr.-Ing. Mag Michael Falser (DFG-Heisenberg-Fellow am Institut für die Geschichte und Theorie von Architektur, Kunst und Design, TU München).

Darin Eduard Kögel:

  • Zwischen Feng Shui und Chinoiserie? Die Zwischenbahnhöfe der Schantungbahn von Heinrich Hildebrand (1904)
  • Zum Ende der deutschen Kolonialzeit in China. Ernst Boerschmanns Ausstellung Chinesische Architektur im Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum (1912)

  • Teilabbruch, Umbau, Weiterbau. Die „Zivilisierung“ des Qianmen-Tores in Peking durch Curt und Gertrud Rothkegel (1914/15)

Atelier Deshaus
13. März 2023 In

COMMON LANDSCAPE

COMMON LANDSCAPE

Re-Cultivating Industrial Sites
Atelier Deshaus, Shanghai

link

Exhibition
1 April – 17 May 2023

Opening
Friday, 31 March 2023, 6.30pm

Speaking at the opening
Hans-Jürgen Commerell Aedes, Berlin

Dr. Eduard Kögel Researcher and Curator, Berlin
Liu Yichun Architect and Founder, Atelier Deshaus, Shanghai

Venue
Aedes Architecture Forum
Christinenstr. 18-19
10119 Berlin

Scenic Architecture at Aedes
3. Dezember 2022 In

Scenic Architecture

TRANSLATED TRADITIONS – PUBLIC COURTYARDS AND URBAN PLATFORMS
Scenic Architecture Office, Shanghai

Link to video

Link to Review

Exhibition 10 December 2022 – 25 January 2023

Opening 9 December 2022, 6.30pm

Welcome
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss Aedes, Berlin
Dr. Eduard Kögel Researcher and Curator, Berlin
Li Xiangning Professor and Dean, Tongji University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shanghai
Zhu Xiaofeng Architect and Founder, Scenic Architecture Office, Shanghai

Venue Aedes Architecture Forum / Christinenstr. 18-19 / 10119 Berlin

SEAM encounters
30. November 2022 In

dipl.-ing. arsitek (exhibition)

dipl.-ing. arsitek: german-trained indonesian architects from the 1960s

An exhibition in Jakarta, two symposia in December 2022, and a catalogue will shed light for the first time on a little-known chapter of German-Indonesian architectural, educational, and social history.

Dipl.-Ing. Arsitek: German-trained Indonesian Architects from the 1960s combines a look at Indonesian-born architects who graduated as Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) in Germany in the 1960s with issues surrounding their architectural heritage and contemporary urban challenges.

From 12 December 2022 to 12 January 2023 at Taman Ismail Marzuki in Jakarta

link to program

Jinyun Quarries
10. April 2022 In

Video: Jinyun Quarries

The mountainous landscape of Jinyun County in Zhejiang Province, China, has been shaped by the manual mining of natural stone. For the rugged and hard-to-access region, the Beijing architect Xu Tiantian and her team were asked to develop strategies for new uses for nine of the over 3000 small, abandoned quarries, which now provide a stage for cultural and social activities, and simultaneously strive for ecological improvements and create new economic perspectives for the rural population. The pits, provided with new functions, have become part of a public infrastructure that puts historical aspects extending back over a thousand years as well as the everyday culture heritage in a new context. The exhibition, which reached us from Beijing by the most sustainable means of transport possible, namely by train, communicates the breath-taking sense of space in the stone quarries of Jinyun in a large-scale installation. Spacious, translucent models, photos, plans, and films visualize the complex structure of the spaces carved into the rock.

Xu Tiantian
18. März 2022 In

JINYUN QUARRIES— THE QUARRY AS STAGE

JINYUN QUARRIES— THE QUARRY AS STAGE

From economic exploitation to ecological reuse
XU Tiantian / DnA_Design and Architecture, Beijing

Exhibition 19 March – 5 May 2022
Opening Friday, 18 March 2022

The mountainous landscape of Jinyun County in Zhejiang Province, China, has been shaped by the manual mining of natural stone. For the rugged and hard-to-access region, the Beijing architect Xu Tiantian and her team were asked to develop strategies for new uses for nine of the over 3000 small, abandoned quarries, which now provide a stage for cultural and social activities, and simultaneously strive for ecological improvements and create new economic perspectives for the rural population. The pits, provided with new functions, have become part of a public infrastructure that puts historical aspects extending back over a thousand years as well as the everyday culture heritage in a new context. The exhibition, which reached us from Beijing by the most sustainable means of transport possible, namely by train, communicates the breath-taking sense of space in the stone quarries of Jinyun in a large-scale installation. Spacious, translucent models, photos, plans, and films visualize the complex structure of the spaces carved into the rock.

5. Februar 2022 In

urban ergonomics

URBAN ERGONOMICS. FROM STEEL PLANT TO OLYMPIA TO PUBLIC GOOD
Zhang Li / TeamMinus, Tsinghua University Beijing

In February 2022, China will host the XXIV Winter Olympic Games. The various sports events will be held in three locations; Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou. In Beijing, the games largely take place in the existing sports facilities built for the Summer Olympics in 2008. The only new project is the Big Air Shougang slope for freestyle skiing and snowboarding in Shougang Industrial Park designed by Brian Li Zhang’s design office TeamMinus at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Big Air Shougang is located at the once largest steel plants in the region. The Olympic Games will be used to sustainably transform the gigantic industrial relics for new uses. The exhibition focuses on the jumping track for the Big Air Shougang and encourages visitors to communicate ergonomically with the building through an interactive game. The office’s approach is presented in three other projects, where space for movement decisively shapes the architecture. The Jianamani Visitor Centre in Qinghai province, the underground cultural centre in the Piazza and Art Space Gujiaying Village in Yanqing and the Aranya Ideas Camp and Community Centre in Qinhuangdao. TeamMinus received the IUPA International Urban Project Award 2021, awarded by Bauwelt, Berlin and WA World Architecture, Beijing for the Big Air Shouguangtransformation project with the facility for free-style skiing and snowboarding, while the Jianamani Visitor Centre received the Zumtobel Group Award – Innovations for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment back in 2017.