Annual saai Lecture
With the introduction of the saai Lectures, an annual lecture with international guests, the saai | Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering is actively involved in the discourse on the built environment as a dynamic place of knowledge. Archives are the foundation of a sustainable future, the basis for the reappraisal of social heritage and a generator for ever better questions.
On 27th of November 2024 we invite you to this year's saai Lecture with Marina Otero Verzier (Columbia University GSAPP). In addition to her lecture ‘Zone of Potential Insufficiency’, our new research centre iaas [international architectural archive studies] and our podcast ‘Archive Gossip’ will be presented at the event.
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The annual saai Lectures integrate the saai into the architectural discourse. Ines Weizman will give the lecture "Fevering Archives: Records, Documents and Their Annotations". In addition, the digital catalog of Egon Eiermann's work, sponsored by the Egon Eiermann Gesellschaft, will be presented.
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Anna-Maria Meister spoke about "Coded Objects" in her inaugural lecture as Professor of Architectural Theory and Co-Director of SAAI on 10.7.24.
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For decades, Günter Behnisch (1922-2010) shaped the building culture of the state of Baden-Württemberg and the young Federal Republic of Germany with his social, people-oriented architecture. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the exhibition presents the life and work of the architect and his office, which worked in various partnerships and with which he realized around 150 buildings in over 50 years.
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On the occasion of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the saai presented the Multihalle by Frei Otto and Carlfried Mutschler in an exhibition as part of the Biennale theme "Freespace".
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The symposium "Architecture as a Conjectured Future" took place as part of the exhibition "Frei Otto. Thinking in Models" at the ZKM | Karlsruhe in cooperation with the Department of Architectural Theory at the Institute for Design, Art and Theory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
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The aim of the exhibition was to open up new perspectives on the work of Frei Otto and to formulate current questions about the future of our built environment in relation to architecture, technology, sustainability and society.
Mehr (14.01.2018)The architect's chair - seating furniture by Egon Eiermann The exhibition curated by Dr. Gerhard Kabierske (14 January to 9 February 2018) presents a selection of Eiermann's seating furniture such as sketches, plan drawings, historical photos and contemporary printed matter from the archive, which preserves the architect's estate. More |
 (09.02.2017) ARCH+ features 57 - Learning from Frei Otto Anna Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal will sit down for a discussion with Georg Vrachliotis on the occasion of the Frei Otto retrospective he curated at the ZKMin Karlruhe. More |
 (17.05.2015) Frei Otto and the Open System Georg Vrachliotis talked to Jean-Philippe Vassal, one half of the French architecture duo Lacaton & Vassal, for uncube magazine about designing open systems in architecture and ensuring maximum freedom for residents. More |
 (27.06.2015) Friedrich Weinbrenner 1766 - 1826 A comprehensive exhibition on the life's work of Friedrich Weinbrenner. Like no other, this famous master builder of classicism has shaped the appearance of Karlsruhe to this day. Exhibition of the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe and the Südwestdeutsches Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau am KIT. More |