"find
the gap" Seit einem Vierteljahrhundert steht das Aedes-Architekturforum in Berlin mit Ausstellungen und begleitenden Katalogen für den internationalen und interkulturellen Dialog in Architektur und Stadtplanung. Als weltweit erste private Architekturinstitution 1980 ins Leben gerufen, ging und geht es Aedes darum, Architektur und urbane Kultur nicht nur an ein Fachpublikum zu kommunizieren, sondern gerade auch eine breite Öffentlichkeit für diese Themen zu interessieren. Das Spektrum der bisher rund 300 Ausstellungen bewegt sich dabei zwischen der Präsentation international renommierter Architekturbüros und der Entdeckung und Förderung junger Talente und ihrer experimentellen und visionären Ansätze. In diesem Sinne wird die Jubiläumsausstellung nicht nur einen aktuellen Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Architekturdiskussion leisten, sondern gerade eine neue Architektengeneration mit ihren Positionen, Strategien und Projekten in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses rücken.
Projektleiterin
für Aedes ist Ulla Giesler, Infos und Photomaterial unter aedes@baunetz.de. |
‘Find
the Gap’ An exhibition
marking the 25th anniversary of Aedes For a quarter of a century now, through its exhibitions and accompanying catalogs, the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin has stood for international and intercultural dialogue in architecture and urban planning. Founded in 1980 as the first private architectural institution worldwide, Aedes was and is committed to creating awareness of and stimulating interest in architectural and urban culture – not just among a professional audience, but among a wider public as well. The spectrum of the approximately 300 exhibitions to date has ranged from the presentation of internationally renowned architectural enterprises to the discovery and promotion of younger talents and their experimental and visionary approaches. In this sense, the jubilee exhibition represents not merely a contribution to discussions of contemporary architecture; it revolves around a new architectural generation and its positions, its strategies, and its projects. The jubilee exhibition
is devoted to a rising generation of architects, those whose current
ideas and visions will shape tomorrow’s urban environment. In
the face of the often pessimistic perspectives on the future so prevalent
in Germany today, the show presents the new organizational and operational
forms of these younger architects. These forms are not restricted
to the field of architecture alone, but are instead part of larger
processes of social transformation. Rather than allowing themselves
to be intimidated by the basic economic and social conditions, they
reframe – through their manner of working and their projects
alike – the tasks and functions of future architecture while
redefining their own professional status. Each of the 15
selected teams is presented at Aedes East by means of a forward-looking
project. Through the manner of installation and in their interlinking
with likeminded colleagues, the specific approach of each group is
presented in a manner that is vivid, interactive, imaginative, and
stimulating for a broad public. A video documentary
will present the new office teams in unconventional interviews, offering
perspectives of their working spaces, methods, and environments, explicating
their ideas, and highlighting their social backgrounds. The exhibition will be accompanied by an Aedes catalog in German and English, containing descriptions of the architects’ projects and introducing the contents of exhibition (text by Christopher Dell and Nikolaus Kuhnert). Curators Participants: The project director
for Aedes is Ulla Giesler, info and photographic materials at aedes@baunetz.de. |