München: The Latest Architecture and News

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Achitectural gifts are everywhere: libraries funded by wealthy philanthropists, shelters donated by humanitarian organizations, farms paid for with development grants, mosques financed by Islamic foundations, and stadiums handed over as part of diplomatic charm offensives. Embedded in religious and imperial traditions of gift-giving, architectural gifts shape the urbanization process across the world. Humanitarian, developmentalist, and diplomatic building-gifts have become ubiquitous in rapidly expanding African, Asian, and South American metropolises and their hinterlands. In North American and European cities, philanthrocapitalists invest in cultural, social, and educational facilities passed down by the dwindling welfare state.

Opening: 31.5.2024 at 7 pm
Speakers: Iwan Baan, lars Müller, Nicola Borgmann

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New construction as an exception? “Waste” as a new building material? Affordable housing vs. climate protection? How do we design a building’s whole lifecycle? How do we calculate grey energy honestly? What is zero-carbon concrete? Which insights are new, and how can we tap past knowledge to develop solutions for the future? How do we shape this complex change process together? “Second City. On the New in the Old” is the theme of Architecture Matters 2023, where we will explore this topic at different levels: materials, buildings, society.

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With Vera Meyer, Stefan Böschen and Driving the Human project authors
April 30, 2022
5-7 PM
Hosted by acatech at Amerikahaus, Munich
Free entrance upon registration here: https://www.acatech.de/termin/towards-eco-social-renewal-blueprints-for-collaboration-between-science-and-the-arts/

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