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23.–24.02.2024, Vienna
TURN ON architecture festival Talk

23.–24.02.2024, Vienna

TURN ON architecture festival

The motto of this year's TURN ON Festival organized by the Austrian Architecture Foundation is 'Perspectives'. 
Day 1 will focus on innovative and successful cooperation between architects and companies. Day 2 will feature 15 lectures on design strategies by architecture firms from German-speaking countries and a panel discussion on the topic of 'land consumption'.
Volker Staab and the Zeman Group present the design and construction of the tower at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin.

February 23-24, 2024

Theater hall in the MuTh,
Am Augartenspitz 1, 1020 Vienna

23.–24.02.2024, Vienna

TURN ON architecture festival

06.10.2023, AAG 2023 Konferenz Stuttgart
Navigating N-Dimensional Design Spaces Talk

06.10.2023, AAG 2023 Konferenz Stuttgart

Navigating N-Dimensional Design Spaces

Excited to have presented our paper "SearchField - Navigating N-Dimensional Design Spaces" at the AAG 2023 conference in Stuttgart. It came out of a collaboration between Staab Architekten and the Department of Structural Design and Engineering at the University of the Arts Berlin. Our research focuses on design space exploration, empowering designers with an intuitive approach and integrating key performance factors into the architectural design process. 

 

06.10.2023, AAG 2023 Konferenz Stuttgart

Navigating N-Dimensional Design Spaces

16.10.2022, Deutschlandfunk »Zwischentöne«
Interview with Volker Staab Talk

16.10.2022, Deutschlandfunk »Zwischentöne«

Interview with Volker Staab

"Beauty arises when an inner order unites all contradictions".

Every Sunday at 1:30 pm a journalist talks to a person who has a significant impact on our cultural and intellectual life. The conversation is accompanied by music chosen by the guest.

Listen to Raoul Mörchen's interview with Volker Staab from October 16, 2022 in the audio library of Deutschlandfunk.

 

16.10.2022, Deutschlandfunk »Zwischentöne«

Interview with Volker Staab

29.06.2022, Lecture series HTWK Leipzig
Teaching/Doing Architecture Talk

29.06.2022, Lecture series HTWK Leipzig

Teaching/Doing Architecture

The Faculty of Architecture is dedicating its lecture series this year to the relationship between the practical work and the teaching activities of the invited speakers. Volker Staab will talk about the two core elements of his design work - the autonomous architectural idea and its contextualization - and describe how these are further explored in his teaching activities.

 

Lecture Series Teaching/Doing Architecture
Lecture by Volker Staab
Wednesday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m., Li 145
Lipsiusbau
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 145
04277 Leipzig

29.06.2022, Lecture series HTWK Leipzig

Teaching/Doing Architecture

23.06.2022, Guest lecture at BDA exhibition »Caring for what already exists«
The potential of the site Talk

23.06.2022, Guest lecture at BDA exhibition »Caring for what already exists«

The potential of the site

With the touring exhibition "Sorge um den Bestand" (»caring for what already exists«), the BDA would like to initiate discussion in various cities about effective strategies for the preservation of our building stock. In Bonn, the Stadthaus is the focus of the supporting program. It is one of several post-war buildings in the city that are threatened with demolition. In his guest lecture, Volker Staab will broaden the view and present the situation-specific approach of his office in dealing with existing buildings.

Exhibition 
08 June 2022 - 29 June 2022
Lecture Prof. Volker Staab
​June 23, 2022 at 6:00 p.m.

Viktoriabad Bonn,
Franziskanerstr. 9
53113 Bonn

23.06.2022, Guest lecture at BDA exhibition »Caring for what already exists«

The potential of the site

10.–12.11.2021, University of Salzburg
Building on landmarked sites: The idea of the place Talk

10.–12.11.2021, University of Salzburg

Building on landmarked sites: The idea of the place

The University of Salzburg, together with the Austrian Federal Monuments Office and the Salzburg Architecture Initiative, is hosting a three-day conference on the handling of listed sites. Contributions from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland will be presented and report on architectural practice, the experiences of the monument offices, and the scientific perspective.

Volker Staab will talk on the idea of place, in which he questions the commitment to a seemingly correct strategy in dealing with monuments and uses built examples to show how different the approach can be when it is developed from the building task and the site. The question of whether the original substance or rather the idea of the site is the key to an appropriate strategy also plays a decisive role here.

10.–12.11.2021, University of Salzburg

Building on landmarked sites: The idea of the place

26.10.2021, Akademie der Künste Berlin
Klaus Bollinger and Volker Staab Talk

26.10.2021, Akademie der Künste Berlin

Klaus Bollinger and Volker Staab

Talk series 'On the Duty and the Power of Architecture'

Klaus Bollinger, a member of the section Baukunst, presents current projects of his office Bollinger+Grohmann under the premises of aesthetics, functionality, and sustainability. In the following conversation, he discusses with Volker Staab the responsibility and the possibilities of planning offices' influence on building culture. Our office has developed an innovative tower structure for the extension of the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin along with Bollinger+Gromann, which is currently under construction.

Tuesday 26.10.2021 at 7.00 pm

Academy of Arts at Hanseatenweg
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin

26.10.2021, Akademie der Künste Berlin

Klaus Bollinger and Volker Staab

30.01.2020, RWTH Aachen University
4th Aachen Conference on the Identity of Architecture: Construction Talk

30.01.2020, RWTH Aachen University

4th Aachen Conference on the Identity of Architecture: Construction

Far spanning, space-creating, referential and figurative - these four aspects of construction were central to our work on the Museum of the Bavarian Kings project in Hohenschwangau. The project is an example of our understanding that only the combination of contextual influences, programmatic and spatial requirements with a coherent construction concept, enables architectural quality. We like to replace the term constructive with the term structural. The focus of our approach is not the technical dimension of supporting and joining but rather the interplay of material, spatial characteristics, and the resulting logic of joining. It results in an inner grammar of the building structure, which underlies each of our buildings in different formulations.

Organized by the Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen University

January 30-31, 2020
Foyer of the Reiffmuseum, Schinkelstraße 1, 52062 Aachen

30.01.2020, RWTH Aachen University

4th Aachen Conference on the Identity of Architecture: Construction

18.11.2019, Monday Talk of the BDA Cologne
The new buildings on the campus of the TH Köln Talk

18.11.2019, Monday Talk of the BDA Cologne

The new buildings on the campus of the TH Köln

Presentation and discussion of the first competition results for new buildings on the 1970s university campus in Deutz.

Scientific introduction about the future-proof integration of the universities into the urban space: Dr. Claudia Kruschwitz.
Presentations by Prof. Tobias Wulf, Ferdinand Heide, Prof. Volker Staab 
moderated by Thomas Knüvener and Erich Frank Pössl.

 

18.11.2019, Monday Talk of the BDA Cologne

The new buildings on the campus of the TH Köln

12.03.2018, BDA Münster-Münsterland
Architecture in Context Talk

12.03.2018, BDA Münster-Münsterland

Architecture in Context

Work lecture series of the LWL and the BDA Münster-Münsterland

The basic idea of the lecture series 'Architecture in Context' is the reflection and mediation of the manifold aspects of context-related building, focussing on the urbanistic solution approach and the historical reference to the found situation. In addition, a social-cultural localization of the chosen structural solution takes place.

12.03.2018, BDA Münster-Münsterland

Architecture in Context