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The GRIFFWERK RAUM + ARCHITEKTUR TAG focuses on space as the "raw material" of architecture. The perspectives of different professions range from urban planning challenges to the detailed choice of materials and functional elements. The GRIFFWERK RAUM + ARCHITEKTUR TAG reflects current as well as historical topics and also offers space for dialog and exchange of experience for architects, planners, interior designers, craftsmen, designers and interested parties.

This year, the lectures place the topic of SPACE in a contemporary context, consider vision, topicality and change, call for innovation and change and implicitly ask about sustainable durability as a central function of the built environment. The speakers will focus on particular spatial elements, materials and colors as well as on concrete spatial architecture and spatial theory. GRIFFWERK - in cooperation with the Association of German Interior Architects - invites you to a day of inspiration and dialog for interior designers, architects, urban planners, teachers and students, craftspeople, designers and other interested parties.

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Dr. Hildegard Kalthegener
Colour Consultant, Frankfurt

Dr. Hildegard Kalthegener lives in the Frankfurt area and is a color consultant, designer and lecturer. She has led numerous seminars and workshops on color design and communication strategies. She can also look back on many years of teaching experience at chambers of architects and various universities. In the last two years, Dr. Hildegard Kalthegener has developed several color collections and has been active in Germany, other European countries and the Far East.

Lecture topic on 20.10.2016
Color between tradition and trend

Le Corbusier's Polychromie architecturale and other concepts from the first half of the 20th century are systems with contemporary validity. They offer color qualities and combinations that are always needed for sophisticated interior projects. Looking back and looking forward, the lecture deals with the topic of color in architecture, interiors and design, identifies trends, ventures forecasts and takes a stand on the return of the presence of color in space.

Lecture topic on 20.10.2016
Focus on wood

Wood as an archaic construction material is rightly experiencing a dynamic renaissance. This specialist lecture will present special phenomena and possibilities as well as new and innovative wood-based materials. Material in application and built projects will also be presented.

Peter Ippolito
Ippolito Fleitz Group, Stuttgart

Peter Ippolito studied architecture in Stuttgart and Chicago. During this time he worked as an assistant to Prof. Ben Nicholson (Chicago) and gained practical experience at Studio Daniel Libeskind (Berlin). In 2002, he founded the Ippolito Fleitz Group together with Gunter Fleitz. In 2015, Peter Ippolito and Gunter Fleitz were the first German designers from the field of interior design to be inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame. In addition to his design work, Peter Ippolito has been active in teaching and as a member of competition juries on several occasions. He chairs the jury for the DDC Award in the space/architecture category and is a jury member for this year's "DETAIL Prize".

Lecture topic on 20.10.2016
Identity Architecture

For Ippolito Fleitz, space is built communication. The office has been living this claim for many years and translates it for very different clients and tasks, from trade fair stands to state palaces. Beyond functional and aesthetic strategies, Ippolito Fleitz is concerned with questions of identity and appropriation, narrative structure and memorability, self-image and external image.

Markus Innauer and Sven Matt
Bezau, Vorarlberg, Austria

Founded in 2012 by Markus Innauer and Sven Matt, they create atmospherically charged spaces and places between the mountains that impress with their simple matter-of-factness. Close to the location, the landscape and its inhabitants, they lead complex contexts to unexpectedly clear solutions. The central motif is always the search for an architecture that creates familiar places that endure through an unagitated everydayness and does not want to reinvent architecture every Monday.

Lecture topic on 20.10.2016
In between

In times of "anything goes", there is a growing desire for places with existing buildings that consciously avoid the forced, unreflected new. The aim is to find a balanced middle ground between countless areas of tension in order to create buildings with long-term design and functional validity. Careful, continuous work - looking both forwards and backwards - forms the basis for this. This search for this middle ground, the "in-between", will be illuminated by means of a lecture on the work.

Dr. Jakob Bill
max, binia + jakob bill foundation

Dr. Jakob Bill was born in Zurich in 1942 and is the son of Max and Binia Bill. He studied archaeology and art history at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in prehistory and early history in 1971. He worked professionally as a prehistorian at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, built up the archaeology department in the Principality of Liechtenstein and was most recently the cantonal archaeologist in Lucerne. After the death of his father, Jakob Bill founded the 'max, binia + jakob bill foundation' and the 'bill foundation'. He now lives as an artist and administrator of the 'max bill' archive in Adligenswil (lu) and Pianezzo (ti).

Lecture topic on 20.10.2016
max bill (1908 - 1994)

The Swiss architect, artist, designer, publicist and politician max bill is best known as an architect and the first founding rector of the HfG Ulm. Numerous publications also mark his path. In 1946, for example, the theoretical work "The mathematical way of thinking in the art of our time" was published, in which he called for a new art based on mathematical design. With his book "die gute Form" (The Good Form), published in 1952, he coined a term that became programmatically effective. He stood for a design that was to be timelessly valid: through a functional, objective and aesthetically valid design, a permanence of things was to be created that went beyond the fashionable zeitgeist. In numerous photographic snapshots, his son Jakob Bill gives us a unique insight into his father's life and work in this lecture.