Dates / Schedules
28 October 2020 6:30pm
Live Streaming
Conference
#1 On Cooperation, Reuse and Upcycling
The first event of the year sets sights the transformation and reuse of pre-existent buildings and infrastructure. Our guests are Dr. Jane Hall, founding member of the London architecture collective Assemble- and Swiss architect Barbara Buser, co-founder of both architectural practice baubüro in situ and denkstatt — a think-tank specialized in project development. Both guests will introduce their practices’ strategic and collaborative approaches, including many hands, in transforming pre-existing structures, while also examining the role of architects as mediators within complex processes of transformation — including the interplay of profitability and financing, planning and construction, communication and participation.
Dr. Jane Hall completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art (2018), where her research looked at the legacy of Modernist architects working in both Brazil and the UK. She is the inaugural recipient of the British Council Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship (2013) and founding member of the London architecture collective Assemble, who won the Turner Prize in 2015. Jane Hall is also the author of the book Breaking Ground, Architecture by Women (Phaidon, 2019).
Barbara Buser is a Swiss architect, with a Master of Architecture from ETH Zürich and a Master of Advanced Studies in Energy Engineering from FHNW Muttenz. In 1998 she co-founded the architectural practice baubüro mitte — afterwards renamed baüburo in situ — together with Eric Honegger. Buser is also founder and partner of denkstatt, a think-tank specialized in project development in urban and rural contexts, as well as of Kantensprung, a company that has transformed a former machine factory into a popular community center in the area of Gundeldingen in Basel. Since October 2014 she has been transforming the Markthalle Basel into a lively platform for alimentation.
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