Talks

Archaeological Research: Tsuyoshi Tane
TALK (EN) | 12 April 2024
6.30 pm, Vitra Schaudepot

The latest addition to the Vitra Campus, the »Tane Garden House«, was designed by leading contemporary architect Tsuyoshi Tane. An exhibition in the Vitra Design Museum Gallery now documents Tane’s approach and presents his idea of an »archaeology of the future«, which takes the architect on journeys of discovery into a planned location’s site-specific memories. In his talk, Tane explains how his garden house took shape, looking back on three years of research from the first models to the finished building.

Free admission; please register at events@design-museum.de

Sustainable Spatial Practices: TAKK Barcelona
TALK (EN) | 26 April 2024
6.30 pm, Vitra Schaudepot

The members of the Spanish architecture and design studio TAKK rethink our living spaces under the aspects of neighbourhood and the needs of a pluralistic urban society. They develop private as well as public projects. The studio’s clients include museums like the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, the municipality of Barcelona, the design platform Foment de les Arts i el Disseny, the French company Hermès, and Camp Design Milan. In their talk, the studio’s founders, Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño, explain how sustainable building reconciles with affordable housing.

Free admission; please register at events@design-museum.de

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The Barragán Lecture #3: Fernanda Canales
TALK (EN) | 6 June 2024
6.30 pm, Vitra Schaudepot
 

Luis Barragán is widely regarded as the most important Mexican architect of the twentieth century. The Barragán Archive was relocated to the Vitra Design Museum in 2022. A series of talks organised in collaboration with the Barragan Foundation examines Barragán’s oeuvre from different perspectives. For the third event in the series, we are happy to welcome contemporary Mexican architect Fernanda Canales who, like Barragán, focusses on urban planning, research, and design. She has authored a number of books and is co-editor of the Barragán Guide offering an overview of her famous compatriot’s works from Guadalajara to Mexico City and Monterrey. In her talk, she will discuss how Barragán’s works influenced modern Mexican architecture as well as her own creative output.

Free admission; please register at events@design-museum.de

Energyscapes: Christine von Raven, Carola Hein & Philipp Misselwitz
TALK (DE) | 27 June 2024
6.30 pm, Vitra Schaudepot

Energyscapes emerge where energy is part of our urban, rural, and natural landscapes. Beyond visible energy infrastructures like power stations, wind farms, or solar panels, the term also refers to the invisible energy flows passing through buildings and includes distribution networks as well as renewable energy sources. Our special guests this evening are three leading architecture and energy experts who will share and discuss their different perspectives: Professor Carola Hein is head of History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology, full professor at Leiden University, and holder of the UNESCO Chair for Water, Ports, and Historic Cities; climate engineer and integral planner Christine von Raven develops and implements resilient urban planning projects; and Professor Philipp Misselwitz is an architect and urban researcher with a focus on the effects of socio-ecological crises on architecture and urban planning who develops new, systemic approaches for climate-positive and circular building.

Free admission; please register at events@design-museum.de