Social Responsibility in Architecture exhibition - Biennale 2023
Social Responsibility in Architecture exhibition - Biennale 2023
Visual: World-Architects
Social Responsibility in Architecture exhibition - Biennale 2023
Photo: World-Architects
Interview with Anna Heringer: 'We must arrive at a happy contentment'
Photo: Achim Graf
Interview with Catherine De Wolf: 'Circular Building the Easy Way.'
Photo: Paul Barendregt
Zurich Film Festival 2021: Lifeworlds in the Anthropocene
Film still from Ascension
Interview with Margit Sichrovsky and Kim Le Roux: 'Circular construction does not work without a circular economy. We need new business models.'
Photo: Studio Bowie
Symposium: The City of the Future Has Been Built!
Photo: Kadir van Lohuizen
Interview with Saikal Zhunushova: The Young Woman with the Low-Tech Approach.
Photo: Philipp Stäheli
Article: Promoting Climate Protection in the Building Sector
Photo: mali maeder
Interview with Paul Schmidt: 'We are convinced of straw and that’s why we recommend it'
Photo: Mirko Fabian
Architecture involves more than creating beautiful, comfortable and efficient
buildings. Architects not only have obligations toward clients but also a responsibility
towards society and the environment. We believe that social responsibility in architecture
is a crucial criterion for quality.
As part of the Time Space Existence Exhibition at Palazzo Bembo during this year’s Biennale in
Venice, World-Architects is curating architecture projects and editorial content who reflect our
vision of social responsibility in architecture. We’ve selected projects and articles who
reflect our vision of social responsibility in architecture. Find out how architects worldwide
embrace social responsibility today for a better tomorrow.
Anna Heringer (Photo: Achim Graf)
Interview with Anna Heringer: 'We must arrive at a happy contentment'
- Anna Heringer has already developed projects in Bangladesh using updated traditional building methods, and she is currently implementing a school complex in Ghana. In our interview, she argues in favor of a political change of thinking towards truly sustainable action and construction in Europe.
Catherine De Wolf conducts research in a variety of fields and teaches at ETH Zurich. (Photo: Paul Barendregt)
Interview with Catherine De Wolf: 'Circular Building the Easy Way.'
- Catherine De Wolf has been assistant professor of the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich since September 2021. She spoke with us about the challenges of circular construction.
Film still from Ascension
Zurich Film Festival 2021: Lifeworlds in the Anthropocene
- The 17th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) — an event where great films such as No Time to Die premiered, but also an opportunity for up-and-coming filmmakers to present their debut works as world premieres — wrapped up on October 3, 2021. The festival was held as a purely on-site event, with screenings of 164 films from 53 countries.
Impact Hub Berlin at the CRCLR House (Photo: Studio Bowie)
Interview with Margit Sichrovsky and Kim Le Roux: 'Circular construction does not work without a circular economy. We need new business models.'
- The Berlin-based architects are concerned with the establishment of a circular economy in the building industry. In this interview they talk about working with used building components and the development of the German capital between awakening and stagnation.
The newly built retaining wall cannot protect Jakarta from flooding. December 2018 (Photo: Kadir van Lohuizen)
Symposium: The City of the Future Has Been Built!
- "City of the future" is what we often read. Technologies are conjured up that will fundamentally change our lives in the future and reshape cities. This was cleverly put into perspective at the symposium The Future of Cities: Not for Granted, which took place in Leipzig at the end of January. If we want to influence the intensity of climate change through construction, we should not wait for the city of the future. Rather, it is a matter of adapting the existing buildings and at the same time putting people, who have to deal with technology, in the foreground instead of technology. What needs to be discussed, therefore, is the future of the existing city.
Conversion of a Flarzhaus, Bauma (Photo: Philipp Stäheli)
Interview with Saikal Zhunushova: The Young Woman with the Low-Tech Approach.
- Swiss-Architects Editor in Chief Elias Baumgarten recently interviewed architect Saikal Zhunushova, who placed third in the 2021 Foundation Award, which annually recognizes the innovate work of Swiss architecture offices less than five years old. Born in Kyrgyzstan and now based in Winterthur, Zhunushova is working on projects and sharing her knowledge in both countries.
Photo: mali maeder
Article: Promoting Climate Protection in the Building Sector
- Circular construction — the avoidance of new material and the reuse of existing materials and components and their recycling — should be the order of the day. The WWF has conducted research on this topic and had its results examined in a brief legal study to see how realistic the implementation is. Many of the changes are feasible at federal and state level in the short to medium term.
Photo: Mirko Fabian
Interview with Paul Schmidt: 'We are convinced of straw and that’s why we recommend it'
- Natural materials are at the top of the list at Atelier Schmidt when it comes to new buildings and renovations. We talked to Paul Schmidt about the sense and benefits of various natural building methods.
