Architecture Matters 2024
Focus Session
Architecture Matters 2024: Focus Session
Architecture Matters is an international conference on the future of architecture and the city. The Focus Session provides thought-provoking inputs and intimate group discussions. Each session offers a space to explore topics in-depth and exchange ideas directly: How are you navigating the crisis? What is your vision for future construction? What do you expect or want from others in the industry?
Places for each Focus Session are limited and will be allocated after ticket purchase.
Focus 1: Capital Markets
Focus 2: Building Standards
Focus 3: Radical Thinking – New ideas from other places
Focus 4: Reimagine the Future! Simple – Sustainable – Digital
Focus 5: Speed Dating
Focus Session 1: Capital Markets – Stranded assets and fair distribution of transformation costs
How do we calculate the future value of property? What characteristics do projects need to secure financing in the future? Do we need to develop new financing methods for housing alongside existing ones? Stranded assets: To what standards do we refurbish or rebuild? Who bears what costs, and how do we share them fairly? Do the funding programmes match the investment objectives? What and where are investments currently being made, and where are the growth markets?
Input and discussion with, among others:
Clarissa Alfrink, UNStudio
Jens Böhnlein, Commerz Real
Alexander Möll, Hines
Thomas Rehn, Director Local Building Commission City of Munich
moderation: Jan Friedrich, Bauwelt
Focus Session 2: Building Standards – What can we afford?
Where are our standards too high, making construction too expensive? How does climate-resilient design affect construction costs? Where exactly must we take action to enable affordable housing (new buildings and conversions)? Simple building – why has it not been implemented on a large scale? How is it being successfully implemented in other countries? What is the responsibility of the municipality, and what is the responsibility of the state or federal government?
input and discussion with, among others:
Peter Haimerl, Peter Haimerl . Architektur
Felix Lukasch, ARGENTA
Elisabeth Merk, Planning Director City of Munich
Michael Reiß, bema Gruppe
moderation:
Matthias Alexander, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Nadin Heinich
guests include:
David Christmann, UBM Development
Ingrid Simet, Ministerial Director Bavarian State Ministry of Construction
Focus Session 3: Radical Thinking – New ideas from other places
Where are innovations being implemented – where is the city of the future already being lived? In this session we will discuss tangible solutions: With 3XN and their think tank GXN, we will focus on circular construction – on research approaches and their implementation in different countries around the world. What is possible, where and how? With Space&Matter, we take a broader view: If we tackle social and ecological challenges as interlinked aspects, at what points do we need to rethink the system, financing, ownership, responsibility? What does this mean for the interaction between architects, project developers and future residents? How can we take pilot projects to scale?
input and discussion with, among others:
Sascha Glasl, Space&Matter
Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard, 3XN (GXN)
Christian Veddeler, 3XN
moderation:
Christian Meister, Hines
Mathieu Wellner, TU Munich
Focus Session 4: Reimagine the Future! Simple – Sustainable – Digital
Roundtable with Doelker&
Digital tools, robotics, and AI are rapidly advancing. How are these technologies being integrated into everyday planning and construction processes? How can technology help to significantly reduce the construction and real estate sector’s carbon footprint?
Specifically, GIS systems already collect vast amounts of data – How can municipalities make this data more readily available and usable? Digital twins and BIM are state-of-the-art; where can they facilitate informed decision-making for necessary, sustainable changes? And what roles do modular construction and building type E play in making building simpler, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly?
An interdisciplinary roundtable combining planning, construction, management, research, and administration perspectives.
With contributions by:
Anne Niemann, Professor at Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences | “Building – Simple – Ecolocical”
Michael Willimek, Managing Director Doelker& | “Building – Simple – Digital”
moderation: Frank Kaltenbach, Detail
Guests include:
Elisabeth Endres, Professor of Building Technology, TU Braunschweig
Rainer Post, Architect BDA, doranth post architekten, Member of the Board of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects
Initiated by Hannes Dölker and Martin Schnitzer, Managing Director of Doelker& and Schnitzer&.
Focus Session 5: Speed Dating. Move Your Business Forward!
A central focus of Architecture Matters is stronger networking between the architecture and real estate industries – fostering dialogue at eye level. Our speed dating sessions bring ambitious (young) architects and potential clients into direct contact. Fresh, contemporary ideas shake up conventional planning approaches to open up new possibilities.
moderation: Eva Maria Herrmann
A detailed follow-up report on the Architecture Matters 2024 conference and lectures by Michael Bröcker, Odile Decq, Anupama Kundoo and Linus Neumann can be found here.