Michael Obrist
in conversation with
in conversation with
Verena von Beckerath
Wie zusammen leben Über Türen, Korridore und T-Stützen
Wohngespräche
27. Jänner 2025
Verena von Beckerath
Michael Obrist [feld72] in conversation with Verena von Beckerath about "Wie zusammen leben Über Türen, Korridore und T-Stützen"
The lecture focuses on four projects that have been planned and implemented since 2010 by the Berlin-based architecture firm Heide & von Beckerath (in two cases in collaboration with other project partners). While the first project is based on the concept of a building group, the second project combines a cooperative that rents out flats and studios with privately owned ones. The third project was commissioned by a municipal housing association, with 50% of the flats subsidised by the state of Berlin. The fourth project is based on a mix of subsidised social housing, rental flats and owner-occupied flats. Regardless of the different ownership and allocation structures, all four projects address the question of architecture that incorporates and promotes collective and sustainable forms of living. The projects have been published nationally and internationally and have received awards for their innovative contributions in the context of socio-ecological transformation.
Verena von Beckerath
Verena von Beckerath is an architect and co-founder of the architectural firm Heide & von Beckerath in Berlin. She studied sociology, art history and psychology in Paris and Hamburg and architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. She was a research assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts and a visiting professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig and Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Verena von Beckerath was a scholarship holder at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and is a Rome Prize winner of the German Academy Villa Massimo. Since 2016, she has been a professor of design and housing construction at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
heidevonbeckerath.com
The lecture focuses on four projects that have been planned and implemented since 2010 by the Berlin-based architecture firm Heide & von Beckerath (in two cases in collaboration with other project partners). While the first project is based on the concept of a building group, the second project combines a cooperative that rents out flats and studios with privately owned ones. The third project was commissioned by a municipal housing association, with 50% of the flats subsidised by the state of Berlin. The fourth project is based on a mix of subsidised social housing, rental flats and owner-occupied flats. Regardless of the different ownership and allocation structures, all four projects address the question of architecture that incorporates and promotes collective and sustainable forms of living. The projects have been published nationally and internationally and have received awards for their innovative contributions in the context of socio-ecological transformation.
Verena von Beckerath
Verena von Beckerath is an architect and co-founder of the architectural firm Heide & von Beckerath in Berlin. She studied sociology, art history and psychology in Paris and Hamburg and architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. She was a research assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts and a visiting professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig and Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Verena von Beckerath was a scholarship holder at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and is a Rome Prize winner of the German Academy Villa Massimo. Since 2016, she has been a professor of design and housing construction at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
heidevonbeckerath.com
