Umeå School of Architecture warmly welcomes four architects from IU (International University of Applied Sciences) in Germany to present their work as part of the public event series UMA Talks.
IU (International University of Applied Sciences) in Germany combines teaching and practice in architectural education in a prototypical way. Students spend two to three days a week in the architecture office, learning the practical basics of their profession. Within the teaching at the university, on the other hand, content is deliberately taught that goes beyond practice. This combination of practice and theory creates an exciting playing field for the students, in which their own designer personalities can develop. In this UMA Talks event, four employees from IU's teaching team will present themselves and their work.
The event is held in English and is presented and moderated by Stefan Raam and Robin Durand, lecturers at Umeå School of Architecture.
Hendrik Gruß is one of the most influential architects of his generation in Hamburg and beyond. His work has won numerous awards. The relevance of his projects lies in the tension between precise planning and well-founded empathy for craftsmanship. In a lecture on his work, he will reflect on the blossoming of his creativity and the role of the profession in the turmoil of growing up.
Stefan Bannert, a practicing architect from Munich, has brought regenerative timber construction back to Egypt as part of a multi-year research project. His lecture deals with the question of how the desert can be made to bloom and how a new architecture can emerge from it.
Heiner Stengel is the busy bee of architectural education at IU driving program development and recruitment. His medium is drawing. He prefers to communicate with pen and paper. From comparative drawings in research and teaching to design-specific representation techniques. He will talk about drawing as a tool in architectural education. Draw more, Talk less!
Uwe Bresan did his PhD at the Bauhaus in Weimar on Stifter's Rosenhaus. Today he teaches architecture and the history and theory of architecture at the IU Stuttgart. In his lecture, he debunks stereotypical gender images and talks about queer architects and architecture. The coming out of architecture!
The UMA Talks are a free and accessible series of events. The series is devoted to advancing architectural discourse from both an international perspective and local perspective, and strives to enable the public, students, teachers, and researchers both within architecture and from other fields to get insight to and participate in the educational activities and academic research taking place at Umeå School of Architecture. Theorist, practitioners, artists, and other relevant guests are invited to speak or to participate in roundtable conversations or similar formats.
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