Forum for building with clinker bricks
Designing clinker architecture, thinking ahead and preserving building culture - to be part of this idea, Klinkerwerk Hagemeister regularly organizes its clinker seminar for architects. Well-known planners and renowned speakers from the entire world of architecture give inspiring lectures there on topics that always vary.
Topic 2023
“Think architecture differently”
This year's architecture seminar in the Hagemeister exhibition center in Nottuln, which was fully booked with around 500 guests, was dedicated to this future-oriented head-topic.
How do you combine the growing demands from an ecological, technical and economic perspective with those - sometimes contradictory - from building culture, context and aesthetics into future-proof architecture? Especially in times of crisis like the current one, it is an architectural task with major areas of tension - both in terms of the individual object and from an urban planning perspective.
Five renowned speakers presented innovative ways to turn around construction in their presentations about excellent projects as well as current theses and visions.
Christine Sohar (MVRDV ■ Rotterdam-Shanghai-Paris-Berlin)
> Germany – What’s next? <
Martin Behet and Roland Bonzio (behet bonzio lin architects ■ Münster-Leipzig-Taichung)
> Parametric design and traditional crafts <
Prof. Dr. Jürgen P. Kropp (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research / Head of AG “Urban Transformation”; Bauhaus Erde / Management Team and Partner ■ Potsdam-Berlin)
> Cities in Climate Change: Perspectives and Solutions for the 21st Century <
Stefan Rethfeld (freelance architect and journalist ■ Münster/Berlin)
> My house is many houses - About the old and new culture of continuing to build <
The exciting specialist forum celebrated its 20th anniversary this year and has long been the first of its kind to be a education event recognized by the professional german chambers of architects.
Two days full of trend-setting impulses, well-founded knowhow and lively dialogue between all participants - that was the conclusion of all guests, speakers and also the host.
A compact review of the event with original comments offers this short video.
Exchange and knowledge transfer
Whether detailed project presentations, comprehensive urban planning concepts, explanations of the artistic demands on urban and living space and the philosophy of their offices or the forms of perception of their social responsibility - the architects fill the respective umbrella topic with numerous facets.
We also deliberately include interdisciplinary thematic worlds, e.g. from art, in the program to stimulate valuable discussions and to enrich the role of architecture as a formative element of our lives.
Klinkerwerk promotes regular exchange and, with the seminar, offers a forum for continuing education - always recognized by the statewide architectural associations.
The discourse on the red-hot topics takes place annually in the large showroom of Hagemeister directly at the plant.
Recognized continuing education event
The Hagemeister Clinker Architecture Seminar will take place for the 18th time in 2023 and is the first of its kind to be recognized by the chambers of architects as an advanced training event. The NRW Chamber of Architects, the IK-Bau NRW, AK Lower Saxony as well as the AK Hesse most recently awarded continuing education points for this for the field of architecture / interior design. Since 2018, the AK Bremen and the AK Berlin also recognize these events as continuing education for their members.