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Abendvortrag: Fritz Leonhardt und die Stuttgarter Schule des Leichtbaus

Abendvortrag Fritz Leonhardt und die Stuttgarter Schule des Leichtbaus Christiane Weber, Institut für Architekturgeschichte der Universität Stuttgart (ifag) 9. Juni 2026, 19.00 Uhr, Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum (Medienraum), Schwäbisch Hall. Der Eintritt ist frei. Die Kammergruppe Schwäbisch Hall lädt im Hällisch-Fränkischen-Museum zu einem Vortrag mit dem Titel Fritz Leonhardt und die Stuttgarter Schule des Leichtbaus ein. Der …

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Complex Value: Why Architecture is more than a Service

Complex Value: Why Architecture is more than a ServiceIn recent decades architecture has increasingly been described as a service. The language of the discipline has shifted accordingly: efficiency, performance indicators, delivery models, stakeholder management. Architects are often asked to demonstrate that their work behaves like other professional services—predictable, measurable, and optimized.This description is not entirely …

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Beauty After Suspicion. Architecture, Expertise, and the Public Gaze

In recent weeks, public debate once again circled around a familiar accusation: architecture has abandoned beauty. Contemporary award shortlists, suburban housing developments, and public buildings are cited as evidence that aesthetic judgment no longer plays a meaningful role in architectural culture.1 The tone is often indignant: how could the profession drift so far from what …

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The Architecture of Low Obligation: Minimalism in a Post-Welfare Society

Architecture, Ethics, and the Erosion of Collective Responsibility Within the framework of postwar social-contract architecture, contemporary minimalism appears not as a neutral stylistic preference but as a symptom of a broken ethical horizon. Its widespread appeal marks a decisive shift away from architecture’s former role as a material agent of collective obligation and toward a …

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Casa Luna and Casa Guna: Ethical Monumentality at the Human Register

Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s Casa Luna and Casa Guna are often described through the familiar vocabulary of contemporary concrete architecture—monolith, prism, fortress, abstraction. Yet what makes these houses persuasive is not primarily their formal bravura and severe minimalism, but the way each project re-stages the ethical question of Brutalism’s heritage: how can architectural frankness, mass, and …

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The Cultural Functionality of Architecture

The cultural functionality of architecture should not be regarded as fundamental. Architecture is by far the most cumbersome and inert of all cultural expression techniques. Its production is bound to material, time, and social negotiation; it resists acceleration. Yet precisely this resistance has turned against it. In an age of ever-faster content consumption and the …

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Architecture as a Slow Medium in a Fast Culture. On the Structural Erosion of Architectural Meaning

For much of the twentieth century, architecture was widely understood as a cultural practice in the strong sense of the term. Buildings were not merely shelters or infrastructures; they were carriers of collective values, spatial condensations of political ambition, social ideals, and shared futures. This assumption has become increasingly fragile. The recurrent diagnosis that architecture …

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Measure, Means, and Intention: Louis Kahn and the Question of Architectural Worth

When Louis Kahn spoke about architecture, he rarely did so in the language of efficiency or economy. Cost, for him, was not a technical constraint to be optimized away but a condition to be answered. What mattered was not how little could be built, but whether what was built was commensurate with its task—spatially, materially, …

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From Silence to Light. On Louis Kahn’s understanding of architecture

Few formulations in twentieth-century architectural thinking are quoted as often—and misunderstood as frequently—as “Silence to Light.” For Louis Kahn, this was not a metaphor, nor a poetic afterthought appended to built work. It was a condensed theory of architecture itself: a description of how architecture comes into being, and of the ethical discipline required to …

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Civic Ease and Architectural Intention. Reflections on Helsinki’s Central Library

ALA Architects: Zentralbibliothek Oodi, Helsinki, 2012-18 (Simon Wieland 2025). Helsinki’s Central Library Oodi is frequently described as a “living room for the city.” The phrase may sound casual, but it captures a precise architectural stance—one that becomes especially legible when read against the Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart. Where Stuttgart insists on architectural clarity and abstraction, Oodi pursues …

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