Demolition Question & Power to Renovation

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Demolition Question & Powerto Renovation

Exhibition

13.03.2025 - 18.05.2025 D A Z — Deutsches Architektur Zentrum

EXHIBITION
13.03. – 18.05.2025

Wed–Sun, 3–8PM

DATES AND EVENTS

OPENING
THU, 13.03.2025, 7PM

further Dates and events will be communicated shortly

The exhibition THE DEMOLITION QUESTION & POWER TO RENOVATION approaches the all-too-present phenomenon of demolition and its consequences from different perspectives.

THE DEMOLITION QUESTION, an exhibition and publication project, presents 100 buildings of accomplished or pending demolition status located in Berlin, Kassel, Munich, and the state of Brandenburg. Based on research work of several universities, these demolition stories exemplify the ecological, political, socio-economic, and cultural consequences of a practice rooted in a fossilised modern society. The exhibition further features present-day anti-demolition initiatives while declaring the demolition question as one of the key issues of our time, alongside the housing and land question.

Through demolition, not only large amounts of energy, emissions, and the resources used in the buildings are eliminated, but also a large amount of affordable housing. POWER TO RENOVATION, a film project by the EU-wide initiative HouseEurope!, spotlights this practice as part of real estate speculation. In favour of more socially sustainable building practices, it calls for renovation and modernisation to be prioritised over demolition and replacement building. Feel invited to vote for the EU citizens’ initiative in the booth at the DAZ.

BETEILIGTE

THE DEMOLITION QUESTION
PROJECT LEAD
Luise Rellensmann, Alexander Stumm

CURATOR
Alexander Stumm

FEATURES
AbbrechenAbbrechen / Initiative JustizzentrumErhalten, ANA, Laura Calbet,
Das Abrisskollektiv (Sophie Kalwa, Karen Schäfer, Farina Woest, Kimberly Rahn,
Anna-Lena Wallner, Antonia Haffner, Lilly Irmer), Luise Rellensmann, Alexander Stumm,
ufoufo / Initiative an.ders Urania sowie Studierende der TU Berlin, BTU Cottbus, Universität Kassel und HS München

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Katharina Koch, Bureau Est

EXHIBITION DESIGN
Alexander Stumm, Katharina Koch,
Laura Holzberg, Alissia Hoffmann

POWER TO RENOVATION
CURATORIAL AND PROJECT LEAD
HouseEurope! gGmbH, s+ / ETH Zürich, b+

REPRESENTATIVES (GER)
Architects4Future (A4F)

PROJECT NETWORK
Organisationsmitglieder, Botschafter*innen, unterstützende Institutionen, Initiativen und Praktiken sowie akademische Partner*innen

DAZ
ARTISTIC LEITUNG
Laura Holzberg, Alissia Hoffmann

COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA
Daniela Jung, Benedikt Hotze

EXHIBITION SETUP UND TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Efgan Fahrali, Kai Pfeiffer

Cover: Neustadt (2021) von Julius von Bismarck und Marta Dyachenko, Photographer: Henning Rogge / Emscherkunstweg

Fotografie: Henning Rogge / Emscherkunstweg

Collaborators

In cooperation with

This exhibition project is supported by ERFURT and KEIMFARBEN.

Profile

DAZ

The German Architecture Center DAZ is an initiative of the Association of German Architects BDA. It is a laboratory of ideas, a place of exchange, mediation and debate.

The DAZ aims to feature alternative spatial practices: Humankind and the environment are placed at the center, architecture is seen in its complex social dimension and responsibility, and the city is considered as a reflection and negotiating surface for socio-cultural and political developments.

With exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, and conversations, topics related to physical and social space are initiated, addressed, and discussed. Projects are developed in intensive and interdisciplinary collaborations – with institutions and actors from architecture, art, culture and the urban design – to enable an expansion of knowledge and impact.

Team / Contact

GENERAL INQUIRIES
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 0

ARTISTIC AND CURATORIAL DIRECTION
Laura Holzberg
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 31

CURATORIAL ASSISTANT
Tarek Megahed
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 21

PRESS AND COMMUNICATION
Daniela Jung
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 28

RENTAL AND TECHNICAL SERVICE
Efgan Fahrali
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 12

DEUTSCHES ARCHITEKTUR ZENTRUM DAZ
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 6
2. courtyard, entrance H1
10179 Berlin

DAZ OFFICE
Entrance C, 1st Floor – c/o Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA

OPENING HOURS
Wed–Sun, 3–8PM

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How to get there

Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 6,
2nd courtyard, entrance H1
10179 Berlin-Mitte

Public transport:
DB Ostbahnhof
S3, S5, S7, S75 (Jannowitzbrücke, Ostbahnhof)
U8 (Heinrich-Heine-Straße)
U2 (Märkisches Museum)
BUS 265 (Michaelkirchstraße)
BUS 147 (Bethaniendamm)

Foto: Till Budde

Rent the DAZ

In the middle of the strongly developing area of the river Spree between Berlin Mitte and Kreuzberg, the DAZ is located in the immediate vicinity of the Radialsystem, the Heizkraftwerk Mitte, Spreefeld and the Ostbahnhof. On the site are offices of various architecture and engineering companies, design agencies and a restaurant with an outdoor terrace.

As an open house, the DAZ offers space for conferences, seminars, lectures and exhibitions with flexible and individually tunable infrastructure, covering around 210 square meters of public as well as private institutions and companies. Design your event at the German Architecture Center (DAZ), which offers a special setting with its central location and its program of events around architecture and the city.

Interested in renting the DAZ?
Further informations, rates and fares

Contact for request is
Efgan Fahrali
+49 30 27 87 99 12 or +49 170 51 49 916