In recent years, wood has experienced a renaissance as building material. Not only for interiors, surfaces, and cladding, but also for construction. In the past, the use of wood was limited—structurally and technically. Fire, structure, weakness due t…

Architectural policy plays a rather subordinate role in Germany but its political importance can not be overlooked. The lecture series “ARCHITEKTURbewegungULM” was intended to show how planning and building in democracy can succeed amongst all the pow…

Sankt Petri Schule/ Skole in Copenhagen/Denmark, September 17th, 2016 Stefan Behnisch speaks about the architecture of schools in Germany after the Second World War. He also shows the development of the didactics of learning and teaching, and what…

The lecture, held on July 01, 2015 at the Technical University of Vienna, was part of the 22nd seminar for integrated planning for industrial buildings happening from July 01 to 03. Stefan Behnisch talked about “Buildings for research, teaching and e…

Neue Lernkonzepte erfordern ein neues Denken und neue Strukturen. Im Zusammenhang mit Ganztagsschulen setzen sich Lernlandschaften mehr und mehr durch. Der international tätige Architekt Stefan Behnisch spricht mit der SCHULBAU-Redaktion über die A…

How is architecture changing? And how much social far-sightedness can and must one entrust architects with? 
A substantial amount, say Stefan Behnisch, Robert Hösle, Robert Matthew Noblett and Stefan Rappold in this conversation. The questions are as…

From Stuttgart to Santa Monica – how big is the international demand for German Architecture? A panel with Kristien Ring, Dr. Andres Lepik and Stefan Behnisch, moderated by Reinhard Hübsch, discussed this question at the annual convention of the He…

The history for me goes back to coming to this campus in 2002. It was a place where great things were happening, but the quality of our physical campus did not match the quality of the education we were providing. As is often the case with older,…

Stefan Behnisch: "Of all the planning tasks, residential projects pose the most difficult challenge. The ideas of the client are too individual, the opinions too personal. The only reason that residential construction is not doomed to fail -…