POINTS OF VIEW – Technology Takes Command
Intelligence is central to Carlo Ratti's architecture biennale in Venice. Now that we can rely less and less on the climate, we need buildings that can adapt to the environment, is Ratti's central thesis. AI and sustainability technologies play a crucial role in fit suitable environments for human activities.
This once again poses the question for architects as to how they relate to new technologies and their turbulent development. Do they embrace the new forms of life that these technologies enable and produce, or will they scale back technologies share as much as possible?
We have asked architects to explain, using a project as an example, how they envisage the relationship between architecture and technology, tradition and modernity, insight and intelligence.
When: Thursday May 8, 2025 // Starting at 09:45 am | Reception from 09:15 am
Where: BERÜHRUNGSPUNKTE Meetingpoint at Palazzo Contarini Polignac
Important note: To attend the presentation, you have to be registered at Meetingpoint by May 1, 2025. On-site registrations are not possible, there are no exceptions. You can register here.
Thomas Auer
Thomas Auer is partner and managing director of Transsolar. He is an expert in energy performance and user comfort. He worked with world known architecture firms on award winning buildings around the world. Thomas taught at Yale University and was visiting professor at numerous Universities. Since 2014 he is full Professor at the Technical University of Munich. His research is focusing on the interdependency between environmental quality, low-tech and design strategies striving for simplicity.
Ron Bakker
Ron Bakker is a founding partner of PLP Architecture and leads the studio’s in-house research and innovation arm. His experience reaches far and wide, and his projects pave the way for more sustainable, healthy and social development. He is keen to help determine how architecture can be realigned with planetary needs.
Helga Blocksdorf
Helga Blocksdorf is a freelance architect who runs the architecture office Helga Blocksdorf/Architektur in Berlin, established in 2013. In 2021, she was appointed as professor and head of the Institute for Construction at the TU Braunschweig: Within the process of transformation constructive experimentation delivers a key in changing the building sector.
John Bosch
Bosch Haslett was founded in 1991 with a focus not just on constructing buildings, but on practicing architecture as a discipline. This fundamental approach has shaped his work, from competition entries to completed projects. As a partner at OZ, he is now exploring the Low Tech approach in projects such as our own office—rethinking the role of architecture and technology in a radical way.
Jacob van Rijs
Jacob van Rijs, MVRDV founding partner and principal architect, combines daring ideas and concepts with a humanistic and user-friendly approach in his designs. His projects span residential, cultural, and civil buildings to transformations and interiors. Recently appointed Full Professor of Architectural Design at TU Eindhoven, he teaches and lectures worldwide.
