SAC proudly announces an extension to its website: www.staedelschule.de/sac-portfolio, a comprehensive presentation of students research and work. The SAC portfolio gives an in-depth view of the extraordinary production and profound current explorations taking place within the program. With the... View full entry »
Come mid-February, SAC conducts its End-of-Semester juries. The First Year jury takes place on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13, followed by juries for the Master Thesis Group on Thursday 14 and Friday 15. The juries take place in the Städelschule Aula and are open to the public. To discuss the... View full entry »
The winners of the NODE13 competition, students Moritz Rumpf and Sean Buttigieg blasted the jury with an outstanding and incredibly versatile design proposal. Their project utilizes Heat-Pressure laminating techniques to create and aggregate a modular polyhedron unit into what they call a "three... View full entry »
Architecture and Performative Design students are participating in a competition to design a 'coherent spatial structure' for the NODE 13 Festival at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. NODE is a festival for digital arts and culture in Frankfurt. The Forum emerged from the community around the... View full entry »
The Städelschule Architecture Class wishes to thank all participating alumni and guests for a fantastic afternoon and evening in the German Architecture Museum and the Städelschule. SAC's annual Graduation Dinner and its second Alumni Reunion were a big success with a great number of... View full entry »
SAC congratulates Prof. Gabriela Seifert and Götz Stöckmann of Formalhaut as winners of the Baukunstpreis 2012. Their project, the Living Room, outside Frankfurt, was celebrated for the underlying, unique and trans-disciplinary design vision. In addition, Prof. Claudio Vekstein, Prof... View full entry »
SAC's First Year Group kicks off the first semester with a workshop led by artists, Sebastian Stöhrer and Stefan Wieland, both Städelschule alumni. The workshop sees every student produce a series of objects in various materials as the basis for further work in the agenda for the first... View full entry »
Please feel cordially invited to the Städelschule Architecture Class Reunion & Graduation Dinner. The event will coincide with the Stiftung Städelschule für Baukunst Baukunst prize award ceremony on Friday the 23rd of November. Alumni: Please RSVP before Friday the 9th of... View full entry »
The SAC is proud to announce that The Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt a.M will be exhibiting the works of our alumni, Johannes Peter Hölzinger in a show entitled Psychodynamische Raumstrukturen. View full entry »
The research on Topological Interlocking Assemblies conducted by students of the specialisation Architecture and Performative Design (APD) lead by Oliver Tessmann during winter semester 2011-2012 will be presented on two international peer reviewed conferences in fall 2012: eCAADe 2012 is a... View full entry »
The final reviews of the First Year Group take place in the Städelschule Aula on Thursday July 5 from 11:00 to 18:00 and Friday July 6 from 10:00 till 16:30. The first year students show their proposals for a 'Knowledge Pavilion' on the Main River Island across from the Portikus Gallery. The... View full entry »
This year's Master Thesis Reviews sees SAC once more hosting some of the best architectural critics there is at DAM (the German Architecture Museum). For the first time, SAC presents thesis projects - 17 in total - from the three specialisations that were introduced in 2010 for the Master degree... View full entry »
The Foundation Städelschule für Baukunst has announced its first ever Baukunst Prize for 2012. The competition for the prize is open to alumni of the Städelschule Architecture Class and seeks unrealised or realised projects that embody the inter- or trans-disciplinary ideal that... View full entry »
SAC's First Year Group is contributing to the German Architectural Museum's exhibition, ARCHITECTURAL MODEL – Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia. During the exhibition, the students will run a rapid prototype machine in the museum, printing models of their ongoing work. The machine, a MakerBot... View full entry »
The SAC is proud to be co-hosting the 2012 Media Facades Summit. Dr. M. Hank Haeusler from the Media Architecture Institute and our own Johan Bettum will open a series of talks on the implications of advances in LED manufacture that have allowed buildings to increasingly function as media screens... View full entry »
The results of the First Year Group's digital modelling training is reviewed. The group has produced wonderful work in their first semester at SAC and the results of their training is very good. Here, a powerful faculty trio from left: Christian Karl, Ata Mansuroglu and Anton Savov. View full entry »
‘Pasta in Bed’ presents the first year students’ explorations of dynamic material properties in the context of a domestic setting. The installations show how both common and exotic materials can respond to changing environmental conditions as well as to the presence and actions... View full entry »
The studio is investigating ‘Cultures of Assembly’ in spatial, political and social terms and in an integrated and holistic way. Each student has developed an individual understanding of a series of examples of informal or formal spaces of politics, ranging from the Occupy Camp in... View full entry »
Architectural design is ultimately tied to surface articulation and formation. The model studies and drawings presented here comprise parts of each student’s library of formal experiments for design. The experiments have focused on minutely scaled dynamics and structuring events that inform... View full entry »
The Architectural Performative Design studio has investigated ‘Interlocking Modular Assemblies’ for architectural constructions. These assemblies are systems that unfold structural capacity by kinematically constraining and interlocking elements. Medieval stone arch bridges are simple... View full entry »
10 FEBRUARY 2012 A collection of SAC thesis projects 2011 are exhibited in SAC's building at Rundgang. The work has previously been shown in the Tokyo Design Week 2011. View full entry »
SAC prepares for the Städelschule 'Open-House' exhibition, Rundgang. For the first time ever, SAC will also show in its own building in addition to its normal space in Städelschule's main building. In the latter, the First Year Group shows its experiments with responsive material... View full entry »
In preparation for their hosting a SmartGeometry workshop in New York, SAC's Andre Chaszar and Anton Savov will run a workshop with SAC's First Year Group. The results will be exhibited at the Open House exhibition of the Städelschule, 10-12 February. The event is part of SAC's collaboration... View full entry »
Mapping workshop on Critical Spatial Practice taking place on December 15 & 16; preparing material for the ACSP newsprint for the 2012 Rundgang in February; workshop with Matthias Görlich and Markus Miessen. More soon on www.criticalspatialpractice.org View full entry »
The Master Thesis Group in Architectural Performative Design (APD) is conducting research on interlocking modular assemblies which unfold structural capacity by kinematically constraining and interlocking elements. Starting with a concept borrowed from material science the studio is addressing... View full entry »
A one-day workshop on optimisation introduces the Master Thesis Group in Architecture and Performative Design to Topology Optimization. The workshop is comprised of an introduction on optimization and design space exploration by André Chaszar and a hands-on workshop using Topostruct, a... View full entry »
SAC faculty member, Anton Savov, exhibits at Sofia Architecture Week 2011, with a solo exhibition, entitled: Tarametric Pool and at Atelier Frankfurt Open Doors 2011 with artist Barak Reiser (Städelschule alumni) exhibiting See-Throughs/Underground Scene. View full entry »
‘Physical Episodes in the Construction of Space’ is a series of short modelling workshops (1-3 days) that run on a weekly or bi-weekly basis till early December. The workshops are part of the training in Advanced Architectural Design. The work consists of physical modelling and... View full entry »
The Master Thesis Group in Advanced Architectural Design flew to Volos in Greece for a collaborative workshop with the postgraduate programme in architecture at the University of Thessaly. The workshop will address various forms of material and informational flows in urban settings framed within... View full entry »
SAC members 2011, Sebastian Kriegsmann, Bastian Wibranek and Alexandros Tsolakis exhibit their installation, Disconnect in Thessaloniki. The group was invited by the Goethe-Institut of Thessaloniki for the 15th BJCEM-Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la... View full entry »
