The aac Workshop USA Special took place from 2 June to 27 June 2025 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen Campus and in Houston, Texas.
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04.09.2024
Art ∙ Architecture ∙ Nature
Opening New Perspectives at WAI Woods Art Institute
This year's aac autumn workshop focused on architectural interventions in the landscape.
The aim was to create points of orientation and resting places on the grounds of the WAI Woods Art Institute in Wentorf, which in their continuity can form a ‘Parcours découverte’.
27.02.2024
City for Dreams
New Spaces for Hayfilm, Armenia
This year's spring workshop of the aac dealt with the design for a Revival of a "Film city" in Armenia.
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06.09.2023
High Street Alive
Placing vibrant spaces inside former city centre magnets
The aac autumn workshop 2023 took
place from 06 September to 29 September 2023 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen campus.
08.02.2023
Lab 2050
How we want to build in the Future
The aac spring workshop 2023 took place from 08 February to 03 March 2023 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen campus.
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07.09.2022
Residenzschloss Dresden
New Work at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
The aac autumn workshop took place from 07 September to 30 September 2022 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen campus
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16.03.2022
Konzerthaus Stuttgart
Designs for a Public Music Campus
The aac spring workshop took place from 16 March to 08 April 2022 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen campus
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01.09.2021
Megathek Hamburg
Digital Centre for the Hanseatic City
The aac autumn workshop took place from 1 September to 24 September 2021 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen campus.
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03.03.2021
Forum Bildende Künste
Concepts for a central entrance building at the Kulturforum Berlin
The aac spring workshop took place from 3 March to 26 March 2021 on the premises of the Academy for Architectural Culture at Rainvilleterrasse 4 in Hamburg, Germany.
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09.09.2020
Nantesbuch
Designs for a Campus Art and Nature - Gut Nantesbuch
This year's aac autumn workshop took place from 9 September to 2 October 2020 on the premises of the Academy for Architectural Culture at Rainvilleterrasse 4.
03.09.2019
Interim Opera Frankfurt
Designs for an interim venue of the Frankfurt Opera
The aac Autumn Workshop 2019 addresses the topic of an interim building for the period of the planned redesign of the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt, especially as an interim solution for the continuation of opera performances.
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12.03.2019
Japanisches Palais
The Art Cabinet as a Working Collection
The spring workshop of the aac Academy for Architectural Culture was dedicated to the development of designs for a redesign and reorientation of the "Japanisches Palais" in Dresden.
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04.09.2018
European Art School
Rethinking the Mediterranean Academy Project
Architects and artist developed the idea of a European Mediterranean Academy near Cavalière at the Côte d‘Azur under the auspices of Henricus Theodorus Wijdeveld and Eric Mendelsohn in the 30s.
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13.02.2018
Vertical Life
Urban Qualities in Future High-rise Buildings
The Utopia of the vertical city has forever kept planners and utopians under its spell. From the Tower of Babel to the production designs of “Blade Runner” this vision is recurrently conjured up. The adaption of these ideas for solving the...
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03.09.2017
Tehran City Garden
Designs for a New Civic Centre – Shaping Public Life on the City’s Former Airport Area
The autumn workshop 2017 of the aac Academy for Architectural Culture for the first time was dedicated to the architecture and cultural exchange between Germany and Iran.
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28.02.2017
Deutsches Hafenmuseum Hamburg
Designs for the National Port Museum
Big sailing ships dominated the scene of the Hamburg port until the 20th century. Today, the Hamburg tidal port is the third largest container handling hub in Europe. Only enormous changes in the structure of the Port of Hamburg allowed this...
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13.09.2016
Altona Nord
Designs for Hamburg’s New Traffic Hub
When they no longer serve their original function, railway sidings can become important inner-city development areas. This opportunity arose in Hamburg as a result of the decommissioning of a branching goods train depot. The plan for the entire...
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24.05.2016
From Module to Urban Quarter
Case Study Houses for the 21st-Century Berlin
The global change of mankind from rural circumstances to a mostly urban-orientated society of the future manifests itself in the latest waves of migration. The radical change sharpens our...
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05.11.2015
Evolutioneum Hamburg, Part II
Designs for a Natural History Museum: Exhibitions, Collections, Research
The title “Evolutioneum” includes much more than the renaissance of the old Hamburg Natural History Museum destroyed in World War II. Although the collections that were saved prior to its destruction make up a large part of the...
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15.09.2015
Evolutioneum Hamburg, Part I
Designs for a Natural History Museum: Exhibitions, Collections, Research
The title “Evolutioneum” includes much more than the renaissance of the old Hamburg Natural History Museum destroyed in World War II. Although the collections that were saved prior to its destruction make up a large part of the...
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25.02.2015
European Cultural Centre in Venice
Designing in Dialogue between Traditional and Modern
The idea of a European Cultural Centre as a cross-national place of discourse, research and public work has already been discussed for a while at multiple levels inside the European Union.
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01.09.2014
Brooklyn Powerhouse
An Architectural Contribution to the Cultural Ecology of the Gowanus District
The name Brooklyn Rapid Transit Powerhouse refers to a large coal-fired power station built at the end of the 19th century to generate electricity for Brooklyn’s streetcar system. A New York philanthropist recently purchased the property with...
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23.06.2014
aac intensive courses
aac summer Research Lab 2014
In the first lab, the aac will in investigate how the design process changes through the use of parametric design approaches on its geometric, material and structural level. The exploration is...
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04.09.2013
Urban Exchange: New School
Designs for the German School Shanghai
The discussion of modern and future-proof schools is highly topical and addresses a theme of global importance. What tasks will a school of the future be faced with? - How does new teaching...
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27.02.2013
Technoversum Berlin
The Museum of the Future
The German Museum of Technology in Berlin with currently 500,000 visitors annually is the largest museum of its type after the Deutsches Museum in Munich. It is situated on a ca. 10.5 hectare...
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08.08.2012
Urban Exchange: Hamburg-Shanghai
Architecture for the Demands of today’s Urban Populations
A place at an aac-workshop, allows selected students to tap directly into more than 45 years of experience collected by the German Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. With more than 470...
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10.06.2010
Việt Nam 2010
Architectural concepts for a "Deutsches Haus" in Ho Chi Minh City
In 2010, the aac organised a workshop abroad for the first time. The workshop took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, was official part of the anniversary year “Germany in Vietnam 2010” and was organised in cooperation with the Vietnam Architects...
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31.12.2008
TXL+
Showcase of an energy-plus city
In 2009, twenty award-holders from Germany and China took part in a five-week course at number 13 Planckstraße in Hamburg to work out a scheme for the future use of the 460 ha site of...
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31.08.2008
aac 2008
"Architecture as cultural export – concepts for a globalised world"
The teaching at the 2008 aac took place under the roof of the general topic: "Architecture as cultural export – concepts for a globalised world". This issue will be dealt with by means of
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