Der Bund Deutscher Architekten und die DHBW Lörrach laden zur Vortragsreihe „feierabendarchitektur" ein.
Am 16. September erwartet Sie ein Vortrag von Clement Blanchet von Clement Blanchet Architecture, Paris zum Thema „The Politics of form". Der Vortrag ist in englischer Sprache.

Architecture today cannot be reduced to object, style, or signature. It is a process: a dynamic system of relations. It is the collision of constraints, the negotiation of forces, and the continuous redefinition of what it means to build. Concepts are neither ideal nor empirical. They are constructed. Architecture, too, is construction: not only of space, but of thought, of frameworks, of possibilities. Every form carries decisions. It distributes resources, organizes visibility, frames uses, and gives shape to social and environmental relations. The project begins with problematization. Too often, this is flattened into a checklist of codes, limits, and inherited conditions. Yet it is precisely in the accumulation of such demands that the true potential of architecture emerges. Constraint is not the enemy. Complexity is not paralysis. Together, they form the raw matter of invention.

We RE-build. We RE-use. We RE-draw. We RE-frame. We RE-cycle. We RE-invent. This is not nostalgia. It is not denial. It is the act of re-arming architecture: to reclaim its agency, to confront the aesthetics of power with the urgency of resources, and to transform symbolic urban forms into contemporary situations. Architecture must be understood not as a finished object, but as an active system. An interface between form and resource, between city and milieu. A generator of effects: spatial, social, climatic, political. To practice architecture as process is to exceed standards, to question conventions, and to invent new forms of performance. Not efficiency alone, but significance. Not management, but imagination. Not repetition, but reinvention. The task is clear: to think architecture as situation, as engagement, as commitment. To move beyond the passive reproduction of the built environment. To embrace the unfinished, the reversible, the transformative. The politics of form is already at work. Our task is to make it conscious, and to give it form. 

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• Termin: Mittwoch, 16.09.2026
• Uhrzeit: Vortrag 18:30 Uhr // Barbetrieb bereits ab 18:00 Uhr
• Ort: DHBW Lörrach, Vitra Campus, Siza-Halle (Gebäude 9.2), Charles-Eames-Straße 2, 79576 Weil am Rhein
• Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende, interessierte Öffentlichkeit