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Fall 2011-Spring 2012. Follow our panel series The Future of Cities, jointly developed and presented by the Goethe-Institut and The City Institute at York University. More...
23 September 2011. Berlin architect Matthias Sauerbruch gives keynote at Canada's National Desin Conference. More...
4 June 2011. Golden Lion Award at the Biennale in Venice for the German Pavilion. Our guest, Aga Khan winner Diébédo Francis Kéré was involved in the pavillion and presented his German-African projects at the MaRS Centre Toronto on the 10th of June. More...
Wouldn’t you like your office to look like this?
The Alterra Institute in the Netherlands (pictured) is just one example of the innovative architectural designs of Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart, and Transsolar ClimateEngineering company, linked by their interest in designing sustainable and responsible architecture. We launched our 2010-11 program "Ecology. Design. Synergy"with the exhibition of the same name, featuring Behnisch + Transsolar's trail-blazing creations at Toronto’s MaRS Centre in the summer of 2010.
The future of our planet depends on innovative and sustainable thinking—this presents contemporary architecture with a particular challenge: what we build today, and the way we build it, will help to determine the future. Along with the exhibition, we began our lecture & panel series with the same title, organised in collaboration with OCAD University & the MaRS Centre, which runs until June 2011. The program also comprises a Goethe-led networking trip of North American experts to Germany in the fall of 2010 as well as the commission of articles highlighting German best-practice initiatives and a Canadian student competition on sustainable design.
We are proud to have hosted Stefan Benisch, Thomas Auer, Friedrich von Borries, Philip Beesley and many more already in this program and we are looking forward to engaging more experts from both sides of the Atlantic in our ongoing dialogue with you this this year, including Stephan Lanz, Graeme Stewart and Francis Kéré.
