Exhibition

Presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto in cooperation with MaRS Centre and the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa)

Presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto in collaboration with the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) and MaRS

Sustainable architecture and ecological building are currently in the focus of public interest and discussion. The exhibition Ecology.Design.Synergy provides you with an insight into sustainable architecture and illustrates the visions it is driven by. The exhibition displays and highlights designs and projects by the Stuttgart-based Behnisch Architekten and Transsolar KlimaEngineering. Among other projects the innovative RiverParc Development in Pittsburgh, the Senscity Paradise Universe in Las Vegas/Nevada and the Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hannover will be shown. On the occasion of the first Canadian presentation of the exhibition, projects of Behnisch architects and Transsolar in Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary will be on display, including the Donnelly Centre in Toronto.

Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart was established in 1989 as a branch office of Günter Behnisch’s practice Behnisch & Partner (founded in 1952) and became independent in 1991, managed by Stefan Behnisch. In the following years it realised numerous buildings both in Germany and worldwide; among them the Institute for Forestry and Nature Research in Wageningen/the Netherlands (1998), the Genzyme Center in Cambridge/Massachusetts (2003), and the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular, Biomolecular Research for the University of Toronto/Canada (2005). Behnisch Architekten has offices in Suttgart, Munich, Boston and Los Angeles.

Transsolar was founded in 1992 in Stuttgart as a climate engineering consulting company and is now represented in Stuttgart, Munich and New York. The most important projects are the Mercedes-Benz-Museum in Stuttgart, the Bangkok International Airport and the headquarters for the Manitoba Hydro Company in Winnipeg/Canada. One of the best-known joint projects completed by Transsolar and Behnisch Architekten is the Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hannover/Germany (2002).

The cooperation of Behnisch Architekten and Transsolar KlimaEngineering has extended to both international competitions and realised projects in Germany and beyond. The common foundation of this collaboration is the confidence, as the exhibition by curator Frank Ockert illustrates, that high-quality building enviroments can be realized with less consumption of natural resources.

The exhibition was developed by the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) in Stuttgart and the Berlin based forum of architecture Aedes.

Part of the Goethe-Institut’s focus on City+Climate.

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