Experiment as method II / design built / projects / 1:1 / temporary architecture

Istanbul. More than 120 Students. About 14 workshops. Turkish and German teachers. Süper! turkish-german collaboration. A lot of trash. They call it chaos - we call it home. The Police. A great ending. Grand Finale Istanbul Trash Design Campus 2013 @facebook @armstrong dlw

Another short essay about some great new Interior Architecture in Rome. The Bibliotheca Herziana is a truly very special place in the middle of Rome, secretly hidden behind the facades of three palazzi.

Coburg Connecting Conferece was a two day Conference full of interesting lectures and discussions about the need of innovations - mainly focussing on business innovations in companies.

Conference about Interdisciplinarity at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts The "Coburger Weg" - the platform for interdisciplinary studies at University of Applied Sciences and Arts - held a conference about "Ways to interdisciplinary teaching and transdisciplinary education: Wish and Reality". I was able to participate with a lecture: "Interdisciplinarity as a vehicle for Creativity and Innovation". If you are interested in my contribution please get in touch: mp(at)mark-phillips.de

Linoleum Special: Interview Claus Lämmle Claus in an Interview about our van de Velde Workshop with Students from Applied Sciences and Arts. We had the chance to design one room in Lauterbach Castle where in 1907 the interior was almost completely designed by Henry van de Velde.

"At the bar"  an open discussion about our built surroundings and how we want our world of planning, building and living to be like. Guests are: Mr. Rolf Gaßmann, ex MdL (SPD) Stuttgart,  Mr. Oliver Hilt from architekturagentur, Stuttgart Mr. Christian Bried, CEO of PEG (Local Project Development) Ulm Mr. Jens Rannow, Chairman of  the Architects Chamber, Ulm and Alb-Donau Prof. Axel Bretzke, Energie and Klimate Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in  Biberach The talk tool place at Cafe Stella and was moderated by me. 

 Bibliothek  Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte During my study journey this summer in Rome, about Roman Villas and Creativity, I am doing research outdoors and  some  indoors: Based in Rome, the Bibliotheca Hertziana is one of the institutes in the humanities and social sciences section of the  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft  (MPG).   It was opened in 1913 under the umbrella of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society which had been founded only two years earlier. Situated in central Rome, in the immediate vicinity of the famous Spanish Steps, the Bibliotheca Hertziana owes its existence to the generosity of Henriette Hertz (1846–1913), who provided the Palazzo Zuccari – complete with a well-stocked specialist library and an extensive photographic collection – as the seat of the research institute. Henriette Hertz wanted to create an institute that was dedicated to »the study of art and culture, from the Renaissance on up, especially in relation...