New professor for analysis, design and construction brings future-oriented impulses
Friederike Kluge - architect with her own office, lecturer with a focus on sustainability and diversity, founding member of Countdown 2030 - will strengthen the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences for Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics FHNW as a professor for analysis, design and construction from March.
From March, Friederike Kluge will be moving from the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz to the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW and is looking forward to this new challenge: “I’m interested in the question of what building will look like in the future. The status quo cannot work in the long term. My hope and my goal are therefore to find solutions in research and together with the students as to how we can design construction in the future. Climate-neutral and climate-positive construction must be approached in a focused manner, always taking biological diversity into account. In the first year, for example, the aim is to introduce young people to the field of architecture, to convey the basic topics to them and still leave room for development and creativity. I am interested in this tension between fixed, e.g. physical quantities, which are irrefutable, and change, which is essential for a sustainable future, and I look forward to researching and developing this further at the FHNW together with my colleagues. Always with the goal of creating architecturally high-quality buildings»
Friederike Kluge studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe and gained initial teaching experience at the Professorship for Building Theory and Design, Prof. Daniele Marques, and at the Institute for Fine Arts, Prof. Stephen Craig. In addition to studying architecture, she completed the interdisciplinary accompanying course “Applied Cultural Studies” with the aim of designing buildings that bring together the knowledge of many subjects and at the same time have their own unmistakable character.
During her five years at Buchner Bründler Architects in Basel, she was able to work, among other things, on the Swiss Pavilion for the Expo in Shanghai 2010 and as project and site manager on the «Bläsiring» residential building in Basel.
Self-employed since 2012, she founded the «Alma Maki» office in Basel together with Meik Rehrmann at the beginning of 2014. Together they share the view that architecture gains if it represents a holistic process from the first sketch to the completion of construction and the basic architectural idea is still recognizable in the details. In order to be able to control this as best as possible, the office also implements the planned projects manually whenever possible and was awarded first prize in the “Swiss Foundation Award” for this approach in 2018.
Since 2013, Frederike Kluge has been conveying her belief in conceptual, design, performance and built stringency, among other things as part of a teaching assignment at the Professorship for Architecture and Construction, Annette Spiro, ETH Zurich and since 2019 at the HTWG Konstanz, where she teaches the subjects of building construction and design consistently focused on the topic of sustainable building. For example, she organized a workshop entitled “The architectural detail in times of climate crisis”. As a result, the group “Countdown 2030” was founded. The founding idea was to develop a guide and to install a countdown clock above the architecture museum, which would sensitize the architecture industry to take bold measures in architectural practice and to develop a sustainable building culture. The group now has over 50 active members, organizes workshops, panel discussions and exhibitions, is active on juries and municipal committees, publishes articles on various topics in specialist journals and has been awarded the “Factor 5 Audience Prize” for its work and has been nominated for awarded the Swiss Art Award.
The Institute of Architecture is extremely pleased that such a committed and future-oriented personality could be won.
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