Baustelle Transformation. Ten strategies for urban and rural scopes

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Baustelle Transformation.Ten strategies forurban and ruralscopes

Book and Exhibition

20.11.2025 - 01.03.2026 D A Z — Deutsches Architektur Zentrum

EXHIBITION
November 21, 2025, to March 1, 2026

Opening Vernissage
November 20, 2025, 7 p.m.

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How can socio-ecological transformation succeed in urban and rural areas? This project presents ten strategies developed by architects and urban planners. They focus on existing buildings, our most valuable resource on the path to a climate-friendly future. To jointly shape change and generate acceptance for climate goals, they rely on discourse and trial and error, on experiments and temporary uses – and call for shared responsibility rather than mere participation. Community spaces, productive neighborhoods, and contemporary housing models open up new perspectives. This is how transformation becomes concrete and imaginable.

The publication and exhibition »Baustelle Transformation. Zehn Strategien für Stadt und Land« are part of the research program »Maßnahmen auf dem Gebiet der Baukultur« of the BMWSB/BBSR and are funded by the Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen.

The publication was edited by Olaf Bahner and Laura Holzberg for the Association of German Architects (BDA). The exhibition was curated by Laura Holzberg and Alissia Hoffmann.

BOOK

Baustelle Transformation.
Zehn Strategien für Stadt und Land
Olaf Bahner / Laura Holzberg / Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA (Hg.)

Brochure (German)
17 × 24 cm
208 pages
ISBN 978-3-98612-237-9
34,00 EUR

Available at Jovis-Verlag
(from 10/2025)

Visual design: Bureau Est, Leipzig

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DAZ

The German Architecture Center DAZ is an initiative of the Association of German Architects BDA. It is a laboratory of ideas, a place of exchange, mediation and debate.

The DAZ aims to feature alternative spatial practices: Humankind and the environment are placed at the center, architecture is seen in its complex social dimension and responsibility, and the city is considered as a reflection and negotiating surface for socio-cultural and political developments.

With exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, and conversations, topics related to physical and social space are initiated, addressed, and discussed. Projects are developed in intensive and interdisciplinary collaborations – with institutions and actors from architecture, art, culture and the urban design – to enable an expansion of knowledge and impact.

Team / Contact

GENERAL INQUIRIES
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 0

ARTISTIC AND CURATORIAL DIRECTION
Laura Holzberg
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 31

CURATORIAL ASSISTANT
Alissia Hoffmann
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 32

PRESS AND COMMUNICATION
Daniela Jung
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 28

RENTAL AND TECHNICAL SERVICE
Efgan Fahrali
Tel. +49 30 27 87 99 12

DEUTSCHES ARCHITEKTUR ZENTRUM DAZ
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 6
2. courtyard, entrance H1
10179 Berlin

DAZ OFFICE
Entrance C, 1st Floor – c/o Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA

OPENING HOURS
Wed–Sun, 3–8PM

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How to get there

Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 6,
2nd courtyard, entrance H1
10179 Berlin-Mitte

Public transport:
DB Ostbahnhof
S3, S5, S7, S75 (Jannowitzbrücke, Ostbahnhof)
U8 (Heinrich-Heine-Straße)
U2 (Märkisches Museum)
BUS 265 (Michaelkirchstraße)
BUS 147 (Bethaniendamm)

Foto: Till Budde

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In the middle of the strongly developing area of the river Spree between Berlin Mitte and Kreuzberg, the DAZ is located in the immediate vicinity of the Radialsystem, the Heizkraftwerk Mitte, Spreefeld and the Ostbahnhof. On the site are offices of various architecture and engineering companies, design agencies and a restaurant with an outdoor terrace.

As an open house, the DAZ offers space for conferences, seminars, lectures and exhibitions with flexible and individually tunable infrastructure, covering around 210 square meters of public as well as private institutions and companies. Design your event at the German Architecture Center (DAZ), which offers a special setting with its central location and its program of events around architecture and the city.

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Contact for request is
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