diploma unit 4

We are delighted to have Jurgen Patzak-Poor and Michael von Matuschka of BAR Architects to deliver a Public Lecture for AVA, 19.04.07. BAR (www.barwork.de) is an architectural practice and research group from Berlin and Los Angeles . Its other core members include Antje Buchholz and Jack Burnett-Stuart.

Jurgen Patzak-Poor and Michael von Matuschka presented a series of documentation and reinvention of the everyday and its implications for architecture. The scenario of the everyday is in itself banal. However, BAR demonstrate that through developing an understanding of its spatial practice, the everyday are indeed responsive to its environment. As Jurgen explained, this Situationist Urbanism forms a ‘reservoir’ of research which informs and reflects not only in their built work but also in the way they operate as architects.

BAR have recently completed a part-self built and self-financed apartment block in Berlin as part of the Social City program. A project described by Marianne Mueller as ‘like a medieval city’, its compactness and clever use of space reflects the needs of the everyday.