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Kruh (Circle) of Architecture

Barcelona-based studio focuses on finding a balance between raw material aesthetics, history, and high energy efficiency.
Two lectures by landscape architects present possible ways of transformation of greenery in cities. Tom Muller talks about a climate-proof, sustainable, manageable and biodiversity-supportive process that is embraced by the public. Štěpán Špoula presents projects and strategies aimed at a river in the city.
Randal Plunkett introduced a unique approach to wild landscape restoration called V-wilding. It combines ecological principles with vegan philosophy and offers a model for sustainable restoration of natural habitats. Dalibor Dostál focused on the return of large herbivores as a means of restoring biodiversity, which is disappearing today at an unprecedented rate.
Tom Balsley (SWA/Balsley) is a renowned architect with a wealth of experience based in New York. He has been transforming social and cultural spaces into sustainable and vibrant urban landscapes for over 35 years. In New York alone, he has completed more than 100 parks and squares.
The May lecture from the Land/Scape series featured New York landscape architect Michelle Delk from Snøhetta and Swiss landscape architect Thomas Kissling from VOGT Landscape Architects. The topics were inspirational places for contemporary life, the connections between people and their surroundings, and water in the landscape.
Jürg Conzett is a Swiss civil engineer mainly known for designing bridges. After studying at ETH Zurich and working for the architect Peter Zumthor, he started his own engineering office in 1988. It is now known as Conzett Bronzini Partner AG. Conzett’s most famous project is a series of three pedestrian bridges, located on the Veia Traversina trail of the Viamala in Switzerland.
In their designs, 6a deals with the reuse of already existing elements or what is at hand on site. However, it is not only their aim to reuse old buildings or their materials, but to also recycle the stories that support the emergence of a new authorial approach.
The lecture from the new series Constructions introduces Swiss structural engineer and professor of structural design at ETH Zurich Joseph Schwarz. He speaks about his projects in collaboration with architect Christian Kerez and others.
The lecture entitled Footbridges and Bridges will present the latest projects of progressive and subtle constructions by the architect and structural engineer Petr Tej and Eugene Brühwiler.
Diener has a long-term interest in the reconstruction of monuments and is a member of several foundations and commissions dedicated to this topic. The studio’s main projects include, for example, the completion of the eastern wing of the Natural History Museum in Berlin or the local Swiss embassy.
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