ANCB, the Aedes Network Campus Berlin, is an organization created in 2009, following the success of the Aedes Architecture Forum, founded in 1980 by Kristin Feireiss and Hans-Jürgen Commerell, promoting dialogue and reflection on architecture and the city. This debate platform involves professionals, researchers, students, and citizens, and intends to break the pyramidal hierarchy in the making of the city by involving the city dwellers themselves in this process.

Among the subjects explored over the last eight years, the thematic “Actors and Agency, Co-producing the Built Future”, looks at the means of production for the future of the city, through public debates, workshops, design studios, publications, all in a collaborative manner with citizens. For this edition, ANCB is organizing a debate on Saturday, June 24, 2017  entitled “Future Urbanisms, Genetic Cities” on the city of Houston. Houston’s flexible zoning regulations allow for unusual urban forms, reacting quickly to market conditions, a particular situation that will be discussed during the ANCB debate.

Thom Mayne, is the founding architect of Morphosis in Los Angeles, Pritzker Prize of 2005, and Wolf D. Prix is the founder of the Coop Himmelb(l)au firm in Vienna. Also present are Kristin Feiress, co-founder of the Aedes Architecture Forum, and Patricia Belton Olivier, dean of the University of Houston’s College of Architecture and Design.

This public debate will follow the guided tour of the exhibition “Houston: Genetic City, Imagining a Future Post Industrial, Post-Oil, Post Sprawl” on the same day, under the direction of Peter Zweig, Matt Johnson, and Jason Lagon, professors at the University of Houston.

More information on ANCB’s website.

ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Exhibition and debate on Houston, June 24th 2017 :
“Houston: Genetic City, Envisioning a Future Post-Industry, Post-Oil, Post-Sprawl”
Free admission, reservation by e-mail at reply@ancb.de