Architecture Matters
19–20 May 2022

Author and curator, Dubai

Shumon Basar is a writer, editor, and curator. He is author of the books „The Extreme Self: Age of You“ and „The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present“, both with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Together, they co-curated the large-scale exhibition „Age of You“ at MOCA Toronto and Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai. In addition to being Commissioner of Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum since 2011 – this year’s Forum is dedicated to the world of digital artefacts and crypto economies – Basar is also co-founder of zien; has been a member of Fondazione Prada’s “Thought Council;” a curator at Porto’s Fórum do Futuro; and has editorial/advisory roles at the magazines TANK, Bidoun, 032c and Flash Art.

www.artdubai.ae/global-art-forum

Managing Partner, Bauwens Group, Cologne

Paul Bauwens-Adenauer has been Managing Partner of the Bauwens Group in Cologne since 1986. After studying architecture, he worked for several years as an architect before joining the family business, Bauwens. He progressed from focusing on construction to project development and then real estate investment. He has since held various supervisory and administrative board positions, including as President of the North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

www.bauwens.de

Member of the Board of Management, BayernLB, Munich

Gero Bergmann is a member of the Board of Management of BayernLB, where he is responsible for the division Real Estate & Savings Banks/Financial Institutions, including the municipal and development bank BayernLabo. Previously, the banker and lawyer was a board member of Berlin Hyp, where he was responsible for real estate investments, portfolio management, and treasury.

www.bayernlb.de

Founder & lead architect, Drozdov & Partners, Kharkiv

Oleg Drozdov is a Ukrainian architect, artist, and educator. In 1997 he founded Drozdov & Partners in Kharkiv, which is currently one of the best-known architectural offices in Ukraine. He works as a guest lecturer and critic for various universities both in Europe and America. In 2017 he co-founded Kharkiv School of Architecture – the first independent architectural higher education institution in Ukraine.

www.drozdov-partners.com

War photographer, Copenhagen

Jan Grarup is a Danish war photographer. Since the 1990s he has travelled to crisis regions around the world, covering the Gulf War, the genocide in Rwanda, the siege of Sarajevo, the war in Chechnya, Dafur, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, and most recently: the war in Ukraine. Beyond the mere documentation of events, his greater interest lies in the people. Honestly, intensively and with great empathy, he tells the stories of those who have no voice of their own. Widely recognized for his work, he was awarded the World Press Photo Award eight times, the first time for his coverage of the war in Kosovo. Grarup co-founded the Noor photo agency and has published several books, most recently “And Then There Was Silence”, a compelling, five-kilo compilation of photographs he has taken since the 1990s.

www.andthentherewassilence.com
www.jangrarup.photoshelter.com

Co-Founder of Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, Tbilisi/Berlin

Tinatin Gurgenidze is a curator and urban researcher. She lives in Tbilisi and Berlin and is co-founder of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. Since 2018, she has conducted several projects with partners from Ukraine; one of them in the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, where she co-curated an installation and a happening as part of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial and City Scanning Session.

www.biennial.ge

Head of Planning Directorate, Cologne

Since September 2019, Eva Herr has been head of the city planning division in Cologne. Born in Hamburg, she worked as an urban planner in Essex and London, among other places, before returning to Germany to work in public administration. From 2013 to 2016, she managed the office of Cologne’s then Chief Planner, Franz-Josef Höing. With her office, she is now responsible for the development of several major inner-city conversion sites, public space projects, and new urban expansions.

www.stadt-koeln.de

Artist & Photographer, Rotterdam

Charlie Koolhaas is an artist, writer, and photographer. She grew up in London and currently lives in Rotterdam. Her work explores identities and their transformation in an increasingly interconnected world. Her recent book, CITY LUST (2020), documents the effects of globalization on everyday life over two decades in London, Guangzhou, Lagos, Dubai, and Houston – cities where Koolhaas has lived and worked.

www.charliekoolhaas.com

Managing Director of Hines, Munich

Christian Meister, Managing Director of Hines Germany, is responsible for investment management, project development, and business development across all asset classes in southern Germany, focusing on Munich. He is also responsible for the Hines logistics platform in Germany. He teaches real estate finance and development in the department of Prof. Dr. Bone-Winkel at the University of Regensburg. Since 2018 he has served as the Urban Land Institute’s Local Chair for Munich on a volunteer basis.

www.hines.com

Urban Development Councilor, Munich

Prof. Dr. (Univ. Florence) Elisabeth Merk is an architect and has served as the City of Munich’s Planning Director since 2007. From 2000 to 2005, she headed the urban development and urban planning division in Halle/Saale. She also teaches as an honorary professor at the Technology University of Applied Sciences (HfT) in Stuttgart and the Technical University of Munich. She has been President of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Spatial Planning (DASL) since 2015.

www.muenchen.de

Senior Managing Director und Co-Head bei Hines, Berlin

Alexander Möll is Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of Hines Germany, responsible for project development, acquisition, and asset management in Germany. He is a graduate of the Free University of Berlin and has a master’s degree in International Business Administration from Thunderbird School of Global Management. He joined Hines in 1995 and lives in Berlin.

www.hines.com

Artist and musician, Munich

Polina “Polly” Lapkovskaja came to Germany from her hometown of Minsk in 1993. Today she is now known as an artist with a thousand facets: she designs musical concepts for plays at renowned theatres; organises monthly happenings in Munich as co-founder of the collective ZOMBOCOMBO; plays international tours with her band POLLYESTER. Her art is created somewhere between language and voice, politics and art, party and research. Against the backdrop of the current Ukraine war, she started a petition together with other creatives to open vacant buildings in the district surrounding Munich’s main station for Ukrainian refugees.

www.munichcentral.com
www.pollyester.net

photo: Kaethe17, CC BY-SA 4.0

Executive Director of LSE Cities, London

Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities and Co-Director of the Executive MSc in Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Urban Age Programme, leading its global research efforts, and co-chairs the Addis Ababa Urban Age Task Force. Rode’s current work focuses on institutional structures, integrated planning, and emergency governance in cities, as well as sustainable urban development, transport transitions, and new urban mobility.

www.lse.ac.uk/cities

Managing Director of SIGNA, Munich

Tobias Sauerbier has been Managing Director of SIGNA Real Estate Management Germany GmbH and a member of the Managing Board of SIGNA Prime Selection AG since March 2019. Together with Timo Herzberg, he is currently responsible for all of SIGNA’s real estate activities in Germany. The SIGNA Group is a privately held industrial holding company in the real estate and retail sectors with real estate assets of over 12 billion euros.

www.signa.at

Director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Frankfurt

Peter Cachola Schmal is the director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt. The trained architect began his career at Behnisch+Partner in Stuttgart and Eisenbach+Partner in Zeppelinheim. He then worked as a lecturer at the TU Darmstadt and the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, followed by a position as curator at the DAM. In 2006 he was appointed its director. He has already represented Germany twice at architecture biennials: in 2007 at the 7th International Architecture Biennale in São Paulo and in 2016 at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.

www.dam-online.de

Architect, Beirut

Hala Younes is an architect and geographer from Beirut, Lebanon. In her professional practice and teaching, she takes a close look at the complexity of territories and their histories. In 2018 she initiated the first Lebanese National Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale titled “The Place that Remains”, which critically engaged with the commodification of land in Lebanon. Hala Younes received the MEA Architect Award for the residential project of the year 2018 and is shortlisted for the Tamayouz Women in Architecture and Construction Award 2019.

www.halayounes.com

with:
FAKT – Office for Architecture, Berlin
KSP Engel, Munich
N-V-O Architekten, Munich
SALT architects, Cape Town
Timb.Space, Leipzig
Technische Universität München

I. a. with:
Art-Invest Real Estate, Munich
Bauwerk, Munich
blocher partners, Stuttgart
bodensteiner fest, Munich
Büschl Unternehmensgruppe, Munich
dormakaba, Ennepetal
FAKT – Office for Architecture, Berlin
Gira, Radevormwald
Grant Thornton, Munich
HENN Architekten, Munich
Hines Immobilien, Munich
HI Wohnbau, Munich
Isaria, Munich
Kirchberger & Wiegner Rohde, Berlin
KSP Engel, Munich
pan m, Munich
RKW Architektur +, Munich
Studio Corso, Munich
Schüco International, Bielefeld
Urban Progress, Munich
ZAR Real Estate Holding, Munich