BDA Nachwuchsförderpreise 2023
The profiles of the three prizes range from research grants to theory and construction practice, of which the Hans Schaefers Prize is the oldest - and was awarded for the first time in 2023 in cooperation with the Berlin Chamber of Architects. With one prize and two recognitions, it put the topic of conversion and social transformation in the spotlight. Common Agency and Felix Dechert Architekten received the prize for their Neues Amt Altona for their social and sustainable conversion of an authority building, which was successfully reprogrammed into a cooperatively organized creative house.
The two recognitions went to the hardly less impressive reprogramming by Atelier Fanelsa for KURA - Werkstatt, Gerswalde as an exemplary contribution to strengthening rural areas, and to Franziska Käuferle Architektur for her A16 Haus project, the collaborative conversion of a Berlin Wilhelminian villa, which deliberately did not seek to completely reshape the old building, but rather very sensitively worked out its fragments.
The Daniel Gössler Commendation was given to Lukas Großmann's master's thesis The Institutionalization of Hospitality and Annekathrin Warter's highly artistically reflective work Fragments of Spaces. Großmann not only fascinatingly worked out fundamental aspects of spatial exclusion of marginalized groups in various social and historical systems, but also developed a contemporary counter-model. Warter's work, with 17 observations, 19 developments, 58 approaches and 4 projections, succeeds in exploring the perception and reflection of and about space using photography and images, thereby making people aware of the wide spectrum of imagery and design.
The work of Tibes scholarship holder and art historian Stefanie Fink The Education of the Modern Architect in Germany Using Berlin as an Example (1879–1922) will also be shown. She identified the Charlottenburg University of Applied Sciences as a nucleus of modernism before the 1920s, where such illustrious architects as Hans Poelzig, Erich Mendelsohn and Bruno Taut studied.