The annual saai Lectures integrate the saai into the architectural discourse. Ines Weizman will give the lecture ‘Fevering Archives: Records, Documents and Their Annotations’. The digital catalogue of Egon Eiermann's work, sponsored by the Egon Eiermann Gesellschaft, will also be presented.

For decades, Günter Behnisch (1922-2010) shaped the building culture of the state of Baden-Württemberg and the young Federal Republic of Germany with his social, human-centred architecture. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the exhibition presents the life and work of the architect and his office, which worked in various partnerships and with which he realised around 150 buildings in over 50 years.

The exhibition aims at introducing new perspectives on the work of Frei Otto as well as formulating present-day questions concerning the future of our built environment involving architecture, technology, sustainability and society.

On the occasion of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the saai at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will present Frei Otto’s and Carlfried Mutschlers Multihalle in an exhibition in the context of this year’s biennial theme, “Freespace.”

The symposium »Architecture as a presumed future« takes place within the context of the exhibiton »Frei Otto. Thinking by Modeling«at ZKM | Karlsruhe in cooperation with the discipline architecture theory at the institute design, art and theory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).