Univ. Prof. & CEO - Head of Design and Research bei TERRAIN: INTEGRAL DESIGNS & TERRAIN LAB
LinkedInKlaus K Loenhart imagines the future of our urban agglomerations, buildings and landscapes as interwoven living biomes. As a professor and head of design and research, he and his teams at the TERRAIN.LAB, as well as in his studio TERRAIN: INTEGRAL DESIGNS, based in Munich and Graz, develop integral living systems at the intersection of ecology, climate, and human health. This perspective is informed by his conceptions on performative Nature-Culture and as laid out in his recent Publication – Breathe: Investigations into Our Atmospherically Entangled Future – which articulates the conceptual and architectural relevance of atmosphere as leitmotif of future design. As a natural/techno-logical hybrid, the Austrian Pavilion at the EXPO World Exhibition in Milan became the successful proof of concept for this Nature-performative Biometeorological Spatial Design. His current work was recently awarded the UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture.
The way we build determines how we will live in the future: whether cities become overheated or livable, whether buildings consume resources or become part of regenerative systems, and whether neighborhoods foster connection or isolation. Yet technologically and architecturally, …
If visionary architecture asks what becomes possible, this session asks what it takes to make it happen. From circular materials and adaptive reuse to digital planning and new construction methods, many of the tools for more sustainable construction already exist. Buildings can b…