BERLIN, 22 June 2026
BUILDING THE CITY | Idealism, commitment and care for the city and architecture
In 2026, the JUNG Architecture Talks are celebrating their 20th anniversary. Building networks, gaining insights, enjoying inspiring talks, and engaging in professional dialogue in a relaxed atmosphere – this is what our format continues to stand for.
We are pleased to welcome you to the JUNG Architecture Talks in Berlin for the 13th time on 22 June. The evening at the Chamäleon Theater will be held under the motto Building the City. We have invited three architects who contribute to current urban and architectural debates with a strong sense of personal idealism, commitment and care.
Look forward to a keynote by Oana Bogdan of the Brussels-based architecture office &bogdan. In addition to her work as an architect, she has been active for many years at both a political and societal level. In the 2010s, she served, among other roles, as State Secretary for Culture in her home country of Romania. On the panel, we will also welcome architect, exhibition curator and author Ludwig Heimbach from Cologne. With great passion, he advocates for the preservation of two Berlin icons of Brutalism: the Mäusebunker by Gerd and Magdalena Hänska and the Hygieneinstitut by Hermann Fehling and Daniel Gogel. Last but not least, we look forward to welcoming the Berlin-based architect Peter Grundmann. For the careful and personally committed conversion of a historic freight station in Berlin-Moabit into the Centre for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U), he was recently awarded the DAM Prize 2026.
The evening will be moderated by Dr Thomas Welter, Federal Managing Director of the BDA (Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten).
WHEN?
Monday, 22 June 2026
Admission 6.00 pm / Start 7.00 pm / Get-together approx. 9.00 pm
WHERE?
Chamäleon Theater
Rosenthaler Straße 40/41 (Hackesche Höfe)
10178 Berlin
(The event is recognised by the Berlin Chamber of Architects as continuing professional development worth 2 teaching units.)
PLEASE REGISTER HERE FOR THE EVENT!
We are pleased to welcome you to the JUNG Architecture Talks in Berlin for the 13th time on 22 June. The evening at the Chamäleon Theater will be held under the motto Building the City. We have invited three architects who contribute to current urban and architectural debates with a strong sense of personal idealism, commitment and care.
Look forward to a keynote by Oana Bogdan of the Brussels-based architecture office &bogdan. In addition to her work as an architect, she has been active for many years at both a political and societal level. In the 2010s, she served, among other roles, as State Secretary for Culture in her home country of Romania. On the panel, we will also welcome architect, exhibition curator and author Ludwig Heimbach from Cologne. With great passion, he advocates for the preservation of two Berlin icons of Brutalism: the Mäusebunker by Gerd and Magdalena Hänska and the Hygieneinstitut by Hermann Fehling and Daniel Gogel. Last but not least, we look forward to welcoming the Berlin-based architect Peter Grundmann. For the careful and personally committed conversion of a historic freight station in Berlin-Moabit into the Centre for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U), he was recently awarded the DAM Prize 2026.
The evening will be moderated by Dr Thomas Welter, Federal Managing Director of the BDA (Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten).
WHEN?
Monday, 22 June 2026
Admission 6.00 pm / Start 7.00 pm / Get-together approx. 9.00 pm
WHERE?
Chamäleon Theater
Rosenthaler Straße 40/41 (Hackesche Höfe)
10178 Berlin
(The event is recognised by the Berlin Chamber of Architects as continuing professional development worth 2 teaching units.)
PLEASE REGISTER HERE FOR THE EVENT!
OANA BOGDAN
&BOGDAN, BRUSSELS (BE)
Oana Bogdan, born in 1977, questions the traditional role of the architect and applies architectural skills to complex societal systems. She served as Romanian State Secretary for Culture, led the reform commission of the Brussels building code under the motto “Good Living”, and since 2023 has been Chair of the Dutch Creative Industries Fund (Architecture) as well as a member of the Board of the Flanders Architecture Institute.
“&bogdan is an internationally active architecture and urban planning office founded in Brussels in 2007. With its roots in regenerative, socially engaged design, it places a strong emphasis on human interaction and public space. In collaboration with multidisciplinary teams with representatives of municipalities, institutions and economic sectors it designs future-proof cities in which resources can actively regenerate.”
www.bogdan.design
Image: © Eva Donckers Photography
“&bogdan is an internationally active architecture and urban planning office founded in Brussels in 2007. With its roots in regenerative, socially engaged design, it places a strong emphasis on human interaction and public space. In collaboration with multidisciplinary teams with representatives of municipalities, institutions and economic sectors it designs future-proof cities in which resources can actively regenerate.”
www.bogdan.design
Image: © Eva Donckers Photography
LUDWIG HEIMBACH
LUDWIG HEIMBACH ARCHITEKTUR, COLOGNE/BERLIN
Ludwig Heimbach is an architect based in Cologne and Berlin. His office realises projects in the fields of workplaces, building transformation and housing. In 2016, he received the Villa Kamogawa Kyoto scholarship of the Goethe-Institut and has taught, among others, at ETH Zurich, the Münster School of Architecture, Kyoto City University of Arts and KU Leuven. He curated the exhibition “Mäusebunker und Hygieneinstitut. Eine Berliner Versuchsanordnung”, shown at the BDA Galerie Berlin in 2020 and at the Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2021. In 2025, the book of the same name, edited by him and based on this exhibition, was published.
“I understand architecture as an instrument of acceleration and deceleration between urban space and bed. It is the stage for changing ideas of living and comfort. We approach projects from this cross-scalar perspective on architecture: through the design of thresholds and filters for moving users; from the urban exterior space to the piece of furniture; and as a continuation of the built environment.”
www.ludwig-heimbach.com
Image: © Ludwig Heimbach Architektur
“I understand architecture as an instrument of acceleration and deceleration between urban space and bed. It is the stage for changing ideas of living and comfort. We approach projects from this cross-scalar perspective on architecture: through the design of thresholds and filters for moving users; from the urban exterior space to the piece of furniture; and as a continuation of the built environment.”
www.ludwig-heimbach.com
Image: © Ludwig Heimbach Architektur
PETER GRUNDMANN
PETER GRUNDMANN ARCHITEKTUR, BERLIN
Peter Grundmann, born in Röbel/Müritz, studied mechanical and shipbuilding engineering at the University of Rostock between 1986 and 1989 and worked as a shipbuilding engineer from 1990 to 1991. In 1993, he founded his own architecture office. From 1994 to 1998, he studied architecture at Wismar University of Applied Sciences, followed by further studies at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin until 2001. Peter Grundmann is a founding member of the non-profit association HAUS ETHIOPIA e. V., which established a home for homeless people in Addis Ababa. Since 2007 he has been active in the rural cultural association Quillo e. V. in Falkenhagen, where, as a pioneer of self-build initiatives, he renovated the theatre and cinema building.
“To be a complete modern human being, one must expose oneself to the experiential possibilities of modern architecture. A house must be complex; it must generate knowledge or experience. For me, that is the essential task of architecture: to enable, not to symbolise. All thinking that does not lead to utopia is merely a search for other forms of organisation within the same symbolic order in which the misery first arose.”
www.petergrundmann.com
Image: © Peter Grundmann
“To be a complete modern human being, one must expose oneself to the experiential possibilities of modern architecture. A house must be complex; it must generate knowledge or experience. For me, that is the essential task of architecture: to enable, not to symbolise. All thinking that does not lead to utopia is merely a search for other forms of organisation within the same symbolic order in which the misery first arose.”
www.petergrundmann.com
Image: © Peter Grundmann
MODERATION
The event will be moderated by Dr Thomas Welter, Federal Managing Director of the BDA (Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten).
The BDA was founded in 1903 as an association of independent architects in order to better assert the role and content of architecture in response to the declining quality of the built environment. The BDA brings together independent architects and urban planners who distinguish themselves not only through the quality of their buildings, but also through high personal integrity and collegiality.
www.bda-bund.de
Image: © Till Budde
The BDA was founded in 1903 as an association of independent architects in order to better assert the role and content of architecture in response to the declining quality of the built environment. The BDA brings together independent architects and urban planners who distinguish themselves not only through the quality of their buildings, but also through high personal integrity and collegiality.
www.bda-bund.de
Image: © Till Budde
Registration
Please register for the event using your personal email address. You will then receive your personalized access ticket. This will serve as your name badge on the evening. Therefore, please ensure that your name and the name of your office/university are spelled correctly.
