The greatest potential.

Admission to the Deutscher Werkbund

Appointment to the Convention of the Federal Foundation of Baukultur

BDA max40 Award Winner

1st Prize: New Piccolino Daycare Centre in Schornsheim

Honourable Mention: New Primary School in Neuburg am Inn

2nd Prize: Conversion of Im Severin Parish and Community Centre in Glottertal

3rd Prize: New Timber Apartment Building in Berlin-Niederschönhausen

2nd Prize: Reorganisation of the School Campus in Neukirchen

Villa Waldberta Fellowship

Wilhelm Kempff Cultural Foundation Fellowship

Max Taut Prize

Rome Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany — Villa Massimo Fellowship of the German Academy Rome

DETAIL Scholarship

Association of German Builders, Architects and Engineers (BDB), Special Prize in the ‘Buildings’ Category

Architect in Residence, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam

Heinze Architects Award

Senator von Borst Prize, Munich

Senator von Borst Prize, Munich

Charlie Hebdo Portable Pavilion Competition, Paris (Honourable Mention)

Nomination for the City of Munich Architecture Award

Site Visitor Centre Competition, Évora, Portugal (3rd Prize)

House in London Competition (Honourable Mention)

Egon Eiermann Prize, Stuttgart (1st Prize)

Lakefront Kiosk Competition — Chicago Architecture Biennial (Honourable Mention)

Copenhagen Library (Honourable Mention)

Vase and Courtyard Design Competition at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio (1st Prize)

Exhibition, BDA max40 Exhibition, BDA Munich

Exhibition, BDA max40 Exhibition, German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt

Exhibition, Drost Consult, Hamburg, “Young Architecture”

Exhibition, 48h neukölln, curated by Frieder Knöller, Berlin, “Cultural Techniques of Slowness”

Exhibition, AIT Architecture Salon, Munich, “Dialogues Japan : Europe”

Exhibition, Salon Sophie Charlotte at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, “Between Worlds”

Exhibition, MaximiliansForum, Principle of Hope III, On the Reason of Small Utopias, Munich

Forum d’Urbanisme et d’Architecture, Nice, “New Beauties”

Biennial of Design Ljubljana Exhibition, Designathon, “Common Knowledge”

Exhibition, Gropius Bau Berlin, Villa Massimo at the Martin Gropius Bau

Grenzhaus Exhibition with Jörg Herold, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts

Exhibition Contribution, 6th Weißenhof Architecture Award, Exhibition for Young Architects

Exhibition Contribution, XS New Holiday Homes — Exemplary Building, Saalburg

HDA, House of Architecture Graz

Exhibition and Pavilion, Grenzhaus with Artist Jörg Herold

Exhibition, Villa Massimo, Annual Summer Festival, Festa dell’Estate, Rome

Exhibition, Chiamata alle arti, “Anti-terrorism Barriers”, Florence

Exhibition, Open Studios, Villa Massimo, Rome

Galerie Münchner Freiheit byprinzip

World Refugee Day, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, CBK Rotterdam, Museum Rotterdam, Grenzhaus Exhibition and Pavilion, Rotterdam

MaximiliansForum — Passage for Art and Design — an Art Space of the City of Munich, Principle of Hope

Art Window #12, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, Standards Book Presentation and Exhibition, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam

BDA Berlin Neustadt 40/40, Gallery Contribution

Reminiscence Book Launch at the Munich Architecture Gallery

afo Architecture Forum Upper Austria, Outstanding Artist Award 2016 Exhibition

EPFL | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Atelier No. 12 Opening, Exhibition Contribution

Open House of Hrvst, Maximiliansplatz 12, “Residual Space”, Exhibition on New Creative Spaces in the City

La Biennale di Venezia — 15th International Architecture Exhibition, German Pavilion, Making Heimat, Exhibition Contribution

Furniture Fair, Salone del Mobile, Milan, “30<30”

Stripe Art and Architecture Festival, Fermo, “Cabinet of Curiosities”, Exhibition Contribution

City of Munich Architecture Award, Nomination and Exhibition, Lothstrasse 13, Munich

“We Can Do This” Housing for All + Home not Shelter!, Munich Architecture Gallery, Gallery Contribution

40/40 — Capital Berlin: BDA Berlin Gallery Contribution

Lionel Esche participating in the ScaleUp Alliance EFH scaling workshop, dena / Energiesprong Festival, Berlin

September

Film discussion with Benedict Esche and Ina Laux (BDA), “Below the Clouds”, Five Lakes Film Festival, Seefeld Cinema

September

Practice Lecture, Urban Utopia, Berlin

June

Practice Lecture, Brno

March

New Bauhaus, Weimar

September

Guest Review, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences

July

Science Against Racism, University of Greifswald

July

NEXT GENERATION | Young Voices in German Architectural Discourse, Freiburg

July

Guest Review and Lecture, Department of Architecture | ETH Zurich, Chair Deplazes, Atelier Brücke, Atelier Puglisi

May

Seminar Lead, Spring Academy of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation in Roggenburg

February

Summer Plenary of the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

June

Guest Review and Lecture, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Architecture

June

Guest Review and Lecture, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Architecture

May

Practice Lecture, “Making Architecture”, FREEchitecture, VfA (Association of Independent Architects in Germany), Munich

March

Interdisciplinary Working Group (IAG) of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Building Differently — Conserving Resources and Protecting the Climate Workshop

February

Guest Review and Practice Lecture, IU International University Ulm

February

Munich University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Architecture, Final Review

January

Guest Review, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Architecture

December

Panel Discussion on Open Spaces in Munich, Kulturstrand

July

Guest Review and Lecture, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Architecture

June

Guest Review and Lecture, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Architecture

May

Opening Lecture, Ebenböckhaus Artist-in-Residence Programme

March

Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences, Architecture and Construction Economics, Guest Lecture

February

Lecture, “Places of Longing” Workshop, Villa La Collina, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Junge Akademie

March

Lecture and Teaching Demonstration, University of Siegen, Appointment Lecture

November

Darmstadt University of Technology, Lecture, “Image and Architecture”

June

Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences, Guest Review

April

PLAN — Department of Urban Planning and Building Regulations, Discussion Series, Going High — What Do You Think? With Prof. Dr Christine Hannemann, University of Stuttgart, Claudia Meixner, Meixner Schlüter Wendt, Benedict Esche, Kollektiv A

NXT A — the Young Architects’ Network, Digital Talk: A High-Rise for Art, with Isa Fahrenholz and Dr Ute Strimmer (NXT A), Benedict Esche (Kollektiv A), Prof. Lydia Haack (Chair of BDA Bavaria), Lars Mentrup (Munich City Councillor), Prof. Dr Andres Lepik (Director of the Architecture Museum at the Technical University of Munich) and Amandus Samsøe Sattler (Allmann Sattler Wappner and President of DGNB)

The Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Discussion between Prof. Timo de Wolff (TU Braunschweig) and Benedict Esche, “Aesthetics and Abstraction”

Bauhaus, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Studio Rome, Final Review

Bauhaus, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Studio Rome, Midterm Guest Review

Salon Pop Nami, Discussion on the City and Architecture with Jan-Werner Müller

Ideas Workshop of the Junge Akademie and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Leipzig

Historisches Kolleg, Munich, Junge Akademie Debate: Institutes of Advanced Study — Opportunities and Challenges from an Early-Career Research Perspective

Goethe University Frankfurt, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Somewheres and Anywheres Lecture: “Staging Normativity”

The Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, “City, Country, Frustration” Workshop, Schloss Etelsen near Bremen

Technical University of Berlin, “Hello Architecture, Our Name Is Kollektiv A”, Practice Lecture

RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Architects’ Get-Together, “Principle of Hope” — Shaping the Future, Wiesbaden

Munich Creative Business Week, “Shaping Visions”, Munich

University of Innsbruck, Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Design 1, Practice Lecture

Alte Akademie Munich, SP-CE, Opening and Panel Discussion

Pinakothek der Moderne, Archithese, “Fresh Bavaria”, Practice Lecture

HDA, House of Architecture Graz, Practice Lecture

Sapienza — Università di Roma, Guest Review

Goethe-Institut Rome, Tiny Houses Talk

Sapienza — Università di Roma, Practice Lecture

MaximiliansForum — Passage for Art and Design — an Art Space of the City of Munich, “Art as Second-Order Architecture”, as Part of the Exhibition New Forms of Beauty I — New Forms of Design Between Art and Function. Artist Talk

Platform, “What Are You Working On?”, Munich, Practice Lecture and Panel Discussion

Horizonte Weimar, Bauhaus University Weimar, Practice Lecture

Guest Review: Leibniz University Hannover, Design and Architectural Theory, Prof. Jörg Friedrich in Cooperation with Sapienza Università di Roma, Architecture

Roundtable, “Time for Open Space”, City of Munich, Department of Urban Planning and Building Regulations, “Temporary and Multiple Uses of Open Spaces”

Guest Review: Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Baumschlager Class, Master Studio Architecture, Summer Semester 2017

Discussion, “Take a Line for a Walk”, We Want Art Everywhere, Cannes

MaximiliansForum — Passage for Art and Design — an Art Space of the City of Munich, Principle of Hope

Guest Review: Munich University of Applied Sciences, Cohesion — Difference, Master Studio Architecture, Summer Semester 2017, Developing Building Blocks for an Inclusive City, Prof. Dr Andrea Benze, Dipl.-Ing. Michaela Ausfelder

Grenzhaus, Project Presentation and Panel Discussion, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam

IsArch, IsArch-Palau Güell, Young Architects Lecture, Barcelona

Standards Book Launch at the Goethe-Institut Rotterdam

Urban Stories Festival, Frozen in Time, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam

Guest Review: Royal Academy of Art The Hague, INSIDE Interior Architecture (MA)

Reminiscence Book Launch at the Munich Architecture Gallery

Cultural and Creative Industries of the City of Munich, ARCHITECTURE Industry Meet-up, Panel Discussion, Munich

VitrA Project Workshops: Experiencing Architecture and Design, 44th VitrA Project Workshop, “Report from Venice and Elsewhere”: Practice Lecture

Housing for All, Deutscher Werkbund Bavaria, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Panel Discussion

BDA, max 40 — Young Architects

January

G+L Magazine, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, The Fifth Facade

September

Mucbook, Modular Is Not Enough

August

Immobilien Zeitung (IZ), “Munich Plans Around 1,000 New Student Residences”

July

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Thousands of New Student Residences Planned at Studentenstadt

July

entwicklungsstadt.de, “Unused Parking Decks as New Urban Spaces” — Kollektiv A with the Südkreuz Project

April

Abendzeitung, “Chickens, Raised Beds and Helles” — on the Schwabing Garden Project Designed by Kollektiv A

April

Süddeutsche Zeitung, “Temporary Use Becomes a Cultural Garden” — on the Schwabing Project

March

Mucbook, “Less Space, More Home” — a Column by Benedict Esche on Housing Policy and Conversion

March

nachhaltige-erneuerung.berlin, Feasibility Study for the North Parking Deck at Südkreuz Station

May

Draussenstadt.Berlin.de, Südkreuz Station and Its Forecourts

May

Berlin.de, Urban Development Day: Plans for Südkreuz

May

Deutsches Architektenblatt, “80 Selected Residential High-Rises” by Sophie Ziemer

May

Die Welt, The Missed Opportunity for Liveable Cities, by Alexander Gutzmer

February

Wohnhochhaus, edited by Lukas Brecheler and Lionel Esche, ea Edition Architektur, Berlin and Munich

December

Mucbook Magazine: Courageous Architecture, by Marco Eisenack

December

TZ, Gasteig Cultural Roof Garden: This Is What the New Rooftop Bar Will Look Like, by Regina Mittermeier

July

Münchner Merkur, Gasteig Cultural Roof Garden: This Is What the New Rooftop Bar Will Look Like, by Regina Mittermeier

July

Süddeutsche Zeitung, New Roof Terrace at the Gasteig: “At Sunset, the Light Up Here Is Incredibly Red”, by Laura Kaufmann

July

TZ, Off We Go at the Gasteig: Roof-Garden Operators and Fat Cat Get Started — “Incredibly Excited”, by Regina Mittermeier

July

Abendzeitung, A View Across All of Munich: New Rooftop Bar in a Prominent Location, by Jan Krattiger

July

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Fat Cat Offers More Than Its Much-Praised Roof Terrace, by Dirk Wagner

July

Abendzeitung, Kulturstrand Is Back: Prices, Concept and Opening Hours, by Verena Lohr

May

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich: Kulturstrand Reopens, by Katharina Thümler

May

Hallo München, After Earlier Uncertainty, Celebrations Can Return to Museumsinsel, by Gabriele Winter

April

Mucbook, Gasteig Roof Terrace Opens: Everything About the Cultural Roof Garden, by Caroline Priwitzer

March

Hallo München, “Feasibility Study for a 60-Metre Studio Building in Domagkpark Expected before the Cultural Committee in Late 2022” — a 60-Metre Tower for Artists in Munich’s Domagkpark, Supported by Former Mayor Ude, by Benedikt Strobach

November

Süddeutsche Zeitung, “A High-Rise for Art” — a 60-Metre Tower with 100 Studios Planned for Domagkpark, by Klaus Vick

September

Finstral Architecture Magazine, F_03, “Light and Hope in Architecture Are Everywhere.” Interview

June

Süddeutsche Zeitung, “Sand on the Balcony”, 4 May 2022, by Michael Zirnstein

May

Friendship: Junge Akademie Calendar, Friendship: Ideal, Utopia and Necessity, Edited by Stefanie Büchner and Benedict Esche

November

Junge Akademie Magazine, Image/Language, “Architecture Touches Us — in Image and Word”, Edited by Benedict Esche

November

Homebook, Points of Contact, FSB, Gira, KEUCO

Architektouren 2021 Anniversary Booklet: Architektouren 25 — Bavarian Chamber of Architects, Interview by Dr Mark Kammerbauer

Building + Business, The Region’s Architecture in Review, Munich / Upper Bavaria 2021, WV-Verlag, Notable Architecture in and Around Munich, Domagk Art Tower

October

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 22 July 2021, “Fleeting Happiness” — around 30 Studios and Workshops for up to 40 Artists Could Be Created in the Three Buildings on 1,200 Square Metres, by Sonja Niesmann

July

Mucbook, Issue 16, “Sounds of the Future and New Cultural Beacons: Domagk Studio Tower”, by Thomas Stöppler

June

Baunetz, “A Beacon High-Rise for Artists: Kollektiv A Plans in Munich’s Domagkpark”

June

TZ, “The New Mega-Projects: A Wave of Towers in Munich”

May

Süddeutsche Zeitung, “A Villa for Art”, by Jutta Czeguhn — Architects Benedict and Lionel Esche Convert the Artists’ Apartments at Ebenböckvilla According to the Original Plans

April

Münchner Feuilleton, “Munich: A New Place for Artists?”, by Christiane Pfau

March

Stern, “Building Up the South”, by David Baum

January

AZ, Abendzeitung, “Expansion of Domagkpark: 60-Metre Art Tower Planned”, by Ruth Frömmer — the Green–Red City-Hall Coalition Advances an Art Tower at the Domagk Studios

December

Münchner Merkur, “A Beacon for Art and Culture”, by Michael Hellstern

December

TZ, “An Artists’ High-Rise for Schwabing? Munich Architect Plans 100 Studios and a Rooftop Bar in a Prime Location”, by Michael Hellstern

December

Süddeutsche Zeitung, “Thinking Big Instead of Small”, by Stefan Mühleisen — the Shortage Led the Artists’ Associations to Commission Benedict Esche of Kollektiv A to Design a 17-Storey Tower with 100 Studios

December

NXT A, A High-Rise for Art — City Councillor Lars Mentrup Envisions a 60-Metre Tower Providing 100 Additional Artists’ Studios

November

München TV, Roundtable, “Schwabing Artists’ Tower”, Hosted by Christopher Griebel

October

Süddeutsche Zeitung, “Art Reaches for the Sky”, by Stefan Mühleisen — a 60-Metre Tower for Studios and Start-ups in Domagkpark. Benedict Esche of Kollektiv A Presented the Proposal to the District Committee, Which Called on the City to Support Its Planning and Realisation as Far as Possible

October

Süddeutsche Zeitung, SZ Extra, “From Eyesore to Favourite Place”, by Cora Wucherer — Thanks to a Donation from Euroboden, the Space Appears in a New Design by Architect Benedict Esche

August

Euroboden News Architectural Culture, Kulturstrand: “A Place for the Neighbourhood” — Together with Benedict Esche of Kollektiv A, Euroboden Developed and Funded a Versatile Temporary Structure of Simple Timber Modules for Seating, Events, Raised Beds, Exchange Shelves and a Drinks Kiosk

August

Baumeister Magazine B7, Curated by Winy Maas, MVRDV, From Refugee Shelters to Affordable Housing by Anna Scheuermann

June

Internet for Architects Magazine, The Future of Architecture: New Forms of Collaboration. The Collective and Its Significance in Architecture, by Felicitas Steck

May

NXT A — the Young Architects’ Network, Community Check #1, Portrait of Benedict Esche

April

LAMA, the Solution-Oriented Architecture Magazine 1/9, March 2020, Essay, “The Transformation of the City”, Kollektiv A, by Benedict Esche and Lionel Esche

March

Bibliotheksmagazin 1/20, “Experiencing Architecture: The New Café at the Bavarian State Library in Munich”, by Benedict Esche

March

Debate Contribution by the Junge Akademie’s Two Cultures Working Group, “Institutes of Advanced Study — Opportunities and Challenges for Early-Career Researchers”, by Miriam Akkermann, Benedict Esche, Fabian Krämer and Sebastian Matzner

March

DAB, Deutsches Architektenblatt, “Architecture Collectives: Working Collectively — Solo Practice or Large Office?”, by Rosa Grewe. Young Architects Are Reviving the Collective as an Organisational Form, but How Does Networked Work Function in Practice?

March

Architectural Culture, Callwey Verlag, by Stefan Gutzmer and Stefan Höglmaier. Featuring Projects by David Chipperfield, Muck Petzet, Arno Brandlhuber and raumstation; Photography by Kim Høltermand, beierle.goerlich, Timothy Hursley and Elizabeth Bick; Interviews with Valerio Olgiati and Stefan Höglmaier, Peter Cachola Schmal, Tutia Schaad, Peter Haimerl and Benedict Esche; and Essays by Alexander Gutzmer, Tatjana Schneider, Fabienne Hoelzel and Gabriel Ahlfeldt

August

On the Reason of Small Utopias, by Diana Ebster, Benedict Esche, Alexandra Rusitschka and Gabriele Werbeck, Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich

July

Münchner Wochenanzeiger, The Gap in the Urban Fabric as a Space for the New and Unexpected

June

Museumsportal Bayern, On the Reason of Small Utopias: An Exhibition with Benedict Esche, Jens Franke and Veronika Veit

June

Bauwelt 7/2019, 13 Presentations and a Farewell — Villa Massimo at the Martin Gropius Bau

April

Federal Government, Minister of State for Culture and the Media — Architect Benedict Esche and Composer Gordon Kampe Presented a Dialogic Fellows’ Address Offering Insights into Their Time at Villa Massimo, “Long Night of Art”

February

Sparkassenzeitung, “Participation for a Broad Public”

February

Goethe-Institut Italy, “The Night of Villa Massimo at the Gropius Bau Berlin”, by Andrea D’Addio — Benedict Esche, the Youngest Fellow, Studied How Architecture Shapes the Lives of Residents at Corviale, Rome’s Controversial 1970s Housing Complex Known as il Serpentone, with Photographer Diego Rotella

February

kntxtr, Kontextur Magazine, Portrait of Kollektiv A

January

DEAR Magazine, Cover Story, Kollektiv A, New Münchner Freiheit

October

Stern Magazine, Conversion of Café Münchner Freiheit

September

Archithese, “What Positions Do Designers from Bavaria Take? Which Topics Shape the Bavarian Architectural Conversation? Which Fresh Ideas Demand Discussion?” — Visual Contribution Temp with We Want Art Everywhere

September

JWD Magazine — Benedict Esche’s Black Cube in His Studio Stands in the Same Proportion to Villa Massimo’s Park as the Space Claimed by Humanity Does to Planet Earth. Perhaps Such Precise Statements Are What We Need Today Instead of All the Subtext? By David Baum

September

Stern Magazine No. 33 — A Portrait of the Villa Massimo Fellows, Including Writers Uljana Wolf and Iris Hanika, Composer Gordon Kampe, Architect Benedict Esche and Artist Thomas Baldischwyler, Living and Working Together for Almost a Year. By David Baum

August

GEO Magazine, “Munich’s First Roof Garden Has Opened Opposite Stachus: a Green Retreat on Top of a Car Park with Urban, Stylish and Functional Design, Timber Seating and Garden Beds That Visitors Can Cultivate, Creating a Small Oasis in the Metropolis”, by Luise Fernau

July

München.de — the Official City Portal, “A Green Oasis in the Urban Jungle”, by Markus Büttner

July

Exibart, “Summer Festival”

June

InsideArt, “The German Academy Celebrates Summer and Opens Its Doors to Present the Fellows’ Work from the Year”, by Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni

June

Mucbook, “Balcony Life on a Car-Park Roof: a Roof Garden for Munich”, by Max Büch

June

Abendzeitung, “Car Park at Stachus” — on the Top Deck, the Scent of Plants and Timber Leads Visitors from the Narrow Lift to a Roof Garden Perched above the Ramp Like Noah’s Ark

June

Geheimtipp, “Roof-Garden Chill-Out Oasis: a New Green Hotspot in the City”, by Miles Köhler

June

TZ, “Cultural Roof Garden in the City” — the Concept Creates an Allotment Garden above the Rooftops with Trees and Numerous Beds, 20 of Which Will Be Given to Amateur Gardeners with Green City to Grow Herbs and Vegetables. By Thomas Osswald

June

Mit Vergnügen — “Before Us Lies an Enormous Car-Park Roof, with a Timber Island in Its Centre, Like Something from the Film The Wild Soccer Bunch. Munich Has Never Seen Anything Like It.” By Anja Schauberger

June

BR Television, “The Great Leap into the Tiny House”, a Film by Julia Seidl

May

ART Magazine, Portrait of Benedict Esche, “Art for a Better World”, by Tanja Beuthien

April

DEAR Magazine, Models. Friends of the House: with OMA, De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, LAAV, Atelier Brückner, NL Architects, Christ & Gantenbein, Kéré Architects, Wiel Arets, Barkow Leibinger, I.S.M Architecten, Fala Atelier, Max Dudler, Atelier ST, Amunt, SO–IL, Kollektiv A, EM2N and Pezo von Ellrichshausen, by Jeanette Kunsmann

March

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 31 January 2018 — the City of Munich Nominated the Team for Its Architecture Award and the Young Architects Exhibited in the German Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Benedict Esche Creates New Spaces Where None Were Expected, Seeking to Share and Use Space Creatively

January

Book Review, Forschung & Lehre, Reminiscence, by Prof. Dr Gordon Kampe

InsideArt Magazine, “10 Fellows at Villa Massimo”, Italy — Benedict Esche Presented a Large Black Totem Based on a Global Housing Guideline of Ten Square Metres per Person, Together with Contrasting Models of Places in Rome and Munich. He Describes Architecture as a Central Place for Self-Determined Life and a Retreat from the Complexity of the Outside World, Free from Barriers of Class, Age, Gender and Time

October

Leggo — Rome Newspaper

October

Mit Vergnügen: Space for Creativity at Münchner Freiheit

September

Mit Vergnügen, Prinzip Pop-Up Opening

July

INSIDE Magazine, “Decision Making Spaces”, Royal Academy of Art The Hague

July

TZ, 25 July 2017, “Temporary Use at Münchner Freiheit: Art and Coffee Instead of Vacancy”

July

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6 July 2017 — Five Friends Offer Artists and Architects a Gallery Space to Present Work and Ideas Free of Charge. “People Should Meet Here as Equals and Develop Topics Together,” Says Esche, Ahead of a Lecture by Portuguese Architect Aires Mateus

July

Rotterdam Tourism Guide, “Grenzhaus Rotterdam for World Refugee Day”

June

Baumeister Magazine Blog — What Makes a City and a Public Space? What Can Young International Architects Contribute to the Development of European Cities, and Which New Ideas Does a Growing City Like Munich Need? Discussion at MaximiliansForum, Munich

May

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 10 May 2017, Culture, “Rethinking Munich” — Benedict Esche Argues for More Innovative and Affordable Architecture, from Micro-Apartments and Tiny Houses to More Creative Uses of Residual, Transit and In-Between Spaces such as MaximiliansForum

May

Baunetz.de — How Does Young International Architecture Approach the Design of Cities? Can Its Experiments and Contributions Turn a City into a Shared House? Architect Benedict Esche and Sculptor and Performer Yvonne Leinfelder Offer a Platform for Young Architecture at MaximiliansForum, an Underground Passage in Central Munich

May

München.de, MaximiliansForum — Passage for Art and Design — an Art Space of the City of Munich, Principle of Hope: Young Architecture for the City. Benedict Esche and Yvonne Leinfelder Invite Visitors to a Shared, Transformable Platform Exploring How Contemporary Architecture Can Turn the City into a Common House

May

Association of German Builders, Architects and Engineers (BDB), Special Prize in the “Buildings” Category: Hortus Conclusus

April

Art Window #12, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, Standards Book Presentation and Exhibition

March

Hochparterre 03.2017, Reminiscence Book Review by Axel Simon — the Minimalist Book Journeys through Buildings from Many Cultures and into Architects’ Minds, Where Anonymous Infrastructure and Everyday Typologies Often Appear More Frequently than the Great Masters of Architectural History

March

Publication: Making Heimat. Atlas of Refugee Housing, Edited by Peter Cachola Schmal, Oliver Elser and Anna Scheuermann, Hatje Cantz Verlag

February

Publication: Standards, Edited by Benedict Esche and Niek van der Zwaag, ea Edition Architektur, Munich, 2017

February

BDA Berlin Neustadt 40/40, Gallery Contribution

February

DAZ online, DAZ Online, www.daz.de, Publication: BDAtalk: Building with Young Architects — an Opportunity for Our Future? Veröffentlichung: BDAtalk: Bauen mit jungen Architekten – eine Chance für unsere Zukunft?

January

Contribution to BDA Talk, the Debate Magazine of BDA Bavaria

January

www.goethe.de, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, Benedict Esche, Architect in Residence Goethe Institut Rotterdam, Benedict Esche, Architect in Residence

January

www.duitslandinstituut.nl, Artist in Residence | Benedict Esche Artist-in-Residence | Benedict Esche

January

RM Basics: Human Needs, Contribution: “On Building Spaces”

December

REMINISCENCE, edited by Benedict Esche and Benedikt Hartl, ea Edition Architektur, Munich

November

Publication Reminiscence, Baumeister Blog Post

November

Atelier No. 12 Magazine, “Creating History”

October

Library, Collection of Opportunities, “Totum Pro Parte”, Interview

August

Münchner Merkur, Portrait, “The Kitchen as the Soul of Refugee Accommodation”

August

VitrA Project Workshops: Experiencing Architecture and Design, 44th VitrA Project Workshop, “Report from Venice and Elsewhere”: Practice Lecture by Architect Benedict Esche

August

kreativ@muenchen: ARCHITECTURE Industry Meet-up at the Urban Summer Festival in the Creative Quarter, Panel Discussion with Moritz Auer, Auer Weber, Franz Damm, Keller Damm Roser, Benedict Esche, Kollektiv A, Dorothee Maier and meierei

July

MCBW — Munich Creative Business Week, “Smart City: Sleeping Offices and Seven-Square-Metre Apartments”

July

GEO Magazine, “The Flight Forward”

July

Frieze.com, “Gimme Shelter” by Niklas Maak: The German Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale and the Push to Build Homes for Refugees

June

Earthroom, Competition Entry and Exhibition, ModulArch

June

taz.zeozwei, the Magazine for Climate, Culture and Minds, “Places of Arrival”, by Margarete Moulin

June

Süddeutsche Zeitung, “Open Space for Free Thinkers”

June

Beitrag: Berlin Award 2016, Heimat in der Fremde, Contribution: Berlin Award 2016, A Home Away from Home, www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de, Refugee Housing in Ismaning, Place of Arrival, Munich Flüchtlingswohnen, Ismaning, Ort des Ankommens, München

June

Baunetzwoche #452, Baunetzwoche #452, www.baunetz.de, “Which Models Truly Promise a New Home” "welche Modelle wirklich eine neue Heimat versprechen"

May

La Biennale di Venezia — 15th International Architecture Exhibition, German Pavilion, Making Heimat

May

wettbewerbe aktuell, Competition Vision, Egon Eiermann Prize Project Presentation, 2015/2016 Issue

May

Baunetz, Meldung, "Making Heimat online, Datenbank für Flüchtlingsunterkünfte", Baunetz News, “Making Heimat Online: Database for Refugee Accommodation”, www.baunetz.de

March

Beitrag in BDA talk das Debattenmagazin des BDA Bayern, Contribution to BDA Talk, the Debate Magazine of BDA Bavaria, www.bda-talk.de: “Should Architecture Still Bring Light into the Darkness? For an Architecture of Integration, Symbiosis and Freedom, Against Exclusion, Separation and Isolation — Now More Than Ever.” "Soll Architektur heute noch Licht ins Dunkle bringen? Für eine Architektur der Integration, der Symbiose, der Freiheit, wider Ausgrenzung, Abgrenzung, Abschottung – jetzt erst recht."

March

BBA Bau Beratung Architektur, 11th Egon Eiermann Prize Awarded

February

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, “Against Sheer Need — a Model Project”, by Gabriele Detterer

February

School of Building for Energy and the Environment, Eckernförde, “Architects Build Good Refugee Camps”

January

NRZ — Zeus Kids Magazine, “How Refugees Could Live”, by Lisa Melchior and Christof Rose

January

Münchner Merkur, “The Opposite of a Ghetto”

December

StadtBauwelt 48.2015, “Experiment in a Mixed-Use Area”

December

Der Spiegel No. 52, “Never Again a Mud Camp”, by Ulrike Knöfel

December

Abendzeitung, Munich, “Refugee Accommodation: Now the Hall King Is Helping”, by Natalie Kettinger and Volker Isfort

October

Baunetz.de, Forms for an Architecture Institute, Egon Eiermann Prize

October

IsArch, “Attitude in Architecture”, Interview

Baunetz, Chicago Lakefront Competition

August

KooZA/rch, Fragmenting the Past into the Future, Interview

August

Afasiaarq, Architecture Magazine, 120 Hours Competition

April