Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan will be teaching an option studio at Harvard GSD in Spring 2020. The studio Geometry, Order and Mannerism is an optimistic answer to a moment of crisis. It will focus on the design of urban apartment buildings within the rich yet fragmented urban texture of Cambridge.
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Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten win together with ANLIKER AG and Energy-Group the sufficiency pitch for the long house on the Zwhatt site in Regensdorf. The project for the Adimora Investment Foundation, managed by Pensimo Management AG, uses an innovative approach to explore the limits of cost-effective construction. In a master plan by Peter Märkli, the long house completes an ensemble with buildings by Alexander Brodsky and Roger Boltshauser.
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Lütjens Padmanabhan Architects and the PWG Foundation and have been awarded with the 2019 Architecture Prize of the Canton Zurich for the house on Waldmeisterweg. The award is presented to clients and architects who have shown exemplary commitment to the realisation of high-quality architecture, and whose submitted projects have demonstrated urban and architectural qualities on the theme of "COLLABORATIVE!?".
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Friday 8 November 2019, 19:00 – 21:00, Hochparterre Bücher, Gasometerstrasse 28, Zürich. The event will include an introduction and a short informal discussion on the relationship between individual practice and the architectural canon, with Angela Deuber, Pascal Flammer, Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan, chaired by Samuel Penn. “Accounts” is the record of an extended conversation about Architecture and Architectural Education that took place between the members and invited guests of the AE Foundation in the first five years of its activity. Beginning with Doubt, Architecture, Buildings, City, History, Houses, the discussions continued to explore the many and varied schools of thought that occupy the discipline.
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Lütjens Padmanabhan are participating in the 2019 Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Works will be on display in Economy of Means curated by Éric Lapierre, What is Ornament? curated by Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene as well as Inner Space curated by Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli. Lisbon, various locations, October 3rd to December 2nd, 2019.
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Lütjens Padmanaban’s work demonstrates that there is a deep pleasure in the capacity of architecture to work on different levels, to move between functional requirements, practical constraints, and aesthetic precision, and to enjoy the occasional lack of resolution among them. That these requirements both relate to and fundamentally depart from historical precedents is also a form of meaning, one that allows us to articulate an appropriate language of building for today. Charles Holland writes for e-flux about the house on Waldmeisterweg.
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Certains regretteront les pertes, que ce soit la stabilité des rituels domestiques, une matérialité évoquant la permanence ou une analogie formelle avec le contexte. Si une nouvelle sensibilité est jugée par des conventions, nous aurons toujours la sensation d’un manque, puisque seules les qualités déjà accordées semblent compter. À Waldmeisterweg, Lütjens Padmanabhan délivrent une expérience d’habitat contemporaine convaincante, en continuité avec l’histoire. Ils nous rappellent que l’architecture peut être un débat culturel continu sur les possibilités du présent. Diogo Fonseca Lopes writes for Tracés 2019/ 16-17 about the house on Waldmeisterweg.
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Zürich, Cartha, Never Stop Reading, 6.11.2019
Zürich, Accounts, Hochparerre Bücher, 8.11.2019
Zürich, Louis Kahn Symposium, ETH Zürich 21.11.2019
Düsseldorf, Hochschule, 27.11.2019

Das Wohnhaus am Waldmeisterweg ist Ergebnis einer Sicht auf die Welt, die den Nutzer wertschätzt. Es ist ein dem Wesen nach egalitäres, aber gleichzeitig von einem starken architektonischen Ausdruckswillen geprägtes Gebäude, das unter der Prämisse disziplinierter Kostensteuerung entstanden ist. Wenn es gelänge, die zugrundeliegende Offenheit wieder in die architektonische Debatte einzuführen und Fragen von Geschmack und Stil nicht für moralische oder persönliche Stellvertreterkämpfe zu missbrauchen, dann wäre viel gewonnen. Reem Almannai und Florian Fischer schreiben in der Bauwelt 14.12 über das Haus am Waldmeisterweg.
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Spacious, well-designed and affordable, Swiss housing like Lütjens Padmanabhan’s apartment building in Zürich is the housing holy grail, but all that glitters is not gold. Eleanor Beaumont writes in the AR September issue about the House on Waldmeisterweg.
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Robert Venturi, Charles Jencks, Richard Artschwager und die Cancelleria in Rom – es kommt einiges zusammen in diesem Mehrfamilienhaus in Zürich. Dass die Spielerei mit Referenzen tatsächlich auch funktionierende Grundrisse mit sich bringen kann, zeigt der Bau exemplarisch. Erik Wegerhoff schreibtim Baumeister 08/19 über das Haus am Waldmeisterweg.
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Ein Gespräch mit Gret Loewensberg, Gesa Schneider, Li Tavor, Miklós Gimes und Thomas Padmanabhan moderiert von Ina Hirschbiel Schmid und Caspar Schärer. Architekturforum Zürich, 25.9.2109, 19:00.
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Oliver Lütjens will give a lecture on the practice's work followed by a conversation with André Tavares and Federico Tranfa hosted by Casabella Formazione and Istituto Svizzero Milano. Casabella Laboratorio, Via Vigevano 8PRO, Milano, June 27th at 18:30.
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Werkvortrag von Thomas Padmanabhan im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe spann_weiten. Technische Universität Dresden, Zellscher Weg 19, ASB Hörsaal 120, 19. Juni 2019 um 18:30.
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Schuppenhaut, Holzgitter, Metallhut - Oliver Lütjens und Thomas Padmanabhan mischen für ein Wohnhaus in Zürich Referenzen und Neuerdachtes so humorvoll wie günstig. Palle Petersen schreibt die Titelgeschichte über das Wohnhaus am Waldmeisterweg im Hochparterre 5/19.
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Werkvortrag von Thomas Padmanabhan im Rahmen der Gastprofessur von Jaume Mayol. Universität Stuttgart, Raum 3.08, 12. Juni 2019 um 18:30.

Matthew Blunderfield speaks with Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan about references, irony and the relationship between construction and truth.
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Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan will give a talk on the practice's work as part of Dirk Somer's show Bovenbouw Architectuur - The House of the Explorer hosted by the Flemisch Architecture Institute. De Singel, Antwerp. 16th of May 2019, 20:00.
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Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan will give a talk on the practice's work hosted by the Oslo Association of Architects. Josefines gate 34, Oslo. 9th of May 2019, 18:00.
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Podiumsdiskussion im Rahmen der BSA-Monatsveranstaltungen. Die entwerferische Erfahrung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Grundriss, Fassade und Städtebau ist Ausgangspunkt der Diskussion. Nach kurzen Statements von Caroline Fiechter, Elli Mosayebi, Thomas Padmanabhan und Adrian Streich wird mit Einbezug des Publikums diskutiert. Architekturforum Zürich, 11. April 2019, 18:30.
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Lütjens Padmanabhan will contribute to the exhibtion Alternative Histories curated by Jantje Engels and Marius Grootveld, in collaboration with Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation. Acknowledging that architecture is a corpus of inherited ideas, Alternative Histories invited more than 80 contemporary practices in the UK and Europe to imagine an exchange with architects from the past. 23 March–14 April 2019, 6 Cork Street, Mayfair, London. Open Saturdays and Sundays only 11am–6pm.
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Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan will give a talk on the practice's work as part of the lecture series Architecture on Stage hosted by the Architecture Foundation, in association with the Barbican. Frobisher Auditorium 1, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London. 18th of March 2019, 19:00.
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Oliver Lütjens & Thomas Padmanabhan im Gespräch mit Berthold Hub. Professur Delbeke, ETH Hönggerberg, HIL E 67 (Rote Hölle), Mittwoch, 13. März 2019 um 18.30 Uhr.
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Conversation with Mariuccia Casadio, Alessandro Guerriero, Trix and Robert Haussmann moderated by Valentina Ehnimb and Oliver Lütjens at the opening of Cinzia Ruggeri's show Home. A User's Manual . Tuesday, 5 March 2019, 5 pm, gta exhibitions ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg.
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Werkvortrag von Oliver Lütjens und Thomas Padmanabhan am Institut Architektur der Hochschule Luzern am 28. Februar 2019 um 19:00. Dr. Josef Mäder-Saal, HSLU, Technikumstrasse 21, 6048 Horw.
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A critical interrogation by Maria Conen, Oliver Lütjens, Adam Caruso and Peter St John as part of the Caruso St John exhibition at Architekturforum Zürich. Brauerstrasse 16, 8004 Zürich, January 30, 2019, 19.00.
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Werkvortrag von Thomas Padmanabhan im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe Positionen der TU Darmstadt am 21. November 2018 um 18:00. Gebäude L3|01 Raum 93, Campus Lichtwiese, El-Lissitzky-Straße 1, Darmstadt.
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The launch of the revised and expanded second edition of Irina Davidovici’s Forms of Practice: German-Swiss Architecture 1980–2000 seeks to reposition the “forms of practice” of 1990s Swiss architecture in the context of the emerging “communities of practice” operating across Europe today. This event features short reflections from young architects on the Swiss architecture of the late twentieth century, followed by a moderated panel discussion. schwarzescafé, LUMA Westbau, Löwenbräukunst, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich. 21. November 2018, 18:00.

The house in Binningen has received the award Gute Bauten 2018 from the cantons Basel-Landschaft and Basel-Stadt. The exhibition is on display at the Kleine Theaterplatz in Basel and at the forecourt of the government building in Liestal until November 12.
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Our proposal for the Baugewerbliche Berufsschule Zürich has been awarded with the 4th prize. The exhibition of this open competition with 103 entries can be visited at Zollstrasse 36 in Zürich until September 18.
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The project for the new residence of the Swiss Ambassador in Algiers will be featured in the exhibition 44 Low-resolution Houses at Princeton University. The exhibition is curated by Michael Meredith and will display work by 6a, Angela Deuber, Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Atelier Bow-Wow, Fala Atelier, GAFPA, Go Hasegawa, Johnston Marklee, MAIO, Monadnock, MOS, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Pascal Flammer and many others. North Gallery, Princeton University School of Architecture, September 11-November 9, 2018.
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Es hat schlanke Beine, kleine Füsse und erinnert an ein Tier mit grossen Ohren, das ein bisschen unbeholfen vor dem Haus steht, als würde es auf jemanden warten. Max Otto Zitzelsberger schreibt im Baumeister 09/2018 über den Briefkasten in Binningen.
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The letting of the Waldmeisterweg apartments has begun. 21 flats will be available from December 1st 2018. The sample apartment can be visited on August 31 from 17.30 to 19.00.
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Our essay A Day at the Beach on Robert Venuturi's Lieb House is featured in San Rocco 14.
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Nous invitons à notre conférence Aucune question du poids à la Maison de l’architecture Midi Pyrénées à Toulouse. 22. mai 2018.
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Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan will be giving a lecture on the work of their practice entitled Not a question of weight. TU Delft on May 4th, 12.45.

Tilla Baganz spricht mit Oliver Lütjens über Fassaden, die Renaissance, die Lehre und das Entwerfen zu zweit.
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Oliver Lütjens und Thomas Padmanabhan sprechen am 7. März im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe ERASER bei den BHSF Werkstattgesprächen. BHSF Architekten, Hardstrasse 69, 8004 Zürich, 7. März 2018, 19:30.
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There is an uncanny gap between the cold precision of a computer drawing and the confusing uncertainty of the design process. We try to bridge that gap with a collaborative method that includes a lot of discussions and the use of computer-prints, scalpel, glue, pencil and Tipp-Ex. A short essay on our working method accompanied by a drawing for the new residence for the Swiss ambassador in Algiers is featured by Drawing Matter in their weekly column Drawings of the week.
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