LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   The new Franklin district is taking shape on a redevelopment site in northeast Mannheim. On grounds that were once a US military base stood a school building. The brief of the competition won by LRO called for two new constructions: a new classroom b

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   In the German municipality of Allensbach, near Konstanz, the Hegne convent complex includes the Marianum secondary school, where a new annex was needed to accommodate additional facilities. The new building, 109 meters long and about 12 wide, directl

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   The annex sought not only to accommodate new programs but also to improve a complicated urban situation characterized by loosely related buildings and a heavily used street. A new underground parking garage forms an entrance square that connects the

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   On the outskirts of the city, a building provides new spaces for classes and meetings to be shared by a prestigious ‘gymnasium’ and the historical choir school of the cathedral of Cologne. The new educational facilities make use of the formal and mat

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   A building with explicit references to medieval architecture replaces an obsolete brutalist annex that never managed to gain acceptance in the historical core of the city of Frankfurt. An entrance plaza envisioned as an open-air exhibition space divi

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   The Evangelical Protestant Church’s new headquarters in Stuttgart occupies the site of a 15th-century Dominican monastery destroyed in World War II and makes its remnants part of it. The complex replaces the disjointed postwar reconstruction and crea

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   In an artery opened in the 1950s to decongest the historic center, the extension of the local savings bank dialogues with the medieval fabric without sacrificing its contemporary essence. The use of recycled bricks echoes the solid walls of the build

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   Sober brick walls engage in a dialogue with the sinuous silhouette of this diocesan building evoking the forms of the Baroque church that previously stood on the site.

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   This museum of modern art engages with its environment through a poetic masonry of bricks left over from the demolition of an old monastery in the vicinity.

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   Admiramos la pátina que poseen las obras de Lewerentz, Anselm y Celsing, edificios modernos integrados en su entorno como si siempre hubieran estado ahí. Nuestro colegio del parque de Scharnhauser en Ostfildern, cerca de Stuttgart, debía ser algo par

With the wit and bonhomie that characterized him, Arno Lederer would say that he tried to avoid “the pallor of the corpse from modernity.” Perhaps in the trail of Behrens, Poelzig, and Mendelsohn, the Swabian architect sought to confer a sensual mate

‘This will kill that.’ In Victor Hugo’s prophecy – which was also McLuhan’s – ‘this’ referred to books and ‘that’ to cathedrals. It was a process of creative destruction that lasted as long as it took digitalization to arrive, and with it a new proph

Unlike so many architects preoccupied with dissolving the boundary between interior and exterior, the architectural trio formed by Arno Lederer, Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir, and Marc Oei turns back to the tradition of solid walls and clearly marked enclosur

Yorck Förster   Demographics can partly explain the growth of spiritual needs in the Germany of the present, but how has architecture responded to this unexpected return to religion?