Venice – SKÅTAR ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

FREDRIK SKÅTAR

WORK EXPERIENCE

2010—: Founder, Architect, Designer
Skåtar Architecture & Design , Berlin, Germany

2018—: Adj. professor
Dessau Institute of Architecture, Dessau, Germany

2020—2021: Adj. professor
Free University of Bolzano, Italy

2007—2010: Architect, Project manager
Studio Olafur Eliasson GmbH , Berlin, Germany

2005—2006: Architect
Tema Architects , Uppsala, Sweden EDUCATION

2012—: PhD researcher, Architecture and computation, LTH School of Architecture , Lund, Sweden

1999—2005: Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm, Sweden

2004: Architecture , Universität der Künste , Berlin

2002: Architecture , ENSAPLV , Paris, France

1997—1998: Fine arts , Wiks Folkhögskola , Sweden

slow urbanism Bouwmeester concepts: time:
- for the carbon footprint
- care, patience
- time for understanding, investigating, replacing, executing effects: Bouwmeester Kristiaan Borret (2014):
It's better to spend 10 years longer in development than it is to live 100 years with the wrong project creating spatial quality and cultural sustainability in one neighbourhood:
development of one project per 2 years ideas: urban acupuncture Bouwmeester concepts: Bouwmeester concepts: spatial quality / cultural sustainability — Valerie van de Velde, Bouwmeester's office Antwerpen, 2021 Also, we like the term cultural sustainability, which (not only) focuses on the technical aspects of sustainability (energy efficiency, water recuperation, et cetera), but considers other aspects such as history, collective memory, personal geographies, identity, et cetera. Essentially, we think it is about building communities, creating places rather than spaces.” “[Sustainability] has indeed become a container word, and so we are using it less and less. We speak more frequently of spatial quality, which embodies various disciplines and integrates ecological, social, economic and architectural aspects. SUSTAINABLE* ARCHITECTURE
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TIME:
CARE, OBSERVATION, ADAPTATION
* spatial quality, cultural sustainability SKÅTAR Lectures 1 2 3 4 5 bma: spatial quality/ cultural sustainability bma-acupuncture bma: building permit bma: 4 functions bma: slow urbanism 6 time

VENICE ARCHITECTURAL WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
Fredrik Skåtar, Architect SAR/MSA Main challenges Tourism Acqua alta Mestre / Marghera Mobility Current situation
Is Venice still Venice? Abandoned / unused buildings Depopulation Lack of sound job market Lack of policy What can architects do? Cannot build away problems Top-down Bottom-up Enable activities Combination Top-down Bottom-up