eng ⬛Architecture and the climate crisis. Social housing. Design as speculation and experiment. What drives young architects today? We continue our series of meetings with selected architectural studios, which will share insights into their work ethos, chosen projects, how they have found their place on the domestic architectural scene, what being progressive means to them, and how they manage to survive under current professional and economic conditions.

12/12/2025, 18:00 ????Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu ▪️ Free admission, meeting held in English with translation to Polish

The guest of the December meeting will be Søren Pihlmann, founder of Pihlmann Architects (Copenhagen).

Søren Pihlmann is an architect and the founder of Pihlmann Architects. His work combines design with strategic thinking about materials and context: by analysing what already exists and giving it new life, Pihlmann challenges traditional architectural models. In his projects, he demonstrates that resource efficiency and intellectual precision can go hand in hand with expressive form and meaning.

Søren has led, among others, the transformation of the Thoravej 29 office building in Copenhagen into a cultural centre through the “radical reuse” of the existing structure, and he designed the Danish Pavilion for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

During the meeting, Pihlmann will discuss his approach of “building as adding on” — a practice based on revealing the structure and materials of a place rather than concealing them. His projects are not only buildings, but processes of transformation at the intersection of technology, materials, and the history of a site. The meeting will not be recorded or streamed, as we wish to foster a sincere conversation and genuine exchange. The idea for the series comes from the Warsaw-based studio TŁO, led by Michał Sikorski, which approaches architectural design through collaboration with urban planners and landscape architects. The studio creates public buildings and spaces, has published research on university campus design, and prepared the Poetics of Necessity exhibition for the Polish Pavilion at the London Design Biennale 2023. In December 2024, TŁO won the international competition for the redevelopment and expansion of the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław.

Photo: courtesy of Pihlmann Architects