Bi Talk Daryan Knoblauch

Suspending presence

• Date: 13.03.2026
• Time: 18:00
• Place: Studio 1

Founded in 2023, Daryan Knoblauch is the director of his eponymous Berlin-based experimental and cross-disciplinary architecture studio. The practice articulates its work through cultural centers, ephemeral pavilions, and devices for artistic performance. By amplifying the built expression of a diverse clientele across the cultural sector, the studio has been commissioned by institutions such as the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Exit in Atlanta, and ArkDes in Stockholm.

Short description of the lecture

"suspending presence ” is a lecture that reviews the offices aim to push beyond conventional architectural boundaries, in which the studio engages with infrastructures of experiential culture, performance, fashion, and technology. It frames architecture as a tool to reflect on, problematize, reveal, and research the immediate present. Central to this approach is a building methodology the studio terms functional misuse: the strategic reconfiguration of tuned readymades, rented systems, and structural forms to generate a language of brutalized display.