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Studio Alchimia @ archithese

Hybrid Space Lab interviewed Alessandro Guerriero on the occasion of the first major retrospective Studio Alchimia at Berlin’s Bröhan Museum.

Article Studio Alchimia by Hybrid Space Lab @ archithese, Zurich, Switzerland, 8 September 2025

Interview Alessandro Guerriero @ Studio Alchimia

On June 23rd 2025, at Fondazione Prada in Milan, Alessandro Guerriero was interviewed by Frans Vogelaar and Elizabeth Sikiaridi of Hybrid Space Lab.

Interview with Alessandro Guerriero by Hybrid Space Lab @ Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, 23 June 2025

 

 

 

Hybrid Care @ Stuttgarter Zeitung

Elizabeth Sikiaridi joins the event, embodying a transdisciplinary design approach where city, nature and the digital are conceived and developed together.

Elizabeth Sikiaridi @ Stuttgarter Zeitung , Germany, 13 March 2025

 

 

Hybrid Culture @ Marlowes Architecture Magazine

Hybrid Space Lab initiated research and ideation programs to reimagine cultural spaces in context of the digital together with international partners.

Concerts, Jam-sessions, Performances, Screenings & Narrow- and Broadcasts, Workshops & Lectures, @ Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire the Hague, Sonic Acts, V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Waag Future Lab, transmediale, CTM Festival, Vibelab, Clubcommision Berlin, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Amsterdam Dance Event & SEXYLAND World, 2020-2025

Publication @ Marlowes Architecture Magazine, Germany, 30 May 2025

 

Studio Alchimia @ Bröhan Museum and ADI Design Museum

Alchimia revolutionised design in the late 1970s, breaking with functionalism and opening a new era. Frans Vogelaar was part of the group in 1981–1982.

Exhibition & Publication @ Alchimia, Bröhan Museum & ADI Design Museum, Berlin & Milan, 17 April – 7 September 2025

KOSMOS @ taz

Interview by Felix Hofmann, journalist at the Berlin taz newspaper in the taz Schlossaneignung Blog.

Interview & Publication, Felix Hofmann @ taz, Berlin, 27 November 2024

Humboldt Jungle @ Schloss-aneignung

An article by Philipp Oswalt in DOM 17 mentions Humboldt Jungle, Hybrid Space Lab’s initiative to green the Humboldt Forum façade.

Publication Schlossaneignung, Philipp Oswalt @ DOM magazine No. 17, DOM Publishers, Berlin, 1 November 2024

Sustainable Landscape Design and Development @ Baukultur NRW

Urban open spaces face high demands: they must be climate‑adapted, ecologically valuable, foster interaction, be multifunctional, aesthetic and support health.

Publication Sustainable Landscape Design and Development @ Baukultur NRW, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, 15 September 2024

Wonderful Green Facade @ Tagesspiegel

Museum Director Paul Spies notes that tourists bypass the Humboldt Forum and recalls proposals like a green façade for the palace.

Interview Paul Spies by Birgit Rieger @ Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 29 June 2024

Humboldt Futures @ Atlas der Datenkörper

Hybrid Space Lab developed a series of projects for the radical appropriation of the controversial Humboldt Forum in Berlin.

Publication Humboldt Futures @ Atlas der Datenkörper 2, Transcript Verlag, Germany, 27 May 2024

Poly Garden City @ SHEDIA Magazine

Playgrounds, gardens and sports areas show how rooftops can form an elevated city, offering environmental benefits and new spaces for social interaction.

Interview @ SHEDIA magazine 111, Athens, May 2023

Humboldt Volcano @ RBB

A sort of staircase enveloped in jungle thickets, a waterfall and food offerings on the way up to the roof of Berlin’s city castle.

Publication @ RBB, Berlin, 5 February 2023

Daring Design @ Tagesspiegel

As adventurous as Humboldt himself: The design by the architecture firm Hybrid Space Lab for the Berlin Palace.

Publication by Julia Weiss @ Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 31 January 2023

 

hybrid @ tanz

Hybrid Space Lab wrote the lead article “hybrid” for tanz Yearbook 2022, focusing on body and space within the interplay of the physical and the digital.

Publication hybrid @ tanz, Germany, 19 August 2022

Deep Space @ ARA

Publication by Sílvia Marimon Molas in the leading Catalan newspaper ARA on how Spanish authorities are relocating symbols of the dictatorship.

Publication Uncomfortable Memory, Sílvia Marimon Molas @ ARA Catalan Newspaper, Barcelona, 16 July 2022

Interview on Iannis Xenakis @ Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Interview with Elizabeth Sikiaridi by Britta Bürger on Iannis Xenakis‘ architectures on the occasion of his 100th birthday about his importance as an architect.

Interview in German with Elizabeth Sikiaridi by Britta Bürger on Iannis Xenakis @ Fazit, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Live Radio, 29 May 2022

Hybrid Heritage @ Practices of Heritage

How to re-signify heritage and physical monuments with the help of creative visions and hybrid (combined physical and digital) tools?

Publication Hybrid Heritage @ Identity and Heritage, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Stuttgart, Germany, 1 Februari 2022

reWild Autobahn @ BauNetz

Baunetz showcases ReWild Autobahn as part of the Berlin Atlas.

Publication ReWild Autobahn @ BauNetz, Berlin Atlas, Berlin, 19 November 2021

Hybrid Spaces @ Lithuanian Union of Architects

Our sense of reality is shaped by hybrid existence, as multifaceted hybridity increasingly permeates all dimensions of contemporary life.

Publication Hybrid Spaces @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Architectural Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021

Re-Charting Places @ Designs for Vulnerable Memories

Publication on Hybrid Space Lab’s work on contested monuments is published in book “Designs for Vulnerable Memories”.

Publication Re-Charting Places @ Contested Spaces – Concerted Projects: Designs for Vulnerable Memories, LetteraVentidue Edizioni, Syracuse, Italy, April 2021

Deep Space @ Art Journal Hjärnstorm

Hjärnstorm, the Swedish independent journal of art, literature, philosophy published an article on Deep Space.

Publication Valle de los Caídos: the Digital Architecture Embraces a Painful Heritage, Cecilia Nyman @ Hjärnstorm Stockholm, 5 January 2021

Deep Space @ archithese

Hybrid Space Lab analyzed “Valley of the Fallen” near Madrid – the pompous tomb for the fascist dictator Francisco Franco.

Publication Informing instead of glorifying, Jørg Himmelreich, @ archithese, Switserland, 28 November 2020

Deep Space @ Deutschlandfunk Kultur

The Valle de los Caídos is controversial as a Civil War memorial, long serving to glorify Franco rather than commemorate the fallen.

Interview, Eckhard Roelcke, journalist @ Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Germany, 8 August 2020

Deep Space @ Tagesspiegel

Hybrid Space Lab suggests recontextualizing Franco’s controversial mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen, contributing a new perspective to the monument debate.

Publication, Bernhard Schultz, journalist @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 16 July 2020

Deep Space @ TAZ

Monuments carry meaning. Hybrid Space Lab studies how monument narratives can be renegotiated and how critical perspectives can be introduced.

Interview, Brigitte Werneburg, journalist @ taz, Germany, 14 July 2020

Right to Hybrid City @ Architecture Magazine Marlowes

As digital tools expand during COVID‑19, spatial options and impacts of digitization sharpen, prompting reflection on who benefits and what guides our cities.

Publication The Right to the Hybrid City @ Marlowes Magazine for Architecture and City, Germany, 19 May 2020

Bricks & Bits @ Lithuanian Radio

Interview by Rūta Leitanaitė on Lithuanian Radio on how physical and digital city interact and how integrated development can make cities fair and attractive.

Interview City of Bricks and Bits, Rūta Leitanaitė @ Lithuanian Radio, “Need an Architect”, Lithuania, 2 April 2020

Future Heritage @ DASA Museum

What would it be like if a volcano erupted next to the new Berlin City Palace?

Publication Future Heritage @ Points of View, DASA Museum, Dortmund, Germany 1 March 2020

Humbolt Jungle & Humboldt Volcano @ Publisher Querido

Humboldt Jungle and Humboldt Volcano are mentioned by author Merlijn Schoonenboom in the book “Een kleine geschiedenis van de grootse Duitse worsteling”.

Publication A small history of the great German struggle, Merlijn Schoonenboom @ Querido Publishers, Amsterdam, 5 December 2019

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hybrid

For tanz Yearbook 2022, we wrote the lead article “hybrid,” exploring the body in space amid the fusion of physical and digital realms.

Publication @ tanz Yearbook 2022, Germany, 15 August 2022

Hybrid Spaces

Hybrid Spaces explores future social and cultural spaces by linking physical environments with digital networks, highlighting their hybrid qualities.

Publication Hybrid Space @ @ Regeneration [and its Discontents], Lithuanian Architectural Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 June 2021

Crossover Diplomacy

Monuments stand as a tangible testimony to what is untouchable: memory and history in their collective dimension.
As vehicles of meaning, monuments are ambassadors affecting the public negotiation of narratives

Article Creative Crossovers @ Public Diplomacy Magazine, University of Southern California, USC Annenberg, USC Centre on Public Diplomacy, USC Masters of Public Diplomacy Program, USA, 7 June 2019

Hybrid Design Institute

The merging of the three separate Dutch institutes for architecture, design and media, into a new hybrid institute.

Publication Rebooting Design @ The Design Journal, Volume 15, Issue 4, UK, 5 December 2012

Networked Participatory Design

Networked participatory design systems are replacing the logics of the industrial age, where the creative ones designed for the non-creative masses.

Publication Networked Participatory Design @ World Architects, 11 May 2012

Cognitive Space

Digital information‑communication networks reshape our physical environment and transform the social, economic, and cultural organization of society.

Publication Space of Flows and Space of Places versus Hybrid Space @ Delft University of Technology, Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism, Delft, the Netherlands, November 2010

Hybrid World

Today, media networks are influencing and interacting with real places.

Publication Hybrids @ Interior Wor(l)ds, Umberto Allemandi & C., Torino, Italy, September 2010

Hybrid Architectures of Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis, trained as an engineer, worked in Le Corbusier’s office and co‑designed the Philips Pavilion’s shell, the vessel containing the Poème.

Publication Hybrid Architectures of Iannis Xenakis @ Conference Poetics of Space, Sonic Acts 2010, Amsterdam, 25 February 2010

Infodrome

Infodrome advises the Dutch government on the information society, studying ICT’s social impact and shaping debate.

Research & Publications @ Infodrome, Thinktank of the Dutch Government, Den Haag, 1 March 2000

Iannis Xenakis

In 20th‑century aesthetics, a striking synergy appears as Le Corbusier creates the Electronic Poem and its pavilion for Philips at the 1958 Brussels World Fair.

Research, Lectures  & Publications the Architectures of Iannis Xenakis, Synthesis after Le Corbusier, Elizabeth Sikiaridi, © Hybrid Space Lab, Amsterdam, 1 June 1999

Public Media Urban Interfaces

Public urban space and digital networks seem to compete, yet telecom systems now take over many traditional public functions once tied to shared urban environments.

Publication Public Media Urban Interfaces @ Lab für Kunst und Apparate, Jahrbuch, ISBN 3-88375-324-6, , Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, 1 October 1998

Media & The City

Public urban space and communication networks are seen as competing realms, yet telecom systems increasingly take over urban functions.

Publication Media & The City @ de Architekt, den Haag, the Netherlands, July 1997
Introduction Harm Tilman, editor in chief @ de Architect, den Haag, the Netherlands, Juli 1997