Luxembourg Pavilion at 16th Venice Architecture Biennial 
The Architecture of the Common Ground
Luxembourg Center for Architecture | Luxembourg Ministery for Culture
2018 | Venice (IT)
© LUCA / Alberto Sinigagli



PhD Dissertation Céline Zimmer
Ein Dritter Wohnungssektor für Luxemburg – Emanzipation von Markt und Staat in der Wohnversorgung
University of Luxembourg
2023 | Esch/Alzette (LU) 
© Céline Zimmer, Uni.lu



Lecture by Florian Hertweck
Homes for Tomorrow
CANactions international architecture festival
09.2021 | Kiev (UA)
“Housing is infrastructure, which means that it should not be a commodity, but a common good for the whole of society. It follows that the public sector should provide land and space and make it fertile for very different housing typologies, far beyond what the market is producing today.” 

International Open Competition
with 2001 and OLM (Paris)
Wohnen am Birnbachpark
2020 (unbuilt) | Landau (DE)
© Studio Hertweck, 2001

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less yellow
Objects as found are a valuable resource – we dominantly work with what is already there. Title with Line 
beyond disjunction
The separation of uses has become obsolete – our architecture and urbanism are functionally hybrid and inclusive. Title with Line 
building in time 
Societal needs change constantly – we understand architecture as an open and adaptive process. Title with Line 
housing is infrastructure
Housing is a fundamental human right and as such an overall societal duty – to contribute, we focus on planning non-profit housing. Title with Line 
economy of means
It is difficult enough to produce something good with a lot of resources – our ambition is to create something better with as few means as possible. Title with Line 
caring for soil
Soil is not only the ground buildings and infrastructures are built on, but an integral part of the planning process and a resource we deal with carefully. Title with Line 
after bitumen
Sealed land is the reservoir for the ecological transition — we work on concepts for its diverse development or reversion. Title with Line 
materiality matter
Building is responsible for the major part of the extraction of resources — to change that, we reduce the use of extractive materials and instead source local and regenerative ones.
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