Paul Bode Prize awarded to Kassel students

First place went to Johanna Thiele and Florian Ridder. Second place went to Julia Dächert and Maria Magdalena Winkler, and third place to Jeroen Erhardt and Niclas Mael Garotti. The jury, consisting of NHW Managing Director Monika Fontaine-Kretschmer, Jürgen Bluhm (Head of Regional Center Kassel), Ulrich Türk (Head of Department of Urban Development North), Christof Nolda (City Building Council Kassel), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Altrock (Dean and Head of the Department of Urban Renewal and Planning Theory at the University of Kassel) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Jocher (Institute of Housing and Design at the University of Stuttgart), made their decision on Thursday. "The quality of the works was very convincing," said Monika Fontaine-Kretschmer. "They provide us with great impulses for the further development of our neighborhoods in Kassel."

The Paul Bode Prize is intended to promote professional and political discussion of new architectural and urban planning tasks and to stimulate conversation between practitioners and academics. The company and the university endeavor to link the prize to current topics and issues in architecture and urban planning. The task at the premiere was to develop urban planning, construction, open space planning, corporate strategy and housing management ideas for the future activities of Wohnstadt. Background: Wohnstadt wants to modernize its neighborhood at Pferdemarkt starting in 2022/23. The students were asked to go beyond the individual residential buildings to consider Wohnstadt's medium- and long-term strategy for the city center.

Press release of the NHM from 14. 2. 2020