![Being an architect and a mother at the office of Almut Grüntuch-Ernst. Copyright: Edgar Rodtmann (for DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum)](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DAM_Frau-Architekt_Almut-GrÅntuch-Ernst_GrÅntuch-Ernst-Architekten_Foto-Edgar-Rodtmann-1.jpg)
Although more than half of all students in architecture faculties are now women, only very few manage to make the leap into the top ranks, where architecture is still a …
![Restaurant Oosten is in front of the ECB high-rise. Copyright: Andrea Schwappach for ga frankfurt.](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/image-1-EZB_OOSTEN-DSC04497-©-ga-frankfurt_as.jpg)
In October 2012, Frankfurt’s restaurant “Oosten” opened on the former “Ruhrort shipyard”. Like a stranded houseboat in the midst of cranes, construction sites and unpaved roads, Oosten announced a new …
![I.G.-Farben-Haus by Hans Poelzig, marking the entrance to the new Goethe University campus. Copyright: Andrea Schwappach for ga frankfurt.](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/image-1_4_Unicampus-Westend-©-ga-frankfurt_as.jpg)
This is what Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray sang in the film musical “Cabaret” in 1972. As a matter of fact, Frankfurt am Main has always renewed and reinvented itself …
![Baukollegium at work. Copyright: Lidia Tirri.](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Baukollegium_1.jpg)
Thomas Krüger, CEO of communication and tours company Ticket B – Experience Architecture, has been commissioned as the new organizational coordinator of the Baukollegium Berlin for 5 years. The design …
![A perspective on the street life around Markthalle Neun in Berlin. Copyright: Thomas M. Krüger.](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Markthalle.jpg)
For some years now, the food culture in Berlin has turned the city into an international hotspot. The grandchildren of the 60s generation – young people, mostly from abroad – …
![Mouse Bunker main façade, as a key example of Brutalism in Berlin. Copyright. Thomas M. Krüger.](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mousebunker1.jpg)
Hardly anything in the architectural history is more frequently misunderstood than the term “brutalism”. It doesn’t mean gloomy, brutal-looking concrete monsters, but buildings whose characteristics are raw, with unadulterated material …
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