Architectures of the Archive

Reorganizing Memory and Hertiage

Event with Prof. Dr. Sung Hong Kim [University of Seoul], Setareh Noorani [Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam] and Evelyn Steiner [ETH Zürich], #4 of the Lecture Series Organizing Architectures: Coloniality

This event brings together Sung Hong Kim, Setareh Noorani, and Evelyn Steiner to discuss the politics and poetics of archives, including their exclusions, futures and gaps. Together, they explore how archives can become spaces for negotiation between memory and material, visibility and omission, and the local and the global.

With a guided tour through the exhibition Out of Storage at Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt.

The event will be in English.

Members of the Architektenkammer Hessen (AKH) can earn 2 credits points for participating.

11 February 2026
7 – 8:30 p.m.
at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)
Schaumainkai 43, 60596 Frankfurt

Future Systems: Project 124 “Peanut,” 1984 – model of the project
Future Systems: Project 124 “Peanut,” 1984 – model of the project; plastic, acrylic glass, metal on acrylic glass, purchased by the Friends of the DAM, 2016; © Kaplicky Centre, Prague, photo: Uwe Dettmar, Frankfurt am Main