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Vegetation’s Impact on Climate

webinar by Dipl.-Met. Guido W. Halbig Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 17.00 hrs For the 50th lecture in our series, we are pleased to announce a webinar featuring a fundamentally important presentation: Dipl.-Met. Guido Halbig will highlight climate influences that are...

Experiences with Nature-Inclusive Building

ir. Maike van Stiphout, landscape architect, Amsterdam Free webinar Tuesday, Febrary 10, 2026, 17.00 hrs The temperature-reducing effects of greening in urban spaces are, fortunately, now widely known. But what does "greening" actually mean? Chlorophyll isn't a...

Greywater Use – Potentials in and Around Buildings

Webinar with Oliver Pongracz and Susanne Formanek Now available on our YouTube channel: Greywater Use – Potentials in/on and around Buildings In densely built cities, water is becoming an increasingly precious resource. At the same time, a large amount of...

Urban Expansion in Munich: The Role of Cooperatives for Social Cohesion under the Guidelines ‘Sustainability and Ecology’

Dipl.Ing. Wolfgang Heidenreich Wolfgang Heidenreich examines the influence of activities by young housing cooperatives on new Munich urban districts, through which the implementation of the goals 'ecology/biodiversity' and 'climate protection' in the areas of...

The example of Biotope City Wienerberg: The green city at the crossroad of disciplines, investors and authorities

Contribution to the Conference of the Deutscher Werkbund Berlin on 'New Social Housing', May 2022 As architects and urban planners we design and build products that should still fulfil their function for at least 100 years. Of course, we cannot give an idea of the...

Space for Nature in the City

Webinar by Conrad Amber Now at the Youtube Channel of BIOTOPE CITY JOURNAL click on 'video' - MPORTANT: At the end of the English announcement, you'll find instructions to activate YouTube's AUTO TRANSLATION for the video There is room for nature everywhere. Whether...

Edible Balcony Gardens With Rainwater Integration in Retrofit

Dr. DI Irene Zluwa and DI Dr. Philipp Spörl GRÜNSTATTGRAU Innovations- und Forschungs-GmbH and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Institute of Engineering Biology and Landscaping Irene Zluwa (GRÜNSTATTGRAU) and Philipp Spörl (BOKU University)...

A walk through the garden paradise Nuthe Siedlung in Potsdam

Photos: Helga Fassbinder The social housing estate was designed and built between 1999 and 2002 by Hinrich Baller, architect in Berlin and emeritus professor at the Academy of Arts Hamburg (HfbK). The Nuthe Estate in Potsdam has to be considered as Hinrich Baller's...

Obituary for Hinrich Baller

The news of the death of Hinrich Baller, one of the great architects of the past century, reached us with a delay. He was one of the few in the architectural world who devoted himself to the topic of integrating greenery into buildings from the very beginning of...

The Biotope City Concept

The Biotope City concept - the dense city as nature - was developed from the realization of fundamental changes in the framework conditions of architecture and urban development due to climate change, global population expansion and rapid urbanization, loss of...

Biodiversity in the City – Experiences With Planting Tree Beds

on the Youtube Channel of Biotope City Journal : https://www.youtube.com/@biotopecityjournal8524 WEBINAR by DI Andrea Mann, architect and DI Sarah Prehsler, landscape planner The greening of residual areas in the city is a current topic in climate protection and...

Between Concrete and Flowers – Wild Bees and Wasps in the City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQr6BYWGk90&t=11s Zoom webinar with Dr. Dominique Zimmermann, Natural History Museum Vienna The much-lauded greenery in the fight against urban heating does not come alone: there is no flora without fauna - and that includes...