18 February 2026

5th Dieter Rams Forum

Discussion on the topic of design and architecture 2

Continuation of the topic Design and Architecture 2 © rams foundation

In winter 2023/24, the rams foundation, in collaboration with the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Art, launched an event series that explores broader questions of industrial design through public panel discussions. In February 2026, the relationship between design and architecture was the subject of discussion for the second time. What might the relationship between architecture and design look like in the future? The rams foundation explored this question at the Fifth Dieter Rams Forum.

Participants are

Shirin Frangoul-Brückner, architect, co-founder and managing director of Atelier Brückner in Stuttgart and Seoul

Prof. Fritz Frenkler, former CEO of frogdesign in Tokyo, in 2000 founder and CEO of f/p design in Berlin, Munich and Kyoto, as well as Professor of Industrial Design at the Technical University of Munich from 2006 to 2020 and, since 2022, a member of the Board of Trustees of the rams foundation

Aline Hielscher, architect, running her own architectural office in Leipzig since 2016

Peter Cachola Schmal, architect, architecture writer and, since 2006, Director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main

Moderation: Klaus Klemp, rams foundation

Location: Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt am Main
Date: 18 February 2026, 5.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.

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