Experimental fosters projects that aim to discover new territories in the field of architecture with the goal to change how and with what we build.
The Ukrainian architecture team Anna Pomazanna and Mykhailo Shevchenko (Materià Lab) is continuing its project “Grunt” as the first independently supported Experimental Foundation Fellowship. Over the next nine months, the team will advance regenerative reconstruction at Eco Hub Plastova in Lviv, developing compressed earth blocks made from contaminated soils and testing an encapsulation strategy to ensure safe, sustainable implementation in a real building project.
Experimental Foundation is pleased to announce the start of the Experimental Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) for sustainable architecture: Experimental Fellowship — Harvard GSD.
Supporting practice-oriented researchers working with the GSD’s Laboratory for Design Technologies (LDT), the year-long fellowship has a thematic focus on health, wellness, and sustainable material systems for buildings, landscapes, and cities.
The two selected fellows, Juan Pablo Ugarte (MArch ’14, DDes ’23) and Noam Attias, are conducting their research in the context of the LDT. Ugarte has begun work on a project assessing how workspaces that include wood and other natural materials can alleviate stress and promote wellness. Attias’s research focuses on studying new approaches to bio-fabrication with fungi.
Read the full announcement here.
ARCH+ Salon: Experimental Fellows on Situated Regionalism
12 Nov 2025, 19:00, Berlin
How can experimental material research and architectural practice converge to address the ecological and social legacies of rapid industrialization, colonial-era infrastructures, war-related contamination, and accelerating climate change in Vietnam?
Join Experimental Fellows at Bauhaus Earth Hà Nguyen, Nhut Nguyen (arb architects), and Hojung Kim, Material Matters (MM) Research Lab, for an evening on earthen construction, vernacular knowledge, and new regenerative building practices between Hanoi and Berlin.
The event is initiated by the Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth, with the kind support of the Experimental Foundation. Please register online.
Architects and researchers Ha Nguyen of arb architects, Vietnam, and Hojung Kim, US-based professor, have been selected for the Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth with their project “Situated Regionalism”. Their fellowship will unfold between Vietnam and Berlin, combining fieldwork, prototyping, and digital research to advance regenerative earthen construction rooted in local knowledge and ecological sensitivity.
Last week we opened On Earth Construction, the exhibition of our two current Experimental Fellowships 2025 – Grunt and Earth, Lightly – at the B–L Schaufenster in Berlin. The exhibition also concludes the Fellowship’s first successful cycle – six international Fellows over three years.
The opening was part of the Final Fellow Colloquium, where we discussed the projects and reflected on the Fellowship’s trajectory together with experts including Wayne Switzer (Sitterwerk), Daniel Bell (Atelier Luma), partners from Villa Filanda Antonini, Matthias Ballestrem, and Frank Barkow.
We extend our warm thanks to everyone who enriched the evening with their questions, reflections, and conversations – and especially to our Fellows for their dedication in shaping new narratives and practices for a regenerative architectural future.
We warmly invite you to the final exhibition of the Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth, presenting two projects: Grunt by Anna Pomazanna & Mykhailo Shevchenko and Earth, Lightly by Maria Lisogorskaya & Kaye Song.
Over six to eight months, the Fellows explored the potential of earth as a construction material—socially, politically, sensorially, and aesthetically. From reclaiming war-contaminated soils for post-conflict reconstruction to advancing low-carbon techniques for light earth construction, the projects highlight earth as both a material of crisis and transformation.
July, 25 – August, 22 2025
B–L Schaufenster, Schillerstraße 94
Opening Thursday July, 24 18:30