SPANNWEITEN 2026: "Enjoy the Silence," Jörg Michel / POLA (Berlin) May 20, 2026

SPANNWEITEN 2026

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Jörg Michel / POLA (Berlin)

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May 20, 2026
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
Andreas Schubert Building
ASB Lecture Hall 120
TU Dresden

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Jörg Michel is the founder and managing director of POLA Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH. POLA Landschaftsarchitekten is an internationally active studio with offices in Berlin, Hamburg, and Zurich, founded in 2009 with the goal of embodying a poetic modernism in landscape and garden architecture. The cultural and emotional resonance of places is a central theme in all the projects Jörg Michel realizes with his firm, POLA.
He served as a visiting professor in the Department of Open Space Planning at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (BHT) and taught as a lecturer at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Bernburg and at HAWK Hildesheim.
With degrees in landscape architecture from Dresden and Guelph (Canada), as well as training as a garden and landscape gardener, he serves as a judge in architectural and open-space planning competitions throughout Germany. In addition, he is an active member of the Association of German Landscape Architects (BDLA) and the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).

Link: Spannweiten - Faculty of Architecture and Landscape - TU Dresden