DAZ - Deutsches Architektur Zentrum

Name

DAZ - Deutsches Architektur Zentrum

Legal name

Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ

Website

https://daz.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Venue Rental: DAZ rents out its approximately 210 sqm space to public and private institutions and companies for conferences, seminars, lectures, and exhibitions. The venue offers flexible and individually tunable infrastructure with its central Berlin location.
2. Public Funding and Membership: As an initiative of the Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA, DAZ likely receives organizational support and funding through its parent association, with additional support from public cultural funding for specific exhibitions.

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Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

DAZ is a Berlin-based architecture center and ideas laboratory that hosts rotating exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, and discussion events on architecture and urban development. Operated as an initiative of the Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten (BDA), it also rents its approximately 210 sqm event space to public and private institutions for conferences, seminars, lectures, and exhibitions.

Product overview

DAZ (Deutsches Architektur Zentrum) is an architectural ideas laboratory and platform for exchange, mediation, and debate operated by the Association of German Architects (BDA). It is not a software product company but rather offers cultural programming including rotating exhibitions on architecture and urbanism, Y-Table Talks discussion events, the 'neu im club' young architects showcase series, space rental services, newsletters, and publications. The center focuses on making alternative spatial practices tangible through exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, and discussions, with topics developed through interdisciplinary cooperation with institutions and actors from architecture, art, culture, and urban design.

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Brands

• Y-Table Talks: A discussion format designed by The Anxious Prop to discuss the extended field of architecture, inviting architects, urban planners, artists, filmmakers, poets, designers and interested parties to the Scharoun-Saal to raise questions about the future of our built and lived environment.
• neu im club

Products and services

• Exhibitions and Cultural Events Rotating exhibitions on architecture, urban planning, and social space topics, including shows like 'Critical Care', 'Sorge um den Bestand', 'Die Bodenfrage', 'Palace of Un/Learning', and traveling exhibitions like 'Neue Standards'. Targeted at architecture professionals and the general public.
• Y-Table Talks Discussion format designed by The Anxious Prop where architects, urban planners, artists, filmmakers, and the public discuss the future of built environments. Held in the Scharoun-Saal.
• neu im club Presentation series showcasing young architects affiliated with BDA, featuring talks, works-in-progress presentations, and discussions in the DAZ Glass House.
• DAZ Space Rental Approximately 210 square meters of event space available for conferences, seminars, lectures, and exhibitions. Located in Berlin-Mitte near Radialsystem and Ostbahnhof, with flexible infrastructure.
• Publications and Books Publications accompanying exhibitions, including titles like 'Neue Standards. Zehn Thesen zum Wohnen' and 'Sorge um den Bestand' published by JOVIS Verlag.

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• European Cultural Foundation (ECF)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 October 2014European Cultural Foundation co-sponsored the Wonderlab Berlin project 'Urbanität fördern' in 2014. The project brought together protagonists from various European cities for workshops, public presentations, debates, and film evenings on alternative models for financing urban projects.
• Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDAcoreOthersDAZ is an initiative of BDA (Association of German Architects). The BDA Bundesverband operates as the responsible entity for DAZ's website and operations. DAZ serves as the BDA's idea laboratory and platform for exchange, mediation, and debate on architecture and urban issues.
• Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe exhibition 'Critical Care. Architektur für einen Planeten in der Krise' was first shown at Architekturzentrum Wien and then brought to DAZ in Berlin. Curated by Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny, the exhibition focused on architecture and urbanism responding to climate crisis.
• University of Kassel (Fachgebiet Städtebau)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe exhibition 'The Land Issue / Die Bodenfrage' was a project of the University of Kassel's urban development department, curated by Stefan Rettich along with Anna Kraus, Thomas Rustemeyer, and Sabine Tastel.
• Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung (DASL)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDASL cooperated with University of Kassel on the exhibition 'The Land Issue' as part of the National Urban Development Policy, funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community.
• Fieldstations e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFieldstations is a recurring co-host for the 'Wir müssen reden!' (We need to talk!) program series at DAZ, focusing on the Anthropocene. The association fosters research about the Anthropocene and regularly organizes digital and in-person discussions at DAZ.
• JOVIS VerlagminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorJOVIS Verlag publishes the companion books for DAZ exhibitions including 'Neue Standards. Zehn Thesen zum Wohnen' and 'Sorge um den Bestand. Zehn Strategien für die Architektur'.
• Buro HappoldminorOthersEngineering consultancy that supported the exhibition 'Sorge um den Bestand' at DAZ.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W): Vienna's Museum of Architecture and the most direct functional peer to DAZ — an exhibition and discourse-focused architecture center that has co-developed touring shows with DAZ (e.g., 'Critical Care'). Same model: exhibitions, talks, venue rental, publications.
• Het Nieuwe Instituut: Rotterdam's national museum and institute for architecture, design, and digital culture. Comparable model of discourse-driven exhibitions on architecture and urbanism, with a wider collection/digital mandate.
• Storefront for Art and Architecture: New York-based nonprofit gallery for experimental architecture and urbanism. Comparable discursive, exhibition-driven model and similar small-team footprint targeting architectural discourse.
• Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM): Frankfurt-based German Architecture Museum — comparable model of curated exhibitions and public programs on architecture, urbanism, and housing, with a broader permanent-collection footprint. Functions as a national counterpart alongside DAZ.
• Architekturmuseum der TU München: Munich's architecture museum affiliated with TU Munich — comparable curatorial mandate around architectural exhibitions, heritage interpretation, and public engagement on the built environment in Germany.
• Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA): Montreal-based research center and museum devoted to architecture and the built environment. Closely comparable to DAZ in combining exhibitions, publications, and discourse programming — albeit at larger scale.
• Aedes Architecture Forum: Berlin-based architecture forum operating exhibitions and discussions on contemporary architecture and urbanism. Closest geographic peer to DAZ; competes for the same sponsor and audience pools in the German architecture market.

Emerging players

• ArchDaily: Global digital architecture publishing platform — an emerging channel distributing architecture discourse and projects online. Partial overlap with DAZ's educational/discourse mission but delivered via media rather than physical exhibitions.

Others

• JOVIS Verlag: Berlin-based architecture publisher that produces the official companion books for DAZ exhibitions ('Neue Standards', 'Sorge um den Bestand'). An ecosystem partner rather than competitor but materially adjacent.

Broad incumbents

• Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten (BDA): Parent professional association of DAZ — broader industry body representing German architects. Not a direct operational peer but the institutional sponsor and network backbone whose reputation DAZ leverages.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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