© Pictures: CIRECA-Domaine de Boisbuchet @martinaorska / @Verena Konrad

Anna Heringer
Claystorming
Workshop
July 2-4, 2026

How can intuition be translated into the design process? In the Claystorming workshop with Anna Heringer, immediate, physical creation takes center stage. From clay – a patient material – three-dimensional sketches emerge, making spatial ideas tangible before they are fully conceived. The workshop is aimed at architects and planners with design experience who want to explore new ways of creative research.

The Claystorming method, developed by Anna Heringer together with Martin Rauch, encourages participants to set aside logic and routine, to trust material and intuition, and to experience architecture as a living process. The workshop will take place for the first time at the Studio Anna Heringer in Laufen. It is a rare opportunity to experience the method firsthand and to explore and reflect on this way of designing directly with Anna Heringer.
 

Domus spent an immersive week alongside Anna Heringer at the Domaine de Boisbuchet. The goal? To uncover the secrets behind a sustainable, high-impact approach to creative thinking.
The result is a comprehensive guide to "Clay Storming"—a tactile method of brainstorming that uses earth and hands to reshape how we develop ideas.
 

Location/Organizer: Studio Anna Heringer, Rottmayrstraße 24, 83410 Laufen, Germany
Dates: July 2 – 4, 2026
Language: English
Times: Thursday 2 PM – 7 PM, Friday 9 AM – 5 PM, Saturday 9 AM – 2 PM
18 Teaching Units (in coordination with the ByAK)
Participants: Exclusively limited to 16 people, Particularly suitable for architects, landscape & interiorarchitects, and urban planners.
Category: Design & Composition
Costs: €815 (including materials and daily lunch, plus VAT)
One scholarship available click here for more infomation*
Certificate of Attendance: Official participation certificate for submission to employers or professional chambers
Registration & Contact: claystorming@anna-heringer.com
This workshop is held in cooperation with the Academy for Continuing Education and Training of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects (ByAK)

*Travel and accommodation costs are not included.
     Click here to find more infomration about the accommodation and arrival
*Participation implies consent to photography

Mud Works is a design-build installation in front of Harvard`s Graduate School of Design, produced by 2012 Loeb Fellows to demonstrate the potentials of building with raw earth.
It was directed by Loeb Fellow Anna Heringer and Austrian Artist Martin Rauch.
Over 150 students participated as well as faculty and the public. 50 tons of earth.
Through the installation on the corner of Quincy and Cambridge Streets and the exhibition showing eleven contemporary projects from five continents, Mud Works demonstrates earth as a material central to architectural discourse for reclaiming cultural identity, providing tactile and human-scaled environments, and producing plentiful labour opportunities. Through this project we also want to challenge conventional thinking about green building.


Inscript of the wall by Inga Saffron

Mud Works was organized by the 2012 Loeb Fellows and the Loeb Fellowship Program in conjunction with GSD Exhibitions Department.

Visit the Blog: mudhall.wordpress.com

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See the awarded video on Mud Works by Maggie Janik: www.gsd.harvard.edu