Bauakademie Berlin - by Raumgestaltung Und Entwerfen Tu Vienna & Wilfried Kuehn & Franz Kamer (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 320
Genre: Architecture
Sub-Genre: Individual Architects & Firms
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Jovis Verlag
Age Range: Adult
Book theme: General
Author: Raumgestaltung Und Entwerfen Tu Vienna & Wilfried Kuehn & Franz Kamer
Language: English

Book Synopsis

Armin Linke's night photography reveals the vacancy of the Bauakademie as a trace of Schinkel in Berlin's urban fabric. The rudimentary replica of the corner construction raises questions about the future use and form of this centrally located site. Despite current majority support in Parliament for a reconstruction of the historical envelope-analogous to the recently completed Humboldt Forum- there are clearly more differentiated ideas among architects and urban society in Berlin about the future of the Bauakademie building. There is strong resistance to the appropriation of this important institution and building task by representational politics, that actually threaten to obscure more historical traces than they are supposed to make visible with the motto "As much Schinkel as possible". At this important moment, Bauakademie Berlin offers conceptual perspectives for a contemporary Bauakademie in the form of texts, architectural drawings and artist's photographs. With texts by Sandra Bartoli, Stefanie Endlich, Tanja Scheffler, Dubravka Sekulic, Axel Sowa, Stephan Trüby and Andreas Zeese. Photographs by Armin Linke and Gili Merin