BAUAKADEMIE-Information ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE INFORMATION RECONSTRUCTION AND UTILIZATION OF SCHINKEL¶S BAUAKADEMIE (ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE) INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE RESPONSIBLE DESIGN OF LIVING SPACE FÖRDERVEREIN BAUAKADEMIE FRIENDS¶ ASSOCIATION ERRICHTUNGSSTIFTUNG BAUAKADEMIE FOUNDATION FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BAUAKADEMIE (ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE) Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture), Schinkelplatz, City Palace Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture) (aerial photograph approx. 1913) and plaza Schinkelplatz (photograph 1888) ± Edited by Dialog Design Michael Marschhauser - Since 1994, the Friends¶ Association has been committed to HISTORY AND USAGE OF THE BUILDING Þ the rebuilding of Schinkel¶s Bauakademie (Academy of Berlin used to be one of the beautiful European cities. Architecture) including the true-to-original reconstruction The Brandenburg Gate opened the baroque axis Unter of the historic façades as to re-establish the building¶s den Linden and, via the Forum Fridericianum, led to the appearance as it used to be prior to it¶s partial destruction in City Palace. The buildings along the route, baroque to WWII, neo-classicist ± the Berlin City Palace, Armoury and Þ an interior layout considering former proportions and Cathedral ± offered a fantastic urban composition, architectural moulds but corresponding to the new usage of which, essentially, has been perfected by Karl Friedrich the building as an International Centre for Innovation, Schinkel¶s New Guard House (Neue Wache), Old Mu- Exhibitions, Events and Conferences (Schinkel Forum), seum (Altes Museum), Palace Bridge (Schlossbrücke), Þ the establishment of the institution Bauakademie (Academy Friedrichswerder Church and the Academy of Architec- of Architecture) ± to be reformed ± as an internationally ture (Bauakademie). The Academy building formed the oriented institution for the transfer and exchange of apex of Schinkel¶s urbanistic concept for the western knowledge in interdisciplinary fields of construction and Spree Island, an urban landscape realized by means of architecture. Sustainable solutions for controlling climate cubic elements and derived from a landscape garden. change, shaping the energy turnaround and promoting Schinkel¶s Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture) is infrastructure and environmental development are to be one of the most prominent buildings of German archi- th compiled. tecture at the threshold of modernity in the 19 century. The Friends¶ Association also founded the charitable Founda- The Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture) was tion for the Reconstruction of the Bauakademie (Academy of erected according to plans of Schinkel as Prussia¶s first Architecture.) secular brick building on the site of Alter Packhof on the western arm of the river Spree. Inspired by English th OUTLOOK 2016: Reopening the Bauakademie (Academy of factory buildings of the early 19 century the particular Architecture) on the 175th birthday of Karl Friedrich Schinkel construction and building technique (serial construction) on 9th October. of the Academy as the first architecturally significant industrial building in Germany was trend-setting for modern architecture. The building generated the type of multi-storey factory building (e.g. Hackesche Höfe in HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE FRIENDS¶ ASSOCIATION: Berlin). Dipl.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Arndt, The building was structured by eight window axes, four Prof. Dr. Winfried Baer (deceased), storeys and two portals on the northern side. The wall Dipl.-Ing. Horst Draheim pillars connecting all storeys were interspersed with wide tripartite windows. Individual storeys were con- trasted by cornices. Glazed brick belts structured and quickened the raw walls of the building clad in the finest bricks. The images on the terracotta relief plates inserted COVER PICTURE:± Bauakademie / Kupfergraben: Gerhard Klein, 2005 ± copy of painting by Karl Wilhelm Klose ± 1840 ± in the window parapets ±³Moments from the History of Architecture³ (Schinkel) were, with the exception of the PICTURE ON REVERSE: Portal façade, Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture); digital model of the Academy (section) portals, the same on all four sides of the building. CONCEPT AND COMPILATION: Wolfgang Schoele TRANSLATION: Ina Scholtissek STAND as of October 2013 2 In 1799 already the institution ³Academy of Architecture for all instructs workshops. Plans for a reconstruction and use Royal Provinces´ was founded to serve as Prussia¶s central concepts have also been published. educational establishment for architects and construction engi- neers initiating the tradition of formal education. Among the At the International Real Estate Fair in Cannes in March most famous students of the Academy of Architecture were Karl 2001 already the Association¶s working committee ³Use Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) and Leo von Klenze (1784- and Financing of the Academy of Architecture to be re- 1864) and also Friedrich Ludwig Persius, Friedrich August erected´ introduced its plans for the reconstruction of the Stüler, Johann Heinrich Strack, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Academy building and its use to the public. As yet it has Adler, Ludwig Hoffmann (Municipal Town Planner) and many neither been possible to realize the plans for the recon- others. struction nor any other projects. The Berlin Senate, however, expresses an interest in the reconstruction of the On 1st April 1836 the Academy of Architecture moved into the Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture). building designed by Schinkel at Kupfergraben opposite the EXHIBITIONS EN MINIATURE Berlin City Palace. The Prussian Construction Commission headed by Schinkel was also housed in the building. The exhibition includes information panels offering facts about the Bauakademie - Academy of Architecture - In 1879 the Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture) moved out (institution and use, construction history, reconstruction), of the building due to strong increases in the number of students architectural models of the building and the model façade, and, together with the Commercial Institute, formed the Royal posters as well as plaster replicas of the terracotta-reliefs Technical College of Berlin in Charlottenburg (today, Technical as examples of the building¶s architectural decoration. University of Berlin). The building was used variously until 1945, for instance by the Royal Prussian Institute for the Photo- graphic Surveyance of Buildings (1885-1933), the Friedrich Wilhelm University and for collections of the National Gallery. Exhibition en Miniature´ at ZLB state library (autumn 2008) STONE AND TERRACOTTA ADOPTION Destroyed Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture) Stone and terracotta adoptions are used to collect dona- In the course of the Second World War the building was heavily tions for the future and true-to-the-original reconstruction damaged. The Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture) was of the façades of the Academy building. Donations are partially reconstructed in the 1950s, but plans were abandoned based on different mould stones (rosette stone, normal and replaced with those of the GDR for the new Berlin centre stones, cornice stones and relief stones), ornamental plates with government buildings in 1962. The site of the former and terracotta-relief¶s and range between EUR 25 and Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture) and the plaza EUR 15,000. By means of the ³Digital Model´ it will in Schinkelplatz housed the GDR¶s Ministry of Foreign Affairs future be possible to state and deposit the names of the until 1996. donators of particular relief plates (possibly also in the reconstructed building). Further information may be FRIENDS¶ ASSOCIATION BAUAKADEMIE obtained from the separate brochure ³Stone and Terracotta Since its foundation in 1994, the Friends¶ Association has been Adoption´ (see also Model Façade). promoting the reconstruction of the prominent but vanished building of the Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture) as an individual and urban monument. The reconstruction of the Academy building opposite the future Humboldt Forum within the Berlin City Palace to be reconstructed is one of the most important reconstruction projects in Germany at one of Berlin¶s most urban locations. Moreover, the reconstruction would serve documenting the historic past, thus following the citizens¶ clearly perceptible desire for identification with the city¶s tradi- tionally established urban character. Relief plates from the right-hand portal The Friends¶ Association Bauakademie also strives to re- of the Academy of Architecture establish the institution that lent its name to the building. Left:³Girl with torch and globe´, The Friends¶ Association also publishes printed materials, Centre:³Girl with two globes riding a panther´, organizes exhibitions (exhibition en miniature) and events and Right:³Boy with harp and eagle´ 3 ³DIGITAL MODEL³ OF THE BAUAKADEMIE (ACADEMY OF If the reconstruction of the building were to be financed ARCHITECTURE) exclusively by the foundation¶s own resources and with- out using external funds the foundation¶s assets would need to be increased by means of additional donations of up to approx. EUR 48m. The amount of further donations required to co-finance the future running costs of the building depends on the institution¶s future scope of tasks. SPONSORS / DONATORS Interested persons may either participate in the activities of the Foundation for the Reconstruction of the Bauaka- demie (Academy of Architecture) as sponsors (endow- ³Digital Model´ North Façade ment contribution) or support the foundation¶s