Mythos Bauakademie - Förderverein Bauakademie

Mythos Bauakademie
The History of the Bauakademie
BAUAKADEMIE MAGAZINE
5 th ISSUE (November 2007)

Bauakademie; Digital Model, Nord-Façade
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Contents
Page
Facts about Schinkel‘s Bauakademie
A synopsis of the important facts:
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Introduction: Schinkel‘s Bauakademie: 5
Foundation of the “General Educational Institution for
Construction“ (Construction School – 1799 –): 6
History of the Building and the Institution: 6 / 7
Foundation of the Association for the Promotion of
Schinkel‘s Bauakademie (1994): 7
Exhibitions en miniature: 7
Model Façade, Reproduction of the Bauakademie
Building: 7
Publications by the Association for the Promotion of
Schinkel’s Bauakademie: 8
The “Digital Model“ of the Bauakademie Façade: 8
Stone and Terracotta Adoption: 8
Working Groups: 9 / 14
Reconstruction of the Building (Plans): 10 / 11
Financing and Economic Approaches:
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Bauakademie Trust:
11
Operator: 11
Membership in the Association for the Promotion
of Schinkel’s Bauakademie (Entry Form): 15
Information about the Association: Address, Telephone,
Fax, Email, Internet, Bank Account Details: 15
Board Members, Mentor, Honorary Members: 15
Votes: 9 / 10 / 12 / 13
Title Image: Bauakademie, Schinkelplatz, Palace (aerial photograph around
1913 – edited by Dialog Design, Michael Marschhauser –).
Illustration on the reverse: Portal Façade of the Bauakademie
from the “Digital Model“ (detail).
Concept: Wolfgang Schoele
Editorial: Dr. Doris Fouquet-Plümacher, Wolfgang Schoele
Translation: Ina Scholtissek
Stand: 11/2007
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Facts about Schinkel‘s Bauakademie - A Synopsis of Important Facts
1992: At Constructa on 8 th February arguments
for a re-establishment of the institution Bauakademie
are discussed under the title “Pro Bauakademie
Arguments”. But, for the time being,
insights gained in the discussion remain without
consequences.
1994: Establishment of the Association for the
Promotion of the Building Academy, Schinkelsche
Bauakademie e.V., Berlin.
1995/1996: The building of the GDR’s Foreign
Office is demolished.
Alter Packhof at Werder around 1790 woodcut, unknown artist
1832-1836: The Bauakademie was erected according to
plans of Karl Friedrich Schinkel on the site of the storage
facilities Alter Packhof at the western arm of the river
Spree.
From 1836: The building housed two royal Prussian institutions:
The Building Academy and the State Construction
Commission.
Bauakademie, Photograph 1930, Förderverein / IKB, Messbildanstalt
1844 – 1873: After his death in 1841, the first Schinkel
museum was housed in his apartment.
1879: The Bauakademie and the Commercial Institute were
joined and formed the Royal Technical School in Charlottenburg
(today the Technical University of Berlin). Various
uses followed.
1945: The air raid on 3 rd February heavily damaged the building
of the Bauakademie.
1951: The institution Deutsche Bauakademie is founded in
the GDR. It was the leading scientific institution for urban
development and the entire construction sector of the German
Democratic Republic (GDR).
1961/1962: Despite initiatives promoting the reconstruction
of the Bauakademie since the 50s, the decision to demolish
the building was taken in the context of a redevelopment of
Berlin’s centre in 1960. Subsequently, the GDR’s Ministry
for Foreign Affairs was erected along the river Spree.
90s: On recommendation of the Scientific Council the Bauakademie
of the GDR is dissolved. Several small successor
institutes are formed on a private basis.
1998: Foundation of the association bauakademie
e.V. The association advocates the re-establishment
of the institution Bauakademie. Together,
the associations Förderverein and bauakademie
e.V. form the committee Schinkelsche Bauakademie.
from 1999: The committee Use and Financing /
Neue Bauakademie in turn works within the association
Schinkelsche Bauakademie. The group
publishes and develops results.
March 2001: At the International Property Fair
(Mipim) in Cannes the committee Use and Financing/Neue
Bauakademie introduces its plans for a
reconstruction of the building of the Bauakademie
and its envisioned public use. Various reasons,
which the association cannot be accounted for,
prevent the realization of the project and its
variants.
August 2001: The international Association for
the Promotion of the Building Academy,
Internationale Bauakademie e.V. (IBB), is established
on initiative of the Senate Department for
Urban Development and Museums and the Trust
for Prussian Cultural Heritage. The Association
for the Promotion of the Building Academy is
statutory member of the IBB while the IBB is also
member of the Association for the Promotion of
the Building Academy.
2001-2002: Erection of the model façade (northeastern
corner of the Bauakademie’s original
building). The project was thought of by Dipl.-
Ing. Horst Draheim and realized by the educational
association Bildungsverein Bautechnik
(training building site).
2007: The association for the Promotion of the
Building Academy holds symposia promoting the
re-establishment of the institution Bauakademie
as internationally focused venue for transfer and
exchange of knowledge in the interdisciplinary
fields of building planning, construction and
operation.
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Schinkel’s Bauakademie
The building was structured by eight window
axes, four storeys and two portals on the north
side. The wall pillars connecting all storeys were
interspersed with wide tripartite windows. The
individual storeys were contrasted by cornices.
Glazed tiles structure and quicken the wall area
of the unrendered building, which is clad with the
finest bricks. The image range on the terracotta
relief plates inserted in the window parapets –
“Moments from the History of Architecture”
(Schinkel) – were, with the exception of the portals,
the same on all four sides of the building.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Bauakademie, general view from the Palace
Bridge (Schlossbrücke), washed pen drawing (1831)
After the fall of the Wall, Berlin received the chance to
architecturally reconstruct itself – here, the Second World
War and its aftermath ended in 1990. The city has ever
since tried to manifest itself as a modern metropolis with
an historic core. The historic core also includes the
Bauakademie by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, which is one of
the most beautiful and important buildings in the centre;
an architecturally excellent building at an urbanistically
distinguished location. It was heavily damaged in the war
and demolished in 1961/1962.
Window of the Bauakademie, 7 th axis, 1 st storey, aerial
photograph, Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation
of Historical Monuments, Wünsdorf
Carl Daniel Freydanck: View of the Royal School for Construction –
Bauakademie – (Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufacture – archive)
1832-36: The Bauakademie was constructed after plans by
Schinkel from 1832-36. It was Prussia’s first worldly red
brick building and was located on the site of the old
storage facilities Alter Packhof on the western arm of the
river Spree. The building was inspired by the English factory
buildings of the early 19 th century and, due to its particular
construction and construction method (serial construction),
was considered the first architecturally significant
industrial building of Germany pointing the way for
modern architecture. The multi-storey factory building
type (e.g. Hackesche Höfe in Berlin) emerged from this
style in the 19 th century.
Detail Window 7 left: “Basics of onstruction - The Vertical
Line“,Friedrichswerder Church, photograph: A. Hoferick
Together with the neighbouring buildings
(Friedrichswerder Church, City Palace, Cathedral,
Old Museum, Armoury and Palace
Bridge) the Bauakademie formed an organ-like
arranged ensemble.
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Instruction of Architects and Structural Engineers
at the Bauakademie
1799: Establishment of the Building Academy for All
Royal Provinces as central school for Prussia’s architects
and structural engineers. This marked the start of the tradition
of regulated professional training. The most famous
students of the Bauakademie included Karl Friedrich
Schinkel (1781-1841), Berlin, and Leo von Klenze (1784-
1864), Munich, but also Friedrich Ludwig Persius, Friedrich
August Stüler, Johann Heinrich Strack, Johann Heinrich
Friedrich Adler, Ludwig Hoffmann (urban councillor)
and many more, e.g. Martin Gropius (Gropius building),
Paul Wallot (Reichstag), Julius Raschdorff (Dom am
Lustgarten), Alfred Messel (department store Wertheim in
Leipziger Straße –destroyed–) and many more of and until
Modernity.
Bauakademie and Schinkelplatz (Photograph 1888)
After the Building Academy had moved out, the building
was used for various purposes, e.g. it housed
facilities of the Friedrich Wilhelm University including
the Institute for International Sciences, later the
University for Politics whose successor is the Faculty
of Politics and Social Sciences of the Free University
of Berlin.
The Royal Prussian Institute for Aerial Photography,
which was established under the direction of Albrecht
Meydenbauer in 1885, was also accommodated in the
Bauakademie building until 1933. The photogrammetric
institution compiled one of the worldwide oldest
and very extensive aerial images archive, which
today is in the care of the Brandenburg State Office
for the Preservation of Historical Monuments.
11945: The Bauakademie burnt out during the heavy
bombing of 3 rd . February.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, chalk drawing by Franz Krüger (1836)
1836: Relocation of the Building Academy into the building
designed by Schinkel at Kupfergraben. The building
accommodated two royal Prussian institutions: the Building
Academy and the State Construction Commission,
which Schinkel was director of.
The ground floor additionally accommodated two shops.
1879: The Building Academy and the Commercial Institute
together become the Royal Technical School in Berlin
Charlottenburg (today the Technical University of Berlin).
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Destroyed Bauakademie
1951: The Institution Deutsche Bauakademie was reestablished
in the German Democratic Republic. It
was the top scientific institution for urban development
and the entire construction trade of the GDR.
1953: The reconstruction of the building started in
the 1950s. The topping out ceremony was celebrated
in November 1953.
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1961/1962: The realization of the “Ideas Competition for
the Socialist Remodelling of the Centre of the Capital of
the GDR, Berlin” saw the largely reconstructed building of
the Bauakademie demolished - despite numerous international
and national protests. On its site along the river
Spree, the Foreign Office of the German Democratic
Republic was erected.
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Foreign Office of the German Democratic Republic at Schinkelplatz
90s The institution Bauakademie of the GDR is dissolved
on recommendation of the scientific council. Several small
successor institutes are formed privately. The building of
the GDR’s Foreign Office was demolished in 1995/1996;
the site is once again available for a reconstruction of the
Bauakademie.
1992: At Constructa on 8 th February arguments for a reestablishment
of the institution Bauakademie are discussed
under the title “Pro Bauakademie Arguments”. But, for the
time being, insights gained in the discussion remain without
consequences.
1994: Foundation of the Association for the Promotion
of the Building Academy
The association promotes the reconstruction of the building
and illustrates that a re-erection of the prominent but
destroyed Bauakademie has indeed its justification as an
individual and urban monument. The reconstruction would
particularly serve historic documentation and the clearly
perceptible will of the citizens for identification with the
traditional urban shape.
As well as promoting the reconstruction of the building,
the association strives at re-establishing the institution that
lent its name to the building.
The association releases publications, organizes exhibitions
and various working groups. Plans for the reconstruction
and various use models have been published.
1998 ff: Exhibitions en miniature
Instead of the major exhibition that could not be realized –
its exhibitions catalogue nevertheless did appear in 1998 –
the association displays various versions of the exhibitions
en miniature at different venues. They include information
panels about the Bauakademie (institution, construction
history, reconstruction and use), architectural models of
the Bauakademie and the model façade, posters as well as
plaster replicas of the terracotta reliefs as samples of the
building’s architectural abundance.
The original project envisioned to erect a hall on
the site of the Bauakademie at Schinkelplatz in
Berlin-Mitte, which was to simulate the historic
outside appearance of the Bauakademie.
The model façade to be erected (north-eastern
corner of the building of the Bauakademie) was
included in the plans. The exhibition “Mythos Bauakademie”
was not only realized to create a forum
and deal with the various aspects of a reconstruction
of Schinkel’s prominent creation but also to
actively promote re-erection.
The construction site for the extension of the
Foreign Office of the Federal Republic, however,
forestalled the realization of the project. The simulation
of the Bauakademie was realized in 2004 by
the association Internationale Bauakademie (IBB).
The associations promoting the Bauakademie have
entered into mutual membership.
2001/2002: The model façade – a near facsimile of
the north-eastern corner of the Bauakademie – was
erected in the context of a training construction site
by the educational institution for construction methods
(Bildungsverein Bautechnik). Famous sculptors
contributed to the replication of the mould
stones and terracotta elements. By means of numerous
libraries, archives, offices and museums,
approx. 130 individual objects and 550 original façade
components were collected, copied, measured,
analyzed and documented. The authentic reconstruction
on a 1:1 scale substantiates the discussion
between those in favour of reconstruction and their
opponents.
2004: The model façade is integrated into the show
façade which is a rendering of the original building
using scaffolds and printed plastic sheets. The
association Internationale Bauakademie Berlin promotes
a bundling of interests with the aim to establish
a centre of competence for architecture, providing
a venue for exhibitions, conferences and lectures
regarding issues of urban development, architecture,
etc.
Show and model façade of the Bauakademie
The model façade (left in the illustration) is based on idea,
realization and design planning (1992 - 1999)
by Dipl.-Ing. Horst Draheim, photograph: W. Schoele
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Publications by the Association
The association publishes works regarding the reconstruction
of the Bauakademie building and re-establishment of
the institution. These include:
· A volume of essays,
· An exhibition catalogue,
· An exhibition paper and the Bauakademie,
Magazine,
· Various information brochures in German, English
and French language as well as
· An exposé (incl. an English language version).
Aim of the project is to document the high proportion
of still existing and thus reproducible mould
stones and façade reliefs of the Bauakademie for
preservation purposes. This is also practical for the
reconstruction.
Stone and Terracotta Adoption
The stone and terracotta adoption is used to collect
donations for the later reconstruction of the Bauakademie
façade true to the original. Donations are
based on different mould stones (rosette stone, normal
stones, cornice stones and relief stones), ornamental
plates and terracotta reliefs and range
between Euro 25 and Euro 15.000. Later on it will
be possible to state and deposit the donators’ names
of particular relief plates in the “Digital Model” as
well as the reconstructed Bauakademie. The brochure
“Second Stone and Terracotta Adoption”
gives details thereof. The brochure may be ordered
at the association’s office.
Volume of Essays Exhibition Catalogue
The “Digital Model” of the Bauakademie
The association’s project “Digital Model” displays the
historic façades of the Bauakademie and was developed in
the context of a year-spanning term paper. David Bornemann
(Technical University of Berlin) and Thomas Rox
(Rhineland Friedrich Wilhelms University, Bonn) participated
in the project. They were advised by Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Joerg Albertz and the members of the association. Construction
documents by modeller Monath + Menzel (the
model maker created an architectural model of the Bauakademie
in 2001) as well as a virtual inner city model by
the Senate Department for Urban Development and the
technical documentation of the architectural practice Jaeger
(Wesel) supported the project.
Terracotta elements from the portals of the Bauakademie
Left: “Seafaring Lad on a Boat (Daring)“
Right: “Girl Riding on a Panther bearing Two Globes (Luck)“
Digital Model: Nord-West-Façades
In 1969, Karl-Günter Möepert fit the left-hand portal of the
Bauakademie in its original form to the former Schinkelklause
in the vicinity of Friedrichswerder Church. The second plate in
the top right corner, however, was originally located in the
right portal of the Bauakademie.
Photo: Renate Schoele, March 2000
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Working Groups
On initiative and under the management of
the Association for the Promotion of the
Building Academy the working group Use
and Financing/Neue Bauakademie was initiated
in October 1999. The working group
consists of representatives of the Berlin universities,
project developers, audit and accountancy
firms, banks and the association
Agenda 4. The group published its results,
amongst others, at the international property
fair, Mipim, in Cannes (2001), the exhibitions
en miniature, in an exposé and the
internet.
In the context of the postgraduate study
course “Real Estate Management“ of the
Technical University of Berlin and their
master thesis, Dipl.-Ing. Anke Horstmann
and Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Hollang prepared a
feasibility study for the reconstruction of
Schinkel’s Bauakademie in 2004. On the
one hand, the study confirms the results of
the association’s working group Use and
Financing while, on the other, illustrates
further interesting aspects. The study is still
implicated into the considerations of the
working group.
In 2007 the working group arranged symposia
with representatives of the Berlin universities,
architects, engineers and construction
associations about further procedures
concerning the institution Bauakademie to
be re-established as an internationally
oriented venue for transfer and exchange of
knowledge in the interdisciplinary fields of
planning, building and operating. The concepts
met with high interest and acted
initiatively. A trust charter was developed.
·
Further symposia are planned.
In addition to the working group Use and Financing,
the Association for the Promotion of the Building
Academy and the association “Bauakademie e.V.” closely
cooperate in the working group Schinkelsche
Bauakademie. The cooperation has resulted in initializing
and realizing concrete joint projects. Both associations
use the following objectives to guide their
work as regards contents. This is to be realized by
means of suitable forms of presentation, e.g.:
· Establishing a relation between the Bauakademie
building and the historic instructing
institution,
· Exemplary presentation of future-oriented
forms of teaching (use of the results of a “virtual
technical college”),
· Exhibition and presentations of student projects
and theses.
Translation of a letter from the President of the Humboldt University
of Berlin
Reconstruction of Schinkels Bauakademie
Dear Mr Schoele
The Humboldt University of Berlin supports the activities of the
association concerning the reconstruction of the building of Schinkel’s
Bauakademie.
We deem it important that with the reconstruction of the building of
Schinkel’s Bauakademie an architecturally and historically important
building is restored to the city. We also refer to the proximity of the
building to our institution. A future utilization useful to science, such
as was the case in the past, is of very large interest to the university.
Plans include the re-establishment of the institution as competence
centre for the building sector in the broadest sense. The integration of
a conference and seminar centre, which may be used manifold by the
universities and museums, seems interesting and sensible. Such a
solution is also enquired about by the Berlin hotel industry. The name
“Humboldt Centre in Schinkel’s Bauakademie” defines exactly what is
meant.
All the best, I am happy to support your efforts.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Christoph Markschies
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Letter of the Chairman of the Association of German Builders, Architects
and Engineers
Dear Mr Schoele
The Association of German Builders, Architects and Engineers, BDB,
section Berlin, supports your project of a reconstruction of Schinkel’s
Bauakademie and the resulting recovery of an important historic urban
area in Berlin’s centre.
Your efforts to create a competence centre for building in the broad sense
in the institution to be re-established is emphatically welcomed by the
trade association of construction professionals. We hope that the
interdisciplinary forum will revitalize the basic tenor of Karl Friedrich
Schinkel on all aspects of building. Berlin would thus make a major
contribution to the promotion of construction culture in our country.
All the best, I am happy to support your efforts.
Kind regards,
Werner Nissen (Chairman)
The Building
The realization of the project model façade already illustrates
in an exemplary manner: The re-construction of the
historic façade of the Bauakademie is indeed possible in the
necessary quality. The façade, by the way, remained
unchanged in the course of time.
The restoration of the former interior however is not as
easily accomplished as the rooms were often converted for
and by users in the past. The shops, for instance, were
converted to offices. In 1879, Lucae fit a stairway in the
inner courtyard and integrated other new developments.
The inner support structure of the building
to be reconstructed is to include
Schinkel’s original grid spacing of the
façade as well as the former storey
heights. Due to functional necessities
adjustments considering modern circumstances
need to be made within the
reconstruction of the historic inner support
structure. The support grid and the
construction correspond to current construction
methods. Insofar the planning
of the working group Use and Financing
/ Neue Bauakademie principally
follows the approach adopted in the
reconstruction of the Kronprinzenpalais,
the Schauspielhaus at Gendarmenmarkt
(concert house) or the Kommandantur
(garrison’s headquarters) but
different concepts were implemented.
The plan includes designs of a number
of exemplary rooms according to the
Bauakademie original.
The Bauakademie has a surface area of
approx. 46 x 46 m and a gross floor
area of approx. 2.000 m 2 per storey
resulting in an overall floor space of
approx. 11.000 m 2 (incl. elevated
basement).
The storey height is between 4 and 6 metres. The
sequence of storeys was as follows: basement,
ground floor and first to third floors. The basement
may be used “normally” as it used to have
windows (1.50 to 1.80 above level).
In the newly erected Bauakademie building the
Association for the Promotion of the Building
Academy envisages an
international centre for innovation, events,
exhibitions and conferences.
Plans also include:
· Auditoriums and lecture halls, offices,
· Shops (boutiques were already planned
by Schinkel) and gastronomy.
Two basic, structural concepts with variants have
been drafted to accompany the considerations
regarding future use.
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Utilization study by RKW Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky
Architektur + Städtebau: plan view - ground floor – variant –
(March 2000)
Financing and Economic Approach
The manner in which the county Berlin will be able
to provide the property still requires clarification.
The costs required to purchase the property should
in any case be kept as low as possible and based on a
long-term lease. The various solutions to be examined
include fund solutions as well as the use of
financing options available for academic construction
needs.
Amount in m Euro
a Total expenditure without property
and financing costs incl. Approx.
VAT:
45,00
b Income per year incl. VAT: 1,55
c Utilization costs of the building: 2,75
Bauakademie Trust
A trust with a capital of 85m Euro is to erect and
operate the Bauakademie. The trust fund includes
approx. 45m Euro for construction and a further
40m Euro whose profits are to co-finance operating
costs.
Utilization study (1 st floor) by Drees & Sommer
Project Mangement GmbH (March 2000)
Operator
A syndicate composed of organizers as well as
educational institutions could be the operator of the
international innovation, event, exhibition and conference
centre of the Bauakademie to be reconstructed.
Such an institution for medium to large
events in Berlin’s centre would also create sufficient
capacities, which, at the moment, are lacking.
Utilization study (2 nd floor) by Drees & Sommer
Project Management GmbH (March 2000)
The actual use will decide which of these plans or if
other suggestions will be realized.
Bauakademie motive from the multimedia show of the
Association for the Promotion of the Building Academy
(RKW Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky Architektur + Städtebau,
March 2001)
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Letter from Prof. Dr. Fritz Runge, Bauakademie
Reconstruction of Schinkels Bauakademie
Dear Mr Schoele
Since our foundation in 1990, our company has been engaged
in efforts promoting the reconstruction of the building of
Schinkel’s Bauakademie including own plans, studies, digital
reconstructions and the cooperation with several associations.
We do this mainly because of our conviction that a public
commitment by politics and economy for the reconstruction of
the building would also stimulate the renewal of discussions
concerning the “institution Bauakademie”.
As an institute of the University of Applied Sciences Berlin,
whose architecture and building faculty is a direct tradition of
the praxis workshops of the Bauakademie’s director Peter
Christian Beuth, we are in favour of a revitalization of the
institution Bauakademie in direct association with the historic
building. In our opinion, the duality of institution and building
offers a unique chance to give new and essential impulses to
the wide discussion of issues of today’s society with
construction, its social effects and the technology applied in
planning, constructing and operating buildings.
Schinkel’s reconstructed Bauakademie would give those
involved from education, research and practice as well as
politics and the interested public a worthy home. The reestablishment
of the institution as a modern venue for
education and communication would offer the suitable
organizational and institutional frame.
We are happy to support your efforts and wish you all the best.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Fritz Runge
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Letter from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Reconstruction of the Building of Schinkels Bauakademie
Dear Mr Schoele
The study course Architecture at the University of Applied
Sciences Berlin supports your activities promoting the
reconstruction of the building of Schinkel’s Bauakademie.
The college of the study course Architecture of the University
of Applied Sciences Berlin agrees on the merits of a
reconstruction of the building of Schinkel’s Bauakademie for
the urban area as well as the restoration of a culturally,
architecturally and socio-politically historic building to future
generations. The proposal to create a competence centre for
building in the broadest sense in the institution to be reestablished,
which, in its time, lent its name to the building, is
expressly welcomed by my colleagues. Independent of existing
universities and with regard to history, the centre should form
an interdisciplinary forum taking up and developing Schinkel’s
ideas of instruction and knowledge transfer. It would thus
internationally and sustainably satisfy Berlin’s claim to City of
Knowledge.
We hope to be able to support your efforts with our letter and
would be happy if our study course could participate in the use
of the building of Schinkel’s Bauakademie after its
reconstruction.
Kind regards,
Prof. M. Pinardi
Pro-Dean
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FÖRDERVEREIN BAUAKADEMIE
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE BUILDING ACADEMY
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION SCHINKEL’S BAUAKADEMIE E.V. (REGISTERED ASSOCIATION)
Office: c/o IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, Markgrafenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin-Mitte, Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 30 / 31 009-9122, Fax: ...-3812; Email: kf-schinkel@ikb.de
Internet: http://www.schinkelsche-bauakademie.de
Bank Details: Deutsche Bank AG, Berlin, Account No. 124912700, Sort Code 100 700 00
BIC: DEUTDEBB, IBAN: DE09 1007 0000 0124 9127 00
CONSORTIUM - USE AND FINANCING / NEUE BAUAKADEMIE
BAUAKADEMIE
International Centre for the Responsible Design of Living Space
The Bauakademie by Karl Friedrich Schinkel needs to be reconstructed on the site of its original and in its
original external form. The interior layout should – functionally and as regards design – correspond to the new use
as a centre for the responsible design of living space on an international scale.
The Bauakademie forms the mental and functional context for an academy of interdisciplinary, aligned
competencies in planning, constructing and operating buildings. The institution supports science and research in
areas promoting responsibility for a truly sustainable design of our living space.
In 1799 the General Educational Institution for Construction for All Royal Provinces was founded as central
instructing school for Prussia’s architects and structural engineers. The establishment of the institution initiated
the tradition of a regulated and professional training for architects and engineers.
In 1880 the Royal Academy for the Construction Trade was founded by decree. The institution is (quote) “to hear
public construction issues of singular importance and is appointed by name to represent the construction trade in
artistic and scientific affairs, assess important, public construction ventures, consult the application of general
principles in the public construction trade, assess new artistic, scientific and constructional issues and deal with
the further qualification in the construction sector….” In principal, this task can be adopted unmodified to our
current, democratically aligned civil society.
Amongst others, the advancement of science and research in the relevant disciplines is to be achieved by means of
the following activities:
· Creation of a national and international platform representing and supporting the activities of
professional associations in the construction sector as well as societies, universities and colleges.
· Mediation of impulses to increase efficiency and innovation in the construction sector as well as
further professional training of accordingly high-ranking architects and engineers.
· Cooperation of experts in an academic society.
· Formation of “Graduate Schools”.
· Establishment of an institution for the training of commercial and academic successors in the
construction sector.
· Integration of the universities’ lectures and professional training.
· Implementation of congresses relevant to the construction sector.
The institution Bauakademie is to be reconstructed and operated by a trust. It needs to be clarified to what extent
the county Berlin will be able to provide the property.
This working paper is to serve further consultation with groups and institutions truly interested in a reconstruction
of the building.
Berlin, 30 June 2007
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What you can do
There are various options to contribute to the reconstruction
of Schinkel’s Bauakademie. You may become a member of
the Association for the Promotion of the Building Academy
or make a one-off or regular donation. By request, you will
immediately receive a donation receipt for an individual
donation or for your annual contributions.
In the context of the “Stone and Terracotta Adoption” you
may donate for the planned reconstruction of the façade true
to the original. Donations for the manufacture of mould
stones (rosette, normal, cornice or relief), ornamental plates
and terracotta reliefs range between 25 and 15.000 Euro.
Declaration of Membership
(Please complete, cut out and return to the association’s office – see
address to the right)
Euro
I herewith declare my/our joining the Association for the
Promotion of the Building Academy, Förderverein Bauakademie
(please tick).
The annual membership fee will be transferred to account
number 124912700 of Deutsche Bank AG, sort code
10070000
Please inform me/us about further activities of the
association (please tick).
I/we would like to support the association with donations
(please tick).
Name / First Names
once a year
Architectural model of the Bauakademie,
photograph: Taufik Kenan
FÖRDERVEREIN FÜR DIE SCHINKELSCHE
BAUAKADEMIE E.V. (ASSOCIATION FOR THE
PROMOTION OF THE BUILDING ACADEMY)
Office c/o KB Deutsche Industriebank AG
Markgrafenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin (Germany)
Telephon: +49 (0) 30 / 31 009- 9122, Fax: …- 3812
kf-schinkel@ikb.de, wolfgang.schoele@t-online.de
www.schinkelsche-bauakademie.de
Register of Associations: 15550 Nz AG Charlottenburg
Tax No. 27/665/60070 Revenue Office for Statutory
Corporations, Berlin
Bank Details: Deutsche Bank AG
Account-Nr. 124912700, Sort Code: 10070000
BIC: DEUTDEBB
IBAN: DE09 1007 0000 0124 9127 00
Account for Stone and Terracotta Adoption:
Deutsche Bank AG, 124912701, Sort Code
10070000, BIC: DEUTDEBB
IBAN: DE09 1007 0000 0124 9127 01
Street, No.
Sort code and city
Email
Telephon / Fax
Date and signature
Membership contributions in Euro (annual contributions)
a. For one person: 30,00
b. spouses/couples: 50,00
c. For legal persons: 500,00
Members are asked to transfer the membership contribution
within the first quarter of the year; new members in the first
quarter after joining.
Mentor
Edzard Reuter
Honorary Members
Prof. Dr. Winfried Baer
Dipl.-Ing. Horst Draheim
Board Members
President
Wolfgang Schoele, retired bank director
1 st Vice Chairman
Prof. Dr. Fritz Runge, CEO of the Bauakademie Ges. für
Forschung, Entwicklung und Bildung mbH.
2 nd Vice Chairman
Dipl.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Arndt, retired senate council
Treasurer
Dipl.-Kfm. Arnfried Hahn, retired bank director
Recording Secretary
Olaf Gruber, Department Director
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Dipl.-Ing. Peter Brenn, Architect
Dr. Doris Fouquet-Plümacher, retired Library Director
Prof. Dr. Bernd Kochendörfer, Technical University
of Berlin, subject area: Construction Industry and Construction
Operation
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