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The Architectural Model – Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia Frankfurt / Main, 23/05/2012 Materials: Wood, board, metal, wax, melted polystyrene, soap sud… The exhibition shows models made of a great variety of materials. Models are traditionally made of wood or cardboard. In the DAM, however, models made of metal will also be on display: a copper model by Aldo Rossi, a silver-plated bronze cast by BeL-Architekten. Amongst the most curious objects are wax models, which were formed in a water basin, and polystyrene models that architect Franz Krause melted using a burning candle. Visitors can adopt a hands-on approach to model boxes by Frei Otto and experiment with sand and soap suds: The soap film models played a major role in Frei Otto’s development of lightweight tent constructions. 3D printer A 3D printer was acquired especially for the exhibition. Developed several years ago this technology permits architectural models to be produced of plastic in a single operation. The 3D printer is operated in cooperation with the Technical University in Kaiserslautern. In public printing workshops staged together with the Städel School at weekends in the exhibition rooms, produces small duplicates of one of the most famous models in the DAM collection, the Einstein Tower by the architect Erich Mendelsohn (1887– 1953). Architectural models in films The auditorium will be transformed into a movie theater during the exhibition. We will be screening the artistic film project “Mock-Ups in Close-Up” – a montage of scenes from feature films lasting over three hours and including architectural models. In 141 films, beginning with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), Gabu Heindl and Drehli Robnik tracked down architectural models, which often played a major role in the plot, frequently by being destroyed with great to-do. In architecture studios Specially for the exhibition, photographs were taken in three architecture studios of how the models are kept “in their natural environment”, as it were, in other words in the place where they were made: At Barkow Leibinger Architekten in Berlin they are hung like reliefs on the wall, at Schultes Frank Architekten, likewise in Berlin, they tower up on a shelf and at the Frankfurt architects Meixner Schlüter Wendt they stand in and on glass show cases, arranged as a mine of related ideas for designs. Mock-up collection of a model builder Established 1947 in Zurich, Zaborowsky-Modellbau is one of the most respected model building firms. Some 80 model fragments from the latter’s mock-up collection have been made available for the first time for the exhibition. They enable a view behind the perfectly crafted facades. One can imagine how the models came to be so precise. PRESSEINFORMATION Seite 4
The Architectural Model – Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia Frankfurt / Main, 23/05/2012 Individual research, corrected origin, catalog Individual research was not only conducted on most of the models from the DAM collection but also on many of the loaned items, so as to reconstruct the circumstances under which they came about: What exactly was the purpose the models were built for? What materials were used, and why? Who built the models? Which publications carried images of the models, and to what extent do the photos contribute to interpreting the models (and naturally the planned buildings)? In some cases the ascription and dating were corrected. The history and therefor the provenience of one of the most important and famous models of the DAM collection has to be revised: it can´t be labeled as an original model of the twenties anymore. More will be announced at the press conference. WITH MODELS BY Raimund Abraham; Emilio Ambasz; Paul Andreu; Archigram; Barkow Leibinger; Otto Bartning; BeL; Béla Berec; Helge Bofinger; Gottfried Böhm; Roger Boltshauser; Donato Bramante \ Bernd Grimm, Arno Brandlhuber und Bernd Kniess; Jean-Louis Chanéac; Lluís Clotet \ Oscar Tusquets Blanca; Theodore Conrad; Dieter Cöllen; Richard J. Dietrich; Wolfgang Döring; Peter Eisenman \ Richard Serra; EM2N; Klaus Ethner; Fink + Jocher; Norman Foster; Giefer und Mäckler; Hermann Giesler; Gigon \ Guyer, Herbert Goertz; Bruce Goff; Julian Harrap; Haus-Rucker-Co; Henn Architekten; Herzog & de Meuron; Nikolaus Hirsch, Wolfgang Lorch, Andrea Wandel; Hans Hollein; HPP; Hufnagel Pütz Rafaelian; Friedensreich Hundertwasser; Christoph Ingenhoven; Arata Isozaki; Walter Jonas; Louis I. Kahn; Kandor Model Makers; Christian Kerez; Josef Paul Kleihues; Hans Köhler; Rüdiger Kramm; Kraus Schönberg; Franz Krause; Andreas Kretzer \ Dennis Röver; Rob Krier; Uwe Laske; Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei; Heinrich Lindenbeck; Christoph Mäckler; Peter Märkli; Mass Studies; Merete Mattern; Marcel Meili; Markus Peter, Meixner Schlüter Wendt; Erich Mendelsohn; Mies van der Rohe; Charles Moore \ August Perez & Associates; Rem Koolhaas \ OMA; Frei Otto; Oda Pälmke; Pei, Cob, Freed & Partner; Dumeng Raffainer; Heinz Rasch; Wolfgang Rathke; Bruno Reichlin \ Fabio Reinhart; Eckhart Reissinger; Conrad Roland; Aldo Rossi; Sergius Ruegenberg; Giovanni Sacchi; Alfred Schmid; Axel Schultes und Charlotte Frank; Wolfgang Schulze, Hans Uwe Schultze; Otto Ernst Schweizer \ Anton Schäffer; SITE; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Robert A. M. Stern; James Stirling; Heinz Tesar; Oswald Mathias Ungers; Makoto Sei Watanabe; Karl Wimmenauer; Christof Wurzer; Peter Zumthor; Zaborowsky Modellbau. PRESSEINFORMATION Seite 5
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