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Summer Seminar Abroad: Berlin 2004

Hans Belting \ Andrea Buddensieg

Berlin Seminar: Museums and Architecture

August 8-August 22, 2004

Berlin Seminar: Museum Visits
Altes Museum: Antiquity
Pergamon Museum: Oriental Antiquities
Gemaeldegalerie: Old Master Paintings 14th-18th centuries
Alte Nationalgalerie: Romanticism and German Painting 19th century
Neue Nationalgalerie: Temporary exhibition MoMa, permanent collection
Charlottenburg: Picasso
Hamburger Bahnhof: Contemporary Art

The Baroque Berlin
Nering, Knobelsdorff, Langhans: Charlottenburg Schloss (1695-99, 1701-91)
Nering, Schlueter, Gehry: Zeughaus (1695-1706, 2003)
Knobelsdorff: Humboldt-Universitaet (1748-53, 1913-20)
Knobelsdorff: Staatsoper (1741-43)
Knobelsdorff: Hedwigskathedrale (1747-73)
Gruenberg, Gontard: Deutsche und Franzoesische Kirche (1701-08, 1780-85)

The Classicist Berlin and its heritage
Langhans: Brandenburger Tor (1788-91)
Schinkel: Neue Wache (1816-18)
Schinkel: Schauspielhaus (1818-21)
Schinkel: Pavillon Charlottenburg (1824-25)
Schinkel: Werdersche Kirche (1824-30)
Schinkel: Altes Museum (1825-30)

Stueler: St. Matthaeikirche (1844-46)
Stueler: Gardekasernen Charlottenburg (1852-59)
Stueler and Strack: Alte Nationalgalerie (1862-76)

Neuhaus (und Kleihues): Hamburger Bahnhof (1845-47, 1996)
Waesemann: Rotes Rathaus (1845-47, 1996)

Wilhelminian Berlin and Industrial Architecture
Wallot (and Foster): Reichstag (1884-94, 1999)
Schwechten (and Eiermann): Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche (1891-95)
Raschdorff: Berliner Dom (1894-1905)

Messel: Reformmiethaus (1893-95)
Messel and Hoffmann: Pergamon-Museum (1906-30)

Behrens: AEG Turbinenhalle (1908-09)
Behrens: AEG Industrial Buildings (1909-13)
Behrens: Alexanderplatz (1930-32)

Modernism in Architecture between the wars
Taut: Siedlung Schillerpark (1924-28)
Taut and Wagner: Hufeisensiedlung (1925-27)
Mies van der Rohe: Wohnanlage Afrikanische Strasse (1926-27)
Scharoun: Appartmenthaus Kaiserdamm (1928-29)
Mendelsohn: Schaubuehne (1927-31)
Mendelsohn: Metallarbeiterverband (1929-30)
Fahrenkamp: Shell-Haus (1930-31)

Postwar Modernism
Scharoun: Philharmonie (1960-63)
Mies van der Rohe: Neue Nationalgalerie (1965-68)
Gutbrod: Museum Planning Kulturforum (1966-85)
Scharoun: Staatsbibliothek (1967-76)
Duettmann: Mehringplatz (1968-75)
Gropius: Bauhaus-Archiv (1976-78)
Kleihues: Carre am Gendarmenmarkt (1994-96)

Postmodernism and Post-Wall Architecture
Krier, Rossi and Hollein: City Villas Rauchstrasse (1983-84)
Stirling: Wissenschaftszentrum (1984-87)
Hilmer and Sattler: Gemaeldegalerie (1988-96)

Libeskind: Juedisches Museum (1993-98)
Piano, Kollhoff and Jahn: Potsdamer Platz (1994-98)
Schultes and Franke: Bundeskanzleramt (1996-2001)
Braunfels: Alsenhoefe, Regierungsbauten (1998-2004)

Selected introductory books in English:
Berlin, An Architectural History. AD Publication Ltd 1983; Hermann Pundt, Schinkel’s Berlin. A study in environmental planning. Harvard 1972; Belting, Hans, Die Kunstsammlung in Tegel, in: Identitaet im Zweifel. Koeln 1999 (p. 150ff); Buddensieg, Tilmann and Rogge, Hennig, Peter Behrens and the AEG, MIT 1984; Alan Windsor, Peter Behrens. Architect and Designer. London 1981; Stanford Anderson, Peter Behrens and a new architecture for the 20th century. MIT 2000; Michael Snodin, K.F. Schinkel. A universal Man. Yale 1991; New Architecture Berlin. 1990-2000. DAZ Berlin 1998; Mies in Berlin, edited by Terence Riley and Barry Bergdoll. The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2001

 



 
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