Baustelle Berlin

From TeePees to TV Tower

Tonight the Zeughauskino screens cinematographer Curt Oertel's 1954 documentary "Neue Welt -Vom Wigwam zum Wolkenkratzer" . After having worked alongside GW Pabst during the Weimar era (on such masterpieces as Die freudlose Gasse and Geheimnisse einer Seele) Oertel began directing his own films in the 30's. After having spent time in the US studying contemporary American architecture he created tonight's film tracing 500 years of architectonic endeavor, with special attention given to his European contemporaries Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Film historian Jean-Paul Goergen will introduce the film, which is part of DHM's film series Kunst des Dokuments - Architektur.

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My Scharouna

  

Few architects have had as deep a connection with Berlin's cityscape as Hans Scharoun. Graduate and later professor at TU Berlin, member of the Ring and the Crystal Chain, student of Hans Poelzig - Scharoun's open and imaginative aesthetic gave Berliners the forms of the Philharmonic and the State Library. Tonight the Zeughauskino screens Hartmut Bitomsky's 1995 documentary "Imaginäre Architektur – Der Baumeister Hans Scharoun".

Tonight's screening is a part of DHM's film series Kunst des Dokuments - Architektur. Keep up with this and other interesting architectural goings-on in Babylon on the Spree with our handy Baustelle Berlin GCal!

His Architect

Tonight the Zeughauskino screens My Architect, Nathaniel Kahn's documentary about his father, architect Louis Kahn. Dying in a Penn Station restroom when son Nathaniel was only 11 Kahn remained a mystery to his son until he begins to discover him through interviews with his father's contemporaries, colleagues and other relatives.

Tonight's screening is a part of DHM's film series Kunst des Dokuments - Architektur . Keep up with this and other interesting architectural goings-on in Babylon on the Spree with our handy Baustelle Berlin GCal!

Fascist Facades

Tonight the Zeughauskino screens four short films produced during the National Socialist dictatorship which present the regime's architectural aesthetic. Film expert Ralf Forster will provide an historical introduction to the shorts: Das Haus der Deutschen Kunst (1934, Armin Hausladen), Die Bauten Adolf Hitlers (1938, Walter Hege), Das Wort aus Stein (1939, Kurt Rupli) and Deutsche Arbeitsstätten (1940, Fritz Brunsch). I think we'll need extra popcorn for this one!

Tonight's screening is a part of DHM's film series Kunst des Dokuments - Architektur. Keep up with this and other interesting architectural goings-on in Babylon on the Spree with our handy Baustelle Berlin GCal!

Solon opens its new HQ in Adlershof

The manufacturer of solar power technology today opened its new HQ in Adlershof, volumes and elevations courtesy of Berlin based Schulte-Frohlinde Architekten.

Adlershof, Architektur, sustainability

Tempest in the Tempelhof Teapot

The Bread & Butter catfight continues - Tagesspiegel reports the CDU now demands full Tempelhof transparency!