Exhibition to DAM (Deutches Architecture Museum)

The first known human dwelling consisted of branches closely set to form a roof which may have lent against a log supported by two forked branches. (Dwelling of Homo Erectus by the Shore at Nice, c. 400000 B.C.). Apart from more models of the Mesolithic and the Sumerian civilisation, the collection also includes the famous Terraced Temples of the Pharaohs at Dêr el-Bahari (Egypt), c. 1400 B.C., the model of the leading Greek city between 1600 and 1200 B.C. Mycenae, the reconstructed forum of Pompeji (Italy), 79 A.D., which provides an excellent insight into roman life and architecture, and the first planned Renaissance ideal city of the humanist Pope Pius II at Pienza (Italy), c.1460.

The Town of Arolsen (Germany, 1710-29) may be regarded as an example of Baroque town planning reflecting the sense of power inherent in Baroque absolutism. The Model of slums in London, c. 1870), reconstructed from a drawing by the French illustrator Gustave Doré shows the living conditions of workers in England at the beginning of industrial capitalism. Also part of the exhibition is the Crystal Palace. The exhibition hall built in London by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851 as an engineer building became the flagship of a "modern architecture". It was the beginning of the development of modern High-Rise Buildings shown in the detail of cityscape of New York and the Main Tower in Frankfurt, a building of the 21th Century.

Due to the exhibition installation "Eminent architects. Seen by Ingrid van Kruse" the permanent exhibition will be closed 14-18 November 2011. An exhibition, where architecture informs people and people inform architecture. Ingrid von Kruse's very personal portrait shots trace the people behind the building designs. The photographs will be complemented by statements from some of the major contemporary architects. A selection of sketches, drawings and models will complete the glimpse into their realms of artistic imagination.

The architects portrayed include, among others, Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, O. M. Ungers, Ieoh Ming Pei, Dominique Perrault, Renzo Piano, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown, and Peter Zumthor.)

Place : DAM (Deutches Architecture Museum)
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