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Förderverein Bauakademie |
Bauakademie (Schinkel), 1836, View from the palace bridge Vue du Pont du Chateau |
Bauakademie / Kupfergraben (Karl Wilhelm Klose -1840- / Gerhard Klein -2005-) |
Modelfacade (left) | Model |
The Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture), built opposite the Royal Palace by Karl Friedrich Schinkel between 1832 and 1836, was a beautiful and most important building in the centre of Berlin. Furthermore it became the prototype for the future exposed-brick buildings in Prussia, whereas its extraordinary construction and building techniques pointed the way to modern architecture in general. |
The building was badly damaged by bombs on February 3, 1945, but reconstruction work began soon after the war. Unfortunately the re-planning of the ’socialist’ urban centre led to a building stop and, in spite of international and national protests, to its demolition in the 1960s, when its site was required for the Foreign Office of the then GDR. Since that building, too, was pulled down in 1995/96, the site has, in fact, stayed free for rebuilding the Academy. |