Architects and Engineers Association in Berlin
The Architects and Engineers Association in Berlin was founded in 1824 under the name Architects Association in Berlin by 18 architects as an association to deepen the artistic and art-historical training of architects . Eduard Knoblauch and Friedrich August Stüler were among the founding members . The first chairman was John James Blaurock. Gustav Möller was chairman from 1879 to 1881 .
history
Members of the association were both civil servants and young freelance architects. In 1870 the association had over a thousand and in 1906 over 2,400 members. Among the members of the association were well-known architects and builders such as James Hobrecht , Ludwig Hoffmann , Peter Behrens , Johann Heinrich Strack , Wilhelm Böckmann , Alfred Messel , August Orth , Julius Ludwig Quassowski , Bernhard Sehring , Franz Schwechten and Paul Wallot , but also Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Ludwig Persius , Gottfried Semper and Walter Gropius . In 1912 Elisabeth von Knobelsdorff , the first German female engineer to specialize in architecture, became the first woman to join the association as a member.
In 1875 the association acquired the Wilhelmstrasse 92/93 house built by Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Böckmann. For financial reasons, the house had to be sold to the Prussian War Ministry in 1916 , but could still be used by the association. In 1879, the Association of Berlin Architects split off from the association .
Today the association operates under the name of Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin and has around 500 members, including urban planners, landscape architects, scientists and artists. It continues to award the Schinkel Prize, which was first awarded in 1852, annually to honor special achievements by young architects, engineers and artists in nine fields ( urban development , architecture, landscape architecture , art and building, structural engineering, supply and disposal technology, road construction and transport, railway construction, hydraulic engineering ).
In 2007 the association received the Ferdinand von Quast medal.
Writings and periodicals
- Notepad from the architects' association , from 1833
- Construction journal , from 1851
- Weekly newspaper of the Architects' Association in Berlin , from 1867, later: Deutsche Bauzeitung
- Journal of German Architects and Engineers , from 1922
- Berlin and its buildings , 2 volumes, Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1877 (as facsimile : Berlin 1984)
- Berlin and its buildings , 3 volumes, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1896 (as facsimile: Berlin 1988)
- One hundred years of the Berlin Architects 'Association 1824–1924 , publishing house of the Berlin Architects' Association, Berlin 1924.
- Berlin and its buildings , Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn et al. , Berlin 1966 ff. (Thematic individual volumes)
literature
- Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weisspflug: Berlin Architects' Association . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Mitte . Luisenstadt educational association . tape 1 : A-N . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
Web links
- Architects and Engineers Association in Berlin
- Literature by and about Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 19 vol. 1899, No. 43 ( online ), p. 263.