Architecture museum of the Technical University of Munich

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Logo of the architecture museum of the Technical University of Munich
Logo of the architecture museum of the Technical University of Munich from 1989 to 2013
Architecture museum of the TUM in the Pinakothek der Moderne (photo 2015)

The Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich is a university research museum on the history of architecture. The museum is sponsored by the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Munich , supported by the Friends of the Architecture Museum at the Technical University of Munich. It is by far the largest special collection of architecture collections in the Federal Republic of Germany. The founding director of the Architekturmuseum is Winfried Nerdinger , TUM Emeritus of Excellence and until 2012 Professor for the History of Architecture and Building Construction at the Technical University of Munich . He was followed on October 1, 2012 by Andres Lepik , Professor of Architectural History and Curatorial Practice at TUM.

The exhibition rooms of the Architekturmuseum are in the same building as the Pinakothek der Moderne . The branch, the Architecture Museum Swabia , is located in Augsburg .

history

In 1868, King Ludwig II gave the newly founded “Royal Polytechnic School”, today's Technical University, a collection of architectural designs called the teaching collection for architectural education at the New Polytechnic School . This served as a teaching collection for architecture education. In the new building erected by Friedrich von Thiersch on Gabelsbergerstrasse , the model collection was given a large, representative suite of rooms in 1916, which formed the center of the architecture department.

After the teaching increased from original drawings to photographs and glass negatives and the designs also concentrated more and more on construction and construction technology, the importance of the model collection decreased increasingly in the 1920s and 1930s. The collection gradually changed into an architecture archive and was used as the "Architecture Collection of the Technical University of Munich", primarily as a scientific research facility.

During the Second World War , the holdings were relocated in good time, but the state rooms were completely destroyed. After the end of the war, the architecture collection no longer received any exhibition rooms, the entire inventory was stored in depots at the Technical University.

The collection has been continuously expanded since it was founded in 1868. Acquisitions and foundations as well as bequests such as that of Theodor Fischer continued to expand the collection, so that even before the First World War it went beyond the function of a model collection and became an architecture collection with a focus on research and collection. Larger new acquisitions were the so-called "Gärtner Collection" in 1884, which includes the closed holdings of drawings by Friedrich von Gärtner and his students, including Friedrich Bürklein , the takeover of the "Architectural History Collection of the State Capital of Munich" in 1970, the takeover of the architectural drawings from the library of the Deutsches Museum around 1970 and, with the support of the Association of Friends of the Technical University of Munich, the acquisition of architectural drawings and plans, etc. a. by Georg von Hauberrisser , Christian Friedrich Leins , Friedrich Laves and Olaf Andreas Gulbransson .

Nevertheless, the desire for new exhibition spaces arose very quickly in order to make the collection accessible to a wider public. Therefore, since 1975, the special scientific collection has been continuously and systematically converted into an archive with museum functions. The Technical University of Munich was unable to provide suitable exhibition rooms. In 1977, a collaboration was therefore agreed with the Munich City Museum , in which the architecture collection designed an exhibition in the city museum almost every year, the city museum in turn bearing the costs for the exhibition and catalog. In this way, parts of the collection and the holdings for individual bequests could be scientifically compiled and published in exhibition catalogs. This form of collaboration was a model for further collaborations with other museums.

After a possible new building on the site of the former Turkish barracks was getting closer and closer to realization, the architecture collection was renamed the Architekturmuseum in 1989. With the basic geometric shapes of a triangle with an inscribed square, as an architectural symbol for A and M, the museum has now also received its own significant logo. Since the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne , the architecture museum has had its own exhibition rooms there. It does not use it with a permanent exhibition , but develops a new exhibition for the entirety of the rooms at irregular intervals.

Collection holdings

The enormous holdings of the archive are the historical 'memory' of the Faculty of Architecture with documents from the 16th century to the present day. The holdings continue to grow due to the inheritance of important architects. Today the largest special and research archive for architecture in Germany includes around 500,000 drawings and plans by almost 700 architects, over 100,000 original photographs and a large number of models and archival materials. The focus of the collection is on German architecture from the 19th to the 21st century. The range of works by well-known architects ranges from Balthasar Neumann to Le Corbusier and from Leo von Klenze to Peter Zumthor.

DigitAM - The digital database of the archive | DFG project

With the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Architecture Museum and the University Library of TUM began digitizing the archive's plan collection in June 2009. The DFG project aims to secure the architecture museum's most valuable plan holdings (around 40,000), to facilitate their management and to make them optimally accessible for research, teaching and the public through high-resolution digitization, indexing and online presentation.

Exhibitions

The museum shows a wide range of changing exhibitions. In preparation, the museum uses its unique position in Germany as a university institution with archive and exhibition rooms. The potential of the Technical University of Munich and the combination of collection, teaching and research enable an intensive interdisciplinary development of historical and current topics from all areas of architecture. The catalogs published by the Architecture Museum offer in-depth access.

Exhibitions (selection):

  • 2002/03: Exemplary - Construction and Space in 20th Century Architecture
  • 2003: Dinner for Architects - napkin sketches for the architecture museum
  • 2003: The Unbuilt Monuments - computer animation by Takehiko Nagakura
  • 2003/04: SchauSpielRaum - theater architecture
  • 2004: The city of Monsieur Hulot - Jacques Tati's view of modern architecture
    • show me the future - ways into the future, engineering and design by Werner Sobek
  • 2004/05: Moved inside and out - Diener & Diener
  • 2005: Architecture of the child prodigies - awakening and displacement in Bavaria 1945–1960
    • The new ones are coming! Female avant-garde in the architecture of the twenties
    • Frei Otto - Build easily, design naturally
  • 2005: Ideal City - Real Projects, Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners in China
  • 2005/06: Heinz Tesar - Architecture begins before architecture
  • 2006: Place and Memory - National Socialism in Munich
    • Architecture + Sport - From the ancient stadium to the modern arena
    • 1234 - the architecture of sauerbruch hutton
  • 2006/07: Architecture as it is in the book - fictional buildings and cities in literature
  • 2007: 100 years of the Deutscher Werkbund 1907 | 2007
  • 2007/08: Architecture, People and Resources - Baumschlager-Eberle 2002 | 2007
  • 2008: Architecture in the Circle of the Arts - 200 Years of the Munich Art Academy
  • 2008/09: Munio Weinraub | Amos Gitai - Architecture and Film in Israel
    • Multiple City - Urban Concepts 1908 | 2008
  • 2009: Klaus Kinold - the architect photographs architecture
    • Jabornegg & Pálffy - building in existing structures
  • 2009/10: The Art of Wood Construction - Chinese Architectural Models
    • Zlín - the model city of modernity
  • 2010: Turning point (s) in construction - from serial to digital architecture
  • 2010: From Cape Town to Brasília , new stadiums by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
  • 2010: History of Reconstruction - Construction of History
  • 2010/11: Material Time - Change Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch
  • 2011: Photography for Architects - The Photo Collection of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich
    • Walter Benjamin: A reflection in pictures
    • Wisdom builds a house - architecture and history of libraries
  • 2011/12: Building with wood - ways into the future
  • 2012: John Pawson
    • L'architecture engagée - manifestos for changing society
    • Le Corbusier - Le poème de l'angle droit
  • 2012/13: The Architect - Past and Present of a Profession
  • 2014: Show & Tell. Architectural history (s) from the collection
  • 2014/15: Lina Bo Bardi . Brazil's alternative path to modernity
  • 2015: ZOOM! Architecture and city in the picture
    • Paul Schneider-Esleben. Architect.
  • 2016: World of Malls . Architectures of Consumption . Catalog.
  • 2016/2017: Radically Simple , retrospective by the African architect Francis Kéré
  • 2017: Outside | Out there - landscape architecture on global terrain

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. TUM Emeriti of Excellence: Winfried Nerdinger .
  2. ^ Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich - History .
  3. Frei Otto . freiotto-architekturmuseum.de.
  4. ^ Institute for Foreign Relations eV: 100 Years of the Deutscher Werkbund . Archived from the original on April 23, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 11, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifa.de
  5. Architecture Museum of the TU Munich - Lina Bo Bardi 100 .
  6. Architecture Museum of the TU Munich - ZOOM IN ON ARCHITECTURE .
  7. It was a mall in America in FAZ on August 5, 2016, page 11
  8. badische-zeitung.de , December 7, 2016, Patrick Guyton: Architect Francis Kéré shows his first major exhibition (January 1, 2017)

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 49 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 20 ″  E