Axel Schultes

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Axel Schultes

Axel Schultes (born November 17, 1943 in Dresden ) is an architect and urban planner from Berlin .

Life

Schultes studied architecture from 1963 to 1969 at the Technical University of Berlin . After completing his studies, he founded the architecture office BJSS in 1972 with Dietrich Bangert , Bernd Jansen and Stefan Jan Scholz . At the beginning of 1992 he founded the office of Axel Schultes Architects with Charlotte Frank , with whom he had been working at BJSS since 1987, and Christoph Witt.

Since 2003 he has been teaching at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , department of architecture. Since 2000 he has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

With the urban design for the future design and location of the federal buildings in the Spreebogen , Axel Schultes Architects won one of the largest urban design competitions to date and made the office known in one fell swoop. With a bold bolt, the so-called Band des Bundes , which crosses the Spree twice in an east-west direction, East and West Berlin were to be braced together and the division of Germany was to be overcome structurally. In the subsequent tenders, Schultes and Frank also succeeded in winning the architectural competition for the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, which was completed in 2001 , based on their urban design .

Schultes later subjected the project to a fundamental criticism in the political magazine Cicero . He complained that the underlying idea of ​​uniting the two districts of East and West Berlin had failed. The synthesis that reunification also wanted to implement in urban planning did not come about. With regard to the previous abandonment of the citizens' forum, Schultes described the area as piecemeal, in which the Chancellery as an isolated "Sphinx with severed hands" was not implemented in the actual concept. He called the consequence a "betrayal of the republic". Especially after the planning phase under Helmut Kohl , in which he had been granted great freedoms, he had problems from Gerhard Schröder's Minister of State for Culture, who had seen too much Kohl's influence. He also criticized the Holocaust memorial and the plans for Berlin's Schlossplatz. "The Holocaust memorial is in a non-location, with no spatial, no historically communicable dimension, no silence - with sausage sales and a Goethe memorial". The castle in turn has been degraded to a contextless torso.

The Berlin-Baumschulenweg crematorium also received a lot of attention in the professional world , for which it received the 1999 Concrete Architecture Prize.

Projects

Executed projects

Federal Chancellery Berlin

  • Front side

  • Chancellery seen from the roof of the Reichstag building

  • North side

  • View from the east (main entrance)

  • Detail of the south-western facade

  • Night view over the Spree

Art Museum Bonn

Crematorium Berlin

  • Mourning hall

  • Large prayer room

Under construction

  • South Bridge Spreebogen, Berlin
  • " Galileo " control center, Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich
  • New building on Schinkelplatz / Werderscher Markt, Berlin

Competition entries not carried out

  • 1988: German Historical Museum , Berlin
  • 1989: Bibliotheca Alexandrina , Alexandria
  • 1989: Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
  • 1989: Hamburg International Tribunal for the Sea
  • 1990: Expo pavilion, Seville
  • 1991: Altmarkt , Dresden
  • 1991: Friedrichstadt -Passagen, Berlin
  • 1991: Potsdamer Platz , Berlin
  • 1992: Extension of the Yenidze tobacco mosque , Dresden
  • 1993: Reichstag building , Berlin
  • 1993: Köthener Strasse, Berlin
  • 1993: Hindenburgplatz , Münster
  • 1994: Neues Museum, Berlin
  • 1994: Spreeinsel , Berlin
  • 1994: Lehrter Bahnhof urban district , Berlin
  • 1994: Office of the Federal President at Bellevue Palace, Berlin
  • 1994: Berliner Volksbank
  • 1994: Business park at the Borsigturm, Berlin
  • 1995: Swiss Embassy in Berlin
  • 1997: Neues Museum, Berlin
  • 1999: Station Z memorial, Sachsenhausen
  • 1999: Villa Am Kleinen Wannsee, Berlin
  • 1999: Axel Springer Media Center, Berlin
  • 1999: Telekom Shopping Center, Stuttgart
  • 1999: “Neue Terrasse” congress center, Dresden
  • 2000: Waldfriedhof crematorium, Aalen
  • 2000: Pergamon Museum, Berlin
  • 2000: St. Jakobsplatz, Munich
  • 2000: Atelier Neumarkt, Dresden
  • 2002: German Embassy, Warsaw
  • 2002: The Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza
  • 2003: Magdeburger Hafen, Hafencity Hamburg
  • 2003: Unter den Linden office building in Berlin
  • 2003: University of Sydney Campus
  • 2004: Competence Center Hamburg Chamber of Crafts
  • 2004: Lebanese Canadian Bank, Beirut

Awards

literature

  • Charlotte Frank (Ed.): Axel Schultes in Bangert Jansen Scholz Schultes , Berlin 1992, ISBN 343302328X
  • Charlotte Frank (Ed.): Axel Schultes Kunstmuseum Bonn , Ernst and Son Berlin 1994, ISBN 3433024251
  • Axel Schultes Charlotte Frank: Chancellery Berlin , Stuttgart / London 2001, ISBN 3930698897
  • Joannah Caborn (2006) Architect Axel Schultes turning away from defense. In: Carborn: Creeping turnaround. Discourses of Nation and Memory in the Constitution of the Berlin Republic. ISBN 389771-739-5
  • Axel Schultes: I want a place of balance. The decision: where the chancellor will reside in the 21st century . FAZ v. June 29, 1995. In: Carborn: Creeping turnaround. (Considered by J. Caborn in terms of discourse analysis).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fragments only ( Memento of December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), in: Cicero, January 2007
  2. ↑ "Berlin Architecture" on ennwee.de p. 26 u. 27, (PDF)

Web links

Commons : Axel Schultes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files


personal data
SURNAME Schultes, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden