Southwest German archive for architecture and civil engineering
| saai | Southwest German archive for architecture and civil engineering
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| Archive type | University archive |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 0 '33.1 " N , 8 ° 24' 54.1" E |
| place | Karlsruhe |
| Visitor address | Kaiserstrasse 8 |
| founding | 1989 |
| Age of the archive material | 1700 until today |
| ISIL | DE-90-198 (KIT library, library of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe) |
| carrier | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| Organizational form | authority |
| Website | www.saai.kit.edu |
The Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai) in Karlsruhe collects, archives and conserves materials on the work of important architects and engineers , building historians , architectural photographers as well as garden and interior designers who were primarily active in the southwest of Germany or from here all over the world. The focus of the collection is in the 20th century. The saai researches these stocks and also makes them available to researchers. With conferences, publications and exhibitions, the saai wants to make a contribution to the understanding of building culture and cultural history in the public.
history
The collection is based on an old inventory of the architecture department of the Polytechnic School, which is now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), presumably for teaching purposes . In addition to supplementing this old stock, the collection was greatly expanded in the 1970s through donations of extensive estates from contemporary architects. These donations gave rise to the founding of the saai. This took place in 1989 on the decision of the state government of Baden-Württemberg by Wulf Schirmer , who headed the archive until 2002. The saai is the central architecture archive of the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and has been led by the head of the architectural theory department , Georg Vrachliotis, since 2014 . Since 1989, the collection has been expanded to include materials on the work of 20th century architects and the old holdings have been substantially supplemented. The headquarters of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering with the reading rooms has been housed in the listed building group of the former armory on the eastern Kaiserstraße in Karlsruhe since it was founded. In the years 1777–1779 this facility was built under Margrave Karl Friedrich (Baden) as a hunting arsenal near the Durlacher Tor on Langen Strasse (today Kaiserstrasse). The design comes from Wilhelm Jeremias Müller (1725–1801). By far the largest part of the collection is not housed here, but in several external depots. Pre-registration is therefore necessary to use the archive.
Stocks
The holdings of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai) include over 500,000 plans, drawings and sketches, 600,000 photos, film and sound documents, 1,100 linear meters of construction files, 900 architectural models, 50 pieces of furniture and 400 linear meters of specialist journals and books. This makes this collection the most extensive of its kind in Germany. The archives consist to a small extent of subject-related, but mainly personal collections, from smaller bundles to extensive closed work archives. These provide information about the work of over 230 architects, engineers, building historians, architectural photographers, garden and interior designers and artists. The oldest documents date from around 1700, but the main focus of the collection is on the 20th century, especially in the second half of it. Work archives by architects such as Otto Ernst Schweizer , Egon Eiermann , Günter Behnisch and Partner or Frei Otto are part of the collection.
Exhibitions
The Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering shows one or two exhibitions each year with changing cooperation partners. Since 2003 these have been:
- Cross-section: From the collections of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering. September 13 to November 16, 2003, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
- Egon Eiermann (1904–1970). The continuity of modernity. September 18, 2004 to January 9, 2005 Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, then January 29 to May 16, 2005, Bauhaus Archive Berlin, April 15, 2005 to June 12, 2005, Neues Museum Nuremberg
- Fritz Leonhardt 1909–1999. The Art of Constructing, June 13th to July 26th, 2009 LBBW Forum Stuttgart, then August 14th to November 7th, 2009, Historical Archive of the City of Cologne , April 21st to June 3rd, 2011, BTU Cottbus
- Karlsruhe after the Second World War - photographs by Carl Albiker, September 25 to November 20, 2010, Badische Landesbibliothek
- Rolf Gutbrod - Buildings from the 1960s, June 17 to August 2, 2010 BW-Bank Stuttgart, June 11 to July 1, 2011, Sparkasse Bodensee Friedrichshafen
- Robert Curjel and Karl Moser . A Karlsruhe architecture office on the way to the modern age, April 9 to July 3, 2011, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
- Pocket worlds. Sketchbooks by architects from the saai collection, February 6 to April 13, 2013, Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe
- August Lorent . Photographs of the Nile 1859/60, February 8 to April 26, 2014, Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe
- City and Palace of Karlsruhe before 1945. Historical photographs from Arthur Valdenaire's inventory of monuments, May 13 to August 22, 2015, Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe
- Friedrich Weinbrenner 1766–1826. Architecture and urban development of classicism, June 27 to October 4, 2015, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
- Frei Otto . Think in terms of models. November 5, 2016 to March 12, 2017, ZKM Karlsruhe
literature
- saai Southwest German archive for architecture and civil engineering: cross section. From the collections of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering saai. Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 3-88190-429-8 .
- Joachim Kleinmanns: The saai - Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT. In: Archivist. Archive journal. 68, 3, 2015, ISSN 0003-9500 , ISSN 2199-9252 , pp. 229-230.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ KIT - saai - homepage of the saai. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
- ↑ saai | Southwest German archive for architecture and civil engineering: cross section. From the collections of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering. Info Verlag Karlsruhe, 2006, ISBN 3-88190-429-8 , p. 12.
- ↑ saai | Southwest German archive for architecture and civil engineering: cross section. From the collections of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering. Info Verlag Karlsruhe, 2006, ISBN 3-88190-429-8 , pp. 13-14.
- ^ Karlsruhe after the Second World War - Unknown photographs by Carl Albiker. In: Website of the Baden State Library. Badische Landesbibliothek , 2010, accessed on February 22, 2018 .