Schinkel Prize

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The Schinkel Prize , also known as the “AIV Schinkel Prize”, is an honor and distinction from the Berlin Architects and Engineers Association for the next generation of architects and is presented every year on the birthday of Karl Friedrich Schinkel . It was first awarded in 1852.

The Schinkel Prize of the Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (AIV) is awarded for “outstanding technical and scientific achievements in the building industry” and aims to promote the planning and creative youngsters - students and graduates up to 35 years of age.

The prize is awarded annually in the categories of town planning , architecture , landscape architecture , fine art , structural engineering , road construction and rail transport .

history

While the association introduced “impromptu competitions” in 1829, when Schinkel was admitted, and held “monthly competitions” to discuss them together on Saturday afternoons and to reward the winners with “souvenirs”, mostly book prizes, today's AIV Schinkel competition became Only invented 30 years later. The occasion was the honor of Schinkel, who, thanks to his professional career and his unparalleled buildings, enjoyed a special honor even in the architects' association during his lifetime. His birthday on March 13, initially an occasion for homage, was used for memorial ceremonies after his untimely death in 1841.

In 1844, the first of the Schinkel festivities, which has been held to this day, was celebrated, the climax of which was a speech. In addition to the association's internal lectures, excursions and chants, monthly competitions as “exercises for designing” were an essential factor in the weekly meetings at this time. It was all the more surprising when, only a few years later, in 1851, the young architecture student and later association librarian Friedrich Adler suggested that a larger competition should be held annually among the club members in honor of Schinkel for the young builders.

In 1852 it was awarded internally for the first time, but the calendar is only to begin with the first state funding in 1855: The winning prizes for architecture and civil engineering were donated on the instructions of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV , making the competition a high endowed state prize has seen a significant appreciation.

With the announcement of the state prizes, students and graduates of the first (construction manager) exam throughout the Prussian state could now compete for the Schinkel Prize. It was also new that it was split into a task from the field of agriculture or building construction or engineering, which included water, railroad and mechanical engineering. The prize money of 1700 marks later was tied to a study trip lasting several months to the classical sites of antiquity, which had to be accounted for in the form of lectures or building surveys after returning, one of the scientific claims of the association.

With the award of the State Prize, the award-winning works could be recognized by the Bauakademie, which later became the Technical University in Charlottenburg, for exams or diplomas.

The Schinkel competition quickly turned into a vital event for the architects' association. The winners were selected and their work presented at the Schinkel festivities in the club's own building on Wilhelmstrasse .

society

The Architects and Engineers Association (AIV) was founded in Berlin in 1824 by young "building conductors" around Eduard Knoblauch and is today the oldest technology association in Germany. The work of the AIV zu Berlin has contributed significantly to the development of the profession of architects and engineers as well as the building and cultural history of Berlin, Prussia and Germany.

Today the AIV zu Berlin has around 350 members.

Architects, urban planners, landscape architects, civil engineers, scientists, business administrators, lawyers and artists are represented as professional groups. In addition to the board, which meets once a month, the active members of the association and the well-known board of trustees ensure the reputation of the AIV in Berlin.

Its primary goal of the statutes is to promote building culture. In events and publications, the association pays tribute to past achievements and accompanies the current construction process in a constructively critical manner.

His best-known scientific work is called “Berlin and its Buildings”. In 2007 the AIV zu Berlin received the Ferdinand von Quast Medal , a Berlin monument preservation award, from the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in recognition of its special services in this area.

Schinkel competition

The Schinkel competition, which is announced annually by the AIV in Berlin, has a 158-year tradition.

Since its first invitation to tender in 1854, young planners have been given tasks in several specialist areas in this funding competition - with the aim of challenging their creativity and imagination for the solution of future-oriented planning tasks. The AIV Schinkel competition, which is basically an ideas competition, serves to promote young technical and scientific talent, but also works for Berlin and its neighboring region in search of a future shape. The diversity of ideas should promote and enrich the planning culture.

In accordance with the statute, the Schinkel Prize is awarded in each specialist area for outstanding technical and scientific achievements in the building industry, which either document the successful interaction of technical disciplines with one another or with other scientific disciplines or, as individual achievements, are particularly characterized by the exemplary balancing of subject-specific and superordinate issues. The prize serves to promote the next generation (students and graduates). Award winners must therefore not be older than 35 years.

March 13th, Karl Friedrich Schinkel's birthday, is traditionally used for the Schinkel Festival with awards ceremony and a dialogue on building culture.

Sponsor

In the succession of the Prussian kings, the AIV Schinkel Competition is promoting today:

Key topics since 1985

  • 1985 "Dahlem - place of residence and science"
  • 1986 "Redesign of the Märkisches Quarter"
  • 1987 "Thoughts in the 750th year: Traditions and progress in the center of Berlin"
  • 1988 "European City of Culture 1988: Bringing Berlin a cooperative future phase"
  • 1989 "The way into the sea ..."
  • 1990 "Living in the city green - From Schöneberg to Tiergarten"
  • 1991 "A bridge - the redesign of the banks of the Spree from Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg"
  • 1992 "Olympia - Festival City Berlin 2000"
  • 1993 "PotsTausend - A Thousand Years of Potsdam"
  • 1994 "From Köpenick to Havelland"
  • 1995 "... and Teltower turnips next door"
  • 1996 "Remaining changing: Adlershof"
  • 1997 "Berlin city edge in the Brandenburger Land"
  • 1998 "Showcase for the Berlin-Brandenburg region: Messe Berlin in an urban context"
  • 1999 "Apartments and park landscapes on the Barnim - development of a structure close to the city in the Reinickendorf - Oranienburg - Bernau - Pankow area"
  • 2000 "Future opportunities - Strategic concept for the re-use of Tegel Airport"
  • 2001 "Future tasks - reclamation of the water landscape for the urban space at the confluence of the Spree and Havel"
  • 2002 "Future Perspectives - A 'Garden of Arts' for Berlin's Kulturforum"
  • 2003 "Future Expectations - Book - Parkstadt for Research and Innovation"
  • 2004 "Urban redevelopment - securing the future, prospects for Pankow-Heinersdorf"
  • 2005 "So mild the landscape and so bold ... - Klein Glienicke between Berlin and Potsdam"
  • 2006 "Frankfurt (Oder) and Slubice - the transnational city, healing wounds and opening up spaces"
  • 2007 "Station forecourt, new Potsdamer Platz or Lehrter Stadtquartier?"
  • 2008 "Contribution to the stabilization and further development of the core city of Cottbus and its surroundings
  • 2009 "New Old Town - Via Brandenburg an der Havel to Rathenow"
  • 2010 "New Old Center in Berlin - A Workshop of Ideas"
  • 2011 "Science City - The Unconditional University"
  • 2012 "Ideal Realities - Potsdam"
  • 2013 "Transformation TXL - From airfield to living space"
  • 2014 "Spandau near Berlin"
  • 2015 "Neuland Lichtenberg"
  • 2016 "Between Teltow and Zehlendorf"
  • 2017 "West Cross"
  • 2018 "city oasis"
  • 2019 "America Memorial Library and its Environment"
  • 2020 "Berlin 2070"

Well-known award winners (selection)

Media partnerships

of the AIV Schinkel Competition 2013:

Not to be confused with the Schinkel Prize, the Schinkel Society in Neuruppin , the birth town of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, annually awards a prize to personalities who have distinguished themselves in the fields of architecture , craftsmanship and art .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 150 years of the Schinkel Competition - Prize-winning ideas and projects. Competition winner 1852–2006. (PDF; 103 kB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 6, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berliner-volksbank.de  
  2. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Jänecke, (3) Louis Heinrich Friedrich. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 186; Heinrich Friedrich Jänecke & f = false online via Google books
  3. ↑ Homepage of the Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel-Gesellschaft e. V.