draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities
Exhibition, 25 Oct 2024 – 19 Jan 2025
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Exhibition opening on 24 Oct, 7 pm
Left: Hugo Häring, Competition Hochhaus Friedrichstraße, Berlin, 1922, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Hugo Häring Archive © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 / Right: sauerbruch hutton, Kinetik, Boulogne-Billancourt, 2012, digital drawing © sauerbruch hutton
The architecture firm sauerbruch hutton was founded in 1988 by Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch and has been practicing in Berlin for 36 years. The twin exhibition presents around 60 projects and visions by the architectural team and allows them to enter into conversation with selected documents of historical history.
On the occasion of the transfer of their advance legacy to the Academy’s Architectural Archives, Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch have reconceived their retrospective exhibition “draw love build” and extended it significantly: iconic archival material from the first half of the 20th century generates surprising dialogues with contemporary positions. The approximately 100-year-old views of a rising generation serve as both inspiration and benchmark for an architecture that seeks to process current critical environmental and societal conditions. The exhibition offers a comprehensive tour d‘horizon that can be explored in greater depth by visitors via a specially developed app. With additional, easily accessible information such as texts, drawings, photographs and films, each visitor can freely design their experience in terms of scope and subject area.
The exhibition is curated by Dirk van den Heuvel, Professor at TU Delft.