excursion to buildings of
Ludwig Leo - part 2

Sporthalle Charlottenburg and Kinder garden Loschmidtstraße on May, 12th, 8:30 am (sic)
Because the number of participants is restricted, we kindly as for an immediate response.

meeting point is the south entry/exit of S- and U-Bahnhof Jungfernheide (Ring and U7, regional trains, buses M21, M27, X9 and 109).
It’s a Deutsche Bahn station as well, so check you might get there in 2-3 minutes from Südkreuz, Hauptbahnhof, Potsdamer Platz, Gesundbrunnen etc. From there it's a 10 minutes walk to the gymnasium in Sömmeringstraße. After that, around half past two we walk another 10 minutes to the former kinder garden.

After these visits there is the chance to see for example a great example of Prussian historicism, the townhall of Charlottenburg, or the Ernst-Reuter-Platz including the buildings of Hans Scharoun and Bernhard Hermkes.
The tour could end in the architect’s cafeteria of the UdK, which was made by Leo and students, and is another 10 minutes walk full with architecture, that is worth seeing on a special tour. From the university of arts it's just a short woalk to see the other famous Leo building, the so called Umströmtank of the TU, the technical university.

Sporthalle Charlottenburg

more information in German >>> here.

It's built in 1962 and was at that time widely acclaimed. It was the larges Berlin gymnasium for several years. The construction is a Nervi-inspired very modern prestressed concrete lozenge structure. Already here many of Leo's investigations start, the use of slanting space, the playful change of spaces by handy mechanics, the use of cabins in vast brutalist space, a warm intentness.

Kindergarten Loschmidtstraße


The former kindergarden in Loschmidtstraße was the first and seemingly the only real structuralist building in Germany. It was built in 1958-59, even before the orphanage of Aldo van Eyck in Amsterdam was finished.
The building underwent some changes and now is a day care for the elderly.


In both buildings we will have access to all spaces.


The first Leo tour was to the Student housing Eichkamp and DLRG headquarter,
on Thursday, May, 5th, 12.30 pm.
>>> more on Ludwig Leo

The next tour planned will be to two buildings of Fehling and Gogel, the Institute of Hygenics and Medicial Biology and the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development .

The Tour is a cooperation of Büro Schwimmer and architectureinberlin













all photos: Sven Eggers