excursions to buildings of
Ludwig Leo - part 1
Studentendorf Eichkamp and DLRG headquarter
on May, 5th, 12.30 pm.
Because the number of participants is restricted, we kindly as for an immediate response:
sveneggers (at) buero-schwimmer (dot) de
A fee of 10 euros each is asked for from the owners, sorry.
The unique chance to visit two sites of true postwar avantgarde in Berlin is just possible in the week, on a Thursday, for both places are in use. The second part to two very early buildings of Ludwig Leo will be on the following Thursday, the 12th.
More information you find >>> here.
meeting point is S-Bahnhof Messe Süd (S3 and S75, direction Spandau) at 12.30. From there it's a 10 minutes walk to the Studentendorf in Harbigstraße. After the visit, around 14.15 we would walk another 10 minutes to the station Heerstraße and take a bus (X34 or X49, 7min.) heading west on the Heerstraße to jump off at Alt Pichelsdorf. Another 10 minutes walk takes us to the DLRG headquarter (Am Pichelssee 25). The tour shall start 15.00 and last an hour. Afterwards there are some nice beer gardens at the shore of the Havel to have a discussion over food and drinks.
Student housing Eichkamp
The student accomodation at Eichkamp was together with the one in Schlachtensee by Fehling, Gogel and Pfankuch was the first student housing after the war.
It's build in 1959 by Hans Christian Müller, Georg Heinrichs and Ludwig Leo, all of them at that time just finished university. But already a year before they were presenting their concepts of studental self-aid of the international student camp Eichkamp at the CIAM IX congress in Aix-en-Provence. The houses are each organized around a stairwell space for multiple use, the intricate one- and two-bed rooms are offering a great variability of use.
In the organization of space which offered a great freedom and possibilities of interpretation, in the clear stand-alone modern language this project stood at it's time out of German housing.
We have the honour to get a tour through the area and houses by the head of the Student housing, Frau Neukrantz.
One of his most famous and spectacular buildings is the
Headquater of the DLRG, the German Society of Life Savers
.
The Zentrale der Deutschen Lebensrettungsgesellschaft DLRG is built 1969-71. It is the masterpiece of Leo, high modern poetic articulation, a desiring machine that seems to be built by James Bond's Q. But technique never comes to appear as fetish, always as a tool.
There is the chance that the former caretaker, whom was deeply involved building the house from the very beginning, joins in for the tour with us.
The second tour to
Kinder garden Loschmidtstraße and Gymnasium Charlottenburg is on May. 12th, 8:30 am (sic!).
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The Tour is a cooperation of Büro Schwimmer and
architectureinberlin
