06 Studio Meyer-Grohbrügge
Museum Der Moderne
Studio Master Prof. Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge
In November 2014 the state budgetary committee of Germany grants the budget to
build a new museum that should host different collections of art of the 20th century
to be build at the Culture Forum Berlin. The competition will be announced soon
and be one of the most interesting among architects this year.
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The Berlin Kulturforum with its museums, concert halls, libraries and institutes, is
among the very important cultural sites of Germany. Many well-known and unique
institutions are located here, including the New National Gallery, designed by Mies
van der Rohe and the Philharmonie and Chamber Music Hall-home of the famous
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Neue Staatsbibilothek (Berlin State Library) with its sensational reading room and, last but not least, the Gemäldegalerie.
Despite of its famous and fabulous buildings the Culture Forum is a wasteland
caused by urban mistakes in the past and a lack of an overall concept today. The new
museum has to stand (up) between Mies and Scharoun but also be able to unite the
Cultural Forum and change the atmosphere of the whole area.
This semester we will try to find answers to this difficult urban situation but also
concern ourselves with the question of what it means to exhibit today and how this
program can or should be connected to the city. We will look at and analyse many
different examples of museums in Berlin and on our study trip that leads to famous
examples in Denmark and Sweden.
1st year studios | summer semester 2015