2 October 2024
draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities
Exhibition, 25 October 2024 – 19 January 2025
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg
Invitation to the press preview of the exhibition
on Thursday, 24 October, 11 am
Exhibition halls open from 10 am
With Matthias Sauerbruch, architect, sauerbruch hutton, member of the Akademie der Künste, Louisa Hutton, architect, sauerbruch hutton,
Werner Heegewaldt, Director of the Archives of the Akademie der Künste
Anh-Linh Ngo, Vice-President of the Akademie der Künste, will give a welcoming speech.
Followed by a tour of the exhibition with the curators.
Please register for the press preview by e-mail to presse@adk.de
On 24 October, draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities is set to open at the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg. Containing some 60 architectural models and around 100 drawings by the Berlin-based architectural team sauerbruch hutton, the double exhibition shows work produced over the space of three decades, setting it in dialogue with historical visions from the Akademie’s Architectural Archives.
As part of the process of bequeathing their living legacy to the Architectural Archives, Louisa Hutton, Matthias Sauerbruch and Tom Geister worked together with curator Dirk van den Heuvel (TU Delft) to revise the concept for their retrospective draw love build, expanding it to include a key component: a view of the archive itself. This has given rise to surprising dialogues between contemporary positions and those from the first half of the twentieth century, the period of “heroic” modernism in architecture. The perspectives of a generation breaking new ground around 100 years ago act as both an inspiration and a touchstone for an architecture that must now grapple with today’s environmental and social crises.
The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview, which can be explored in greater depth with the help of a specially developed app. There is a wealth of easily accessible information on display, including texts, drawings, photographs and films, allowing visitors the freedom to decide how much they want to take in and what they want to focus on. Harun Farocki’s 2013 film Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten will also be shown, presenting a record of the office’s daily routines and working methods.
The architecture office sauerbruch hutton is one of the most important exponents of sustainable building, with experience reaching back more than 30 years. Founded in London in 1989 by Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch, the firm is now located in Berlin with around 100 people on its staff. Since 2020, responsibility for running the office has been shared between 16 partners and 10 associates.
Exhibition details
draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities
Opening: Thursday, 24 October 2024, 7 pm, free admission
Run: 25 October 2024 – 19 January 2025
Opening times: Tue–Fri, 2–7 pm; Sat, Sun, bank holidays, 11 am – 7 pm
Admission: €10/7; free for under-18s and on Tuesdays and the first Sunday of each month
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Tel. 030 200 57-2000, info@adk.de
adk.de/sauerbruchhutton
Press photos for download here
Press contact on behalf of the Akademie der Künste
Bureau N, Silke Neumann
Tel.: 030-62 736 102; mail: silke.neumann@bureau-n.de
Media partners
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