CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Berlin Architecture
Panel Discussion

Zankel Hall
Sunday, November 4th, 2007 at 7:00 PM

Panelists:
David Chipperfield
Louisa Hutton
Jürgen Mayer H.
Jan Kleihues
Barry Bergdoll, Moderator

No city in Europe has been so radically transformed in recent years as Berlin. From 1991 until 2006, the controversial city building director Hans Stimmann guided the reconstruction of Berlin, bringing high-profile new architecture to the city, but with strict controls. Where will the city move architecturally in the years to come? Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, hosts a panel of leading architects in a discussion of Berlin’s remarkable boom and its future.

The Berlin in Lights festival is made possible by a leadership gift from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

Major funding has also been provided by Mercedes and Sid Bass, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from Martha and Bob Lipp, Fundación Mercantil (Venezuela), and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional funding provided by Axel Springer AG, GWFF USA Inc., and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Program Notes:

Barry Bergdoll on Berlin Architecture Panel Discussion

No city in Europe has been so radically transformed in recent years as Berlin. From 1990 until his retirement in 2005, one man, City Building Director Hans Stimmann, guided the reconstruction of the city—a city divided between two opposing regimes since the end of World War II. Stimmann’s ideals of critical reconstruction of the historic fabric and concentrated skyscraper districts, most notably Potsdamer Platz, brought high-profile new architecture to the city, but with strict controls. Stimmann’s “reign” and its aftermath for architectural creativity have been much debated, and the current fiscal climate has slowed building enormously.

Where will Berlin, one of the world’s most vibrant centers of artistic creation, move architecturally in years to come? David Chipperfield, Louisa Hutton, Jan Kleihues, and Jürgen Mayer H.—four leading architects with varied stylistic and ideological positions on post-Stimmann Berlin—come together today to discuss the city’s remarkable boom and its future, as well as their own projects, experiences, and expectations for Berlin as a capital of modern architecture.

Panelists:
David Chipperfield
Louisa Hutton
Jürgen Mayer H.
Jan Kleihues
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
David Chipperfield studied at Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association in London. After graduating, he worked at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers, and Norman Foster.

David Chipperfield Architects was established in 1984, and the practice currently has over 150 staff at its main offices in London, Berlin, and Milan, and representative office in Shanghai. The practice has won over 40 national and international competitions and many international awards and citations for design excellence, including RIBA, RFAC, and AIA awards.

In 1993, Mr. Chipperfield was awarded the Andrea Palladio Prize and, in 1999, the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal. In 2006, he was appointed Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), and in 2007, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

LOUISA HUTTON
Louisa Hutton is a director of Sauerbruch Hutton, which she founded in 1989 together with Matthias Sauerbruch in London. A second office was opened in Berlin in 1993. The practice currently employs over 100 staff and is engaged in a number of projects all over Europe. Its work has become internationally recognized for its serious engagement with issues of sustainability in architecture and urbanism, at the same time as for the creation of sensual spaces and signature facades. Sauerbruch Hutton is best known for its GSW Headquarters building in Berlin, which opened in 1999, as well as a recently completed Federal Environmental Agency in Dessau. A forthcoming major project is the Museum for the Brandhorst Collection in Munich, which will open to the public in 2008.

Sauerbruch Hutton’s projects have been awarded a number of national and international prizes—among them six RIBA and two AIA awards—and the architecture of the office has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and publications worldwide. Ms. Hutton and Mr. Sauerbruch received the Erich Schelling Prize for Architecture in 1998 and the Fritz Schumacher Prize for Architecture in 2003.

Ms. Hutton taught at the Architectural Association in the late 1980s. In 2003 she was appointed to be a commissioner for CABE, UK’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. She is a guest lecturer at many universities nationally and internationally.

J. MAYER H.
Founded in 1996 in Berlin, Germany, J. Mayer H. Architects’ studio focuses on works at the intersection of architecture, communication, and new technology. Recent projects include the Town Hall in Ostfildern, Germany; a student center at Karlsruhe University; and the redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnación in Sevilla, Spain. From urban planning schemes and buildings to installation work and objects with new materials, the relationship between the human body, technology, and nature form the background for a new production of space.

Jürgen Mayer H. is the founder and principal of this cross-disciplinary studio. He studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union, and Princeton University. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide and is part of numerous collections including MoMA New York and SF MoMA. National and international awards include the Mies van der Rohe Award, Emerging Architect Special Mention (2003), and Winner Holcim Award Bronze (2005). Mr. Mayer H. has taught at Princeton University, University of the Arts Berlin, Harvard University, Kunsthochschule Berlin, and the Architectural Association in London. He currently teaches at Columbia University in New York.

JAN KLEIHUES
Jan Kleihues studied at the College of Fine Arts in Berlin. From 1988 to 1992 he was a project architect at the office of Peter Eisenman in New York. He also worked at the offices of Daniel Libeskind (Berlin) and Rafael Moneo (Madrid). In 1992, Mr. Kleihues founded the Jan Kleihues office in Berlin. In 1996, he founded Kleihues + Kleihues with partners Josef P. Kleihues and Norbert Hensel. A member of the Committee for Urban Design in Munich, Mr. Kleihues has been a visiting professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin since 2006.

Barry Bergdoll, Moderator
Barry Bergdoll is the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art and professor of modern architectural history at Columbia University. He holds a BA from Columbia, an MA from King’s College, Cambridge, and a PhD from Columbia, and his broad interests center on modern architectural history, with a particular emphasis on France and Germany since 1800.

Mr. Bergdoll has organized, curated, and consulted on many landmark exhibitions of 19th- and 20th-century architecture, including “Mies in Berlin” at MoMA (2001), with Terence Riley; “Breuer in Minnesota” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (2002); “Les Vaudoyer: Une Dynastie d’Architectes” at the Musée D’Orsay, Paris (1991); and “Ste. Geneviève / Pantheon; Symbol of Revolutions,” at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (1989).

He is author or editor of numerous publications, including Mies in Berlin (winner of the 2002 Philip Johnson Award of the Society of Architectural Historians and AICA Best Exhibition Award, 2002); Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia (1994), winner of the AIA Book Award in 1995; and European Architecture 1750–1890, in the Oxford History of Art series. An edited volume, Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished, was recently published by Thames and Hudson (London, 2006). Mr. Bergdoll currently serves as President of the Society of Architectural Historians.