How good are German architects, and how do their works change the face of German cities? The German Architecture Museum has the answer - and awards a prize to Berlin architect Bruno Fioretti Marquez.
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Shining a light on German architecture
Bruno Fioretti Marquez won this year's DAM Award for Architecture in Germany. DW takes a look at his award-winning project and a few other projects "from and in Germany."
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New Masters' Houses in Dessau
The jury of the DAM Architecture Award was thrilled by Bruno Fioretti Marquez's "New Masters' Houses" in Dessau - not just for the buildings' design following historic models, but also because Marquez raises the question: How up-to-date is the Bauhaus legacy?
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Music from deep down
An extravagant underground concert hall - why not? Architect Peter Haimerl built the hall in the center of Blaibach in the Bavarian Forest. "Unusual," the jury said.
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Haven under trees
The Berlin American Academy's Fellows Pavillion is a true eye-catcher. Barkow Leibinger designed and realized the transparent garden home, fully surrounded by nature.
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Not a villa
Antivilla is what the architects at Brandlhuber + Emde, Schneider called their buildings in the Potsdam district of Krampnitz. The project involves the refurbished lingerie factory "Ernst Lück" on Lake Krampnitz, southwest of Berlin.
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A school for Myanmar
This high school in Thazin was part of an aid project in Myanmar, built with local materials like ironwood, bamboo and bricks. When school is out, the villagers can use the pavillion as a meeting place. Ackermann + Raff are the architects responsible for the project.
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Adobe hospital
Architect Francis Kere built a modular adobe hospital in Leo in Burkina Faso. For more architectural gems and surprises, the exhibition at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt presents architecture "from and in Germany" through May 8, 2016.
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Bruno Fioretti Marquez designed a series of "New Masters' Houses" in Dessau. The buildings follow the Bauhaus principles of squares and right angles, but without simply copying the founding fathers of modernist architecture.
"The new Dessau Masters' Houses challenge the relevancy of the Bauhaus legacy," says Christian Holl. The houses promote a critical look at what reconstruction can do, "and where it reaches the limits of what it pretends to do, which is to undo the loss."
From 1925 to 1932, the Bauhaus art school founded by Walter Gropius had its home in Dessau - until the Nazis closed the school. It moved to Berlin as a private institution - only to dissolve again two years later, again under pressure from the Nazis. Many Bauhaus members fled the country, and the Bauhaus ideas went around the world.
Broad spectrum
Once again, the German Architecture Museum (DAM) presents "the best buildings in and from Germany" in its 33rd yearbook," including sketches by the award winner, and 22 other projects in Germany and abroad, for instance in Burkina Faso and Myanmar.
The spectrum, the museum says, is "enjoyably broad": from unconventional single-family residences in the countryside to buildings that go gentle on resources, and are strong on recycling building materials. Other projects included in the yearbook are a warehouse that has been turned into a youth center and a subterranean concert hall in a town in the Bavarian Forest.
