26 August 2024
draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities
Exhibition, 25.10.2024 – 19.1.2025
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
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.
Established in London in 1989 by Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch, the sauerbruch hutton architecture office has operated out of Berlin for 31 years. Juan Lucas Young joined the firm in 1990 and has been a partner since 1999. In 2020 the partnership was expanded to include 16 partners and 10 associates, and the team as a whole now consists of some 100 architects, engineers, designers and model builders.
Exhibition details
draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities
Press event: Thursday, 24 October 2024, 11 am
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
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Press contact on behalf of the Akademie der Künste
Bureau N, Silke Neumann
Tel.: 030-62 736 102; mail: silke.neumann@bureau-n.de