DAVID CHIPPERFIELD – STICKS & STONES, AN INTERVENTION
NEUE NATIONALGALERIE BERLIN
October 2, 2014 - December 31, 2014
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD – STICKS &
STONES, AN INTERVENTION AT NEUE NATIONALGALERIE
October 2, 2014 - December 31, 2014
Using 144 imposing tree trunks, British
architect David Chipperfield (b. in 1953) transforms the open glass hall of the
museum into a densely filled hall of columns for a three-month period. This
installation engages with the architecture of the Neue Nationalgalerie and
simultaneously serves as a prologue to the upcoming overall renovation of the
museum that David Chipperfield Architects will undertake starting in 2015.
For the title of his intervention,
David Chipperfield points to two elements of Neue Nationalgalerie and
architecture in general: columns and stone. As light-hearted as the title might
seem, this last special exhibition before the closing of the institution for
several years is also quite profound in its meaning.
With Sticks and Stones,
Chipperfield directs attention back to the spectacular construction of the
museum, erected in the years 1965 to 1968 according to the plans of Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe (1886–1969). Eight narrow steel supports bear the weight of the
monumental roof that seems to hover freely in the air because the supports are
located far from the roof corners.
Like a provisional construction, the
144 barked spruce tree trunks, each ca. eight meters in length, symbolically
support the weight of the roof. They fit into the clear pattern shaped by the
steel roof, the granite floor, and the overall proportions of the Neue
Nationalgalerie. In this way, Chipperfield’s installation allows for a new
experience of space within the modernist rigor of the Mies van der Rohe
design. Sticks and Stones thus pays homage to the great predecessor
Mies van der Rohe while simultaneously serving as a metaphor for the upcoming
construction site.
Openness and density, inside and
outside, nature and technology: a field of associations is evoked that
stretches far back into the history of world architecture and circles around
the cultural history of the column – from the colonnades of ancient temples to
the Mosque of Córdoba (8th–10th century) and Frank Llyod Wright’s
mushroom-shaped concrete columns in the Johnson Wax Building (1936–1939) to
Chipperfield’s own building projects in the 21st century.
The column has been a leitmotif in his
recent designs, such as the Literaturmuseum der Moderne, Marbach am Neckar
(2002–2006) with its hall of slim concrete columns, or at the planned
James-Simon-Galerie, the entrance building for Berlin’s Museumsinsel.
In the middle of the hall of supports,
there is a “clearing,” a 200-square-meter space where various interdisciplinary
events take place.
David Chipperfield & Alexander
Schwarz for David Chipperfield Architects Berlin
Team David Chipperfield Architects:
Thomas Benk, Martin Reichert, Ute Zscharnt
Installation: Thomas Lucker
(Restaurierung am Oberbaum)
The exhibition is made possible by the
Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie.
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You may visit David Chipperfield’s
project of Musee des Beaux Arts and Museo Jumex Mexico to click
below links.
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DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Installation View
Photo: Ute Zscharnt for David Chipperfield Architects
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Installation View
Photo: David von Becker
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
NEUE NATIONALGALERIE'S DIRECTOR UDO KITTELMANN
Photo: David von Becker
TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS
The spruce trunks, 8.2 meters in length and weighting from
500 to 1000 kilograms with varying diameters between 30 and 49 cm, are fixed in
position at the ceiling using head point brackets and on the load-distributing
plates of the floor using steel pins manufactured especially for this purpose,
which are inserted into the trunks. The holes in the cassette ceiling, which
Mies van der Rohe originally intended to be used for hanging artworks, for
example, are utilized. Thanks to the flexible technique developed to position
the tree trunks, thermal undulations of the roof can be compensated for. The
roof is built with a slight upward curve since the human eye always sees a sag
with such a large, free floating surface (65 meters by 65 meters).
http://www.davidchipperfieldinberlin.de/index.php?id=1938&L=1
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Installation View
Photo: David von Becker
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Installation View
Photo: Simon Menges
NEUE NATIONALGALERIE - EXTERIOR VIEW
1968
© Archiv Neue Nationalgalerie,
Nationalgalerie,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,
Photo: Reinhard Friedrich
NEUE NATIONALGALERIE'S ARCHITECT MIES VAN DER ROHE
NEUE NATIONALGALERIE – RAISING OF THE
ROOF APRIL 5, 1967
© Archiv Neue Nationalgalerie,
Nationalgalerie,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Installation View
Photo: David von Becker
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Installation View
Photo: Ute Zscharnt for David
Chipperfield Architects
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Sticks and Stones, an Intervention
Installation View
Photo: David von Becker
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
NEUE NATIONALGALERIE'S DIRECTOR UDO KITTELMANN
Photo: Simon Menges
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DAVID CHIPPERFIELD OFFICE
Since its foundation in 1985, David
Chipperfield Architects has developed a diverse international body of work
including cultural, residential, commercial, leisure and civic projects as well
as masterplanning exercises. Within the portfolio of museums and galleries,
projects range from private collections such as the Museo Jumex in Mexico City
to public institutions such as the revitalised Neues Museum in Berlin.
Practices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai contribute to DCA’s wide range
of projects and typologies.
Ongoing current projects include the Nobel Center in Stockholm; a new building for the Kunsthaus Zurich in Switzerland; the restoration of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin; a mixed-use tower overlooking Bryant Park in New York; Musée des Beaux-arts in Reims, France; a luxury resort in Doha, Qatar; the James Simon Gallery, a new entrance building to Berlin’s Museum Island; the Ansaldo City of Cultures in Milan; Elizabeth House, a major new office and residential development near Waterloo in London; the Palace of Justice in Salerno, Italy; a headquarters building for Korean cosmetics company Amorepacific in Seoul; and the De Vere Gardens residential development in Kensington in London.
The practice has won more than 100 international awards and citations for design excellence, including Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Royal Fine Art Commission (RFAC) and American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards, as well as the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2007, and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award in 2011. David Chipperfield received the 2011 RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale in 2013, both given in recognition of a lifetime’s work.
The reputation of the office is established by both a commitment to the collaborative aspect of creating architecture and a strong focus on refining design ideas to arrive at a solution which is architecturally, socially and intellectually coherent.
Ongoing current projects include the Nobel Center in Stockholm; a new building for the Kunsthaus Zurich in Switzerland; the restoration of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin; a mixed-use tower overlooking Bryant Park in New York; Musée des Beaux-arts in Reims, France; a luxury resort in Doha, Qatar; the James Simon Gallery, a new entrance building to Berlin’s Museum Island; the Ansaldo City of Cultures in Milan; Elizabeth House, a major new office and residential development near Waterloo in London; the Palace of Justice in Salerno, Italy; a headquarters building for Korean cosmetics company Amorepacific in Seoul; and the De Vere Gardens residential development in Kensington in London.
The practice has won more than 100 international awards and citations for design excellence, including Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Royal Fine Art Commission (RFAC) and American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards, as well as the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2007, and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award in 2011. David Chipperfield received the 2011 RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale in 2013, both given in recognition of a lifetime’s work.
The reputation of the office is established by both a commitment to the collaborative aspect of creating architecture and a strong focus on refining design ideas to arrive at a solution which is architecturally, socially and intellectually coherent.
http://www.davidchipperfield.co.uk/profile/
SIR DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
CBE, RA, RDI, RIBA, BDA
David Chipperfield established David Chipperfield Architects
in 1985. He was Professor of Architecture at the Staatliche Akademie der
Bildenden Kuenste, Stuttgart from 1995 to 2001 and Norman R. Foster Visiting
Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University in 2011, and he has taught
and lectured worldwide at schools of architecture in Austria, Italy,
Swit-zerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2012 David
Chipperfield curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice
Biennale.
He is an honorary fellow of both the American Institute of
Architects and the Bund Deutscher Architekten, and a past winner of the
Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal, the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, and the
Grand DAI (Verband Deutscher Architekten- und Ingenieurverein) Award for
Building Culture.
David Chipperfield was appointed Commander of the Order of
the British Empire in 2004, appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in 2006,
and elected to the Royal Academy in 2008. In 2009 he was awarded the Order of
Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2010 he was knighted for
services to architecture in the UK and Germany. In 2011 he received the RIBA
Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, and in 2013, the Praemium Imperiale from the
Japan Art Association, both given in recognition of a lifetime’s work.
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