Excursions to Berlin architecture
seeing other sides of Berlin in architecture
The tours are part of an ongoing project by architect Sven Eggers on the adoption and use of architecture - but also serve the purpose of seeing architecture off the beaten track. They include unknown masterpieces as well as unusual and overlooked buildings.
Tours are open for everyone interested in architecture. Participants range from people with very little architectural knowledge to architects and critics.
Please wear weatherproof shoes and clothing as we will do a fair amount of walking.
Some tours will be followed up by a workshop (dates to be announced).
Tours are normally 12 Euros each (reduced prize 6 Euros) and last about three hours.
They maximum number of participants is 16. Tours are held in English and/or German.
If you want to have more first-hand information on upcoming tours, please send an e-mail to sveneggers (at) buero-schwimmer (dot) de to register for the newsletter.
Individual tours to most of the locations mentioned on this webpage as well as customised tours can be booked by arrangement in both English and German.
Please contact Büro Schwimmer for a quote.
Upcoming tours
Febuary, tba:
Hat factory of Erich Mendelsohn in Luckenwalde
Febuary, tba:
megastructures three: the
Bierpinsel tower of Schüler/Schüler-Witte -
Postponed to early spring due to ongoing construction in the building.
Tuesday, March, 27th, tbc:
GDR typologies 1 embassies and guest houses of the GDR and standardized housing types in Pankow.
March, tba: Cooper Union in Berlin:
John Hejduk and Raimund Abraham houses plus
structuralism Herman Hertzberger
March, tba:
Max Taut 2: the former central kindergarden
May, tba: industrical architecture:
H. H. Müller transformer stations
June, tba: Potsdam 2:
Reinhold Mohr's modernity and
Konrad Wachsmann's Einstein house.
July, tba: Messe builings including the
Funkturm and the Marshall house of Bruno Grimmek with Werner Düttmann (1950)
July, tba:
GDR typologies 2 embassy buildings, kindergarden, school
autumn, tba: Hamburg 1: seminar on central markets including tour to
the Grossmarkt of Bernhard Hermkes
autumn, tba: in Hamburg 2: cities of functional seperation: business park
Edding AG - the first combi-office coming from Scandinavia to Germany, by Struhk+Partner, Ahrensburg 1988-1990
autumn, tba: in Hamburg 3: cities of functional seperation:
public housing by Karl Schneider and Fritz Schumacher
winter, tba: in Finland 1:
the architecture of Aarno Ruusuvuori
winter, tba: in Finland 2:
the soviet influence
tba: in Munich 1:
Paketposthalle, 1965-69 widespan 146m
tba: in Munich 2:
Fehling and Gogel 4: the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the ESO observatory
next open lecture:
The architecture of Volksbühne theatre
tour archive
Monday, December 12, 2011:
megastructures two: the ICC Internationales Congress Centrum, and the Lietzensee church (1957-59) of Paul Baumgarten.
Sunday, October, 2nd, 12:00 am:
Onkel Toms Hütte: housing of Weimarer republic, including B.Taut, Salvisberg, Häring, Grenader, Hilberseimer, Mendelsohn, Richard Neutra, Tessenow, Alexander Klein.
Saturday, October, 1st, 9:45 am:
Hannes Meyer:
Bundesschule in Bernau
Saturday, 30th of July, 30th, 12.30 pm
Bruno Taut 1:
Siedlungen Buschallee and Trierer Straße and Mies van der Rohe: Landhaus Lemke in Weißensee and Hohenschönhausen
Thursday, May, 5th, 12.30 pm
Ludwig Leo part one: Student housing Eichkamp and DLRG headquarter
Saturday, May, 7th, 12.30 pm
houses of Baller and Baller and
Neue Sachlichkeit one: Kantgaragen in Charlottenburg
Thursday, May, 12th, 8.30 am
Ludwig Leo part two: Kinder garden Loschmidtstraße and Gymnasium Charlottenburg
Wednesday, May, 25th, 11 am
Fehling and Gogel part one: Max Planck Institute for Human Development and
megastructures one: the building on top of the Autobahn plus
Neue Sachlichkeit part two: Versuchssiedlung Schorlemmerallee and Max Taut Reichsknappschaftshaus
Thursday, June, 9th, 1.30 pm
part two of Fehling and Gogel to the Institute for hygenics and medical micro-biology of the Free University
Monday, June, 20th,
architecture in Berlin-Stammtisch. Starting 7 pm in the Fuchsbau at Planufer.
It's a resumée of the last tours and a warming up for the following Monday's open lecture evening.
Monday, June, 27th, 5:30 pm, the first
open lecture evening at Büro Schwimmer: a resumée of the latest tours with an focus on use.
Friday, July, 15th, 1:30 pm:
the
pump house of Oswald Mathias Ungers and some experimental housing at the Spree.
Monday, July, 18th, 10:30 am
Erwin Gutkind: Sonnenhof and other public housing of the Weimar times in Lichtenberg.
Thursday, July, 21st, 2:30 pm
Ludwig Leo part three:
the water circulation canal of the Experimental Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Naval Architecture
Monday, 1st of August, 10:00 am:
Fehling and Gogel 3:
The Mensa of the FU and the Institute of Meteorology
Monday, November 14th, 9:30 am: Potsdam 1:
From Schinkel to Mies: The complete
Römische Bäder in the park of Sans Souci and the locations of Mies famous early brick stone and concrete Landhouses.
All tours are lead by architect and writer Dipl.Ing. Sven Eggers.
The project is a cooperation of
Büro Schwimmer with
architectureinberlin
and
architectuul, where most of the visited buildings are documented already.
