Bauakademie Berlin, Sachbücher von Armin Linke

Armin Linke's night photography reveals the vacancy of the Bauakademie as a trace of Schinkel in Berlin's urban fabric. The rudimentary replica of the corner construction raises questions about the future use and form of this centrally located site. Despite current majority support in Parliament for a reconstruction of the historical envelopeanalogous to the recently completed Humboldt Forumthere are clearly more differentiated ideas among architects and urban society in Berlin about the future of the Bauakademie building. There is strong resistance to the appropriation of this important institution and building task by representational politics, that actually threaten to obscure more historical traces than they are supposed to make visible with the motto As much Schinkel as possible. At this important moment, Bauakademie Berlin offers conceptual perspectives for a contemporary Bauak.