Open Air Exhibition "Architecture in an International Contex"

In the current open-air exhibition "Architecture in an International Context" in the display window of the AB Gallery of the Bremen University of Applied Sciences, the work of the fifth bachelor's semester will be shown until 13.04.2022. Over the course of several months, the students studied a building of the 'pavilion' type and created a scientific biography of the pavilion, consisting of a text study in the form of a magazine and a plaster model.

Pavilion and modernity

"Hardly any other type of building makes it possible to make such fundamental architectural statements on such a small area, freed from functional conditions. This also has to do with its temporary character and movement - the term pavilion is derived from the Latin papilio, butterfly, and figuratively means something like a tent of pleasure. The great strength of the pavilion is its inherent ability to disappear as quickly as it arrived. Another principle of the pavilion is its intimate relationship to the surrounding landscape. (...) [It] can unleash the imagination like hardly any other type of building, express the present and refer to the future. (...) Which modernity do we mean when we speak of modern architecture, or do we really mean the architecture of the present? Are epochs such as the so-called classical modern or the so-called post-modern closed or are there continuities and developments beyond and where possible up to the present day? How does something new come into being, what preconditions and conditions are important for this and what significance do these precursors and pioneers have for modernity in each case?

In the academic biography of the pavilion, the question of what is modern is to be clarified in the fifth Bachelor's semester. On this basis, literary texts by John Summerson, Arthur Schopenhauer, John Ruskin, Karl Scheffler, Peter Behrens, Antonio Sant'Ellia, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Otto Wagner, Herman Sögel, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier or Erich Mendelsohn, among others, were examined and applied to the pavilion. The plaster models of the task performance are currently being shown in the open air exhibition "Architecture in an International Context" in the display window of the AB Gallery of the Bremen University of Applied Sciences until 13.04.2022.