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Edition Axel Menges GmbH Esslinger Straße 24 D-70736 Stuttgart-Fellbach tel. +49-711-574759 fax +49-711-5747 84 Distributtors Brockhaus Commission Kreidlerstraße 9 D-70806 Kornwestheim Germany tel. +49-7154-1327-33 fax +49-7154-1327-13 [email protected] Gazelle Book Services White Cross Mills Hightown Lancaster LA1 4XS United Kingdom tel. +44-1524-68765 fax +44-1524-63232 [email protected] National Book Network 15200 NBN Way Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214 USA tel. +1-800-4626420 fax +1-800-3384550 [email protected] Opus 62 Egon Eiermann / Sep Ruf, German Pavilions, Brussels 1958 With an introduction by Immo Boyken and photographs by Heinrich Heidersberger and Eberhard Troeger. 56 pp. with 62 ill., of which 32 in duotone, 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, Ger- man / English ISBN 978-3-932565-62-5 Euro 36.00, sfr 56.00, £ 24.90, US $ 39.90, $A 68.00 The German Pavilions were the actual event at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, because what appeared as an oasis of modesty among the typical exhibition fairground of bizarre sensationalism was pre- cisely what would not have been expected of economic miracle Germany: no showing off or pomposity, just architecture distin- guished by its reticence and the refined simplicity of the architec- tural resources, and by the happy combination of men who creat- ed it, all so similar in the nature of their thinking: Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf as architects, Walter Rossow as landscape and gar- den planner, and Hans Schwippert responsible for the exhibition programme. The building plot was a park-like site on which the architects placed a sequence of eight pavilions of different sizes; eight pavil- ions on a square ground plan, linked by bridge-style walkways, together surrounding an inner courtyard – a peaceful garden amidst the loud hurly-burly: introverted and open at the same time, it did allow visitors to look through the linking bridges into the out- side world around them. The pavilions themselves: bright and light of weight – correctly reflecting the concept of a »pavilion«: raised off the ground by a plinth of clay-yellow brick, giving an impression of floating; floors that showed outside as black bands, holding all the component parts together as a binding element; in front of them was a net- work of white-painted steel tubes, forming a kind of filigree epider- mis; wooden floors in red pine matchboarding, reminiscent of clas- sical sailing yachts; blinds set at the outer edge of the ceilings that when lowered transformed the open impression, thrusting deep into the depth of the space, into a closed, cubic impression; archi- tecture (and combined with this an exhibition concept) that was not a »political demonstration«, but showed a »humane mentality«, about which Le Figaro appositely remarked: »The Germans have created an exhibition of exemplary lucidity, treated delicately and with an entirely Parisian grace.« Immo Boyken is professor of building history and architectural theory in Konstanz. He is particularly interested in late 19th-cen- tury and Modern architecture. He was considerably involved in the monograph on Erich Eiermann, and has written books on Otto Ernst Schweizer,and Heinz Tesar’s church in the Donau City in Vienna. Spring 2007

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Opus 62Egon Eiermann / Sep Ruf, German Pavilions, Brussels1958With an introduction by Immo Boyken and photographs by Heinrich Heidersberger and Eberhard Troeger. 56 pp. with 62 ill., of which 32 in duotone, 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, Ger-man / EnglishISBN 978-3-932565-62-5Euro 36.00, sfr 56.00, £ 24.90, US $ 39.90, $A 68.00

The German Pavilions were the actual event at the 1958 BrusselsWorld Fair, because what appeared as an oasis of modesty amongthe typical exhibition fairground of bizarre sensationalism was pre-cisely what would not have been expected of economic miracleGermany: no showing off or pomposity, just architecture distin-guished by its reticence and the refined simplicity of the architec-tural resources, and by the happy combination of men who creat-ed it, all so similar in the nature of their thinking: Egon Eiermannand Sep Ruf as architects, Walter Rossow as landscape and gar-den planner, and Hans Schwippert responsible for the exhibitionprogramme.

The building plot was a park-like site on which the architectsplaced a sequence of eight pavilions of different sizes; eight pavil-ions on a square ground plan, linked by bridge-style walkways,together surrounding an inner courtyard – a peaceful gardenamidst the loud hurly-burly: introverted and open at the same time,it did allow visitors to look through the linking bridges into the out-side world around them.

The pavilions themselves: bright and light of weight – correctlyreflecting the concept of a »pavilion«: raised off the ground by aplinth of clay-yellow brick, giving an impression of floating; floorsthat showed outside as black bands, holding all the componentparts together as a binding element; in front of them was a net-work of white-painted steel tubes, forming a kind of filigree epider-mis; wooden floors in red pine matchboarding, reminiscent of clas-sical sailing yachts; blinds set at the outer edge of the ceilings thatwhen lowered transformed the open impression, thrusting deepinto the depth of the space, into a closed, cubic impression; archi-tecture (and combined with this an exhibition concept) that wasnot a »political demonstration«, but showed a »humane mentality«,about which Le Figaro appositely remarked: »The Germans havecreated an exhibition of exemplary lucidity, treated delicately andwith an entirely Parisian grace.«

Immo Boyken is professor of building history and architecturaltheory in Konstanz. He is particularly interested in late 19th-cen-tury and Modern architecture. He was considerably involved inthe monograph on Erich Eiermann, and has written books on OttoErnst Schweizer, and Heinz Tesar’s church in the Donau City inVienna.

Spring 2007

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Das eigentliche Ereignis auf der Weltausstellung inBrüssel 1958 waren die Pavillons der BundesrepublikDeutschland, weil man vom Deutschland des Wirt-schaftwunders gerade das, was sich wie eine Oaseder Bescheidenheit inmitten des ausstellungstypi-schen Jahrmarkts effektheischender Bizzarerien dar-bot, nicht erwartet hatte: statt Protz und Wichtigtue-rei eine Architektur, die sich durch Zurückhaltung unddurch raffinierte Einfachheit der architektonischen Mit-tel auszeichnete und für die die glückliche Kombina-tion in ihrem Denken wesensverwandter schöpferi-scher Gestalter stand: Egon Eiermann und Sep Rufals Architekten, Walter Rossow als Landschafts- undGartenplaner sowie Hans Schwippert als Verantwort-licher für das Ausstellungsprogramm.

Das Grundstück ein parkartiges Gelände, in dasdie Architekten eine Folge von acht Pavillons unter-schiedlicher Größe setzten; acht Pavillons über qua-dratischem Grundriß, durch brückenartige Stege mit-einander verbunden, die zusammen einen Innenhofumschlossen – ein Garten der Ruhe inmitten deslauten Trubels: introvertiert und offen zugleich, ließ erdoch den Blick durch die Verbindungsbrücken hin-durch in das umgebende Draußen zu.

Die Pavillons selbst: licht und leicht – dem Begriff»Pavillon« wirklich entsprechend: vom Erdboden durcheinen Sockel aus lehmgelben Ziegelsteinen abgeho-ben, so daß sich der Eindruck des Schwebenden er-gab; Geschoßdecken, die sich als schwarze Bändernach außen abzeichneten und die als verbindendesElement alle Bauteile umgriffen; davor ein weitmaschi-ges Netz aus weißlackierten Stahlrohren, das eine Art filigraner Epidermis bildete; Holzböden aus Red-pine-Langriemen, die an klassische Segeljachten erin-nerten; am äußeren Rand der Decken eingelasseneJalousien, die, heruntergefahren, den offenen, in dieRaumtiefe greifenden Eindruck in einen geschlosse-nen, kubischen verwandelten; eine Architektur (unddamit verbunden ein Ausstellungskonzept) nicht als»politische Demonstration«, sondern als »humaneGesinnung«, von der es in Le Figaro treffend hieß: »Die Deutschen haben mit einer Delikatesse der Be-handlung, mit einer ganz pariserischen Grazie eineAusstellung von beispielhafter Klarheit geschaffen.«

Immo Boyken ist Professor für Baugeschichte undArchitekturtheorie in Konstanz. Sein besonderes In-teresse gilt der Architektur des späten 19. und des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er war maßgebend an der 1984erschienenen Monographie über Egon Eiermann be-teiligt, verfaßte neben anderen Schriften zur moder-nen Architektur die Monographie über Otto ErnstSchweizer und schrieb zuletzt über Heinz Tesars KircheChristus Hoffnung der Welt in der Donau City in Wien(Opus 42) und über Egon Eiermanns Botschaftsge-bäude in Washington (Opus 54).

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1 Rudolf Steiner, Goetheanum, Dornach2 Jørn Utzon, Houses in Fredensborg3 Jørgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert, Louisiana

Museum, Humlebæk4 Aurelio Galfetti, Castelgrande, Bellinzona5 Fatehpur Sikri6 Balthasar Neumann, Abteikirche Neresheim7 Henry Hobson Richardson, Glessner House,

Chicago8 Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Palau de la

Música Catalana, Barcelona9 Richard Meier, Stadthaus Ulm

10 Santiago Calatrava, Bahnhof Stadelhofen, Zürich

12 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Charlottenhof , Potsdam-Sanssouci

13 Pfaueninsel, Berlin14 Sir John Soane’s Museum, London15 Enric Miralles, C.N.A.R., Alicante16 Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote17 Dharna Vihara, Ranakpur18 Benjamin Baker, Forth Bridge19 Ernst Gisel, Rathaus Fellbach20 Alfredo Arribas, Marugame Hirai Museum21 Sir Norman Foster and Partners, Commerz-

bank, Frankfurt am Main22 Carlo Scarpa, Museo Canoviano, Possagno23 Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio,

Oak Park24 Kisho Kurokawa, Kuala Lumpur International

Airport25 Steidle + Partner, Universität Ulm West26 Himeji Castle27 Kazuo Shinohara, Centennial Hall, Tokyo28 Alte Völklinger Hütte29 Alsfeld30 LOG ID, BGW Dresden31 Steidle + Partner, Wacker-Haus, München32 Frank O. Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa33 Neuschwanstein34 Architekten Schweger+Partner, Zentrum für

Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe35 Frank O. Gehry, Energie-Forum-Innovation,

Bad Oeynhausen36 Rafael Moneo, Audrey Jones Beck Building,

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston37 Schneider+Schumacher, KPMG-Gebäude,

Leipzig38 Heinz Tesar, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg39 Arup, Hong Kong Station40 Berger+Parkkinen, Die Botschaften der

Nordischen Länder, Berlin41 Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, Halle 3, Messe

Frankfurt42 Heinz Tesar, Christus Hoffnung der Welt, Wien43 Peichl /Achatz / Schumer, Münchner Kammer-

spiele, Neues Haus44 Alfredo Arribas, Seat-Pavillon, Wolfsburg45 Stüler / Strack / Merz, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin46 Kisho Kurokawa, Oita Stadium, Oita, Japan

47 Bolles + Wilson, Nieuwe Luxor Theater, Rotter-dam

48 Steidle + Partner, KPMG-Gebäude, München49 Steidle + Partner, Wohnquartier Freischützstraße,

München50 Neufert / Karle + Buxbaum, Ernst-Neufert-Bau,

Darmstadt51 Bolles + Wilson, NORD/LB, Magdeburg52 Brunnert und Partner, Flughafen Leipzig / Halle53 Johannes Peter Hölzinger, Haus in Bad Nauheim54 Egon Eiermann, German Embassy, Washington55 Peter Kulka, Bosch-Haus Heidehof, Stuttgart56 Am Bavariapark, München57 Gerber Architekten, Messe Karlsruhe58 Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux59 Otto Ernst Schweizer, Milchhof, Nürnberg60 Steidle + Partner, Alfred-Wegener-Institut,

Bremerhaven61 Sonwik, Flensburg62 Egon Eiermann / Sep Ruf, Deutsche Pavillons,

Brüssel 1958

The German Pavilions were the actual event at the1958 Brussels World Fair, because what appeared asan oasis of modesty among the typical exhibition fair-ground of bizarre sensationalism was precisely whatwould not have been expected of economic miracleGermany: no showing off or pomposity, just architec-ture distinguished by its reticence and the refined sim-plicity of the architectural resources, and by the hap-py combination of men who created it, all so similarin the nature of their thinking: Egon Eiermann and SepRuf as architects, Walter Rossow as landscape andgarden planner, and Hans Schwippert responsible forthe exhibition programme.

The building plot was a park-like site on which thearchitects placed a sequence of eight pavilions of dif-ferent sizes; eight pavilions on a square ground plan,linked by bridge-style walkways, together surround-ing an inner courtyard – a peaceful garden amidst theloud hurly-burly: introverted and open at the sametime, it did allow visitors to look through the linkingbridges into the outside world around them.

The pavilions themselves: bright and light of weight – correctly reflecting the concept of a »pavil-ion«: raised off the ground by a plinth of clay-yellowbrick, giving an impression of floating; floors thatshowed outside as black bands, holding all the com-ponent parts together as a binding element; in frontof them was a network of white-painted steel tubes,forming a kind of filigree epidermis; wooden floors inred pine matchboarding, reminiscent of classical sail-ing yachts; blinds set at the outer edge of the ceilingsthat when lowered transformed the open impression,thrusting deep into the depth of the space, into aclosed, cubic impression; architecture (and combinedwith this an exhibition concept) that was not a »politi-cal demonstration«, but showed a »humane mental-ity«, about which Le Figaro appositely remarked: »TheGermans have created an exhibition of exemplary lu-cidity, treated delicately and with an entirely Parisiangrace.«

Immo Boyken is professor of architectural historyand theory in Konstanz. His special interest is late-19th- and 20th-century architecture. He was con-siderably involved in the monograph on Egon Eier-mann published in 1984, was the author of the mono-graph on Otto Ernst Schweizer along with other writ-ing on modern architecture and most recently wroteabout Heinz Tesar’s church Christus Hoffnung derWelt in the Donau City in Vienna (Opus 42) and EgonEiermann’s German embassy building in Washington(Opus 54).

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13. Blick auf den nordwestlichen Pavillon mit dem Quel-lenraum im Sockelgeschoß auf Ebene –6,76 m.14. Blick von der Ebene –3,76 m des Pavillons im Süd-osten auf den kleinen Pavillon mit der Terrasse der Wein-stube auf Ebene –6,76 m.15. Blick auf den großen Pavillon mit dem ausgespar-ten und mit einer Schürze gesäumten Kongreßbezirk imObergeschoß. Im Vordergrund die Zugangsbrücke mit der Aussichtsplattform.

13. View of the north-west pavilion with the spring roomon the basement floor on level –6.76 m.14. View of the the small pavilion with the terrace of thewine bar on level –6.76 m from level –3.76 of the pavilionin the south-east.15. View of the large pavilion with the space left for thecongress area, fringed by a suspended apron on the up-per floor. In the foreground is the access bridge with theviewing platform.

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16,17. Die Abbildungen geben das Leichte und dasDurchsichtige der Pavillons wieder. Ihre Sockel warenaus lehmgelben Ziegeln aufgemauert; die Stahlteile wa-ren schwarz, das Stahlrohr-Stangenwerk sowie die Deckenuntersichten weiß gestrichen.

S. 42, 4318,19. Detailansichten mit den von der Fassade zurück-gesetzten Verglasungen sowie mit der über ihre Mitte beweglichen Tür am Übergang vom Verbindungsteg inden Pavillon.

16,17. The illustrations show the pavilions’ lightweight,transparent look. Their bases were in yellow-clay brick;the steel parts were painted black, the tubular steel barsand the ceilings painted white.

p. 42, 4318,19. Detailed views with the glazing set back from thefaçade and with the door, which turned on its central axis,at the transition from the walkway to the pavilion.

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