Permanent exhibition as a website plus printed monograph

Culture

Werner Düttmann (1921–1983) was a formative architect of post-war modernism in Berlin, whose works are characterised by functional design and the use of raw materials such as exposed concrete. Among his best-known buildings are the Academy of Arts, the Brücke Museum and the Märkisches Viertel housing estate, which focused on social exchange and urban community.

With the exhibition ‘Werner Düttmann. Building. Berlin.’, the Brücke Museum is celebrating the architect and urban planner where his work can be seen: the streets and squares of Berlin. The city itself becomes an exhibition space. In front of 28 Düttmann buildings, information boards provide information about the vision of their creator. In addition, the classic exhibition is hosted online – on a website designed and developed by Stan Hema.

The website combines building descriptions, video portraits, films, texts, audio tracks, insights into the interior of the buildings, conversations with residents, floor plans and architectural tours. This provides an online understanding of Düttmann’s work that can be experienced via routes through the city of Berlin. The multimedia knowledge transfer combines information and entertainment and invites deep analysis of the architect.

Our creative developer Marco Land worked closely together with the Brücke Museum. The result is an online permanent exhibition that allows people around the world to immerse themselves in Düttmann’s ideas for stone and space – even without visiting Berlin. For those who like a more traditional approach, the first comprehensive Düttmann monograph is available as a catalogue accompanying the exhibition. That was also designed by us.

Many thanks to Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik, which developed the information boards, among other things, and to our friends from art/beats, who produced films and audio for the exhibition.