Revolving doors closed at Staatsgalerie, just before opening timeAlright I gotta crank out these next few posts quickly before we head off to Berlin, Basel, Luzern, Ronchamp, La Tourette, and Lausanne. Rick, Bobby, and I stayed in Stuttgart the next two nights. Stuttgart has a much lower skyline, and doesn't really feel like a city. It has a lot of open and green spaces, which makes it seem more suburby. It is sprawled out pretty far, so they keep the industrial stuff away from city center. We met up with Sarah, another architecture friend from VT, who actually grew up in Germany, so she helped us a lot with the ordering of food thing. Our hotel was right on the edge of city center and the small red-light district, which was kinda exciting.
We first made our way to the suburbs to the Weissenhof Housing Complex. This was a little neighborhood that was created in the 20s to showcase the new Bauhaus style of modern architecture. Some of the famous "Star-chitects" to build there were Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Taut, J.P. Oud, etc. The Corbu house is the only one that isn't being lived in anymore and we are allowed to see it. It was probably my favorite Corbu project so far. An extremely free and flexible housing plan. This German women just started rambling off to us for like 5 minutes without a breath and finally realized we didn't sprechen Deutch. She then repeated herself in English haha. The walls in the bed room transformed to create partitions and doors, it was incredible. We went back to city center and went in the Kunst, aka art museum. It was a really nice glass box with interior gallery spaces that were shielding from the light filled areas, a lot like the Kunsthaus Bregenz by Zumthor (which I'll post about in a couple posts). We poked around the city for a while and then met up with Sarah for dinner. Pretty traditional German dinner, sausages and beer.
Weissenhof -- Le Corbusier
Operable partition
Wiessenhof -- Mies Van Der Rohe
Weissenhof -- JP Oud
KunstThe next morning we went to the Neue Staatsgalerie by James Stirling which was basically the first real extreme expression of Post-modern architecture. Extreme colors and exaggerated structure and hand rails. It almost seems cheesy, but surprisingly is very elegantly done. For the time it was absolutely radical, even more so than today. Next up was the Porsche Museum. A cantilevered building holding up 100 of cars weight. Incredible. The cars were gorgeous. Then we went to the Mercedes museum which was also a great building. It was more of a historical museum which was really cool as well. We went out to eat with Sarah again and got some more traditional German food. We went out to a bar for a little while but had an early train so we called it kind of early. Off to Munich!
Neue Staatsgalerie -- James Stirling
Porsche
I got to sit in one!
Mercedes
Really nice light condition
300 SL :)
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