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Mäusebunker and the Hygieneinstitut, Berlin: Thro

Mäusebunker and the Hygieneinstitut, Berlin: Throwback to that time when architect and author Dr Gunnar Klack, and architecture historian Felix Tokar raised public awareness succeeding in ensuring the survival of this Berlin brutalist gem.
At the time Gunnar explained,

‘The Mäusebunker and the Hygieneinstitut are spectacular examples of how late Modernism developed from International Style in different directions. They form part of the Benjamin Franklin campus within the Charité Hospital complex. The artefacts at risk are not only one of a kind in their architectural aesthetics, they are also witness to Berlin’s unique history as a divided city during the times of the Cold War.’ Photo by Gunnar aka @gnrklk

A life in a year: Architect John Carl Warnecke’s

A life in a year: Architect John Carl Warnecke’s relationship with the Kennedy family. In this photo is his 1970 Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library at Georgetown University in Washington DC, named for an alumni who died in the Vietnam War. Warnecke, who studied under Walter Gropius at Harvard, will always be remembered in connection with a momentous period in American history. In 1962 he was invited to meet the President to describe his vision for the reimagining of Washington’s Lafayette Square, Warnecke was keen to incorporate historic 19th buildings with proposed new governmental ones. His presentation and long meeting prompted Kennedy to immediately fire a Boston firm of architects already working on the project (with demolish of the old on the cards) and hire Warnecke that same afternoon to create the new master plan. It now made perfect sense for the Californian architect to open a DC office. Lafayette Square was a project close to Jacqueline Kennedy’s heart, she took a keen and active interest which fostered a long friendship and, for a time after the death of her husband, a relationship between the pair. On June 21st 1963 Warnecke was appointed a United States Commissioner of Fine Arts and also began designing a Presidential Library. He cannot have imagined that little more than a year later he would be watching news reports of the November 22, 1963 assassination of the President in Dallas, Texas. Six days later on November 28th 1963 he would be asked by Jacqueline to design her late husband’s Eternal Flame memorial gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery. Photo with thanks to @arch_ivan

Architect John Carl Warnecke’s 1970 Joseph Mark

Architect John Carl Warnecke’s 1970 Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library at Georgetown University in Washington DC, named for an alumni who died in the Vietnam War. Warnecke studied under Walter Gropius at Harvard. Photo with thanks to @arch_ivan

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