10 September – 6 December 2026
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Lebbeus Woods entwickelte das Projekt War and Architecture während der Belagerung Sarajevos. Für den Architekten ist Krieg eine Kraft, die gebaute Umwelt und soziale Strukturen einer Stadt dauerhaft prägt. Statt das Zerstörte einfach wiederherzustellen oder es im Sinne einer tabula rasa zu beseitigen, schlägt Woods Interventionen vor, die er als „Schorf“, „Narbe“ oder neues städtisches „Gewebe“ bezeichnet. Sie schreiben die Spuren von Gewalt und Verlust in die Stadt ein und machen sie zum Ausgangspunkt ihrer weiteren Entwicklung.
Lebbeus Woods
War and Architecture: Transformational City Plan with SCAR Construction, 1993
Zeichnung mit Grafit, Buntstift, Tinte und elektrostatischer Druck auf Karton, 30,5 × 50,8 cm
© Estate of Lebbeus Woods
10 September – 6 December 2026
The exhibition as well as the accompanying events and education programme focus on the interval between destruction and reconstruction, the uncertain moment when it remains unresolved how societies confront loss, guilt, and memory. Before rebuilding begins, fundamental questions must be addressed: Who is allowed to return? Who owns the land? Which histories are told? When such questions are suppressed, violence does not end; it persists in other forms through exclusion, erasure, and new power relations.
For the Akademie der Künste, the exhibition is linked to a self-examination of its location in the Hansaviertel as a historic site of post-1945 reconstruction. At the same time, it opens up a global perspective featuring artists and spatial practitioners who develop their work from the liminal states caused by war, conflict and ecological disasters.
The three thematic areas that structure the exhibition – Houses, Soils, Times – are reflected in the discursive and performative program of events, which features symposia on these topics. Part of the curatorial dramaturgy consists of performative-musical miniatures conceived as “interludes,” which take place both at the event venue and throughout the exhibition halls.
Metaxy: Between Destruction and Reconstruction
10 September – 6 December 2026
Opening 9 September 2026, 6.30 pm
Akademie der Künste Berlin, Hanseatenweg