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Article: History and memory: one of Berlin's great cultural institutions has been imaginatively remodelled to connect with the life of the city.
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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The Akademie der Kunste is a bit like the British Royal Academy except that it involves a larger spectrum of arts, including literature, theatre, film and dance as well as painting, sculpture and architecture, and that it draws its membership--currently 370 persons--from an international field. Founded in 1696 under royal patronage, it had various homes until 1907, when it took over the former Arnim Palace at the corner of Pariser Platz. In this central location, on Berlin's east-west axis between Unter den Linden and the Brandenburg Gate, it grew and flourished until 1937, when the arts were ousted in favour of Albert Speer's office for the replanning of 'Germania'. By ...