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Just a note to express my sincere gratitude for the most enjoyable and educational trip that I have taken. Having taken other similar tours, I can truly say yours is the greatest and was the most organized and best use of time anyone could possibly expect. I would highly recommend this tour to any designer. It was certainly time well spent. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and your concern and interest that all members of the trip were informed and well treated.
Michael J Parenti, ASID, IDS, President, Omni Interiors, North Palm Beach, Florida
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BERLIN - DESSAU (the Bauhaus) WOLFSBURG
MAGDEBURG, POTSDAM
JEAN RENOUX
ART & ARCHITECTURAL TOURS
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WOLFSBURG:
Wolkswagen Autstadt: a display of great buildings to promote its diversified brands. Behind the hype, there is great architecture and a lesson to learn about merchandising and display, designing restaurants, and showing a green future through one of the best “GREEN” exhibition ever.
Another experience is to see the amount of of photovoltaic panels in an area more north than Toronto or Buffalo, NY. What the heck are we waiting for.
A fabulous trip YOU JUST MISSED:
DESSAU:
Bauhaus School buildings;
master houses of
Kandinsky/Klee,
Muche/Schlemme,
Moholy-Nagy/Feininger;
Steel house (Georg Muche and Richard Paulick);
Törten Estate by Gropius;
The former Employment Office of Dessau by Gropius, today hosts the city's Traffic Office.
It is still used as a public building demonstrating the intelligent uses of natural lighting and natural ventilation.
A private visit inside the Einstein Tower in Potsdam, an astrophysical observatory in the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam, Germany built by Erich Mendelsohn in 1924. It was built to house a solar telescope to support experiments and observations to validate (or disprove) Albert Einstein's relativity theory.
Mendelssohn is known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s.
Alvar Aalto’s Wolfsburg Cultural Center
& library: A great building almost forgotten. We had a private visit after hours. What a treat!
Zaha Hadid’s Phaeno Science Center
What a building and what fun you can have inside!
MAGDEBURG
one of the world’s, greenest apartment building.
"Die Grüne Zitadelle" (“The Green Citadelle”) by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Einstein Tower - POTSDAM
SANSSOUCI, the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near Berlin. It is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far smaller than its French Baroque counterpart, it too is notable for the numerous temples and follies in the park.
Lunch where Churchill, Truman and Stalin met in 1945 at the Tudor-like manor, Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam
Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation in Berlin
Wilhelm Wagenfeld’s exhibition at Bauhaus;
Konsum Building (Walter Gropius, 1928);
Housing with Balcony Access (Hannes Meyer) ;
Moses Mendelssohn Center (the reconstructed house is today used by the Moses Mendelssohn society) in the Torten Estate, 500 houses designed by Gropius.
Kornhaus Restaurant (Carl Fieger, 1929-30)
Steel House by Georg Muche & Richard Paulick
Designed between 1908 and 1909 for the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG), the factory built of iron and glass mixes Greek and the Egyptian architectural ideas to create what was for Berhens a Cathedral of Work. Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier worked for Peter Berhens.
Charlottenburg Palace (Schloss Charlottenburg) is the largest palace in Berlin.
The palace was built at the end of the 17th century and was greatly expanded during the 18th century. It includes much exotic internal decoration in baroque and rococo styles.
Jean Renoux’s creates tours for people who appreciate voyages that are not the usual group tours but journeys that are full of learning experiences, enjoy traveling in a secure and efficient way, knowing that all the details are in the care of competent organizers.
For over twenty years Jean has created specifically tailored tours for groups from two to twelve individuals, who have specific interest, like architecture, art, business, walking, health or music to twelve different countries in Europe, Turkey and North Africa. Jean can arrange private tours and conduct them anywhere in the world.
Jean has also organized and conducted tours for colleges’ alumni like the University of North Carolina, the Speed Art Museum of Louisville or the Ringling School of Art and Design.
On most of the tours, licensed architects and interior designers receive Continuing Education Credits sanctioned by AIA/CES, ASID, IIDA, NKBA and IDC and recognized by every State Board of Architecture and Interior Design in the Nation.
Every years Jean gives 20 or so public lectures in museums, associations and colleges, on history of Europe, history of architecture, history of art & history of European literature.
There are many architects and interior designers who have taken tours every two years with Jean, some are on their 8th tours.
Try it once to see that you get something different that will excite you and fulfill you desire to learn and encounter other civilizations, new and old styles, comprehend architectural history and also enjoy traveling with a small group and discover new food, new wines, new beers and new people.
I. M. Pei ‘s addition to the classic Baroque building housing the very interesting and well designed Museum of German History.
More to come, including photos of the great trip to Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Capri, Ischia, Caserta Palace and the Amalfi Coast which will be offered again in 2012.