A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Pierre Boulez Saal
The Pierre Boulez Saal is housed inside the Barenboim-Said Akademie, a new higher-education institution focusing on music and the humanities, located in the Mitte district in Berlin. Daniel Barenboim, the renowned conductor and pianist, founded the Akademie in memory of his close friend, the Palestinian humanist and philosopher Edward Said. In support of this mission, and as a seventieth birthday gift to Barenboim, the city of Berlin allowed him to turn an unused scenery warehouse adjacent to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where Barenboim has been the General Music Director since 1992, into the home for the Akademie. The Akademie will offer ninety students from the Middle East an “Education through Music,” a combined music and humanities curriculum. As a central feature of the Akademie’s facility, a small performance hall was planned. Through their mutual friend, the avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, Barenboim met the architect Frank Gehry who pledged to design the performance space.
Pierre Boulez Saal
The Pierre Boulez Saal is housed inside the Barenboim-Said Akademie, a new higher-education institution focusing on music and the humanities, located in the Mitte district in Berlin. Daniel Barenboim, the renowned conductor and pianist, founded the Akademie in memory of his close friend, the Palestinian humanist and philosopher Edward Said. In support of this mission, and as a seventieth birthday gift to Barenboim, the city of Berlin allowed him to turn an unused scenery warehouse adjacent to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where Barenboim has been the General Music Director since 1992, into the home for the Akademie. The Akademie will offer ninety students from the Middle East an “Education through Music,” a combined music and humanities curriculum. As a central feature of the Akademie’s facility, a small performance hall was planned. Through their mutual friend, the avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, Barenboim met the architect Frank Gehry who pledged to design the performance space.
Pierre Boulez Saal
Toyota, Yasuhisa (author) / Komoda, Motoo (author) / Beckmann, Daniel (author) / Quiquerez, Marc (author) / Bergal, Erik (author)
Concert Halls by Nagata Acoustics ; Chapter: 27 ; 231-240
2021-02-26
10 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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