With Pen and Paper

To mark the 90th birthday of the architect Carlo Weber, the Sonnenberg Gallery is showing a selection of his drawings and sketches in this year's exhibition. Carlo Weber has been thinking, explaining and recording with pen and paper since his school days - initially when exploring his surroundings and travelling as a student, and later as an architect in many competitions and projects. When designing, he preferred handy paper. He believed that this "automatically bundles thought sketches and connections visually and, in their incompleteness, leaves room for further development. With his head and light equipment, which makes it easy to capture even intuitive and unreflective things*, he captured his ideas and thoughts right up to the end.

The exhibition shows relatively unknown early works from the 1950s and 1960s, which show with a personal eye a refined development of his line. His very numerous sketches for the overall planning of the XX. The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich testify to the sensitivity with which he dealt with the site, his trained eye for the topographical characteristics of the landscape and the wide range of his field of activity. The humorous ideas for the continued use of the site have long since become reality. A small selection of projects that Carlo Weber was responsible for planning in the Auer + Weber office, founded in 1980, are presented in image and sketch form.

Carlo Weber (1934-2014) was one of the most respected architects in Germany. While studying architecture from 1953 to 1961 in Stuttgart and Paris, he worked in the office of Behnisch + Lambart and was a co-founder of the Behnisch & Partner architectural partnership in 1966. In 1980, he founded the Auer + Weber office with Fritz Auer, with offices in Stuttgart and Munich. From 1992 he taught as a professor for building theory and design at the TU Dresden and in 1996 he was elected to the newly founded Saxon Academy of Arts in Dresden. His many years of work as head of the architecture class included urban planning conferences in various neighboring countries and close cooperation with the academies of art in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. In addition, he was a member of many jury committees in his later years. He died in Stuttgart in 2014.

Opening: 14.9.2024, 7 p.m.