The “Erich Mendelsohn Initiative Circle” aims at exploring the universal role of Erich Mendelsohn’s architectural work in the history of modernity and at assessing its potential for a World Heritage nomination, i.e. its outstanding universal value. Launched by a German-Israeli initiative of ICOMOS experts in 2021 and steered by Jörg Haspel and Regina Stephan, the group, today, counts almost 40 experts from all over the world. The focus lays on more than 40 buildings by Erich Mendelsohn, which have survived in six European countries as well as in Israel and the USA.
Members
Ayhan Ayrilmaz, Chamber of Architects Berlin, DE
Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, ICOMOS Israel, IL
Meike Capatti, Chamber of Architects Berlin (Architektenkammer Berlin), DE
Maristella Casciato, Getty Research Institute, L.A., US
Wim De Witt, Getty Research Institute, L.A., US
Thomas Drachenberg, State Monuments Office and Archaeological Museum of Brandenburg (BLDAM), DE
Sergey Gorbatenko, ICOMOS Russia, RU
Tadeas Goryczka, CZ
Jörg Haspel, ICOMOS Germany, Technical University of Berlin, DE
Ita Heinze-Greenberg, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ), Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA), DE
Dörthe Hellmuth, ICOMOS Germany, DE
Robert Hirsch, ICOMOS Poland, PL
Kathleen James Chakraborty, University College Dublin, US
Daria Joseph, Granddaughter of Erich Mendelsohn, US
Detlef Karg, State Monuments Office and Archaeological Museum of Brandenburg (BLDAM), DE
Kornelia Kurowska, Fundacja Borussia Olsztyn (NGO), PL
Philipp Kurz, Wüstenrot Foundation, DE
Siri Lexau, University of Bergen, NO
Iwona Liżewska, National Heritage Institute Olsztyn, PL
Susan Macdonald, Getty Research Institute L.A., US
Eran Mordohovich, ICOMOS Israel, IL
Hans-Rudolf Morgenthaler, University of Colorado Denver, CH
b, Silesian University of Technology, PL
Alona Nitzan Shiftan, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IL
Michael Palmer, Photographer, US
Ralph Paschke, State Monuments Office and Archaeological Museum of Brandenburg (BLDAM), DE
Helge Pitz, Architect, conservation expert, DE
Alan Powers, New York University, London, UK
Andreas Putz, Technical University of Munich, DE
Christoph Rauhut, State Conservator, Berlin Bureau for Monuments Preservation, DE
Günter Schlusche, Association for the study of the lives and works of German-speaking Jewish architects, DE
Partner Institutions
Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum
Council for the Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel
Deutsche UNESCO Kommission
DOCOMOMO Germany
DOCOMOMO Israel
Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Lebens und Wirkens deutschsprachiger jüdischer Architekten
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Hochschule Mainz | University of Applied Sciences
Israel National Commission for UNESCO
Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Landesdenkmalamt Berlin
Technion Haifa, Arenson Built Heritage Research Center
Triennale der Moderne 2022 / Triennial of Modernism 2022 (tbc)
Wüstenrot-Stiftung