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Tchoban Foundation - Museum für Architekturzeichnung

Name: Tchoban Foundation - Museum für Architekturzeichnung
Address: ChristinenStr. 18 a, Berlin, 10119, DE
Telephone: +493043739090

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Tchoban Foundation - Museum für Architekturzeichnung

Museum for Architectural Drawing

Die Ende 2009 ins Leben gerufene Tchoban Foundation hat zum Ziel, das Interesse an der zeichnerischen Architekturdarstellung zu beleben und junge Talente auf diesem Gebiet zu fördern. Im Museum für Architekturzeichnung hat nicht nur die international bekannte Sammlung der Tchoban Foundation ihre Heimat gefunden, hier werden auch Sammlungen weltweit führender Kulturinstitutionen der Öffentlichkeit

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At the end of 2009, the Tchoban Foundation was founded with the aim of keeping the interest in architectural representation through drawing alive and to support young talent in this field. The Museum for Architectural Drawing provides a home for the internationally renowned Tchoban Foundation collection as well as for temporary exhibits from leading cultural institutions around the world.

01/05/2026

The coloured concrete and glass façades of our museum are rich in contrast and layers. The sculptural design of the concrete, its structural qualities and the method of construction give the building its unique appearance. Its closed surface is detailed with reliefs of magnified fragments of architectonic sketches which suggest the aims and uses of the exhibition spaces and archive within. Each storey is treated with its own identical graphic element in a repetitive rhythm, while some façade surfaces are marked with vertical fluting to give the impression of yet another layer of hatched graphic lines.

17/04/2026

This drawing is quite typical of Otto Wagner in that it contains a certain kind of narrative quality. It was made with the intent of being exhibited, therefore, the drawing contains a plurality of artfully crafted illustrations and ornamentation.

Otto Wagner
Study for Berlin Cathedral, 1890/91
© Wien Museum

11/04/2026

On this day, 108 years ago, Otto Wagner died at the age of 76. The villa shown in this drawing was one of Wagner’s last buildings.
Since he regarded the apartment block as the defining type of urban structure, Wagner did not attach great architectural significance to the single-family home. Even so, he published this classically proportioned building, with its programmatic flat roof, as a prototype of the modern villa and as a response to the then-popular “Heimatstil” (regionalist-traditional style) houses, which featured towers and false gables. The only façade decoration is a (not executed) grid pattern carved into the plaster around the windows and the geometric arrangement of the blue glass tiles, reminiscent of textile hangings.
The villa was originally intended as a widow’s residence for his second wife Louise. However, she unexpectedly passed away before Wagner. The building was sold after her passing and is now in private hands.

Otto Wagner
Second Wagner Villa, 1912
© Wien Museum

05/04/2026

We wish those who celebrate a joyful Easter Sunday!

Otto Wagner
Project for a parish church in Währing, 1898
© Wien Museum

01/04/2026

We hope you all will have a good and relaxing Easter weekend! Our museum will open as usual on the Easter holidays, we are looking forward to welcoming you!

23/03/2026

Wagner’s ideas for modern architecture were significantly influenced by the people living in the cities. Oftentimes, staffage figures can be found all around his drawings. By means of their placement, Wagner illustrates urban life and the questions surrounding urban planning. How can architecture meet the new demands of order, cleanliness, and hygiene? Wagner’s drawings provide insight into possible answers.

Otto Wagner
Second Wagner Villa, 1912
View of the Westbahnhof tram stop, 1895
Presentation drawing with the Akademiestrasse-Technik and
Gumpendorfer Strasse stations of the City Railway, 1898
Project for a hotel on Vienna’s Karlsplatz, 1913
© Wien Museum

27/02/2026

To mark the completion of his two late masterpieces, the Postal Savings Bank and the Church at Steinhof, Wagner published brochures at his own expense, in which factual descriptions of the buildings subtly conveyed fundamental principles of “modern architecture”. Using photographs to illustrate his points, he focused on specific architectural details, often employing unusual cropping. The brochures were distributed in specially designed envelopes, presumably to influential figures and potential clients. His approach to the City Museum on Karlsplatz was markedly different: Wagner published no fewer than seven brochures, intended to serve as a basis for argumentation with the local council and other key stakeholders. Here too he used photography to accentuate the merits of the projects through comparisons and montages.
Several of these brochures can be found in our exhibition “Otto Wagner—Architect of Modern Life” inside display cabinets.

Image: © Nadja Fedorova

23/02/2026

Wagner initiated the project for the new building of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts without a specific planning commission. Although there was little chance of its realisation, Wagner pulled of a masterstroke: by casting the monarchy’s most important art institute in “Secessionist” forms, he implied public and official support and appreciation for the new art that in fact never existed to this extent. Wagner thus staged the Academy, a bastion of tradition, as the spearhead of modernism. Designed as four classical triumphal arches, the building is crowned by a flat dome surmounted by a filigree. While retaining their characteristic features, the various elements are transformed into a new “art form”.

Otto Wagner
Project for the new building of the Academy of Fine Arts, Hall of Honour, 1898
© Wien Museum

20/02/2026

The project for the new Vienna Stock Exchange building came about immediately after Wagner graduated from the Vienna Academy and is thus one of his earliest surviving works. It initiated a lifelong strategy of putting himself in the running through unsolicited designs. On his own initiative, the young architect submitted two projects for the new building on the banks of the Danube Canal. While the first features a detailed façade structure, the second shows a veritable monumental building, whose generous proportions are emphasised in the perspective view by contrast with five- and six-storey apartment buildings. In structuring the façades, Wagner drew inspiration from both the Northern Italian Renaissance (Michele Sanmicheli) and buildings by Gottfried Semper and Theophil Hansen. It was Hansen who, together with Carl Tietz, went on to construct the Stock Exchange building on Ringstrasse between 1874 and 1877.

Otto Wagner
Second project for the new Vienna Stock Exchange building, perspective, 1863
© Sergei Tchoban Collection

14/02/2026

The first two weeks are done! We hope you like our new exhibition „Otto Wagner—Architect of Modern Life” and we are looking forward to welcoming you this weekend, we open as usual 1 pm - 5 pm.

Image: © Nadja Fedorova

05/02/2026

Otto Wagner (1841-1918) is said to be one of the most influential figures in the development of twentieth-century European architecture. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement and the broader Art Nouveau movement.
From the 1880s onwards, Wagner decisively rejected eclecticism, viewing it as an aesthetic concept rendered inappropriate and outdated by the cultural and scientific progress of the time. He saw himself as a pioneer of the new. Through his buildings and projects, Wagner championed a modern architecture that emancipated itself from the predominance of history and developed its own formal language in response to the demands of the immediate present. In this context, his drawings played a central role, providing vivid, instructive and memorable images of an as-yet-unbuilt architecture of the future.

Wenzl Weis
Otto Wagner, 1911
© Wien Museum

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ChristinenStr. 18 A
Berlin
10119

Öffnungszeiten

Montag	14:00 - 19:00
Dienstag	14:00 - 19:00
Mittwoch	14:00 - 19:00
Donnerstag	14:00 - 19:00
Freitag	14:00 - 19:00
Samstag	13:00 - 17:00
Sonntag	13:00 - 17:00

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+493043739090

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