Garden of the Technische Universität Berlin (after 1900)

Site of Hands-On Learning – A revolution gripped academia after 1900: hands-on learning! Architecture students studied fragments of old city buildings. Three examples can be found in this garden: the arcade (1860) from the entrance to the Borsig Works on Chausseestraße; a pair of Doric columns from the nearby Charlottenburg Bridge; and an Ionic column from the entrance gate to Berlin Cathedral, designed by Schinkel and situated on the Lustgarten. The historic signal box located nearby is still used to train traffic engineers and dispatchers. The garden containing these nearly forgotten relics is surrounded by buildings belonging to the Technische Universität (Technical University of Berlin).