Erich Mendelsohn's Sketch
"Draughtsmanship is no substitute for spatial reality", said Mendelsohn. "We must combine sculptural form with the spatial (and spiritual) and this is the third road to the future of architecture."
The Einstein Tower is an astrophysical observatory in the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam,Germany designed by architect Erich Mendelsohn. It was built for astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich to support experiments and observations to validate Albert Einstein's relativity theory. The building was first conceived around 1917, built from 1920 to 1921 after a fund-raising drive, and became operational in 1924. It is still a working solar observatory today as part of the Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam. Light from the telescope is brought down through the shaft to the basement where the instruments and laboratory are located.
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