The International Building Exhibition Berlin (German: Internationale Bauausstellung Berlin ) ( IBA Berlin ) was an urban renewal project in West Berlin , Germany. Initiated in 1979, it was completed in 1987, matching the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin. The IBA followed two distinct strategies: "careful urban renewal" and " critical reconstruction ." With a budget of $ 1.2 billion, it was to house about 30,000 people in selected areas of West Berlin.
6-856: IBA was divided into two programs, each responsible for about 6,000 apartments. In 1979 Josef Paul Kleihues was appointed director of the IBA Neubau section by the Berlin Senate; Hardt Waltherr Hämer was director of the less-publicised Altbau He organised the exhibition along two distinct themes: IBA Alt aimed to explore methods of "careful urban renewal" and IBA Neu for experimenting "critical reconstruction." Kleihues invited many international architects from 10 countries – including Gottfried Böhm , Mario Botta , Peter Eisenman , Vittorio Gregotti , John Hejduk , Herman Hertzberger , Hans Hollein , Arata Isozaki , Léon Krier , Rob Krier , Charles Moore , Aldo Rossi and James Stirling – to build in
12-946: The International Building Exhibition Berlin (IBA) between 1979 and 1987, Kleihues propagated the concept of urban "critical reconstruction". He was a visiting professor at Cornell University during fall 1975. From 1986 to 1991 he held the Irwin S. Chanin Distinguished International Professorship at The Cooper Union's School of Architecture. In 1989 his work was presented in Joseph Paul Kleihues: The Museum Projects , an exhibition and an accompanying catalog (Rizzoli, 1989) at The Cooper Union. Kleihues received international recognition for several museum projects, including for
18-951: The Sprengel Museum in Hanover (1972) and the Museum of Prehistory in Frankfurt (1980–86). He continued designing museums, including the Civic Gallery and Lütze Museum in Sindelfingen (1987–90), the Berlin Museum of Contemporary Art, an adaptive reuse of the Hamburger Bahnhof , a 19th-century railway station, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago . He also chaired the jury that awarded Daniel Libeskind
24-693: The architectural practice of Peter Poelzig in West Berlin , in 1962 he founded his own practice with Hans Heinrich Moldenschardt. In 1971 Kleihues designed "Block 270", a residential building in Berlin-Wedding . This became an important work which re-established the Berlin block plan, a traditional typology, that stood in opposition to contemporary urban planning. As professor at the TU Dortmund University from 1973 and director of
30-673: The following areas: the Prager Platz in Wilmersdorf as well as the Tegel, southern Tiergarten and southern Friedrichstadt districts. Consequently, Time called the IBA "the most ambitious showcase of world architecture in this generation". [REDACTED] Media related to International Building Exhibition Berlin at Wikimedia Commons Josef Paul Kleihues Josef Paul Kleihues (11 June 1933, Rheine – 13 August 2004, Berlin)
36-618: Was a German architect , most notable for his decades long contributions to the " critical reconstruction " of Berlin . His design approach has been described as "poetic rationalist". Born in 1933 in Rheine , he studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart (1955–57) and Technische Universität Berlin (1957–59). After graduation, Kleihues spent one year at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After having worked in
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