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International Building Exhibition Berlin

The International Building Exhibition 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.

History

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

Kleihues invited many international architects from 10 countries Charles Moore, Aldo Rossi and James Stirling – to build in 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".

Gallery

File:Berlin schlesische-str-7 bonjour-tristesse 20050224 p1010029.jpg|Bonjour tristesse apartment building by Alvaro Siza File:Haus am Checkpoint Charlie.JPG|Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, by Peter Eisenman File:Koolhaas-Haus am Checkpoint Charlie.JPG|Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, by Rem Koolhaas File:Lützowplatz Berlin Ungers.jpg|Apartments at Lützowplatz, by Oswald Mathias Ungers (demolished in 2013)

References

"History: The fall of the Wall and reunification".
Giovannini, Joseph. (April 14, 1988). "Changing the Face of West Berlin". [[The New York Times]].
Schmaling, Sebastian. (Fall–Winter 2005). "Masked Nostalgia, Chic Regression. The "Critical" Reconstruction of Berlin". [[Harvard Design Magazine]].
Curl, James Stevens. (2000). "A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture". Oxford University Press.

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