© Visualisation Architekturbüro BarkowLeibinger 2024

The winner has been announced!

The renowned architectural firm Barkow Leibinger – together with the construction company Zech Hochbau – is to be awarded the contract in the competition for the new visitor and information centre at Weissenhof.

Suse Kletzin, Chairwoman of the association Friends of the Weissenhof Estate: “A great result! The design by Barkow Leibinger not only offers architectural quality on a site steeped in history, but also guarantees that the project will be completed on schedule. A load off my mind! The years of voluntary work by the board and many club members are now paying off for a new building.”

The new building is intended to take the pressure off the Le Corbusier semi-detached house, which has been awarded the UNESCO World Heritage label, in order to preserve it for future generations. As a former residential building, it is already too small for large numbers of visitors. The new BIZ is intended to serve as a point of orientation for the numerous international visitors to the Weissenhof Estate. Especially for the 100th anniversary of the estate in 2027 and the IBA’27 StadtRegion Stuttgart, which is being organised also to mark the occasion.

The Association Friends of the Weissenhof Estate has been committed to the preservation, future and communication of the Weissenhof Estate since its founding in 1977 and took over the running of the Weissenhof Museum on behalf of the City of Stuttgart in 2006. The association had a leading role in ensuring that Le Corbusier’s semi-detached house is accessible today, as the only house in the estate.

The director of the Weissenhof Museum, Anja Krämer, is delighted with the competition decision and the long-awaited start of construction: “The new building will provide us with an urgently needed extension so that we can respond even better to the needs and expectations of Weissenhof visitors worldwide. 17 years after the opening of the current museum, we are delighted to be able to offer people a contemporary and attractive museum experience, in addition to the original Le Corbusier house, that lives up to the historical significance of the Weissenhof Estate.”

The visitor and information centre will be run by the Friends of the Weissenhof Estate from 2027, in cooperation with the Stadtpalais – Museum für Stuttgart. Visitors to the new building can expect an exhibition area of around 600 square metres, a café, a shop and rooms for events and administration.

The press release of the City of Stuttgart, together with the IBA’27 can be found here

Thursday, 18 July 2024 – Sunday, 22 July 2024

SOMMER DER KÜNSTE – Villa Massimo zu Gast in Stuttgart
18 artists at 8 locations

The Roman summer arrives in Stuttgart. The German Academy of Rome Villa Massimo is presenting itself in Baden-Württemberg for the first time. Two academic years will be showing their works created in Rome or especially for the presentation in Stuttgart. This weekend’s programme ranges from concerts, readings and exhibitions to guided tours, panel discussions and installations in public spaces.

The PROGRAMME of all institutions can be found here
or as a download: Flyer_Sommer der Künste_Web

The architect and Rome Prize winner SUSANNE BRORSON is showing her work saisonaler salon (Bruckmannweg 10) in the WEISSENHOF ESTATE. And in the Weissenhofwerkstatt im Haus Mies van der Rohe she will show more of her work in the exhibition seasonal spontaneous.

saisonaler salon
Rome, Stuttgart, Rügen, Riga: the saisonaler salon by architect Susanne Brorson will stop off at these locations on its journey. The saisonaler salon is a pavilion that focuses on experimental and circular building with renewable raw materials. The architect clads the modular wooden structure ever more densely with grasses and materials that she collects on site. In hot Rome, grasses from the Villa Massimo garden are used as sun protection on the roof. In Stuttgart, the open side surfaces are given a weatherproof façade cladding with material that Brorson harvests in the region and on the exhibition site. On the island of Rügen, it will be set afloat and then connect two architecture faculties in Riga as part of the Floating Campus. Follow the journey of the saisonaler salon on Instagram

OPENING of SOMMER DER KÜNSTE

Thursday, 18 July 2024, 6 pm
At the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Kleiner Schloßplatz 1)

18 ARTISTS
Rompreisträger:innen 2022/23 and 2023/24:
Ondřej Adámek (Komponist)
Yael Bartana (Bildende Künstlerin)
Oscar Bianchi (Komponist)
Susanne Brorson (Architektin)
Danica Dakić (Bildende Künstlerin),
Liza Dieckwisch (Bildende Künstlerin)
Manaf Halbouni (Bildender Künstler)
Kristof Magnusson (Schriftsteller)
Olga Martynova (Schriftstellerin)
Bjørn Melhus (Bildender Künstler)
Marko Nikodijević (Komponist)
Katerina Poladjan (Schriftstellerin)
Arne Rautenberg (Schriftsteller)
Marcus Schmickler (Komponist)
SOWATORINI Landschaft (Landschaftsarchitekten)
Alfredo Thiermann (Architekt)
Stefan Vogel (Bildender Künstler)
Fabian A. Wagner (Architekt)

8 INSTITUTIONS
Architekturgalerie am Weißenhof
BDA Baden-Württemberg
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Literaturhaus Stuttgart
Musik der Jahrhunderte
Staatsgalerie
Universität Stuttgart
Weissenhofmuseum im Haus Le Corbusier