Events

Sunday, July 23rd 2023, 5-6 pm
Final discussion as end of IBA’27 Festival #1

Andreas Hofer will speak with planners of several IBA-projects.

Participants:

Guobin Shen, Atelier Kaiser Shen
Dominique Dinies, UTA Architekten
Lina Streeruwitz, Studio Vlay Streeruwitz
Gerhard Bosch, Hermann Bosch Architekten
Markus Weismann / Cem Arat, ASP Architekten
Stephan Schürmann / Marlène Witry, Schürmann Witry Architekten
Miriam Stümpfl, AMSL Architektur

music: “TalkingDrums” – Percussionensemble of the Musikhochschule Stuttgart

venue: Hermann-Lenz-Höhe (gegenüber Birkenwaldstr. 217), 70191 Stuttgart

An event of IBA´27

The city of Stuttgart is building a new visitor and information center at Weissenhof by 2027. DEsigned by the internationally renowned architectural firm Barkow Leibinger. It will be the central starting point for all people who want to visit the Weissenhof Estate in the future and learn more about the history of this international icon of modern architecture. In the exhibition BARKOW LEIBINGER: IN SITU – WEISSENHOF, you can find out more about the innovative architecture of the visitor and information center and the multi-award-winning office by means of drawings and material samples.

Opening
Mon, 12 May 2025, 7 pm

Venue
Weissenhof Werkstatt im Haus Mies van der Rohe
Am Weissenhof 20, 70191 Stuttgart

Duration and opening hours
Sat, 17 May – Sun, 13 July 2025
Sat, Sun, public holidays 12-17 h
Free admission

Organizer
Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung e.V. / Weissenhof Museum in Le Corbusier House

We would like to thank the City of Stuttgart and the Wüstenrotstiftung for the financial support.

The exhibition is part of the IBA’27 Festival #2! Click here for the complete festival program

© Foto: Ralph Fisher / Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung

The Weissenhof Estate celebrates its 100th birthday in 2027! The exhibition provides information about future developments in the Weissenhof Estate and the plans for the visitor and information center, which will be built by 2027. On display are the competition results for the new exhibition and the tour of the Weissenhof Estate as well as the results of a competition for the workshop room in the new visitor and information center. In addition, the results of a workshop on neighborhood development held by the Friends of the Weissenhof Estate.

The exhibition takes place in the rooms of a residential building from 1928, built on the civil servants’ estate by architect Adolf Gustav Schneck. The temporarily vacant building is located opposite the site of the future visitor and information center.

Opening
Mon, May 12, 2025, 8 p.m.

Venue
Haus Jung, Beamtensiedlung am Weissenhof
Am Weissenhof 2, 70191 Stuttgart

Duration and opening hours
Sat, May 17 – Sun, July 13, 2025
Sat, Sun, public holidays 12 – 5 pm
Free admission

Guided tours
Sun, May 18, 2025
12, 14 and 16 pm
Meeting point: Weissenhofwerkstatt im Haus Mies van der Rohe (Am Weissenhof 20)
Free admission

Organizer
Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung e.V. / Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House

We would like to thank the City of Stuttgart and the Wüstenrotstiftung for the financial support.

The exhibition is part of the IBA’27 Festival #2! Click here for the complete festival program

Sunday, July 13, 2025, 10 am – 6 pm

At the Summer Festival Killesberg, the Weissenhof Museum in Le Corbusier House celebrates a joint Culture Festival with numerous institutions in the neighborhood with a free program.

Download the program

Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House

10 am – 6 pm
Free admission to the Weissenhof Museum in Le Corbusier House

11 am, 2 pm and 4 pm
Guided tour of the original houses from 1927
Meeting point: At the advertising pillar opposite the entrance to the Weissenhof Museum in Le Corbusier House, Rathenaustr. 1
Duration: approx. 45 minutes

1 pm
“Werkbund” tour from the Weissenhof Museum to the Theodor Heuss House
Meeting point: At the advertising pillar opposite the entrance to the Weissenhof Museum in Le Corbusier House, Rathenaustr. 1
Duration: approx. 45 minutes

10 am – 6 pm
Mini-exhibition on the 120th birthday of Elsbeth Böklen-Büchle
– the woman with the vintage car in front of the Le Corbusier House 1928

2 pm – 6 pm
Live music
Andy Wilsing plays pop and rock classics on the guitar.

10 am – 6 pm
Coffee, cake and drinks in front of the museum

Location
Weissenhofmuseum im Haus Le Corbusier, Rathenaustr. 1

Weissenhof Werkstatt in the Mies van der Rohe House

10 am – 6 pm
Free admission to the exhibition BARKOW LEIBINGER: IN SITU – WEISSENHOF

11 am and 3 pm
Guided tour Future Weissenhof 2027+
In the guided tour you will learn the most important facts about the developments up to the 100th anniversary of the Weissenhof Estate in 2027, especially about the Weissenhof.Forum. The tour will take you past the construction site.

Location
Weissenhof Werkstatt in the Mies van der Rohe House, Am Weissenhof 20

Haus Jung

10 am – 6 pm
Free admission to the exhibition Future Weissenhof 2027+ What remains? What is coming? What goes?

Location
Haus Jung, civil servants’ estate, Am Weissenhof 2

Partners:

Architekturgalerie am Weißenhof, Augustinum Stuttgart-Killesberg, Bismarckturm Bürgerverein Killesberg und Umgebung e.V., Brenzkirche, Höhenpark Killesberg, Killesbergbahn im Höhenpark, Killesberghöhe, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Theodor Heuss House.

A project by Stefanie Schwarz and Patrick Thomas, both designers and teachers at ABK Stuttgart, in collaboration with Tobias Bednarz, art historian, and Anja Krämer, Director of the Weissenhof Museum im Haus Le Corbusier Stuttgart.

The British Arts and Crafts movement centred around the designer William Morris is often regarded as a pioneer in the development of modern design. While Morris’ interior designs were strongly characterised by craftsmanship and natural motifs, modernism developed an increasingly reduced and functionalist aesthetic. But was modernism really as free of patterns as is often assumed?

In the Weissenhofwerkstatt, Patrick Thomas confronts the clean-lined architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with a reinterpretation of Morris’ iconic “Willow” pattern (1874). Stefanie Schwarz expands this intervention with a typographical component by placing quotes from important representatives of modernism on the subject of patterns and ornament in the exhibition space. An accompanying showcase exhibition throws some spotlights on modern interior design, illustrating that decorative surface design and sometimes opulent patterns also played a role in modernism.

The opening will take place on 2 December at 7 pm.

Where
Weissenhofwerkstatt im Haus Mies van der Rohe, Am Weißenhof 20

Duration and exhibition opening hours
Sat, Sun und public holidays: 12 pm -5 pm
2 December 2024 – 2 March 2025
(closed in 24 December and 1 January)

Guided tours
Sunday, 5 January 2025, 2 pm
Mittwoch, 26 February 2025, 7 pm

Admission
free of charge

We would like to thank the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart and the Friends of the Weissenhofsiedlung e.V. for their support.

© Photo: Ralph Fischer.

On 26 February 2025, curators Prof. Patrick Thomas and Stefanie Schwarz, both designers and lecturers at ABK Stuttgart, will guide visitors through the exhibition they curated together with Tobias Bednarz, art historian, and Anja Krämer, museum director of the Weissenhofmuseum.

The guided tour is for free and no registration is required.

Date
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 2 pm

Place
Weissenhofwerkstatt in the Mies van der Rohe House
Am Weissenhof 20, 70191 Stuttgart

Curators
Prof. Patrick Thomas (Communication Design, ABK Stuttgart
Stefanie Schwarz (CTI Typography and Type Design & ABK Stuttgart
Anja Krämer (Director of the Weissenhofmuseum in Le Corbusier House)
Tobias Bednarz (art historian, M.A. cand.)

© Visualisation: Atelier Markgraph GmbH, Frankfurt

Corporate press release of the City of Stuttgart and the association Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung e.V.

The Weissenhof Estate is being given a new scenography and communication concept. The invitational competition ‘Weissenhof 1927 | 2027+ Experience Modernism’ has a winner: Atelier Markgraph from Frankfurt impressed the jury with its clear interpretation of modernism and its protagonists, which it used as a key theme and design principle and won the first prize. Second prize went to Space4 from Stuttgart and 3rd place went to chezweitz from Berlin..

Four components will take centre stage when visitors from all over the world experience the Weissenhof Estate in the future: The exhibition in the new visitor and information centre at Weissenhof (‘BIZ’), the tour of the estate, a visit to the Weissenhofmuseum in Le Corbusier House and a digital and mobile application.
The awarding authority of the competition is the City of Stuttgart, represented by the Cultural Office. The competition was organised in collaboration with the Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung e.V. The high-leveled jury, chaired by Dr Annette Ludwig, Director of the Museums of the Klassikstiftung Weimar, was made up of experts in museums, scenography, cultural management and architecture.

Dr Annette Ludwig: ‘The jury had a challenging time choosing from five strong projects with different focal points. The winning design will excellently combine analogue and digital communication – and thus open up the Werkbund Estate at the Weissenhof to a large audience – in the BIZ, on the tour and in the museum. This offers enormous added value for 2027 and long beyond.’

The design by Atelier Markgraph succeeds in appealing to a wide range of target groups and providing them with accessible and contemporary offers to discover the Weissenhof estate and its history – without losing any depth of content. The digital application links the four central project modules in a meaningful way and visitors experience the estate from a completely new perspective. The jury recommended that the first-place winners be commissioned. The scenography is now being further developed on the basis of the concept together with Atelier Markgraph.

Suse Kletzin, Director of the Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung ‘We are delighted with the result! It shows how a forward-looking mediation concept can appeal to a wide audience and we are happy that the decision finally brings us to the concrete work phase. A success that was possible thanks to the dedicated work of our members.’

The Weissenhof Estate, initiated in 1927 by the Deutscher Werkbund as an exhibition entitled ‘The Dwelling’, is an icon of modern architecture whose significance is recognised worldwide. It is a listed building and bears the European Heritage Label. Two buildings, designed by the architect Le Corbusier, have been recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A centre of attraction for visitors from all over the world.
A new visitor and information centre (‘BIZ’) will be built by 2027, where guests will begin their visit to the Weissenhof Estate from 2027. Numerous additional guests are expected in the city, especially for the 100th anniversary of the estate in 2027 and the International Building Exhibition 2027 StadtRegion Stuttgart (IBA’27), which has the Weissenhof as its starting point.

The new municipal building relieves the burden on the Le Corbusier semi-detached house, which has been awarded the UNESCO World Heritage seal, by taking over many functions for which the building planned as a residential building is not designed in the long term and with ever-increasing visitor numbers: ticket sales, cloakroom, café and shop. This means that the historic semi-detached house will be preserved for future generations and, as the only accessible building on the estate, can still remain the central highlight.

From 2027, the visitor and information centre will be managed in cooperation with the StadtPalais – Museum für Stuttgart and the Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung.
The bidding consortium of Barkow Leibinger Partnerschaft von Architekten mbB and Zech Hochbau AG won the competition for the new building and will realise the building by the end of 2026. The BIZ emerged from the needs of the Weissenhof Museum and a process initiated by IBA‘27 in 2019 for the further development of the Weissenhof Estate and is an official IBA’27 project – as is the neighbouring Brenzkirche, which is also part of the wider transformation of the Weissenhof Estate.

From the 2nd of September 2024, new admission and tour prices will apply at the Weissenhofmuseum. This is our first price increase since 2012.
It was especially important to us that the prices for young people and students in particular are only moderately increased.
Thank you for your understanding.

New prices from 2 September 2024:

Admission
Regular: € 6.50
Reduced*: 3 €
*Pupils, trainees, students, ALG I, ALG II and social welfare recipients, people with disabilities

Open guided tours
Small guided tour: € 6 / € 4 (reduced), plus entrance fee
Large guided tour: €8.50 / €5 (reduced), plus entrance fee

Booked guided tours for groups
There are now all-inclusive prices for guided tour groups. Information and prices can be found in the tour options (Your visit -> Tours -> Booked tours -> Tour options).

        
© Pictures: IBA’27 | Ralph Fisher / Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung | The Baukunst Dynamites / Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung

The IBA’27 Festival #2 marks an important milestone on the way to the International Building Exhibition 2027. It focusses on the current IBA projects, their innovative planning approaches and ideas as well as the people who implement the projects. The festival offers guided tours, festivities, panel discussions and hands-on formats. You will gain insights into the current status of the projects as well as on the future of the building sector and living together in the Stuttgart Region. For the full program of the IBA’27 Festival click here.

The Weissenhof Museum is also participating with a program

In 2027, the Weissenhof Estate will take centre stage. The estate is celebrating its 100th anniversary and is therefore also a central reference for IBA’27. By 2027, a new visitor and information centre will be built by the state capital Stuttgart. It will be the central starting point for all people who visit the Weissenhof Estate in the future to learn more about the history of this international icon of modern architecture. The new building is intended to support Le Corbusiers semi-detached house and preserve it for future generations. The house has been awarded the UNESCO World Heritage seal and accomodates the Weissenhof Museum. As a former residential building, it is already too small for the ever-increasing number of visitors.

The new visitor and information centre, designed by the internationally renowned architects Barkow Leibinger, has been designated an ‘IBA project’. It is therefore at the centre of the Weissenhof Museum’s program for the second IBA’27 festival. In an exhibition at the Weissenhofwerkstatt im Haus Mies van der Rohe, displaying floor plans and others as well as material samples you can find out more about the innovative architecture of the building and the multi-award-winning office.

Another exhibition organised by the Friends of the Weissenhof Estate can be seen in a house of the “Beamtensiedlung am Weissenhof” that is only open to the public for a short time. The exhibition deals with the developments in the Weissenhof Estate throughout the upcoming years.

Here is an overview of our program:

EXHIBITION
BARKOW LEIBINGER: IN SITU – WEISSENHOF

Location
Weissenhofwerkstatt im Haus Mies van der Rohe
Am Weissenhof 20, 70191 Stuttgart

Opening
Mon 12 May 2025, 7 pm

Duration and opening hours
Sat, 17 May – Sun, 13 July 2025
Sat, Sun, public holidays 12-17 h
Free admission

EXHIBITION
Future Weissenhof 2027+ What remains? What is coming? What goes?

Location
Haus Jung, Beamtensiedlung am Weissenhof
Am Weissenhof 2, 70191 Stuttgart

Opening
Mon 12 May 2025, 8 pm

Duration and opening hours
Sat, 17 May – Sun, 13 July 2025
Sat, Sun, public holidays 12 – 5 pm
Free admission

GUIDED TOURS
Future Weissenhof 2027+

Date
Sun, 18 May 2025
12 noon, 14 and 16 pm
Duration approx. 45 minutes, without registration, free admission

Meeting point
Weissenhofwerkstatt im Haus Mies van der Rohe
Am Weissenhof 20, 70191 Stuttgart

We would like to thank the City of Stuttgart and the Wüstenrotstiftung for the financial support.