Events

Sunday, 3. March, 2 pm
THE MIES VAN DER ROHES. A FEMALE FAMILY SAGA

Director Sabine Gisiger will attend the filmscreening.

An epic family saga told by the women surrounding the famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. His wife Ada, his daughters Georgia, Manna and Traudel and his lover Lilly Reich seize the opportunities of the new era, but also experience the restrictions of old patterns. The golden 20s, the increasingly barbaric 30s and finally war.

Based on private and unpublished archive footage, images and documents, Sabine Gisiger retells the story of the iconic architect Mies van der Rohe – from a female perspective. The celebrated German actress Katharina Thalbach brings Georgia van der Rohe to life – in fictional interviews based on authentic statements.

Admission
The tickets cost 12,- €.
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Venue
Atelier am Bollwerk, Hohe Str. 26, 70176 Stuttgart

Organiser
Weissenhofmuseum/Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung e.V.
Atelier am Bollwerk

Thursday, Februar 22, 2024, 5 p.m.

A symposium on modern architecture in Hungary will be held at the Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Centre Stuttgart to accompany the exhibitions “Experimental Housing Estate Budapest – Model Houses Napraforgó Street” and “Light and Form”. Dr. Raquel Jaureguízar will also look at the influence of German modernism on social housing in Spain in the 1940s and 50s.

The lectures will be held in English.

Welcome address
Anja Krämer (Director of the Weissenhofmuseum im Haus Le Corbusier)

Speakers
Prof. em. András Ferkai: “Model housing estate in Budapest – without any actual effect?”
DLA Àgnes Anna Sebestyén: “The Reception and Press Appearances of Modern Settlements in Interwar Hungary”
Dr. Raquel Jaureguízar: “The Reception of German Modernism in Social Housing in Madrid”

The presentations last 25-30 minutes and their will be a final discussion.

Pause
Dirk Allgaier will present the book “Stahlrohrrevolution” on behalf of arnoldsche Art Publishers.

Location
Liszt-Institut – Ungarisches Kulturzentrum Stuttgart
Christophstr. 7, 70178 Stuttgart

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Lecture

The perception of Tel Aviv’s White City is closely linked to the term “Bauhaus”. It is often used as a synonym for the history of Tel Aviv’s development. Moreover, it is supposed to lend significance to the architectural heritage. In doing so, it obscures the view of the complexity of Tel Aviv’s (architectural) history. And in the German perspective, it also serves as a means of making amends, according to Alexandra Klei.

The lecture will trace these constructions, both in their development and in their functions. Klei will also relate it to the concrete history of the city and its architectural-modern heritage.

Dr. Alexandra Klei is an architectural historian and research associate at the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg. Here she does research about “Jewish Building” between 1945 and 1990 in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the the GDR. In addition, she has dedicated herself for several years to an examination of Tel Aviv’s architectural-modern heritage and its conveyance. Her publication “Wie das Bauhaus nach Tel Aviv kam: Re-Konstruktion einer Idee in Text, Bild und Architektur” was published in 2019 (2nd ed. 2021) by neofelis Verlag in Berlin.

Start: 7 pm
Venue: Vortragsaal Neubau II., Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (Am Weissenhof 1, 70191 Stuttgart)
Please register beforehand by sending a short email to: info@weissenhofmuseum.de

This event is organised in cooperation with the German-Israeli Society Region Stuttgart e.V.

Sunday, September 10, 2023, 10 am – 6 pm:
– Free admission to the Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House.

Sunday, September 10, 2023, 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm and 5 pm:
– Guided tours of the Weissenhof estate

Sunday, September 10, 2023, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
– Spatial installation on the Hermann-Lenz-Höhe: “What remains? What comes? What goes?”
– Coffee, cake and cold drinks on the Hermann-Lenz-Höhe.

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The Weissenhof Estate is a milestone of architectural modernism and was built in 1927 by 17 international architects.
The guided tours (in german language, no interior visits) explain the background of the estate, which has been a listed site since 1958, and the two houses by Le Corbusier, which were additionally inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2016.

Start of the tours: in front of the Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House, Rathenaustr. 1, participation free of charge. Duration approx. 45 minutes.

On the Hermann-Lenz-Höhe (corner of Birkenwaldstraße / Am Kochenhof) you can enjoy coffee, cake or a cold drink while viewing the participatory spatial installation “What remains? What comes? What goes?”. This includes a tower as a sign for the upcoming IBA’27 and an exhibition on the ongoing residential projects of the IBA almost 100 years after the Weissenhof exhibition in 1927.

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Heritage Day
Under the motto TALENT MONUMENT, the Heritage Day is being celebrated nationwide this year, coordinated by the German Foundation for Monument Protection.

The call for tenders for the procedure “New construction of the Visitor and Information Centre for the Weissenhofsiedlung (BIZ)” was published in the EU Official Journal on July 14th, 2023.

Further information as well as the procedure documents for download can be found under the following link:

https://www.dtvp.de/Satellite/notice/CXP4YMZ6QRM/documents

We look forward to your participation and courageous contributions!

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

Fri, June 30th, 2023
“Insight Out – Insights into the Weissenhof estate”, an evening with a pop-up Common Kitchen around the Hermann-Lenz-Höhe

An event of: Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung e.V.

5 – 9 pm

The temporary walk-in installation „Was bleibt? Was kommt? Was geht?“is surrounded by set tables. Members of the “Matriarchal Communal Kitchen” (“Matriarchale Volksküche”) serve food and create a setting for exciting dinner conversations. The focus is on the kitchen, a place of central importance at any home.

While eating and drinking together, short presentations/talks will give impulses for the conversations. What makes a kitchen a good kitchen? Which ideas did the designers realize in the houses of the Weissenhof estate? What memories come to your mind, if you think of kitchens?

Bring along something you associate with kitchens. An object, a picure, or anything else you would like to tell a story about. From the design of your dream-kitchen, old contruction plans to the ladle of your grandmother: there are no boudaries of what to bring along. Your object will be handed around and displayed during the evening.

Location: Hermann-Lenz-Höhe (opposite of Birkenwaldstr. 217), 70191 Stuttgart
limited number of participants: If you are niterested, please register by June 26th, 2023, at the following address: ibakontaktstelle@freunde-weissenhof.de
Cost: Free food, drinks against payment
Bring along: A kitchen picture or another item including a story

Fri, June 23rd, 2023, 4– 8 pm
„Outsight in – view from the Weissenhof estate into the region”

Opeing of an Installation on the Hermann-Lenz-Höhe near the Weissenhof Estate
One of the kick-off events of the IBA’27-Festival #1, organized by Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung e.V. and IBA´27

4 – 6 pm:
IBA-housing projects introduce themselves

The first IBA´27-Festival is starting– and we are joining at the Weissenhof Estate!

The Weissenhof Estate (Weissenhofsiedlung) is one of the most important examples of “Neues Bauen” (“New Objectivity” or “New Building”) in the history of architecture. It was part of a building exhibition held by Deutscher Werkbund together with the city of Stuttgart in 1927.

About 100 years later, the IBA´27 starts it’s first IBA´27-festival exactly here: Architects from seven IBA housing projects present their ideas and plans for living today. And thus build a bridge from the past to the future.

Under trees and the open sky, scaffolding, printed truck tarpuiles and huge red letters, visible from afar, attract people’s attention. The tower is a signal for the IBA´27. You can walk inside the installation and experience it – and at the opening event you can grab a drink and speak with architects of several IBA-projects.

Those involved in the projects are on site and will present and discuss their work with some organizers of the IBA´27, Friends of the Weissenhof Estate and the audience: What is left of the ideas of “New Building”? What differences and parallels are there between yesterday and today? And how can the Weissenhof Estate, an inhabited monument, be developed for the future?

Location: Hermann-Lenz-Höhe (opposite of Birkenwaldstr. 217), 70191 Stuttgart

IBA projects which are presented: Quartier am Rotweg, Quartier Böckinger Straße, Quartier C1, Tobias-Mayer-Quartier, KaepseLE-Goldäcker, Zukunft Münster 2050, Leben in der Vorstadt (Schorndorf), 1927-heute-2027 (Weiterentwicklung Weissenhofsiedlung)

Moderation: Grazyna Adamczyk-Arns (IBA´27), Dr. Raquel Jaureguízar (IBA´27), Suse Kletzin (Freunde)

starting at 6 pm:
Art events alsongside the Gaucherstraße

A green, overgrowm path winds its way from the Hermann-Lenz-Höhe to the Wagenhallen through alotment gardens. A group of performance artists of the Wagenhallen (Florian Feisel) will perform the walking-act “bipolare Nagetierbegleitung”.

Located at the container city of Wagenhallen you can let the evening come to an end with the performance Festival „Performing the Others“ from Martina Wegener.

More IBA’27-Festival#1 kick-off events:

starting at 2 pm: GroundBreaking Stadtgarten
starting at 8.30 pm: Opening of the IBA’27-Festivalzentrale