Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer: Law and Freedom
Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer: Law and Freedom
Even when he was searching for the "eternal laws of architecture" and imparting them to his students, Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer still allowed himself the freedom to interpret architecture. For many eventful decades he put his stamp on baukultur and found a design vocabulary in it that was influential for the re-orientation after WWII and in particular from the 1960s. In 2008 his work was presented in an exhibition in Düsseldorf.
Scharoun. School. Town.
Scharoun. School. Town.
Hans Scharoun's method of dealing with space in relation to children can be easily understood through the school in Westfalenstrasse in Marl, which he designed and which was completed in 1979: the rooms for the smallest children are straightforward and full of nooks and crannies. The classrooms for the upper years have a clear, rational design vocabulary. And successive meetings with those of the same age and finally joint experiences are applied again and again in this building. Learning from this building – this was the approach of an exhibition in 2008 and the school foyer.
Werner Ruhnau: Space, play and the arts
Werner Ruhnau: Space, play and the arts
Hardly any other architect of his generation has shaped the term "baukunst" more than Werner Ruhnau: architecture, visual art and technology in a creative dialogue. In his work, Ruhnau continuously initiated the opening up of disciplines to one another, their interplay and had them flow into his work. In his works, as a wanderer between the worlds of the free arts he saw himself always as an administrator and director. In 2007 an exhibition paid tribute to the architect's life work.
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Oswald Mathias Ungers
Oswald Mathias Ungers
M:AI and the journal archplus are the publishers of a special architectural history collection. Volume 179 of archplus is completely under the sign of the architectural theory of Oswald Mathias Ungers: the special edition shows extensive materials from his Berlin lectures in the years 1964-65.
Projection Ruhr – IBA Emscher Park, un laboratoire urbain
Projection Ruhr – IBA Emscher Park, un laboratoire urbain
Paris takes a look at the Ruhr region: production by the IBA Emscher Park in the Cité d’architecture et du patrimoine in Paris. M:AI decided on an unusual way of enabling visitors to experience the complexity of these processes of change. Conceptual artist Mischa Kuball showcases the region’s metamorphosis using his chosen medium - light. A “stream” of image projections develops.
IBA meets IBA in Hamburg
IBA meets IBA in Hamburg
The IBA Hamburg, which will be realised until 2013 on the Wilhelmsburg island in the Elbe, was the occasion to look back in an exhibition to 100 years of the history of the very different international building exhibitions (IBA), to their contemporary objectives, approaches and significance for town planning, architecture and urban society.
IBA meets IBA in Basel
IBA meets IBA in Basel
"IBA meets IBA" was conceived from the start as a changing travelling exhibition:
after the start in Hamburg the project stopped off in Basel on its journey through Europe and came across the lively discussion on the opportunities and chances for a first trinational IBA in 2020.
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