Only when the investor is a client, the developer is a local planning director, the buyer an owner, the architect a master builder and the property a house, only when the city authorities understand that building culture is more important than jobs at any price, when residents and employees feel like citizens, feel at home, and stay for a long time, do new buildings emerge that also become cities.
German-French Symposium
Learning from IBA? Transformation Strategies in France. IBA Emscher Park (1989-99), an experiment in planning and an illustrative model
A presentation by the M:AI Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurkunst NRW and the Cité d’architecture et du patrimoine within the framework of the exhibition "Projektion Ruhr. IBA Emscher Park – Un Laboratoire urbain".
With the support and participation of the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Building and Transport and as part of the cultural programme "artention - Art and Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia".
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009, 17:00 – 20:30
Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine Auditorium, Paris
Place de Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, Paris 75116
The presentation will be simultaneously translated into German and French.
Theme
Metropolises and metropolitan regions share something in common. They must come to terms with and manage a profound structural transformation: from an industrial society to a globalised service- and knowledge-based society amid conditions that include a drastic demographic shift and dramatic climate changes. New city structures and urban landscapes require planning processes that are tailored to meet these challenges.
Since the beginning of the last century, national and then later international building exhibitions have contributed to the development of an innovative urban- and regional-planning apparatus that has fostered a decisive drive for sustained transformation in specific contexts as well as in consideration of general issues of urban development.
The end of the 1990s witnessed the occurrence of the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition (IBA) in the Ruhr area. More than as the name suggests, the IBA was an impetus for city planning and societal and economic development in the Ruhr area. For the first time ever an entire region was thematised in an IBA.
The implementation of a new culture of planning, the sponsorship of identity-based projects and the reclamation of former industrial lands in the cities of the Ruhr area took centre stage in this IBA. Landscape development as a basis for economically viable spaces, the safeguarding and presentation of industrial buildings as the qualitatively high-value and historically charged architecture of a region and the intercommunal strategies employed in the development of new projects became the distinctive features of the structural transformation programme.
Although IBA Emscher Park ran its course 10 years ago, in 1999, the impulses begun then still affect the region today. And furthermore, this IBA has found both national and international recognition for having ignited a structural transformation through its self-assured and innovative projects. With great interest, indeed, did France observe the planning processes between Emscher and Ruhr. And with equally great interest are the urban reconstruction programmes in Paris, Lille and Ile-de-Nantes watched by the German side, programmes being conducted with knowledge and experience gained in part during the IBA Emscher Park.
Which strategies are now in place in France and Germany, in particular those concerning globalisation and the unavoidable demand for sustainability and resource-efficient solutions? Is there an "IBA lesson" and which approaches are today both feasible and future-oriented?
Experts from both countries are invited to present and discuss approaches to these themes.
Theme
Metropolises and metropolitan regions share something in common. They must come to terms with and manage a profound structural transformation: from an industrial society to a globalised service- and knowledge-based society amid conditions that include a drastic demographic shift and dramatic climate changes. New city structures and urban landscapes require planning processes that are tailored to meet these challenges.
Since the beginning of the last century, national and then later international building exhibitions have contributed to the development of an innovative urban- and regional-planning apparatus that has fostered a decisive drive for sustained transformation in specific contexts as well as in consideration of general issues of urban development.
The end of the 1990s witnessed the occurrence of the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition (IBA) in the Ruhr area. More than as the name suggests, the IBA was an impetus for city planning and societal and economic development in the Ruhr area. For the first time ever an entire region was thematised in an IBA.
The implementation of a new culture of planning, the sponsorship of identity-based projects and the reclamation of former industrial lands in the cities of the Ruhr area took centre stage in this IBA. Landscape development as a basis for economically viable spaces, the safeguarding and presentation of industrial buildings as the qualitatively high-value and historically charged architecture of a region and the intercommunal strategies employed in the development of new projects became the distinctive features of the structural transformation programme.
Although IBA Emscher Park ran its course 10 years ago, in 1999, the impulses begun then still affect the region today. And furthermore, this IBA has found both national and international recognition for having ignited a structural transformation through its self-assured and innovative projects. With great interest, indeed, did France observe the planning processes between Emscher and Ruhr. And with equally great interest are the urban reconstruction programmes in Paris, Lille and Ile-de-Nantes watched by the German side, programmes being conducted with knowledge and experience gained in part during the IBA Emscher Park.
Which strategies are now in place in France and Germany, in particular those concerning globalisation and the unavoidable demand for sustainability and resource-efficient solutions? Is there an "IBA lesson" and which approaches are today both feasible and future-oriented?
Experts from both countries are invited to present and discuss approaches to these themes.
