Interbau was a

housing Housing, or more generally, living spaces, refers to the construction and housing authority, assigned usage of houses or buildings individually or collectively, for the purpose of Shelter (building), shelter. Housing ensures that members of so ...

development, constructed as part of the 1957 International Building Exhibition in the

Hansaviertel The Hansaviertel () is the smallest ''Ortsteil'' (district) of Berlin and is between Großer Tiergarten and the Spree River, within the central Mitte borough of Berlin. The district was almost completely destroyed during World War II but was ...

area of

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. The overall plan was managed by Otto Bartning, and the urban design competition was won by Gerhard Jobst and Willy Kreuer, whose plans were later executed in a modified form. Working within constraints of size, layout and cost, forty-eight architects designed a huge range of accommodation, both low- and high-rise, with many permutations in

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Architects

Contributing architects included: *

Alvar Aalto Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, s ...

* Jacob Bakema * Paul Baumgarten *

Luciano Baldessari Luciano Baldessari (1896–1982) was an Italian artist, architect and designer. Baldessari was born on 10 December 1896 in Rovereto, Italy. In 1913, Baldessari began his career as a visual artist after studying in the Scuola Reale Elisabettiana. ...

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...

Werner Düttmann Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Ra ...

* Wils Ebert *

Egon Eiermann Egon Eiermann (29 September 1904 – 20 July 1970) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a furniture designer. From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at the Technical University ...

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one ...

* Arne Jacobsen * Fritz Jaenicke and Sten Samuelson *

Gustav Hassenpflug Gustav, Gustaf or Gustave may refer to: *Gustav (name), a male given name of Old Swedish origin Art, entertainment, and media * ''Primeval'' (film), a 2007 American horror film * ''Gustav'' (film series), a Hungarian series of animated short cart ...

* Günter Hönow * Ludwig Lemmer * Wassili Luckhardt *

Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was ...

* Godber Nissen * Sep Ruf *

Otto Senn Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', '' Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded ...

* Hans Scharoun * Franz Schuster * Hugh Stubbins * Max Taut * Pierre Vago * Jo van den Broek

Gallery

File:Hansa4tel 5a.jpg, High-rise slab housing ("Walter-Gropius-Haus") designed by

File:Hansa4tel 4a.jpg, High-rise apartments by

(left) and Jo van den Broek and Jacob Bakema (right) File:Hansaviertel Niemeyer 2008.jpg, Housing by

File:DBPB 1957 160 Interbau.jpg, postage stamp for the International Building Exhibition

References

External links

Official website of the BIE
Residential buildings completed in 1957 Buildings and structures in Berlin Housing in Germany {{Berlin-struct-stub

Architects

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See also

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