An Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) or International Architecture Exhibition is a German device for

urban engineering Municipal or urban engineering applies the tools of science, art and engineering in an urban environment. Municipal engineering is concerned with municipal infrastructure. This involves specifying, designing, constructing, and maintaining street ...

and

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

, in order to show new concepts in terms of social, cultural and ecologic ideas.

History

* The first one dates to 1901 and was held in

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

. * In 1913, there was an IBA on the site of today`s Alte Messe in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

. * IBA '57 was organised in Berlin. * 1979–87 IBA Berlin was an urban renewal project which followed the strategies of "careful urban renewal" and "

critical reconstruction Critical Reconstruction is a theory of architecture and urbanism originally developed by the Berlin architect Josef Paul Kleihues. It was first applied in Berlin's International Building Exhibition in the 1980s, and was subsequently used in the r ...

". The program inspired the formation of the group

Feministische Organisation von Planerinnen und Architektinnen Feministische Organisation von Planerinnen und Architektinnen (Feminist Architects and Planners Organisation or FOPA) is an organisation working to address gender issues in the built environment generally and among professionals active in this field ...

(Feminist Architects and Planners Organisation or FOPA), who objected to its failure to adequately address women-specific issues and involve female designers. * 1989–99 IBA Emscher Park aimed at restructuring a former industrial region, the

Ruhr The Ruhr ( ; german: Ruhrgebiet , also ''Ruhrpott'' ), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population density of 2,800/km ...

, by sparking urbanistic, architectural, cultural, and economic incentives.

Current

* 2027 Stuttgart www.IBA27.de * 2012–20 IBA Parkstad is the first IBA to be held completely outside of Germany, in the former mining region of

Parkstad Limburg Parkstad Limburg (; Ripuarian and li, Parksjtad Limburg ) is a conurbation of eight municipalities in the southern part of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands. Consisting Heerlen, Kerkrade, Landgraaf, Brunssum, Simpelveld, Voerendaal, ...

in the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

. Currently at least 39 projects have been chosen to develop further.

References

* Bärbel Rechenbach: „Vom Bergmann zum Seemann – Die Lausitz wandelt sich vom Tagebauland zur Kulturlandschaft.“ TIEFBAU 5/2007, S. 276–284 * „IBA HAMBURG - Entwürfe für die Zukunft der Metropole“, Band 1: „Metropole: Reflexion“, JOVIS Verlag, Berlin 2007, * „IBA HAMBURG - Entwürfe für die Zukunft der Metropole“, Band 2: „Metropole: Ressourcen“, JOVIS Verlag, Berlin 2008, * „IBA HAMBURG - Entwürfe für die Zukunft der Metropole“, Band 3: "Metropole: Bilden", JOVIS Verlag, Berlin 2009, * Sally Below, Moritz Henning, Heike Oevermann: ''Die Berliner Bauausstellungen – Wegweiser in die Zukunft?'' Regioverlag, Berlin 2009, * Zur Zukunft Internationaler Bauausstellungen, Netzwerk "IBA meets IBA", IBA Hamburg (Hg.), JOVIS Verlag 2010, * Karl Ganser: ''Liebe auf den zweiten Blick. Internationale Bauausstellung Emscher Park.'' Harenberg, Dortmund 1999, {{ISBN, 3-611-00824-9

External links

Research initiative IBA 87
in German
A review on IBA specifications
in French Architecture festivals Urban planning in Germany Festivals in Germany

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