Discover great housing projects of the international building exhibition
In the heart of Berlin, right next to the Tiergarten, you can discover international exhibition architecture. The architecture of the 1950s is anything but outdated: architects came up with brilliant ideas here—from tiny apartments to clever solutions spanning multiple floors.
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Architekturführung Hansaviertel
Architekturführung Hansaviertel
This large post-war urban complex, together with Karl-Marx-Allee, is on its way to becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Both large-scale complexes represent different political systems that, in various ways, implemented housing construction at the highest level.
The buildings of Interbau 1957, designed by over 50 renowned architects, were experimental and innovative. The Hansaviertel celebrated the revival of international modernism. To this day, one finds sophisticated floor plans here spanning the entire spectrum of communal living—from private bungalows and rows of townhouses to life in high-rises.
Selected Projects
- Residential buildings by Oscar Niemeyer | Walter Gropius | Arne Jacobsen | Sep Ruf | Alvar Aalto | van den Broek and Bakema | Egon Eiermann and many others
- Eternit House by Paul Baumgarten
- Giraffe House by Gerhard Siegmann
- Hansabibliothek by Werner Düttmann
- Academy of Arts on Hanseatenweg by Werner Düttmann
- Berlin Pavilion Hermann Fehling, Daniel Gogel, and Peter Pfankuch
✓ Architecture tour led by Berlin architects
✓ Program in German
Meeting point: Berlin Pavilion, now Burger King, at the Tiergarten S-Bahn station
