Info lounge and exhibition "Berlin Modernist Housing Estates".
In July 2008, six social housing projects from the 1920s were jointly registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Sites entitled "Berlin Modernist Housing Estates". They symbolize the social, economic and political environment of the emerging modern movement in Europe and provide historical answers to questions that still arise in many European metropolises today: How do we want to live? How can we make living space worth living in? What can politics contribute to this?
Image gallery
Türen und Eingänge im UNESCO-Welterbe Hufeisensiedlung
Triennale-Festivalzentrale BHR OX bauhaus reuse
The erection of these housing estates is considered to be Berlin's most important contribution to international architectural history. This is why, a bilingual (German + English) travelling exhibition has been designed with further details about the six UNESCO-listed estates and historical links to the emerging modernism and the Bauhaus movement:
- 1. Gartenstadt Falkenberg (1913 – 16)
[Falkenberg Garden City] - 2. Siedlung Schillerpark (1924 – 30)
[Schillerpark Estate] - 3. Großsiedlung Britz/Hufeisensiedlung (1925 – 30)
[Large Housing Estate Britz / Horseshoe Estate] - 4. Wohnstadt Carl Legien (1928 – 30)
[Carl Legien Housing Estate] - 5. Weiße Stadt Reinickendorf (1929 – 31)
[White City Reinickendorf - 6. Großsiedlung Siemensstadt (1929 – 34)
[Siemensstadt Large Housing Estate]
Additional information
The easily transportable exhibition is bilingual (in German + English) and consists of a set of comprehensively illustrated exhibition boards and banners, which will then wander through the various districts and other European centres of Neues Bauen. It has a modular structure and can create cross-references to the ideas and architectural history of local counterparts in other cities, special anniversaries or similar cross-sectional themes by means of additional theme boards. The exhibition was supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe within the framework of the European Cultural Heritage Year and the Sharing Heritage programme. Deutsche Wohnen SE, which now owns a large part of the collection, contributed further third-party funds.
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Accessibility
Located on the central island of the roundabout at Ernst-Reuter-Platz, stair climbing required.
