Symposium Berlin plant. Stunde Null

It is dedicated to the multidimensional nature of the collective plan and its origins, which were linked to “Hour Zero” and the urgent demands for a radical social fresh start. In 1946, the collective plan was at the cutting edge of urban planning and, at the same time, ahead of its time.

Drawing on the current state of research, the presentations explore the planning models that served as references, hidden biographical networks before, during, and after the Nazi era, as well as the differing histories of reception in East and West Berlin.

The groundbreaking urban and architectural, ecological, urban landscape, and participatory impulses of the Collective Plan will be examined in depth. Reflecting on a past future opens up a discourse—looking both backward and forward—on this society’s current capacity for action and renewal, and on the question: Where to?

With Michael Augustin, Ralf Bock, Greg Castillo, Andrea Contursi, Simone Hain, Christa Kamleithner, Christina Lindemann, Philipp Oswalt, Hansjörg Schneider, Axel Zutz, moderated by Thomas Flierl

Program

1:00 p.m.

A Plan Like No Other Before. The Collective Plan of 1946 and the Exhibition Project Berlin Plans. First Report as a Recollection and Invitation to Discussion

Introduction by Hansjörg Schneider, artist, Berlin

1:30 p.m.

berlin (1993)

Poem by Michael Augustin, author, Bremen

2:00 PM

Urban Planning in the Context of Non-Utopian Postwar Orders: Hans Scharoun’s Unrealized Urban Ideals for Berlin and Walter Gropius’ Abandoned Plan for the Redevelopment of Frankfurt/Main

Lecture by Greg Castillo, Professor of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley

2:30 p.m.

The Reception of the 1946 Collective Plan in East and West

Lecture by Simone Hain, Professor of History of Architecture and Planning, Berlin

3:00 PM

Urban Development and Planning at the Bauhaus (Bauhaus, MASCH, and CIAM Analysis Berlin)

Lecture by Andrea Contursi, architect and researcher, studio_MMSD, Düren

4:00 PM

The Collective. Biographical Networks

Lecture by Simone Hain, Professor of History of Architecture and Planning, Berlin

4:30 p.m.

Green Berlin. The Urban-Landscape Concept of Reinhold Lingner and the Kollektivplan

Lecture by Axel Zutz, landscape architect, garden and planning historian, Berlin

5:00 PM

Hans Scharoun. Building for Democracy – Shaping an Open Society

Lecture by Ralf Bock, architect and author, BauWerkStadt, Vienna

5:30 p.m.

The Lingering Influence of the Collective Plan in GDR Urban Planning Up to the General Development Plan for Berlin / GDR

Lecture by Christina Lindemann, architect and urban planner, Werkstadt, Berlin

6:15 PM

P.L.A.N. (How do we plan in the Anthropocene, how do we plan in Berlin?)

Discussion with Simone Hain (Professor of History of Architecture and Planning, Berlin), Christa Kamleithner (Architectural historian and cultural studies scholar, Art History Institute at the University of Zurich), Philipp Oswalt (Professor of Architectural Theory and Design, University of Kassel)

Moderator: Thomas Flierl (Architectural and Planning Historian, Berlin)

• Free admission, no registration required