Revitalization by Reconciliation Newspaper

15. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura Eventi Collaterali STRATEGIES FOR TRANSFORMING CROSS-BORDER REGIONS Revitalization by Reconciliation is more than an exhibition. Beyond being a platform for shared knowledge, it is a laboratory for strategic interventions based on an integrated approach for urban development, social cohesion and renewed civic participation. The exhibition invites the public audience to explore how spatial design can challenge a new IBA LEGACY vision for European Regions, by reconciling fragmented territorial layers and historical frames IBA Germany into a revitalized meaningful unity. In that sense the Querini Stampalia Foundation stands as a symbol. As Scarpa’s architecture reworked the existing EUREGION MEUSE-RHINE space, “Revitalization by Reconciliation” composes territories in a comparable way. IN TRANSITION By presenting the Dutch approach and the border IBA Parkstad and indeland as interface, between land and water or between nations, curator Jo Coenen considers that “Reporting from the Front” is the right stage to reflect on COASTAL PERSPECTIVES overcoming constraints of the crisis, thinking beyond the dichotomy of top-down and bottom-up solutions. AND INNOVATIVE The initiative will result into a contribution to the DEVELOPMENTS European Week for Regions and Cities in Bruxelles, in North Holland at the moment the European Commission is looking for efficient models for urban development. The current cross border projects in Netherlands STUDENT are presented in the exhibition supported by INTERNATIONAL an historical overview of the IBA phenomenon (Internationale Bauausstellung). STUDIO EVENTS RECONCILIATION REVITALISATION BY 1 THE ART OF BLENDING Jo Coenen concludes that The ®MIT research programme, during the past few decades with Jo Coenen as scientific we have been subjected to an director, stands at the epicentre unpredicted dynamic process of of the current debate in social and cultural change due architecture and construction. to such factors as digitalisation, The transformation of existing globalisation, commercialisation, buildings now accounts for IBA LEGACY individualisation, and the around two thirds of architectural like. This is associated with an activities, from the renovation 1901– TODAY enormous need for novelty and of private dwellings up to at the same time with a strong complex assignments with regard need for security and the growth to integral city renewal. The of organisations dedicated to the fundamental change of the set preservation collide violently with of assignments of the architect one another, while if they worked and the growing complexity of INTERNATIONALE 1901 MATHILDENHÖHE DARMSTADT together they could produce the professional practice require BAUAUSSTELLUNG magnificent results. It is important a new form of engineer’s art: the 1927 WEISSENHOFSIEDLUNG STUTTGART to think in terms of both art of blending. A GERMAN METHOD 1952-1956 STALINALLEE transformation and continuity; to think about the existing and of Inaugural lecture delivered on April 19, 2006 by Prof. Ir. Jo Coenen on his IBA is a concept that has built up a 1957 INTERBAU ways to graft strains successfully acceptance of the chair of Professor of great reputation in Germany. IBA on to it. Restoration in the Faculty of Architecture at 1984-1987 IBA BERLIN Delft University of Technology. (Internationale Bauausstellung - International Building Exhibition) 1989-1999 IBA EMSCHER PARK began at the start of the 20th 2000-2010 IBA FÜRST-PÜCKLER-LAND century as an exhibition for modern 2000-2010 IBA STADTUMBAU SACHSEN ANHALT architecture, but has since grown into a powerful creative model that 2006-2013 IBA HAMBURG provides a significant economic, 2010-2020 IBA BASEL social, and cultural impetus within regions aiming at transition or 2013-2020 IBA PARKSTAD transformation, such as Parkstad. IBA 2012-2022 IBA HEIDELBERG FROM LOCAL symbolizes the high-quality projects 2013-2023 IBA THÜRINGEN that make a significant contribution to TO TRANSNATIONAL this transformation and transition. ASPIRING STUTTGART AND VIENNA STRATEGIES REVITALIZATION BY RECONCILIATION 1901 MATHILDENHÖHE Creating an artists’ colony In 1899, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig founded the artists’ colony Europe is the relevant and necessary scale at in the Mathildenhöhe. He invited various artists to work together to develop and implement forward-thinking ideas which to think our future. Citizens, politicians, about construction, housing, and society. Within just two years and designers carry a transnational claim for (in May 1901) an exhibition opened in Darmstadt entitled ‘Ein Dokument Deutscher Kunst’ (a Document on German Culture). democracy and new ideas in spatial design. This was the first architectural exhibition to gain an international By Yvette Masson-Zanussi reputation as a product of the ‘Arts and Crafts Movement’. THE IBA METHOD of their outcomes, limit them reconciliation is particularly require new visions and flexible order to adapt to unpredictable It must be considered by cross to their specific area. However, revealing of the horizontal links processes. By inspiring beyond circumstances. While the current cutting research programmes once networked, they show the that are being experimented their local context, it expresses approach advocates innovation in order to demonstrate which emergence of a real movement throughout Europe. Thus, it is what would also be the highest by insisting on constant renewal new processes are adapted that faces common needs, and at the European level that this form of a share knowledge of practices that are doomed to contemporary needs and tackles contemporary difficulties phenomenon needs to be read platform, in a time when Europe to obsolescence, research aspirations. Faced with the of architectural and spatial and theorised. The Venice Event is being questioned. There must connect actors across inadequacy of usual top down design. The IBA method provide and IBA Studio proposals not must be room for research and Europe who undertake a form of solutions, regional and cross evidence of the possibility of a only reflect the questioning of experimentation in the design of multipolar action that responds border initiatives in Europe are transnational process working the political, social, economic, living environments, to build on to regional concerns, inventing inventive. They question old towards the construction of a cultural and ecological dimension what Bourdieu has called “cultural new means; thus to create a processes, divert paths and common good, in which research of IBA method in cities and capital”, in other words the sum possibility for mutual inspiration. bypass obstacles, meanwhile must contribute, for two reasons. territories, but also the aim to of all non-financial social assets Networked, experiences can empowering citizens, researchers, First, because their experimental ease the way for replication in of societies (Bourdieu 1979) as provide research with a common and professionals to design mechanisms, once discussed at similar contexts. The process a lever for innovative urban and ground of European scale that innovative answers for future a European level, are a valuable launched at Biennale Architettura political design in local, national can be a testing ground for lifestyles. The IBA method resource for the academic 2016 objective is not a simple and cross border governance possible futures. This is what the embodies visionary thinking, debate informed by common best practice exchanges, but frameworks. Where common top- European Union is eager to, at creates fluidity by bending and denominators. And then, in order to find a place into the political down trends aim at optimizing this moment of the Netherlands tweaking the rigidity of usual to be visible and effective, to debate that should include new practices that have been Presidency of the Council of the design procedures, and is an make one’s voice heard, these readings and new accounts, as considered effective, research European Union is embarking example of such a phenomenon. strategies must be promoted well as the possibility for political and experimentation can think for the first time of its History The regional dimension of IBA’s by structuring a network. The and academic collaborations of radically new practice. Indeed, Cities and Urban Authorities with initiatives might suggest that their revitalization of depressed at European scale simply our living environment demands operational programmes, titled relevant scale, and the scope urban and regional areas by because contemporary issues that we develop our capacities in the Pact of Amsterdam. Entryway structures at the Artists’ Colony in Mathildenhöhe, 1901 2 3 1927 WEISSENHOF SETTLEMENT 1957 INTERBAU Modernism Propaganda and education In 1927, an exhibition on housing was held in Stuttgart ‘Interbau 57’ was a propaganda tool and a prestige project under the auspices of the Deutscher Werkbund. The aimed at demonstrating the West’s superiority over its eastern aim was to exhibit new types of home for the first time neighbours. The further aim of the project was to familiarize at both national and international level. Seventeen post-war architects with the new ideals of modern international internationally-renowned architects from five European architecture. The Hansaviertel area is nowadays an architectural nations – all representing the modernist style – were statement of modern reclamation work, underpinned by a commissioned by artistic director Ludwig Mies van der purely

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