International Relations – the title of this exhibition – is to be understood programmatically. The Federal Chamber of German Architects and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations are the initiators of exhibition. The fourteen young architects from Germany featured in the exhibition have risen to the challenges posed by a globalised world increasingly characterised by trends toward standardisation and the destruction of tradition. Their designer answers to these trends take into account people’s real living conditions. The individual character of the respective locations and the local building culture and historical building fabric are given a contemporary interpretation in the architects’ plans.
The exhibition was curated by the Berlin architectural historian Romana Schneider and designed by the Rotterdam designer Ad van der Kouwe. It consists of fourteen entries for a competition aimed at planners aged under forty-five. A five-member jury chaired by Prof. Arno Sighart Schmid, the President of the Federal Chamber of German Architects, selected outstanding projects from the many submissions. These projects offer representative solutions for contemporary challenges in architecture and urban development, taking into account criteria that are indispensable today, such as sustainability, innovative technology and a future-oriented approach.
The Federal Chamber of German Architects had the initiative with the successful cooperation; our partner Deutsche Welle;and the Manifesta office in Rotterdam. With his design for a “global village” Ad van der Kouwe has responded superbly to the themes and content of the exhibition, thereby relating the individual items to each other. Lastly, Romana Schneider has ensured that this exhibition is a major overview of contemporary architecture. And Elke aus dem Moore.
Architects featured in the exhibition
MIR
GRAFT
rheinflügel
plasma studio
GS–architekten
FAR frohn&rojas
KUEHN MALVEZZI
Meuser Architekten
ian shaw architekten
planwerk/plan&werk
Haberland Architekten
behet bondzio lin architekten
MUELLER KNEER ASSOCIATES
Perler und Scheurer Architekten
Levin Monsigny Landschaftsarchitekten
The exhibition was exhibited in next cities.-
(Torino, Italy): UIA Congress UIA 2008
(Padova, Italy): 2008
Vilnius (Lithuania): 2009
Kaunas (Lithuania): 2009
Riga (Latvia): 2009
Ostrava (Czech Republic): 2010
In Spain, 2010.- Gijón, Granada, Malaga, Alcalá...
