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  Science Fair Projects - Walter Gropius
After this establishment, TAC would become one of the most well known and respected architectual firms in the world.
He was known to have a snappy sense of style and was often seen wearing a bowtie.
Interbau Apartment blocks, 1957, Hansaviertel Berlin, Germany, with TAC and Wils Ebert Photos
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Walter_Gropius   (518 words)

  
 Berlin : Attractions | Frommers.com
The architecture of this area was an outgrowth of the great INTERBAU 1957 (International Builder's Exhibition), when architects from 22 nations designed buildings for the totally destroyed quarter.
Le Corbusier also submitted a design for an apartment house for INTERBAU 1957, but the structure was so gigantic that it had to be built near the Olympic Stadium (U-Bahn: Olympia-Stadion).
This building was conceived as the American contribution to INTERBAU 1957.
www.frommers.com /destinations/berlin/0046010029.html   (938 words)

  
 Berlinale | Service | Venues | Event Venues
It is located in the middle of the Tiergarten park, Berlin’s “green lung”, and was originally used as a convention centre.
The building was the US contribution to the INTERBAU 57 International Building Exhibition and was built according to the plans of Hugh Stubbins, a pupil of Walter Gropius.
In Stubbins’ view, the remarkable roof upheld the promise that there would be no restrictions on the freedom of intellectual work.
www.berlinale.de /en_1/service/spielstaetten/veranstaltungsorte/Veranstaltungsorte.html   (402 words)

  
 House of World Cultures | The Building
The House of World Cultures is located in a building of great architectural and historical interest.
The structure evolved as the United States’ contribution to the International Building Exhibition (INTERBAU) in 1957, which resulted in designs by many prominent architects being executed here in the Tiergarten.
In 1955, Hugh Stubbins started work on a design for a building that would soon become a remarkable landmark in the cityscape of post-war Berlin.
www.hkw.de /en_1/hkw/gebauede/gebaeude.php   (371 words)

  
 www.corbusierhaus.de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On the occasion of the international building fair Interbau, which took place from 6.7.1957 to 29.9.1957 in Berlin, numerous famous architecs where invited to contribute to the rebuilding of the during the second world war heavily destroyed Hansa quarter.
Le Corbusier planned in Berlin an Unité d'Habitation, which is similar to his earlier buildings in Marseille and Nantes-Rezé and his later buildings in Briey en Forêt and Firminy.
So was decided to build Corbusiers building far from the Hansa quarter near to the olympic stadium.
hintz.ifrance.com /en/corbusierhaus/1.html   (114 words)

  
 artnet.com: Resource Library: Fehling, Hermann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was in private practice in Berlin from 1945 until 1953, when he formed a partnership with Daniel Gogel (b 1927), also working with Peter Pfankuch (1925–77), a former assistant to Hans Scharoun until 1958.
Fehling and Gogel made their name in Berlin with the pavilion for the Interbau exhibition (1956–7) at Hansaviertel, Berlin, and by winning second prize in the Berlin Philharmonie competition (1956).
Thereafter came a series of distinctive buildings, including seven private houses, two churches, two parish centres and a student village, as well as housing, shops, offices and exhibitions.
www.artnet.com /library/02/0277/T027743.asp   (182 words)

  
 Flats at Hansaviertel - Alvar Aalto - Great Buildings Online
Built as part of the Interbau Exhibition rehabilitation program, in which Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe also participated.
"The model apartment building in the Hansaviertel was built on the occasion of the Interbau exhibition in Berlin.
This design sought to combine as far as possible the advantages of the private house with its own garden and those of the typical apartment house.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Flats_at_Hansaviertel.html   (247 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The show flat was based on the flats in the block that Aalto was building at the Hansaviertel in Berlin.
A special chair was designed specifically for the terrace and when the apartment was exhibited as a fully furnished show flat at the Interbau exhibition in Berlin, the same chair was again on show there.
This is the only example of the chair that was ever made.
www.alvaraalto.fi /alvar/design/chair/19.htm   (110 words)

  
 Berlin Tour Basics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
You'll begin today with a visit to the Topography of Terror, built on the remains of the former headquarters of the Gestapo, followed by a visit to the largest remaining portion of the Berlin Wall.
You'll then tour West Berlin and the buildings referred to as Interbau 1957, including the Hansaviertel neighborhood, showcasing residential buildings designed by various architects including Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius, and Le Corbusier.
We will break for lunch after a visit to the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt.
www.archetours.com /BERLIN_it_berlinmain.html   (634 words)

  
 House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) - a Gardens Guide review
House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt)
: The building was the United States’ contribution to the International Building Exhibition (Interbau) of 1957, designed by Hugh Stubbins, who had been Walter Gropius’s assistant at Harvard before the Second World War.
The freeform was intended as a symbol of freedom.
www.gardenvisit.com /ge/house_world_cultures.htm   (137 words)

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