“in 1979 josef paul kleihues has been appointed director of the iba. he organised the exhibition along two distinct themes: iba alt aimed to explore methods of ‘careful urban renewal’, and iba neu for experimenting ‘critical reconstruction’. he invited many international architects including peter eisenman, vittorio gregotti, herman hertzberger, hans hollein, arata isozaki, rob krier, aldo rossi and james stirling. consequently the iba was called by time magazine ‘the most ambitious showcase of world architecture in this generation’.”
23/08/2012 § 1 Comment
hans kollhoff, iba housing project
okay, last image taken from the de singel website. promise. but i recommend paging through their flickr feed. there are some great images out there, such as this r&sie(n) project.
as for the above image, i couldn’t help post hans kollhoff’s housing proposal, a modest and introverted structure compared to the rest of the boisterous iba proposals and projects.
critical reconstruction
a young hare
notes:
[title] comes from this iba wiki entry.
[image] as stated above, the image comes from the de singel flickr feed. check it out!
[...] of introverted buildings. across from hans kollhoff’s iba project, is the neuer pavilion by schinkel. its a square structure that sits well behaved at the eastern [...]