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    Hansaviertel Berlin – A Pocket Guide To Interbau 57 / Bürgerverein Hansaviertel e.V. (Editor)

    What visitors to the Hansaviertel see today was once the “city of tomorrow”. Berlin’s Hansaviertel is not just a popular neighborhood in the green heart of Germany’s capital, it is also an intact ensemble of architecture and landscaping characteristic of German post-war modernism. Created within the framework of the Internationale Bauausstellung, or Interbau 1957, it was listed as a heritage site in 1995, and in 2012 was nominated by the Berlin Senate for UNESCO’s list of World Cultural Heritage Sites thanks to an initiative by local residents.
    Since its foundation in 2004, the association Bürgerverein Hansaviertel e.V. has been spearheading efforts to promote and protect the quarter. With the aim of maintaining the “city of tomorrow” in the spirit of its creators, the association, thanks to the expertise of its members and cooperation partners, has done a great deal towards promoting the preservation of the neighborhood’s architecture and landscaping, gathering information about the neighborhood, and contributing to its public representation and its vitality.
    This book is one result of our work. This compact architectural guide to Interbau 57 deals with the historical development, urban planning, and architecture of the Hansaviertel. With explanations of the individual buildings, brief biographies of the architects, and an overview of the landscape planners and artists who participated in Interbau 57, we would like to highlight the special features of the ensemble that may not be noticed at first glance.
    ISBN 978-3-00-056773-5 / 16,90€

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    Wohnlabor Hansaviertel – Stories from the city of tomorrow / Lidia Tirri

    The Berlin Hansaviertel is regarded as an architectural showcase of post-war West German modernism. But what is it like to live behind the facades? The Italian photographer Lidia Tirri addresses this question, along with nine journalists of international origin. Seventeen residents of the Hansaviertel tell their own stories about living in the “city of tomorrow”. We get to hear from them in the intimate ambience of their apartment. These lively portraits in words and pictures give a unique insight into the hitherto hidden inner life of this world-renowned architecture.
    ISBN 978-3-9809-6556-9 / 19,80€

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    Taut & Hoffmann in Berlin / Ulrike Eichhorn

    Their high-quality classical modernist architecture, their formal language, the floor plans of their apartments and the urban planning figures of their housing estates became models for the entire 20th century. The architects not only responded to the housing shortage after the First World War, they created modern, affordable apartments with kitchens, bathrooms and balconies, not in houses with backyards and side wings, but with light, air and sun and at the highest architectural level.
    The 36-page guide invites you to follow the architects’ and their families’ paths through life and to track down one or two projects in Berlin and the surrounding area that are considered jewels of modernity hidden in the cityscape, which itself has since changed.
    An overview map with a list of the buildings and more than 60 pictures complete the biographies.
    ISBN 978-3-8442-8120-0 / 8,00€

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    Oscar Niemeyer in Berlin / Ulrike Eichhorn

    In the middle of the 20th century, Oscar Niemeyer, the world-famous Brazilian architect and pioneer of modern Brazilian architecture, designed a high-rise residential building in Berlin that was planned as part of the International Building Exhibition. It is the only building in Germany constructed by Niemeyer.
    Throughout his life, the architect rejected authorship of this building. This small guide traces the architectural history of the building and allows visitors to participate in the development of a design whose execution raises questions.
    ISBN 978-3-8442-6954-3 / 5,00 €

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    Law and Freedom – The Architect Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer / Karin Wilhelm and Olaf Gisbertz

    Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer (1907–1990) shaped the architecture of the Federal Republic of Germany. Already successful in the Braunschweig region in the 1930s, his internationally acclaimed career began with the elegant school, industrial, office, banking and cultural buildings designed in the post-war International Style. The Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt-Höchst, the Hochschulforum in Braunschweig, the Landeszentralbank in Düsseldorf and the conversion of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel are all examples of the quality of an architecture that was geared to international developments in Scandinavia and the USA. With Mies van der Rohe, Kraemer combined a commitment to clear form with a minimalist, classic architectural language. This volume is the first to present Kraemer’s work in an extensive documentation. Partners as well as pupils have their say; individual studies of architectural and cultural criticism further develop aspects of his approach to design, which found its own way between tradition and modernization.
    ISBN 978-3-939633-20-4 / 39,80 €

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    The Hansaviertel – Icon of Modernity / Stefanie Schulz, Carl-Georg Schulz

    The Hansaviertel in Berlin is the prime example of a radical and comprehensive urban renewal of a bourgeois residential quarter of the imperial era. The modern architectural principles of light, air and sun, as well as the separation of living, working, recreation and traffic based on the Athens Charter, are manifested here.
    On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the volume traces the emergence of the new Hansaviertel as an architectural achievement of Interbau 1957 and deals with the housing policy, urban development and sociological discussions that accompanied this important building exhibition. The individual objects are expertly presented and documented with historical and contemporary images and plans.
    ISBN 978-3-9387-8013-8 / 19,90 €

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    The old Hansaviertel in Berlin / Bertram Janiszewski
    (currently out of stock)

    The old Hansa quarter in Berlin, adjacent to Schloss and Park Bellevue, bordered by the Spree and Tiergarten, was conceived as a bourgeois residential quarter in a development plan dating from 1874 and was built in the following two decades.
    Completely destroyed in the Second World War, it is now almost forgotten. Famous imperial architects such as Ihne, Grisebach, Messel, Solf and Wichards had built the first Hansa-Viertel (Hansa-quarter). Today we find here the post-war buildings of Aalto, Gropius, Eiermann and others.
    High-ranking military and civil servants, noble families, rich merchants and bankers, including many of Jewish origin, artists in large numbers, rentiers, governesses and maids lived in the first quarter.
    Architectural photographs discovered in archives and libraries and collected by the author provide a general picture of the former elegant quarter. They show stately and bourgeois houses and are at the same time a magnificent gallery of Berlin historicism at the end of the 19th century, as well as a contribution to the architectural history of this important period.
    ISBN 978-3-8638-6727-0 / 19,95 €

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    The architect Hugh Stubbins / Steffen De Rudder

    Hugh Stubbins, who began his long career as assistant to Walter Gropius at Harvard, is undoubtedly one of the most important international architects of post-war modernism. His high-rise buildings, in particular the Citicorp Building in New York, helped him to world fame. He also left behind an example of his skills in Germany: the Berlin Congress Hall of 1957. The fascinating history of this expressive symbol of post-war modernism illustrates how political statements were made through architecture at that time. The book is devoted not only to the development and construction of this unique building, but also to the diverse oeuvre of the American architect.
    ISBN 978-3-9396-3323-5  / 32,00 €

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    Karl-Marx-Allee and Interbau 1957 / Edited by Prof. Dr. Jörg Haspel, Thomas Flierl, Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Hermann-Henselmann-Stiftung

    In urban planning, the history of a community is mostly reflected in a juxtaposition of different neighborhoods that are shaped by the spirit of their respective epochs. The fact that within one city there are ensembles from one and the same period, which are to be understood as a kind of building rivalry, is a trademark of Berlin, the formerly divided German capital. Two listed ensembles stand for this “double Berlin” in a unique way: the street of Karl-Marx-Allee in the eastern part of the city, built in the 1950s, and the Hansaviertel in the west, built for the International Building Exhibition in 1957.
    ISBN 978-3-9458-8024-1 / 19,90 €

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