Friends of the Weissenhof Estate
In July 1977, a small circle of friends convened at the Weissenhof Estate to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Werkbund Exhibition in Stuttgart. They decided to campaign for the restoration of the buildings that had fallen into disrepair.
In July 1977, a small circle of friends convened at the Weissenhof Estate to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Werkbund Exhibition in Stuttgart. They decided to campaign for the restoration of the buildings that had fallen into disrepair.
On November 17th,1979, the non-profit organization Friends of the Weissenhof Estate was officially registered. The first board included Bodo Rasch, Mia Seeger and Frei Otto. The friends continue to be active on issues of renovation while sharing their historical knowledge of the Estate and its significance. Since 2006, the organization runs the Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House. While presenting exhibitions along with a cultural program in the Weissenhof Werkstatt, within the Mies van der Rohe House.
Commissioned by the Friends of the Weissenhofsiedlung, the artists are developing a site-specific work. Based on Richard Döcker's building at Bruckmannweg 10 in the Weissenhofsiedlung, which was destroyed in 1944, their project illuminates the (in)visibility of monuments in urban space and the urban planning of post-war modernism from a feminist perspective.
Friends of the Weissenhof Estate's events
09. September 2021 / 00:00 — 00:00
COOPERATIONS
with abk – Stuttgart / Classes of Koch & Mosler, Agency Apéro, perfect.a.n.d.beautiful, HP BLUME, Atelier Ameisenberg / Werkstatthaus, BUREAU BAUBOTANIK, Friends of the Weissenhof Estate, IBA`27 – StadtRegion Stuttgart, IGmA – Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (Design and Theory), HABITAT, IMAGINE THE CITY, Institut français, Kinderwerkstatt – Künstlerhaus Stuttgart e.V., The Kunstbuero of the Kunststiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg, Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V., HFT Stuttgart – Faculty of Architecture and Design, MATTER OF, Stadtlücken e.V., SuE (Chair of Urban Planning and Design) – University of Stuttgart, THEATRE OF THE LONG NOW → Stuttgart ↗︎
10. September 2021 / 19:00 — 22:00
brāhha – Opening
with Friends of the Weissenhof Estate, Ann-Kathrin Müller & Julia Schäfer → Bruckmannweg 10 ↗︎
11. September 2021 / 00:00 — 00:00
brāhha
with Friends of the Weissenhof Estate, Ann-Kathrin Müller & Julia Schäfer → Bruckmannweg 10 ↗︎
12. September 2021 / 20:00 — 22:00