Interbau was a housing development, constructed as part of the 1957 International Building Exhibition (IBA '57) in the Hansaviertel

Hansaviertel

The Hansaviertel is a small locality between Großer Tiergarten park and the Spree river within the central Mitte borough of Berlin...

 area of West Berlin

West Berlin

West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...

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Working within constraints of size, layout and cost, forty-eight architects designed a huge range of accommodation, both low-

Low-rise

A low-rise is a building that is only a few stories tall.There is no universally accepted height requirement for a building to be considered a low-rise...

 and high-rise, with many permutations in plan

Plan

A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with timing and resources, used to achieve an objective. See also strategy. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal...

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Contributing architects included:

• Alvar Aalto
  Alvar Aalto
  Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware...
  
  
• Jacob Bakema
• Paul Baumgarten
• Luciano Baldessari
• Le Corbusier
  Le Corbusier
  Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...
  
  
• Werner Düttmann
• Wils Ebert
• Egon Eiermann
  Egon Eiermann
  Egon Eiermann was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century....
  
  
• Walter Gropius
  Walter Gropius
  Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
  
  
• Arne Jacobsen
  Arne Jacobsen
  Arne Emil Jacobsen, usually known as Arne Jacobsen, was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for contributing so much to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs.-Early life and education:Arne Jacobsen was born...
  
  
• Fritz Jaenicke and Sten Samuelson
• Gustav Hassenpflug
• Günter Hönow
• Ludwig Lemmer
• Wassili Luckhardt
  Wassili Luckhardt
  Wassili Luckhardt was a German architect. He studied at the Technical University of Berlin and Dresden. Luckhardt and his brother Hans worked closely together for most of their lives...
  
  
• Oscar Niemeyer
  Oscar Niemeyer
  Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture...
  
  
• Godber Nissen
• Sep Ruf
• Otto Senn
• Hans Scharoun
  Hans Scharoun
  Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun was a German architect best known for designing the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall and the in Löbau, Saxony. He was an important exponent of Organic architecture....
  
  
• Franz Schuster
• Max Taut
  Max Taut
  Max Taut was a German architect.- Biography :Max Taut was born in Königsberg, the younger brother of Bruno Taut. He, his brother and Franz Hoffman formed Taut & Hoffman, an architecture firm in Berlin, In the 1920s, Max Taut was particularly known for his office buildings for trade unions...
  
  
• Pierre Vago
  Pierre Vago
  Pierre Vago was a notable French architect who worked on the Hansaviertel in Berlin. Known Internationally as the publisher of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui and General Secretary of the UIA...
  
  
• Jo van den Broek

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