Running parallel to the workshop show, IBA Hamburg’s travelling exhibition “IBA meets IBA”, shown in Hamburg until the end of February 2008, represented the first overall review of more than one hundred years of international building exhibitions in Germany and presented the seven predecessors of IBA Hamburg. 


In cooperation with M:AI Museum for Architecture and Engineering in North Rhine-Westphalia one of the exhibits shown was a model of the first IBA, held in 1901 on Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt.  The objective of the exhibition is to create awareness and spark a critical debate on the century of accumulated experience represented by these IBAs, to develop their insights for our day and age, and make them available to everyone seeking a guide to complex spatial strategies. Therefore the retrospective showed the special features of the IBA urban development programme, offering answers to basic questions: what exactly is an IBA and what can an IBA achieve? What tasks must modern international building exhibitions tackle? The exhibition was well received by the public and is moving on in 2008: one of its stations will be Basle.


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