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The Architects‘ and Engineers’ Association of Berlin-Brandenburg is using its 200th birthday as an opportunity to present the pressing issue of Berlin and its streets: The open-air exhibition from 5 September to 30 November 2024 on Unter den Linden in Berlin-Mitte will promote the necessary public discussion about the kind of city we and future generations want for the future.

The ‘Great Streets of Today’ section of the exhibition uses selected main streets, each representing an era of the last 200 years, to show how these urban spaces that characterise Berlin's reputation and in which we live today came about. The influence of political, cultural and social upheavals on the appearance of the streets becomes just as clear as the respective claim to modernity.

In the second part, ‘Great streets for tomorrow’, renowned architects and engineers show how ten currently inhospitable street spaces in Berlin and Potsdam could be remodelled to make them liveable. Other forms of mobility, new climatic conditions and sustainable forms of energy generation will change the streets.

With this initiative, the AIV is calling for a debate on how we can move away from the idea and practice of the car-friendly city - in a dialogue between politics, administration, civil society, science and business.

Strassen von heute
Great Streets of Today

These main streets reflect the history of Berlin with its economic booms, wars, crises, dictatorships, destruction, division and reunification. They testify to the widely differing visions that have shaped its design, a design however, immer modern (always modern), in any case.

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Strassen für morgen
Great Streets of Tomorrow

Ten renowned architectural firms are examining the potential for change in ten main streets in Berlin as well as in the neighbouring state capital of Potsdam and submitting proposals for a sustainable and people-friendly redesign.

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Upcoming events as part of the exhibition

Verkehrsräume zu Stadträumen

14 Nov 24 // Symposium

From traffic areas to urban spaces

The event will highlight key factors on how the spatial qualities of roads can be further developed under today's traffic and environmental requirements.

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© Maximilian Meisse

15 Nov 24 // Guided tour

Curator's tour through the exhibition, 15.11.2024

Celina Schlichting, junior curator and project manager, will guide you through the exhibition ‘immer modern!’.

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Brücken

19 Nov 24 // Symposium

Build new or preserve?

Is there a threat of collapses in Berlin like the Carola Bridge in Dresden? How can tomorrow's bridges be planned and built flexibly and in a way that is suitable for transport utilisation?

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Stadtraum

26 Nov 24 // Lectures

Living in urban space

We city dwellers love squares. Many are currently being made fit for the future. Which design concepts are being utilised? How will the quality of the respective places be improved? What are the effects on road traffic?

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Catalog

Katalog

The exhibition catalog

The Architekten- und Ingenieurverein zu Berlin-Brandenburg has published a two-volume publication which, on the one hand, documents the development and motivation of the association as a commemorative publication and, on the other hand, accompanies the open-air exhibition ‘immer modern! Berlin and its streets’ as a catalog.

Sponsored by:

lotto
sen_bauenwohnen
sen_umweltklima

Partners:

Gasag
volksbank
vw_drive
Kim
huboldtfo
gruenberlin
staatsbiblio
berliner