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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.