Interbau
# Interbau

Interbau was a housing development, constructed as part of the 1957 International Building Exhibition in the Hansaviertel area of West Berlin. The overall plan was managed by Otto Bartning, and the urban design competition was won by Gerhard Jobst and Willy Kreuer, whose plans were later executed in a modified form.

Working within constraints of size, layout and cost, forty-eight architects designed a huge range of accommodation, both low- and high-rise, with many permutations in plan.

## Architects

Contributing architects included:

* Alvar Aalto
* Jacob Bakema
* Paul Baumgarten
* Luciano Baldessari
* Le Corbusier
* Werner Düttmann
* Wils Ebert
* Egon Eiermann
* Walter Gropius
* Arne Jacobsen
* Fritz Jaenicke and Sten Samuelson
* Gustav Hassenpflug
* Günter Hönow
* Ludwig Lemmer
* Wassili Luckhardt
* Oscar Niemeyer
* Godber Nissen
* Sep Ruf
* Otto Senn
* Hans Scharoun
* Franz Schuster
* Hugh Stubbins
* Max Taut
* Pierre Vago
* Jo van den Broek

## Gallery

* High-rise slab housing ("Walter-Gropius-Haus") designed by Walter Gropius
* High-rise apartments by Luciano Baldessari (left) and Jo van den Broek and Jacob Bakema (right)
* Housing by Oscar Niemeyer
* postage stamp for the International Building Exhibition
