Architecture and the “Right to the City”: The IBA Hamburg as a Case for Critical Urban Studies

Eckardt, Frank

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53477-0_9

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“…Hence, one of the most common themes explored in IBA exhibition events (one could compare the housing development of Interbau 1957, or IBA Berlin '87) is the concept of flexibility that has been used as the main concept in housing. The idea of the IBA is, thereby, linked to its intention to contribute to social progress (Eckardt, 2017). In this context, IBA Hamburg, which took place in the district of Wilhelmsburg, Veddel, and in the inland port of Harburg, represents the largest event in both the number of building projects and the available budget (IBA Hamburg, 2014).…”

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An Evaluation of Housing Flexibility After Seven Years of Habitation: Iba Hamburg 2013

Lutolli

2021

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism

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Flexibility in housing has been used for a long time to meet the changing needs of inhabitants. After a century of vicissitude, flexibility became a means for architects to deal with social changes in the new millennium. The International Building Exhibition (IBA) 2013, which took place in Hamburg, Germany, is an example of how the concept of flexibility is being adopted. Housing, in particular, the post-occupancy phase, has not been studied, despite the urban-level aspects of the IBA Hamburg having been extensively written about. Seven years after its construction, nothing is known about what happened regarding these new approaches. The purpose of this study is to investigate the number of households in the IBA Hamburg housing projects that have used the promoted concept of flexibility, particularly in the “Building Exhibition within the Building Exhibition.” As a result, this article aims to shed light on this issue by presenting data from a field survey regarding whether floor plan flexibility was used, and if so, to what extent and what were the reasons. As a result, the author utilized an administered and self-administered open and closed-ended survey questionnaire research approach to collect necessary data for the execution of this investigation. The survey was conducted in twenty-two apartments, with four residential buildings chosen as a case selection for this investigation. The results of this study revealed that, despite being considered during the initial planning phase, flexibility was not commonly applied in the housing projects of IBA Hamburg 2013. Furthermore, the findings reveal that the extent of use of flexibility in these case studies is closely linked with the occupation status of the inhabitants.

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An Evaluation of Housing Flexibility After Seven Years of Habitation: Iba Hamburg 2013

Lutolli

2021

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism

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HeimatWilhelmsburg: Belonging and resistance in a racialized neighborhood

Chamberlain

2022

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City

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Experimenting on racialized neighbourhoods: Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg and the urban laboratory in Hamburg–Wilhelmsburg

Chamberlain

2020

Environ Plan D

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The ‘urban laboratory’ concept has become a popular discourse and structure for urban projects in recent years. In this article, I ask what the concept achieves in the context of racialized urban disinvestment and stigmatization, with the Hamburg International Building Exhibition’s (Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg, 2006–2013) work in Hamburg–Wilhelmsburg as an example. Drawing on laboratory studies and urban sociology, I sketch out the laboratory as an ‘imaginative infrastructure’ , including what it offers to the ‘investigators’ who use it. Based on the ‘situatedness’ of the urban laboratory, I argue that the racialization of the neighbourhood and its residents is important to the history of Wilhelmsburg’s planning, and to its recent laboratorization. Laboratorization of racialized people and spaces is not new, but rather has a long history in European colonialism. I conclude that though the experiment in Hamburg–Wilhelmsburg appears to be with the neighbourhood’s racialization itself, there is nothing experimental about attempting the planning myth and common sense of ‘social mix’ to which Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg contributes. I argue that racialized Wilhelmsburgers deserve problem-solving that does not reinforce existing patterns of development and thus their stigmatization.

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Architecture and the “Right to the City”: The IBA Hamburg as a Case for Critical Urban Studies

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

An Evaluation of Housing Flexibility After Seven Years of Habitation: Iba Hamburg 2013

An Evaluation of Housing Flexibility After Seven Years of Habitation: Iba Hamburg 2013

HeimatWilhelmsburg: Belonging and resistance in a racialized neighborhood

Experimenting on racialized neighbourhoods: Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg and the urban laboratory in Hamburg–Wilhelmsburg

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