Stuttgart…

Stuttgart is conservative and experimental, avant-garde and traditional – this ambivalence can be seen in the mentality of its people, in politics and also in the city’s architecture. In the 1920s, the Weissenhofsiedlung presented a new way of living – which was called into question a few years later by the Kochenhofsiedlung. The architecture on display in the first exhibition is still ‘modern’ today. The railway station, the market hall and even the ‘King of England’ are more traditional in their design language, but no less interesting. The Liederhalle (concert hall), the television tower and the State Gallery, on the other hand, are architectural icons that were innovative and epoch-making worldwide in their day!

But newer projects have nothing to hide either: the Daimler Museum by UN Studio, the extension of the State Library by Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei and the John Cranko School by architects Burger Rudacs, to name just a few of the newer architectural beacons!