Tag: IBA Berlin 1987

10.08.2025

LiMa- the german architect Hinrich Baller

On July 23, Berlin architect Hinrich Baller (1936 Stargard, West Pomerania – 2025 Berlin) passed away. Hinrich and Inken Baller were the contact architects for the LiMa residential courtyard in Berlin. The Ballers gave LiMa the color that became the residential courtyard skin tone: Where does LiMa’s green color actually come from? “The green comes […]

22.07.2025

LiMa - the Southern Friedrichstadt in the 21th Century

In the 21st century, Südliche Friedrichstadt has lost nothing of what can be described as its secret and what only its inhabitants know, namely this enduring and equanimous reign in the Sphere in this glacial valley. With Herman Hertzberger, it has now been crowned with the Italian roof garden of the Renaissance, which produces figs […]

08.07.2025

LiMa - Education

Traditional education operates hierarchically in the social constellation and dominantly in space. In individual and egalitarian concepts such as the LiMa Wohnhof, for example, hierarchies are dissolved and space becomes a test case for the individual in the community. Here you can see what makes you tick and who you are. In the egalitarian principle, […]

27.06.2025

LiMa- The Düttmann Garden is back

The Markgrafenstrasse 11-14 was demolished in 2022 as a result of a speculative transaction by Norsk AG. The company went bankrupt in January 2025. Hanse Merkur Versicherung has now acquired the land on Markgrafenstrasse and will build there. There will be no side bar as envisaged in the plans of the Fischer architects. The construction […]

16.06.2025

LiMa - a social project of the future - the mosaic

A mosaic workshop with Akelei Hertzberger took place on June 16, 2025. As in 1986, Akelei showed the LiMa residents how to make a mosaic. LiMa is not a social project of the past but one of the future LiMa 1986

21.05.2025

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Evening in the valley in the heart of Berlin – Checkpoint Charlie

20.05.2025

LiMa - Climate change

Microbiotopes are created in the center of a cosmopolitan city.vThe LiMa garden to the southwest has become a poppy meadow where the bumblebees and bees are swarming. This herbaceous garden contains several species of mint, sage, tarragon, rosemary and lemon balm. We have used plants and seeds that we have grown ourselves. We work with […]

28.04.2025

LiMa - architecture - dutch traditions -

Jan Vermeer van Delft – a dutch painter (1632-1675) Herman Hertzberger van Amsterdam – a dutch architect

24.04.2025

LiMa - climate change - we can do something!

RESISTING DOMINATION AND EXERCISING SELF CONTROL IN THE TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE – The Charles Darwin Program, developed by us on the terraces, in the glasshouses, gardens and in the kitchen, aims to implement the sustainability goals on a local and private level in everyday life.

13.04.2025

LiMa architecture - the chinese Hutong

Hutong Hofgarten Hutongs are traditional Asian residential areas. The word “hutong” is of Mongolian origin(hottog) and means “spring”. People built along a water source. The hutong consisted of narrow streets and dwellings with a shared courtyard that could be entered through a gate. Several families could live in such a hutong. The old people sat […]

23.12.2024

LiMa - garden planning - Herman Hertzberger

The LiMa courtyard The paths lead to the center of the courtyard garden in a radial pattern. This creates several spaces that take on different shapes through planting and lawns in the style of Renaissance garden art. In the center, the architect planned a sandpit, a fountain and a pergola. 1984 The LiMa front gardens […]

22.12.2024

LiMa - courtyard fountain - LiMa Monster - Frieda Ysebaert

The courtyard fountain – The LiMa Monster – The sculpture was planned by the architect as a water fountain and was designed and built by Frieda Ysebaert (Amsterdam) as a fountain and play figure for children. The Elephant Head Fountain by the Italian architect and painter Giovanni da Udine (1487-1564)

22.12.2024

LiMa - Courtyard - Pergola -

The pergola In its origins, the pergola is a space-creating colonnade that originally connected the house to the terrace. Its history goes back to antiquity. It was rediscovered in garden design during the Renaissance. In the LiMa courtyard garden it also serves as a climbing aid for plants and sun protection over the sandpit for […]

16.12.2024

LiMA - city in the 21th century -

The New York Times reported today on traffic policies in the year 2025 for Manhatten: Most drivers will begin paying new congestion tolls on Jan. 5 to reach the heart of Manhattan, if all goes as planned.The fees are meant to relieve some of the world’s worst gridlock and pollution while raising billions of dollars […]

15.12.2024

LiMa - Spatial accessibility and intimacy - Herman Hertzberger

The staggered sequence of information through architectural means creates a gradual entry and exit. … Through the choice of suitable architectural means, the private area can thus appear less fortress-like and become more accessible, while the public area, which is more concerned with the transfer of responsibility to the individual and the personal care of […]

08.12.2024

LiMa - learning from history - Participation -

participation, involvement, the inclusion of (several or all) different parties in a matter in the narrower sense, participation, influence in decision-making and decision-making processes. WE NEED A WIND OF CHANGE IN THIS WORLD!

08.12.2024

LiMa - the grid system - Herman Hertzberger

In the rapidly growing American cities, the grid principle can be found in its most elementary form and with its characteristic results. It is hard to imagine a better way to incorporate the overwhelming collection of architectural forms – from low-rise to skyscraper – that can hardly be contained in this city of unstoppable free […]

06.12.2024

LiMa - The structure as backbone - warp and weft - Herman Hertzberger

Mass housing, which superficially corresponds to our industrial conditions, owes its dominance to the monocultural behavior that characterizes our society. The least an architect can do in such a situation is to outline images that show ways to shake people out of their lethargy. (…) Even the smallest step in this direction means a fundamental […]

03.12.2024

LiMa- second citrusharvest 2024

– we can live like in a paradise – without exploitation and without war In LiMa’s Wintergardens we can cultivate citrustrees the second Citrus harvest at LiMa this year: Japanese yuzu, Seville orange, Chinese satsumas and Buddha’s hand, a cedrat lemon that was cultivated in China thousands of years ago. Climate Initiative

09.11.2024

LiMa - learning from history - Oswald Mathias Unger

The biography of a city – With the division of Berlin into a western and eastern part, a situation arose – even if it only affects the plan – that is reminiscent of the equalization point 700 years ago, when the city was a community consisting of the alliance of two cities, Berlin and Kölln. […]

06.11.2024

LiMa- learning from history - The reconstruction of the destroyed city - Josef Paul Kleihues -

Berlin has received an exhibition of many places that demonstrate the diversity of the city and have been able to develop exemplary solutions for the diversity of its problems. But the issues are not only specific to Berlin. Many issues are overarching and have a global impact. (…) The reconstruction of the destroyed city – […]

22.09.2024

The roofgardens of LiMa

“I have never made any specific plans for the terraces on the roof. I did however notice that in Berlin balconies are often combined, so maybe connecting roof terraces are a good idea.” Herman Hertzberger

22.08.2024

September 7, 2024 Day of the open Monument in Germany

“The building is deliberately designed to allow residents to communicate with each other in many places, including through the staggered balconies.” Saturday September 7, 2024 – 12 noon https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/aktivitaeten/presse/2024/pressemitteilung.1475096.php Guided tour: “Democratic” architecture and social housing from the 1980s. meeting point: Markgrafenstr. 6, Eberhard Elfert.

13.08.2024

Amsterdam - Berlin - The sculpture of Frieda Ysebaert

“So there were no plans. We left for Berlin with a car filled with tiles, three people and a small clay statue. Herman wanted there to be a figure or something that children could climb on and that also had water coming out of it. I first made a small model (1:12 scale) on clay […]

09.08.2024

THE MOSAIC WORKSHOP OF AKELEI HERTZBERGER

“The balconies, the towers, you always could see that there were people outside working. Everybody can do this work. Working on a mosaic is sharing the unknowledgeable. We talked about what kind of story we build in the mosaic. So we composed the story line together. But the edge was the main thing to do […]

04.08.2024

a message from the past

In the course of the artillery bombardment and air raids in the final battle for Berlin in the spring of 1945, the city center of Berlin, which was laid out as a baroque block development from 1688 and was named Friedrichstadt after the Prussian King Frederick I, was largely destroyed. However, its baroque layout remained […]

21.07.2024

The concept of the LiMa residential home Berlin

“The LiMa residential complex is located at the end of a triangular site, at the tip of which a church sets the accent. The building masses of this church are loosely related to the overall architectural planning. The development of this triangular island meant that the church remained a stand-alone building. The courtyard itself, conceived […]

13.07.2024

"private claim to public space"

“The idea of the “in-between” removes the sharp distinction between areas with different territorial claims. The aim is therefore to create “in-between spaces” that are either private or public in administrative terms, but are equally accessible from both sides, i.e. both sides can reasonably be expected to allow the “others” to use them.” Herman Hertzberger […]

24.11.2023

On the death of the architect and urban planer Rob Krier (1938 - 2023)

For the first time since the IBA in 1957, an international building exhibition takes place in West Berlin with new directions in urban planning. Berlin in the eighties: The zeitgeist is changing. In architecture, the focus is no longer on striving for modernity, characterized by the demolition of old buildings and the construction of new […]

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