Singapore Design Festival 2007

Synopsis:

‘Neues Bauen’, or ‘New Building’, is an international architectural movement towards modernism that began in Germany in the 1920s as a protest against the imitation of historical styles. Architects of this Modernist movement advocated the expression of a building’s functionalism in its external form and sought to improve people’s standard of living. Since early 20th century, the movement has impacted the United States, Latin America and the Middle East. The current exhibition explores this architectural movement and its various developments around the world by presenting buildings and architects, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, whose approaches appeared to be more forward-looking and pointing to the future, than they did in their own day.

A total of 105 projects by 66 architects or groups of architects, is shown through architectural models and photography, and grouped according to:

• detached houses and villas, blocks of flats and housing estates
• buildings for education, sport, culture and health
• office, commercial and industrial buildings
• transport facilities
• special projects
• city of the future