The exhibition, which can be seen from 9 March 2023 to 28 April 2023 in the Architekturschaufenster Karlsruhe, portrays the lives and work of over 20 successful female architects and their personal career paths.
The focus is on historical personalities from the last 100 years as well as current professionals who studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Karlsruhe. Documents and testimonies from the KIT's Archive for Architecture and Engineering (saai) and from private archives are on display. The professional demeanour and self-confidence of these female architects in the respective times and social discussions are impressively presented here. This is complemented by materials from the architects' personal collections.
For decades, Günter Behnisch (1922-2010) shaped the building culture of the state of Baden-Württemberg and the young Federal Republic of Germany with his social, people-oriented architecture. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the exhibition presents the life and work of the architect and his office, which worked in various partnerships and with which he realized around 150 buildings in over 50 years.
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On the occasion of the 16th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, the saai at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is presenting an exhibition on the Multihalle by Frei Otto and Carlfried Mutschler in Mannheim as part of the Biennale theme "Freespace". "Sleeping Beauty" follows on from the successful exhibition "Frei Otto. Thinking by Modelling", which was on show at the ZKM in Karlsruhe from November 2016 to March 2017.
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To mark the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Architecture, the so-called Prizker Prize, to Frei Otto, the largest exhibition to date on his oeuvre 'Frei Otto - Thinking in Models' took place at the ZKM from November 5 to March 12, 2017, a joint project of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai) of the KIT and the Wüstenrot Foundation, in cooperation with the ZKM, funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation.
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