Architectural works on display

Architectural works on display

JAKARTA (JP): An architectural exhibition featuring works of
17 renowned German architects from the Weissenhofsiedlung school
will be held here from Sept.27 to Oct.7.

The exhibition being held by the Goethe Institut in
cooperation with the Jakarta Design Center and the Indonesian
Architects Association will be opened by the director general of
the Ministry of Education and Culture, Prof. Edy Sediawati, and
German Ambassador to Indonesia Heinrich Seemann.

The opening ceremony is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. on the
ground floor of the Jakarta Design Center at Jl. Gatot Subroto
No. 53, Slipi, Central Jakarta. Following the opening, Prof.
Karin Kirsch, the curator of the exhibition, will deliver a
lecture titled "The Weissenhof Estate -- Demonstration and
Manifesto."

On display will be various model houses, photos, documents,
posters and model Weissenhofsiedlung furniture.

Celebrated architects Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius are
among the 17 architects whose works will be on display during the
exhibition. Van der Rohe and Gropius are noted for their
remarkable and bold yet controversial works of modern
architecture which have earned them both kudos and
criticism.(bas)