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Sunday, 17 July 2016
It’s done: The buildings of the avant-garde architect Le Corbusier in seven countries are World Heritage Sites. The Stuttgart Weissenhof settlement is one of them. She was the only nomination from Germany.
Two houses Stuttgart Weissenhof settlement of the architect Le Corbusier are after two failed attempts now a World Heritage Site. The Unesco took this Sunday in Istanbul Buildings Le Corbusier in seven countries to the World Heritage List on how the cultural agency of the United Nations announced. Originally, the decision should already fall on Saturday. The World Heritage Committee had its meeting but interrupted due to the attempted coup in Turkey.
The number of World Heritage sites in Germany increased with the new addition to Stuttgart on 41. “It is a great success for the whole of Baden-Württemberg,” said Baden-Württemberg’s new Economy Minister Nicole Hoffmeister Herb (CDU). The buildings are a model for modern living styles and aesthetics. “We can be proud of the diverse cultural heritage of Baden-Württemberg.” In the state now are a total of five World Heritage sites.
Structures in seven countries on three continents
The World Heritage Committee had included in the list worth protecting cultural goods on Sunday in Istanbul 17 works of Le Corbusier. It is about buildings in seven countries on three continents. The Swiss-French architect and city planner Le Corbusier (1887-1965) have revolutionized the language of architecture internationally, it said at the meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Istanbul.
Stuttgart Mayor Fritz Kuhn (Green) evaluated the Weissenhofsiedlung and after almost 100 years even exemplary: “Le Corbusier’s impulse to build affordable housing with innovative layouts and new materials, is still leading the way and therefore has to be an incentive for our architects and urban planners. “
the city and the country had already applied to the international recognition as a world heritage site since of 2003. The entire Weissenhofsiedlung with their still 11 of 33 originally preserved in their original cubic flat-roofed houses should remain at the center of the work of the cultural heritage, such as the Swabian metropolis announced. Currently going for settlement in cooperation with five other European Werkbund settlements in the 1920s / 30s, an application for the European Heritage Seal prepared.
“witness the globalization of modernity”
The international application for receiving the Le Corbusier buildings had previously been rejected twice. also of Germany and Argentina, Belgium, France, India, Japan and Switzerland, were last involved in the revised form. The application stressed the paramount importance of Le Corbusier for the architecture of the 20th century. The work is evidence of the globalization of modernity, it said.
“Its now the heritage of all mankind belonging works embody typological radical break with previously used styles, designs, methods, technologies and construction techniques,” Hartwig said Luedtke, Vice President of the German UNESCO Commission, according to a release. Le Corbusier’s buildings in Stuttgart were “icons of architectural history”. were honored as World Heritage, among other things, the government buildings of Chandigarh (India), the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo (Japan) and the house of Dr. Curutchet in La Plata (Argentina).
On Friday had the Unesco several sites in Europe and Asia as a world heritage Site, including the ancient Philippi in Greece.
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Overall, the Cultural Organization of the United Nations were present 27 nominations. The two houses of the Stuttgart Weissenhof settlement were the only nominations from Germany. On Sunday also, among other things, the architectural ensemble designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Pampulha (Belo Horizonte) in Brazil and the historic waterfront in English Harbour on the south coast of the Caribbean island of Antigua has been declared a World Heritage Site.
Because of the tense security situation in Turkey ended the world heritage Committee’s 40th meeting on Sunday ahead. Originally the discussions until July 20 persist. The pending agenda items should be rescheduled at an extraordinary meeting. The committee is composed of 21 elected States Parties. Every year the experts decide on the addition of new cultural and natural sites in the World Heritage List.
Source: n-tv.de
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