Wera Meyer-Waldeck y Hilde Weströmdos arquitectas en la Interbau Berlín 1957

Resumo

With the incorporation of young women students to German Technical Schools after the First World War, a symbolic established order will have to be revised. Female students emerge as a new model that during the twentieth century will cement the identity of the professional woman. Wera Meyer-Waldeck and Hilde Weström study architecture at two different institutions, the Bauhaus and the Berlin Higher Technical School Charlottenburg. Although their education periods do not overlap, Nazism and war represent for them a difficult period. After the Second World War, their professional careers meet for the first and last time, at the 1957 Interbau in Berlin. The spirit of a new way of habiting, promoted by the exhibition “The city of tomorrow”, was defended by them with a double implication: as the responsible for expositive housing installations and as technical advisors to the public. These architects formed the link of union, through their didactic work in terms of housing and free time, between visitors of the exhibition and the new theories to ncourage a healthier and more participatory life inside homes.