Architectural Walk

Stuttgart is a modernist city. The city is home to one of the world’s most important examples of the International Style, the Weißenhofsiedlung (1927), an architectural ensemble that includes buildings by Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.

After suffering severe damage at the end of World War II, large swaths of the inner city were rebuilt along modern principles. One principle still visible today is that of the car-centric city, evidenced by the high-speed road circling the city centre.

Moreover, reconstruction gave rise to such milestones as Hans Scharoun’s “Romeo and Juliet” tower blocks (1954–59) and the experimental lightweight structures (1967) designed by Frei Otto and his team at the University of Vaihingen. The fraught legacy of the Modern Era is one of the most exciting aspects of Stuttgart’s contemporary architecture, as well as the focus of a new generation of architects.

This walk allows you to explore the treatment of the Modernist legacy through extraordinary examples of architecture ­­– all the while discovering the beauty of the Stuttgarter Kessel (“Stuttgart’s cauldron”).

The ten stops