As part of the long-standing research and exchange programme Encounters with Southeast Asian Modernism, the project Dipl.-Ing. Arsitek: German-trained Indonesian Architects from the 1960s sheds light on the lives and work of Indonesians who studied in Germany and graduated as Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) in architecture in the 1960s. Although some of them are now regarded in Indonesian professional circles as founding fathers of an independent architectural development, their work – and especially its origins in Germany – has hardly been documented so far.
With an exhibition in Jakarta, two online symposia and a publication by DOM publishers, Dipl.-Ing Arsitek combines a look at a hitherto unaddressed chapter of transnational architectural, educational and social history with questions about current urban challenges in Indonesia and Germany.
The project was initiated by the Berlin curators Sally Below, Moritz Henning and Eduard Kögel and realised in close cooperation with the Yayasan Museum Arsitektur Indonesia, Jakarta. It was funded by the Federal Foreign Office on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany.
