ABSTRACT
The Studio for a Musician and Studio for a Painter designed by John Hejduk for Berlin in 1982 were elevated houses that had stairs but no gates. Hejduk designed the houses for a musician and a painter as part of his projects for IBA-1984/87, a building exhibition in the form of urban renewal and public housing in the city's immigrant neighbourhood, Kreuzberg. This chapter is a microcosm of a larger project exploring IBA-84/87 in relation to three major topics: as the last episode in the history of the twentieth-century public housing when housing was part of architects' disciplinary concerns, as a rehearsal of the participatory, postmodernist and poststructuralist debates in the architecture discipline in the 1970s and 1980s, as a significant moment that exposes the relation between international immigration laws and housing.
