HISTORY
the company timeline
The brand was established in 1993 by the system designer Burkhardt Leitner.
Akin Nalca met Burkhardt Leitner 20 years ago. They established a deep friendship over the years.
2015
Since 2015 Akin Nalca and Alp Gumus have been the new owners and general managers of the new
incorporated company called Burkhardt Leitner Modular Spaces. The main activities still include the
development and design and production of architectural systems.
2014
iF communication design award
stand at EuroShop Dusseldorf, 2014
"Best of Show" EuroShop Award, 2014
With the motto “fantastic – systematic” we presented the stand concept developed in co-operation with
Ippolito Fleitz Group and two new architecture systems at the same time at EuroShop 2011 in Düsseldorf.
With the new system pila IV we opened up a new dimension of temporary architecture at trade fairs with
profiles of up to 6 m span. The use of the maximum axis leads to a reduction of components and results
in low assembly times and a low price per square meter.
The trade fair stand was awarded at the ADC competition in 2012. The award by the Art Directors Club is
the continuation of a series of awards for the trade fair stand, which also includes the iF
communication design award 2012 in gold and the red dot award: communication design 2011.
2011/2012
iF communication design award 2012 in gold for trade fair stand at EuroShop Dusseldorf, 2011
"Best of Show" EuroShop Award, 2011 red dot award: communication design, 2011 for Burkhardt Leitner trade fair stand at EuroShop, 2011 in
Düsseldorf
2012 Exhibit Design Awards
With the motto “fantastic – systematic” we presented the stand concept developed in co-operation with
Ippolito Fleitz Group and two new architecture systems at the same time at EuroShop 2011 in Düsseldorf.
With the new system pila IV we opened up a new dimension of temporary architecture at trade fairs with
profiles of up to 6 m span. The use of the maximum axis leads to a reduction of components and results
in low assembly times and a low price per square meter.
The trade fair stand was awarded at the ADC competition in 2012. The award by the Art Directors Club is
the continuation of a series of awards for the trade fair stand, which also includes the iF
communication design award 2012 in gold and the red dot award: communication design 2011.
2008
With the motto “Metamorphoses” we introduced no less than three new design principles of our
architectural system pon at EuroShop 2008. We moved into a new dimension of temporary architecture and
permanent metamorphosis. Our co-operation with Festo, the innovation leader in industrial and process
automation world-wide, literally made trade fair architecture move. Systems were never so free. As
co-exhibitors, numerous national and international license, sales and planning partners representing our
systems world-wide were also present on the stand. You are welcome to have a first look here.
2005
Under the leitmotif "weightless architecture", we presented the new exhibition and presentation systems pon
and constructiv telvis at the EuroShop 2005 with great applause.
2002
At the Euroshop 2002, PILA mini enclosed the Burkhardt Leitner stand as a transparent and elastic outer
skin.With its organic curves, it resembled a pulsating and living membrane enveloping in its interior
the double-storey core made of pila doppelstock parts.
2000
Thanks not least to the urging of his team, the product range was expanded and new sales markets were
developed.
Having developed pila office, and following on from Orgatec 2000, the company managed as a result to
position itself successfully in the office market. Office versions of clic and pon.
1998
Soon after its market launch in 1998 clic received the most prestigious design award in Germany – the
Federal Prize for Product Design – and quickly became a “modern classic”; the series of books published
by form on “Design Classics” dedicated one volume to clic.
1996
...And his new architectural systems seemed very specifically to set out to prove, in a clear and manifest way,
that beauty of form and functional simplicity are one and the same.
Who would have thought, in 1996, as pila was launched by the fledgling company at its first Euroshop that it
would lead to the development of a comprehensive system range, destined to become one of the most successful
trade fair, exhibition, and office systems in the world? Or that it would become a modern classic of temporary
architecture?
1993
Max was the first time Burkhardt Leitner chose to use a ring as connector for one of his architectural systems,
thus enabling structures to be built without angular constraints.
Moreover, the ring represented a departure from the orthogonal
Modernist principle. max was launched at the first Euroshop attended by the fledgling company in 1993 – along with the
two other ring systems primus and joker.
Junior
Once upon a time, there was a system called junior, with a wide range of useful and colorful, shelves
with a connecting node made from carbon cubes...which could also be used for pretty jewelry.
