Berlin Contemporary
Architecture and Politics After 1990
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 2021
320 pages
978-1-5013-6754-0 (ISBN)
Description
For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most visible and the most contested of the new projects were those designed for the national government and its related functions.
Berlin Contemporary explores these buildings and plans, tracing their antecedents while also situating their iconic forms and influential designers within the spectacular world of global contemporary architecture. Close studies of these sites, including the Reichstag, the Chancellery, and the reconstruction of the Berlin Stadtschloss (now known as the Humboldt Forum), demonstrate the complexity of Berlin's political and architectural "rebuilding"-and reveal the intricate historical negotiations that architecture was summoned to perform.
Berlin Contemporary explores these buildings and plans, tracing their antecedents while also situating their iconic forms and influential designers within the spectacular world of global contemporary architecture. Close studies of these sites, including the Reichstag, the Chancellery, and the reconstruction of the Berlin Stadtschloss (now known as the Humboldt Forum), demonstrate the complexity of Berlin's political and architectural "rebuilding"-and reveal the intricate historical negotiations that architecture was summoned to perform.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
112 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-5013-6754-0 (9781501367540)
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Person
Julia Walker is Associate Professor of Art History at The State University of New York in Binghamton, USA. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary architecture, emphasizing the persistence and transformation of modernist ideas within contemporary practice-and the ways in which this modernist inheritance informs, inflects, and destabilizes claims to political meaning. Her current projects examine the underrepresentation of women in architectural practice and explore the history of architectural criticism as a genre.
Content
Introduction: Berlin, the Contemporary Capital
Chapter 1: Bridging and Breaking-Master Planning the Spreebogen
Chapter 2: The Reichstag's New Lightness of Being
Chapter 3: Monumental Modernism-The Chancellery as Future Ruin
Chapter 4: Palaces of Doubt
Conclusion: No One Intends to Open an Airport
Chapter 1: Bridging and Breaking-Master Planning the Spreebogen
Chapter 2: The Reichstag's New Lightness of Being
Chapter 3: Monumental Modernism-The Chancellery as Future Ruin
Chapter 4: Palaces of Doubt
Conclusion: No One Intends to Open an Airport
