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Berlin Contemporary: Architecture and Politics After 1990: Visual Cultures and German Contexts

Autor Professor Julia Walker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2024
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350437043
ISBN-10: 1350437042
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 112 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 150 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Seria Visual Cultures and German Contexts

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

"Walker writes about contemporary architecture not as a critic but as a sharp-eyed, thought-provoking historian. Berlin Contemporary is a meticulously researched book that raises the bar for the study of recent urbanism; Walker's luscious, flowing prose makes for effortless reading, despite the seriousness of the subject. A formidable achievement."
"A deeply researched book on a city that has, in the course of its reconstruction, arguably become the cultural capital of Europe, Berlin Contemporary grapples with issues of architecture, politics, the public sphere, and memory that have implications for cities around the world."
"The words 'Reunification of Germany' seem to indicate a singular event. In reality, it is hardly a done deal even today. Approaching the topic in a way that is both sensitive and provocative, Walker's book, interblending history and criticism, helps us see how architecture operates within complex political, geo-political, and cultural environments."

Caracteristici

The completion of this manuscript coincides with the opening of the Humboldt Forum, an event that many critics have argued marks the end of Berlin's post-reunification building boom. Of the buildings and plans projected for construction in the whirlwind following reunification, most are now completed, allowing this book to offer fullness of context and depth of analysis not available in earlier accounts of Berlin's new architecture

Notă biografică

Julia Walkeris Assistant Professor of Art History at Binghamton University. Her teaching and research address modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism, architectural theory, and memory landscapes in postwar Germany. She received her MA and PhD in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania.