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

Autor Professor Julia Walker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 ian 2021
For years following German reunification, the city of Berlin was the largest construction site on the European continent, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most high-profile and also the most contested of the new projects were those constructed for federal, state, or city government bodies.Berlin Contemporaryexplores these government buildings and plans, tracing their relationship to the work of modernist architect-luminaries such as Bruno Taut and Louis Kahn while also situating their iconic forms and influential designers within the spectacular world of global contemporary architecture. Close studies of these projects, including Norman Foster's redesigned Reichstag and Rem Koolhaas's Embassy of the Netherlands, reveal that-official claims notwithstanding-what is actually on view in the "New Berlin" is a complex and ongoing negotiation of the demands and procedures of statecraft on the one hand, and the techniques of globalized contemporary architectural practice on the other.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501367526
ISBN-10: 1501367528
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 90 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Seria Visual Cultures and German Contexts

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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.

Cuprins

Introduction: "I can't find Potsdamer Platz.I won't stop until I've found Potsdamer Platz"1: Bridging and Breaking-Master Planning the Spreebogen2: The Reichstag's New Lightness of Being3: Monumental Modernism4: Palaces of Doubt5: Surface, Stage, and ScreenConclusionBibliographyIndex

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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.

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."