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Berlin
St Martin's Press - 1995

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This profile of Berlin features a photographic essay chronicling the dramatic changes that the city has undergone recently, as well as giving an historical perspective and including highlights from the symposium 'Berlin, City of Competitions' held at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1994. The unique challenge that faces the redevelopment in Berlin, with the bridging of the gap left by the demolition of the wall, is reviewed, and the book discussed built projects and building schemes by Berlin based architects such as JP Kleihues, Axel Schultes and Christoph Langhof as well as those by a number of international architects.

Introduction::
The Wall that divided Berlin divided Germany creating two nations and two realities that drifted further and further apart until they were suddenly in 1989, politically rejoined. The task of building over the wound of the division was to continue over the next decade in a series of international competitions and would take many more years to complete.

Table of Contents::
Alan Balfour - Foreword
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Alan Balfour - Berlin Before 1939
ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL FORUM - BERLIN: CITY OF COMPETIONS
Helmut Geisert - Introduction
Daniel Libeskind - Deconstructing the Call to Order
Axel Schutles - Berlin - The Belated Capital
Hans Stimmann - Urban Design and Architecture After the Wall
Rudolf Stegers - Artless Berlin
Christoph Langhof - The Fever of the Architect
BERLIN AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Alan Balfour - Berlin Desired
BERLIN AS IT IS
Alan Balfour - Berlin Conformed
BERLIN AS IT WILL BE
Alan Balfour - Berlin Futures
Maps
Architects' Index
Bibliography