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Berlin St Martin's Press - 1995 ⇒ Purchase World Cities: Berlin on Amazon ⇐ 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 |
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