Capital Dilemma. Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy
Wise, Michael Z.:
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192 S. Mit Widmung des Autors. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Inhalt: HEADQUARTERS FOR A DIVIDED NATION: Bonn: Capital of Self-Effacement -- East Berlin: Communism Pursues Grandeur -- DESIGNING NEW IMAGES OF POWER: Master Plan for a Government District -- Choosing a Chancellery -- Presidential Office: Glittering Jewel or Dark Fortress? -- BURDENSOME LEGACIES: Nazism's Architectural Remnants -- Communist Relics -- Norman Foster's Reichstag: Illuminating Shadows of the Past -- I. M. Pei and a Prussian Inheritance -- MEMORY IN THE NEW BERLIN: Monuments to Victims, Not Heroes Hesitation by Design. ISBN 9781568981345 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 505 Mit zahlr. Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Seller Inventory # 1126235
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Title: Capital Dilemma. Germany's Search for a New ...
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Sehr gut
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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?If capital city design projects are symbols of national identity and ?historical consciousness, Berlin is the supreme example. In fact, ?architecture has played a pivotal role throughout Germany's turbulent ?twentieth-century history. After the fall of the monarchy, Germany gave ?birth to the Bauhaus, whose founders argued that their own revolutionary ?designs could shape human destiny. The century's warring ideologies, ?Nazism and Communism, also used architecture for their own political ?ends. In its latest incarnation, Berlin will become the capital of the ?fifth German state in this century to be ruled from that city. How will ?the official architecture of reunified Berlin, a democratic capital ?being built amid totalitarian remains, be different this time around? Th?e Federal Republic of Germany, a highly stable democracy in stark ?contrast to its predecessors, has been struggling with burdensome ?architectural legacies. In the process, it has considered remedies as ?varied as outright destruction, refurbishment, and, in the case of the ?former Nazi Central Bank now being converted into the new Foreign ?Ministry, physical concealment.
Wise makes the tearing down of some old buildings ("Bye, Bye Clunker," read the headline in one Berlin newspaper as the Communist, white aluminum-clad Foreign Ministry fell to the wrecking balls) and the heated arguments over new designs into a fascinating page-turner. In scores of interviews, Wise also found many younger Germans who seemed inured to the "phobia" against classicism, so tainted by Albert Speer's grand designs for the Third Reich. Those in favor of building a replica of the old royal residence, last occupied by Kaiser Wilhelm II in l9l8, were slightly chilling in their naive, right-wing nostalgia, for example. Here is Annette Ahme, head of the Society for Historical Berlin: "Everyone, whether Left or Right, wants a beautiful city, apart from a few intellectuals who say we must continue to suffer from our Nazi-era sins and that these must remain visible."
Wise's ultimate view, that "the Federal Republic has made an exemplary transition from totalitarian rule to democracy," is heartening, because it is believable. This is largely due to his detailed, fair-minded descriptions of the painstaking cultural processes of recent decades. --Peggy Moorman
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