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Book City of Berlin Intensive Architectural historical Survey

Download or read book City of Berlin Intensive Architectural historical Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Counterpreservation

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  • Author : Daniela Sandler
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-12-15
  • ISBN : 1501706802
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Counterpreservation written by Daniela Sandler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nodes of public dialogue, they serve as platforms for dissenting views about the future and past of Berlin. In this book, Daniela Sandler introduces the concept of counterpreservation as a way to understand this intentional appropriation of decrepitude. The embrace of decay is a sign of Berlin's iconoclastic rebelliousness, but it has also been incorporated into the mainstream economy of tourism and development as part of the city's countercultural cachet. Sandler presents the possibilities and shortcomings of counterpreservation as a dynamic force in Berlin and as a potential concept for other cities. Counterpreservation is part of Berlin's fabric: in the city's famed Hausprojekte (living projects) such as the Køpi, Tuntenhaus, and KA 86; in cultural centers such as the Haus Schwarzenberg, the Schokoladen, and the legendary, now defunct Tacheles; in memorials and museums; and even in commerce and residences. The appropriation of ruins is a way of carving out affordable spaces for housing, work, and cultural activities. It is also a visual statement against gentrification, and a complex representation of history, with the marks of different periods—the nineteenth century, World War II, postwar division, unification—on display for all to see. Counterpreservation exemplifies an everyday urbanism in which citizens shape private and public spaces with their own hands, but it also influences more formal designs, such as the Topography of Terror, the Berlin Wall Memorial, and Daniel Libeskind's unbuilt redevelopment proposal for a site peppered with ruins of Nazi barracks. By featuring these examples, Sandler questions conventional notions of architectural authorship and points toward the value of participatory environments.

Book Berlin  A City Awaits

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  • Author : Neil Mair
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2020-10-19
  • ISBN : 3030514498
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Berlin A City Awaits written by Neil Mair and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to many critics and writers. The most notable of these include Charles T. Goodsell and Kenneth Frampton. In Goodsell's (1988) statement “Political places are not randomly or casually brought into existence” (ibid, p. 8), the stipulation is that architecture has been used very deliberately in the past to bolster connotations of power and strength in cities representative of larger nations and political movements. The question central to this book relates to how this can be achieved. Goodsell argues that any study of the interplay between political ideology, architecture, and identity, demands a place imbued with political ideas opposed to “cold concepts and lifeless abstractions” (Goodsell 1988, p. 1). As a means through which to examine and evaluate the ways in which the development of cities can be influenced by political and ideological tendencies, this book focuses on Berlin, as a political discourse, given its significant destruction and reorganisation to reinstate its identity in the context of geopolitics and the advent of globalisation.

Book Planning Work Program

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  • Author : East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Planning Work Program written by East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Berlin

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  • Author : Doug Clelland
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780856708374
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Berlin written by Doug Clelland and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plattenbau Berlin

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  • Author : Jesse Simon
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2022-04-05
  • ISBN : 3791388355
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Plattenbau Berlin written by Jesse Simon and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at Plattenbauten, the iconic residential buildings that Berliners love to hate; celebrating the beauty of their textural details and discovering a microcosm of twentieth-century urbanism in the story of their construction. Made from prefabricated concrete panels, Plattenbauten rose from the ruins of Berlin, providing a quick and inexpensive solution to the severe housing shortage faced by the city after World War II. Although criticized in their day for their sterility and impersonal scale, they nonetheless became an integral part of the city. Drawn from his extensive investigations into Berlin’s urban landscape, Jesse Simon’s texts and photographs offer a convincing argument for the aesthetic and social value of buildings that were once described as “eyesores.” Focused on urban developments constructed between the 1950s and the early 1990s, the book is structured geographically, devoting equal attention to the former East and West. It includes more than 200 images filled with warm light and saturated hues, revealing a diversity of color and detail that may often be lost on the casual observer. It also illustrates how, despite vast differences in political ideologies, both East and West Berlin employed remarkably similar approaches to the creation of new urban spaces. For fans of Brutalism and Modernism, Plattenbau Berlin is both an engaging reconsideration of postwar urbanism, and a unique entry point for exploring Berlin’s history and architecture.

Book Berlin  the Architecture Guide

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  • Author : Rainer Haubrich
  • Publisher : Braun Publishing
  • Release : 2023-10-03
  • ISBN : 9783037682906
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Berlin the Architecture Guide written by Rainer Haubrich and published by Braun Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative guidebook in chronological order whereby the buildings can be understood in their respective architectural-historical context. Berlin is not just the capital city and largest metropolis in Germany. It is also characterised by its most varying architectural landscape. The present architecture guide, now in its latest expanded and updated version, creates comprehensive access to this amazing spectrum. Proven experts guide the reader through all the historical architectural eras - from the Middle Ages right through the present. The chronological sequence and the high-quality color photos clearly reflect the typical characteristic of every era. As well as over 500 individual buildings, the most prominent architects of Berlin and every era are introduced and protrayed.

Book Berlin Architecture

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  • Author : Guido Brendgens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-11-02
  • ISBN : 9783931321291
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Berlin Architecture written by Guido Brendgens and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Berlin architectural guide is a survey of the city's urban development; from its medieval origins to modern times. Architectural features and achievements are described from a new perspective, placing the language of individual buildings within the historical framework of urban planning.

Book The Stepniak and Walk Families

Download or read book The Stepniak and Walk Families written by Katherine Stepniak Seiders and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Home Town Ties

Download or read book Home Town Ties written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Berlin

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  • Author : Architectural Design
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Berlin written by Architectural Design and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architecture in Berlin 1933   1945

Download or read book Architecture in Berlin 1933 1945 written by Matthias Donath and published by Lukas Verlag. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the buildings erected during the era of National Socialism are still standing in downtown Berlin today. In this architecture guide Matthias Donath, building and art historian, presents thirty typical examples of Third Reich architecture. Almost all of the buildings from this period are preserved except for the Reich Chancellery where only traces remain. In addition to ministries, administration centers and embassies, the author describes bunkers, office buildings and a house of the Hitler Youth. The Tempelhof Airport and Olympic grounds are well-known even outside of Berlin. The buildings presented in the book show how diverse the architecture was during these years. The author explains their different functions as well as their intended political message and how they were used for propaganda. Historical photos show the original buildings. Visitors to Berlin and Berlin residents curious about their city’s history will find this book illuminating. The sites are easy to find with the help of a map. Thirty buildings from Berlin’s inner districts are described in this architecture guide, including traces of the Reich Chancellery, various ministries, the Reich National Bank, air-raid and anti-aircraft bunkers, embassies, the Tempelhof Airport, the exhibition and convention grounds, business offices, a model house for the Hitler Youth, the Reich Sports Field (Olympic stadium) and the ensemble at Fehrbelliner Platz.

Book Digital Research and Education in Architectural Heritage

Download or read book Digital Research and Education in Architectural Heritage written by Sander Münster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Conference on Digital Encounters with Cultural Heritage, DECH 2017, and the First Workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries, UHDL 2017, held in Dresden, Germany, in March 2017. The 11 revised full papers from DECH 2017 and two revised full papers from UHDL 2017 presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 joint submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on research on architectural and urban cultural heritage; technical access; systematization; education in urban history; organizational perspectives.

Book A City s Architecture

Download or read book A City s Architecture written by William Alvis Brogden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored. In addition, the more diffuse patterns of settlement of the north and western parts of Europe are hardly considered at all in comparison to the tightly formed urban centres of the Mediterranean. However, the diffuse town/region is typical of our time, whatever the location. By analysing the development of a successful small city of ancient foundation which grew from a diffuse long settled and dense landscape, then demonstrated a slow growth as a tight urban form before an early adoption of the designed landscape as "town" lessons can be learned. These lessons may be useful in addressing the nature and growth of any city or city/region. The story of Aberdeen is just such an example. Not only are the materials for its long history present, its relations and concerns with the wider world are also well attested, and many of the ideas which directed or significantly impinged on the design of cities were tested there, or had their origin there. As its form accumulated and developed over such a long time Aberdeen also suggests the idea of an architecture of the city. This book examines the development and design of a city from three inescapable aspects: its location and character of the landscape; its own particular history of development; and its cultural responses to various waves of thought.