Berlin Today: Heute Aujourd'Hui - Softcover

Kruse, Christiane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3791326465 ISBN 13: 9783791326467

Publisher: Prestel Pub, 2005

Synopsis

Now more than ever, Berlin is a city in flux. Following the destruction of World War II and decades of division, the reunified city is being architecturally reshaped.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Focusing on 35 distinct areas of the city, this book presents the new face of the German capital including the former West, the new center, and the government district with stunning photographs that look at the startling contrasts between old and new.

Both local and international architects have carried out rebuilding projects, most famously Renzo Piano’s Daimler Chrysler project, Michael Wilford’s British Embassy in Berlin, Norman Foster’s Reichstag conversion, Helmut Jahn’s piece for Sony, Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin. Architectural historian Christiane Kruse examines Berlin’s vibrant, checkered past, offering surprising insights into its rebirth as a thriving, thoroughly modern metropolis and using texts that place current developments in a historical context. Rare, archive photographs from the GDR and before the war show the remarkable transformation of the city.

About the Author:

Christiane Kruse is a Berlin-based art historian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 3791326465
• ISBN 13: 9783791326467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 93