Title & Author:

Anything goes? : Berlin architecture in the 1980s / edited by Thomas Köhler and Ursula Müller ; with texts by Esra Akcan, Andreas Butter, Wolfgang Kil, Kathrin Meissner, Marco De Michelis, Anna-Maria Nitschke, Verena Pfeiffer-Kloss, Emily Pugh, Philine Schneider (Guerilla Architects), Florian Urban, Georg Vrachliotis, Julia Wigger, Antonia Wolff, Gerd Zimmermann ; translations, Steven Lindberg, Claudia Marra.

Publication:

Bielefeld : Kerber ; Berlin : Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, [2021]
Woodbridge, UK : ACC Art Books ; New York, NY : Artbook / D.A.P.
©2021

Description:

232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, map, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Welcoming remarks from the German Federal Cultural Foundation / Hortensia Völckers, Kirsten Hass -- Architecture exhibtitions at the Berlinische Galerie / Thomas Köhler -- Anything goes? / Ursula Müller -- Impulses and confirmation -- Between social issues and artistic responsibility" Architecture in West Berlin until the IBA / Marco de Michelis -- Beautiful old city -- Beyond the Berlin myth. The local, the global, and IBA 87 / Emily Pugh -- Saving Prenzlauer Berg? Urban development and "self-will" in the "special" district of East Berlin / Andreas Butter, Julia Wigger, Kathrin Meissner -- The city as a whole -- The small and the large alternative architects at a crossroads: between downtown and Marzahn / Wolfgang Kil -- A socialist temple to consumerism. The Passagen Friedrichstadt and the unrealized plans for Friedrichstrasse / Florian Urban -- Urban diversity -- The uprising of the signs; or, learning from Berlin. The reinstatement of architecture as langage / Gerd Zimmerman -- Migrant Berlin and multiplying the voices of architecture / Esra Akcan -- Architecture for the people -- "The citizens' vote counts!" Inken Baller in conversation with Anna-Maria Nitschke -- Architecture of imprecision. The Eco Houses of Frei Otto / Georg Vrachliotis -- A future from the past -- A highly charged decade for the politics of memory. The debate over three projects for museums or memorials in West Berlin / Antonia Wolff -- Festivities and counter-festivities. Architectural and political competition for the 750th anniversary in divided Berlin / Verena Pfeiffer-Kloss -- Architecture in film and art -- Berlin cityscapes in films from the 1980s -- Times are hard but postmodern. Artistic installations by Isa Melsheimer -- "And what's it like living here?" -- On living in Berlin housing of the 1980s / Philine Schneider (Guerilla architects) -- Locations of the buildings depicted in the catalogue -- List of works -- Photo credits -- Acknowledgments -- Colophon.
"Translations: Steven Lindberg (D), Claudia Marra (I)"--Page 232.

Exhibitions:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin's Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin, January 29-April 26, 2021.

Summary:

In 1987, Berlin as a whole became a laboratory for architecture. A wide range of notable buildings with a unique density was created in the East and the West in connection with the city's 750th anniversary. While the buildings were vilified at the time, they now appear as important witnesses to a "postmodern" era of building, which called the traditional architecture of the modern living environment into question. Today, the buildings have disappeared, been modified, or are threatened with demolition. For the first time, the exhibition and publication examine the significance of the architectural visions developed in East and West Berlin in the final decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

ISBN:

9783735607003 (English book trade edition ; hardbound)
3735607004 (English book trade edition ; hardbound)
9783940208675 (Museum edition)
3940208671 (Museum edition)

Subject:

Architecture Germany Berlin Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture Allemagne Berlin Expositions.
Architecture Germany Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern Exhibitions. 20th century.
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Buildings
Berlin (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
Berlin (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Germany Berlin

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Köhler, Thomas (Museum director), editor.
Müller, Ursula (Museum curator), editor.
Akcan, Esra, author.
Lindberg, Steven, translator.
Marra, Claudia, 1985- translator.
Berlinische Galerie, host institution.

Berlin architecture in the 1980s

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309843
Call No.: BIB 254992
Status: Available