Radically modern : urban planning and architecture in 1960s Berlin / edited by Thomas Köhler and Ursula Müller for Berlinische Galerie ; with texts by Adrian von Buttlar, Bruno Flierl, Hartmut Frank, Anna Maria Heckmann, Irma Leinauer, Stanislaus von Moos, Ursula Müller, Frank Seehausen, Dirk Weilemann.

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208 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
Published on the occassion of the exhibition at Berlinische Galerie Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, May 29-October 26, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue. Greeting / Hortensia Völkers and Alexander Farenholtz ; Preface / Thomas Köhler ; Introduction / Ursula Müller -- Risen from ruins. The monumentality of the matchbox / Stanislaus von Moos -- Urban spaces/urban dreams. The new Alexanderplatz in East Berlin's city center / Bruno Flierl in conversation with Ursula Müller ; New urban spaces in West Berlin : Brietscheidplatz and Kulturforum / Adrian von Buttlar ; "How will we go on living?" : In search of the city of tomorrow in East and West / Dirk Weilemann ; Different, not bashful, never built : architectural visions for Berlin in the 1960s / Anna Maria Heckmann -- Techno-geometries. The swing in the future : staging the flow of traffic in 1960s Berlin / Frank Seehausen -- Serial diversity. "No fear of monotony" : on Hans Schmidt and Edmund N. Bacon / Stanislaus von Moos ; Modern planning, complex instruction : industrialized construction on Karl-Marx-Allee and Leninplatz / Irma Leinauer -- Large housing estates and oppositions. Crisis or sea change? : Architecture debates in West Berlin around 1967/68 / Harmut Frank.

ISBN:

9783940208323 (paperback Exhibition)
3940208329 (paperback Exhibition)
9783803007933 (paperback Book trade)
3803007933 (paperback Book trade)

Subject:

Architecture Germany Berlin History Exhibitions.
City planning Germany Berlin History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture Allemagne Berlin Histoire Expositions.
Architecture.
City planning.
Berlin (Germany) History 20th century Exhibitions.
Berlin (Allemagne) Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Germany Berlin.

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Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Köhler, Thomas (Museum director), editor.
Müller, Ursula (Museum curator), editor, author.
Buttlar, Adrian von, 1948- author.
Flierl, Bruno, author.
Frank, Hartmut, 1942- author.
Heckmann, Anna Maria, author.
Leinauer, Irma, author.
Moos, Stanislaus von, author.
Seehausen, Frank, author.
Weilemann, Dirk, author.
Berlinische Galerie, host institution.

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Location: Library main 291787
Call No.: BIB 235584
Status: Available

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