Modernism as memory : building identity in the Federal Republic of Germany

Modernism as memory : building identity in the Federal Republic of Germany /

"After World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and '20s. As Mod...

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Main Author: James-Chakraborty, Kathleen, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Architecture > Germany (West) > History.
Architecture and society > Germany (West) > History > 20th century.
Collective memory > Germany (West)
ARCHITECTURE > History > Contemporary (1945- )
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
Architecture
Architecture and society
Collective memory
Germany (West)
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Making Memory Modern
  • Making German Architecture Modern
  • Inserting Memory into Modern Architecture: West German Churches
  • An Architecture of Fragmentation and Absence: West German Museums
  • Critical Reconstruction or Neomodernist Shards? Post-unification Berlin
  • Manufacturing Memory in the Ruhr Region
  • Assimilating Modern Memory
  • Conclusion: The Kolumba Museum in Cologne.

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