Design and Build in 1980s Berlin
30.10.20 – 22.3.21
Berlin boasts a unique concentration of noteworthy buildings from the 1980s, and more than 30 years later they deserve a review. The colourful diversity of this architectural vocabulary challenged previous ideas of living in the modern world. Widely labelled
“postmodern”, it drew on structural typologies and stylistic devices from the past and tested alternative urban lifestyles.
In the run-up to the celebrations marking 750 years since the original town charter, the entries submitted to the “Internationale Bauausstellung” in West Berlin in 1984/87 and the “Bauausstellung” of 1987 in East Berlin turned the city into a kind of architectural
laboratory observed from well beyond its boundaries. Even at the design stage, some were already attracting criticism as artistically misguided, and significant examples of this era in architecture have since disappeared, been revamped or else threatened by demolition.
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Lars Lerup, Bauwettbewerb Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek/Berliner Zentralbibliothek, nicht realisiert, 1. Preis – Axonometrische Projektion, Blick vom Landwehrkanal, 1988 - 1989, © Berlinische Galerie, Repro: Anja Elisabeth Witte (JPG, 4 MB)
Lars Lerup, Bauwettbewerb Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek/Berliner Zentralbibliothek, nicht realisiert, 1. Preis – Bau- und Landschaftselemente: Schemazeichnung, 1988 – 1989, © Berlinische Galerie, Repro: Anja Elisabeth Witte (JPG, 4 MB)
Lars Lerup, Bauwettbewerb Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek/Berliner Zentralbibliothek, nicht realisiert, 1. Preis – Bau- und Landschaftselemente: Axonometrische Projektion, Blick vom Landwehrkanal, 1988 – 1989, © Berlinische Galerie, Repro: Anja Elisabeth Wi (JPG, 3 MB)
Baudirektion Hauptstadt Berlin des Ministeriums für Bauwesen, Modellfoto Investitionskomplex Friedrichstraße Süd: Quartier 202 – Ansicht Friedrichstraße, 1987, © Berlinische Galerie, Repro: Anja Elisabeth Witte (JPG, 1 MB)
Baudirektion Hauptstadt Berlin des Ministeriums für Bauwesen, Modellfoto Investitionskomplex Friedrichstraße Nord: Quartier 401, Spreeterrassen – Ansicht Spree, 1987, © Berlinische Galerie, Repro: Anja Elisabeth Witte (JPG, 1 MB)
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