#books #architecture | Postmodern Berlin : Wohnbauten der 80er Jahre = residential buildings of the 80s

Postmodern Berlin : Wohnbauten der 80er Jahre = residential buildings of the 80s / Claudia Kromrei ; fotografiert von Thomas Bomm + Manfred Hamm ; Übersetzung: Cosima Talhouni.
Salenstein : Niggli, 2019.
175 p. . il.
ISBN 9783721209877
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Alemania / Arquitectura doméstica – Alemania / Berlín
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.038(430) POS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127050776

Anyone who prefers to view postmodernism – with reference to architecture – as an epoch, looks with enthusiasm to the western part of Berlin in the 1980s. Nowhere else is there a greater density of buildings to which this label can be attached. Veritable architectural manifestos that shaped the cityscape from then on can be found there. The city and the time allowed for seemingly contradictory pieces of architecture, but what unites the residential buildings above all is the vehement artistic desire of their master builders. Thirty of these are being re-photographed around thirty years after their creation. Floor plans document the structural similarities and differences independently of the architectural means of expression.

In Berlin there is a globally unparalleled density of buildings from the post-modern era, which are currently being rediscovered and that should be accordingly newly comprehended. The city and the era allowed for the most contradictory types of architecture in terms of shape and appearance by the internationally most renowned architects of the time. These veritable constructed manifests of the 1980s gave the western part of the city a new face right before the fall of the Wall and the German reunification.