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Oswalt Philipp - Berlin: City Without Form Strategies For A Different Architecture - Paperback
Oswalt Philipp - Berlin: City Without Form Strategies For A Different Architecture - Paperback
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Description: Berlin was shaped by the events of the twentieth century in a process of automatic urbanism. More than any other metropolis the city absorbed the forces of that epoch modernity fascism two world wars Stalinism socialism the Cold War revolt capitalism and gave them form. This book shows how even today opposed ideological political economic and military forces continue to produce unplanned structures and activities and urban phenomena beyond the categories of urban design and architecture that conceal rich potential. Berlin reveals particularly clearly phenomena that have shaped urban development in the twentieth century in other places as well: conglomeration collision of borders destruction void mass metabolism and simulation. The present book which caused a sensation when first published in German twenty years ago is now being published in English for the first time. Its surprising and informative analysis of Berlin as a prototype of the modern city destroys the ideologies of heroic modernity as well as the new nationalisms and shows how the modern city as found can become the point of departure for new forms of context - specific architecture and urban planning. Taking Berlin as a prototype Philipp Oswalt's lucid analysis describes how much the built environment of cities is influenced by the unintended side - effects of political economic and technological processes. This automatic urbanism reveals modernist master - planning and national building traditions as being a myth. Instead the book offers a both socially and ecologically more sensitive more responsible approach to develop cities as found. Saskia Sassen Columbia University New York This English edition of Philipp Oswalt's now - classic study could not be more timely. Every effort to understand the modern city must contend with Berlin the twentieth century's anti - capital. Its lessons presented here with singular insight and authority remain necessary to anyone thinking about what that word city might still mean today. Reinhold Martin Columbia University New York Berlin has never only been a theatre in the battle between ideas and ideologies. Rather it has always been the material means by which these ideas clash against each other. If the struggle for our futures must take place in Berlin as our historical moment seems to demand there is no better guide than Philipp Oswalt's now classic Berlin: City Without Form. His scholarly ingenuity and perceptive architect's eye are only matched by a commitment to the future of his city. Eyal Weizman Goldsmiths/ University of London
Title: Berlin: City Without Form Strategies For A Different Architecture
Author(s): Oswalt Philipp
Publisher: Dom Publishers
Barcode: 9783869222745
Pages: 160 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 7/13/2021
Category: History Of Architecture
Description: Berlin was shaped by the events of the twentieth century in a process of automatic urbanism. More than any other metropolis the city absorbed the forces of that epoch modernity fascism two world wars Stalinism socialism the Cold War revolt capitalism and gave them form. This book shows how even today opposed ideological political economic and military forces continue to produce unplanned structures and activities and urban phenomena beyond the categories of urban design and architecture that conceal rich potential. Berlin reveals particularly clearly phenomena that have shaped urban development in the twentieth century in other places as well: conglomeration collision of borders destruction void mass metabolism and simulation. The present book which caused a sensation when first published in German twenty years ago is now being published in English for the first time. Its surprising and informative analysis of Berlin as a prototype of the modern city destroys the ideologies of heroic modernity as well as the new nationalisms and shows how the modern city as found can become the point of departure for new forms of context - specific architecture and urban planning. Taking Berlin as a prototype Philipp Oswalt's lucid analysis describes how much the built environment of cities is influenced by the unintended side - effects of political economic and technological processes. This automatic urbanism reveals modernist master - planning and national building traditions as being a myth. Instead the book offers a both socially and ecologically more sensitive more responsible approach to develop cities as found. Saskia Sassen Columbia University New York This English edition of Philipp Oswalt's now - classic study could not be more timely. Every effort to understand the modern city must contend with Berlin the twentieth century's anti - capital. Its lessons presented here with singular insight and authority remain necessary to anyone thinking about what that word city might still mean today. Reinhold Martin Columbia University New York Berlin has never only been a theatre in the battle between ideas and ideologies. Rather it has always been the material means by which these ideas clash against each other. If the struggle for our futures must take place in Berlin as our historical moment seems to demand there is no better guide than Philipp Oswalt's now classic Berlin: City Without Form. His scholarly ingenuity and perceptive architect's eye are only matched by a commitment to the future of his city. Eyal Weizman Goldsmiths/ University of London
Title: Berlin: City Without Form Strategies For A Different Architecture
Author(s): Oswalt Philipp
Publisher: Dom Publishers
Barcode: 9783869222745
Pages: 160 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 7/13/2021
Category: History Of Architecture