This paper makes the case for a “socialist modernism” to understand the development of Alexanderplatz by the regime of the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s. We propose that the socialist era development on Alexanderplatz was staged as the realization of the modernist vision. At the same time, the 1960s design of Alexanderplatz also includes distinctive ‘socialist’ features, notably the emphasis on centrality and visually dominant tall structures that are in striking contrast to the (Western) high modernist canon. The paper consists of two parts: First we consider the GDR conception of urbanism and the development of the city centre. Alexanderplatz was in many ways the pinnacle of such conception that built on the modernist legacy and...
"Im Rahmen einer Soziologie der Gewalt kommt, bezogen auf das 20. Jahrhundert, der Avantgarde eine w...
This paper proposes a revision of Russian modernism’s politically-motivated chronology and geography...
During the 1970’s, dissatisfaction with Brussels’ urban development was voiced by a series of counte...
This paper makes the case for a “socialist modernism” to understand the development of Alexanderplat...
“Post-modernism” and “post-socialism” are two frames that have been widely applied to account for ur...
Since the unification of East and West Germany in 1990, most of the urban fabric of the former East ...
Twentieth-century housing and modern mass culture were characterized by standardization, industriali...
Eisenhüttenstadt, the first “socialist model city” designed and constructed in the German Democratic...
The role of public art in forging hybrid ‘realist-modernist’ architecture and public spaces in the G...
The construction of so-called “socialist cities” (sotsgorods), implemented in the USSR in the 1920 a...
The rhetoric of architectural modernism in the German Democratic Republic in the early 1960s appears...
"Ein hoher Grad von Urbanität und Mobilität ist ein zentrales Charakteristikum moderner Gesellschaft...
Wollte man das Definitionsspektrum der weißen, kubischen und avantgardistischen Architektur der Mode...
The author discusses the difference between postmodernism and modernism, taking as example mostly ar...
Die vorliegende Arbeit wollte eine Antwort auf die Frage geben, was das wirtschaftliche und soziale ...
"Im Rahmen einer Soziologie der Gewalt kommt, bezogen auf das 20. Jahrhundert, der Avantgarde eine w...
This paper proposes a revision of Russian modernism’s politically-motivated chronology and geography...
During the 1970’s, dissatisfaction with Brussels’ urban development was voiced by a series of counte...
This paper makes the case for a “socialist modernism” to understand the development of Alexanderplat...
“Post-modernism” and “post-socialism” are two frames that have been widely applied to account for ur...
Since the unification of East and West Germany in 1990, most of the urban fabric of the former East ...
Twentieth-century housing and modern mass culture were characterized by standardization, industriali...
Eisenhüttenstadt, the first “socialist model city” designed and constructed in the German Democratic...
The role of public art in forging hybrid ‘realist-modernist’ architecture and public spaces in the G...
The construction of so-called “socialist cities” (sotsgorods), implemented in the USSR in the 1920 a...
The rhetoric of architectural modernism in the German Democratic Republic in the early 1960s appears...
"Ein hoher Grad von Urbanität und Mobilität ist ein zentrales Charakteristikum moderner Gesellschaft...
Wollte man das Definitionsspektrum der weißen, kubischen und avantgardistischen Architektur der Mode...
The author discusses the difference between postmodernism and modernism, taking as example mostly ar...
Die vorliegende Arbeit wollte eine Antwort auf die Frage geben, was das wirtschaftliche und soziale ...
"Im Rahmen einer Soziologie der Gewalt kommt, bezogen auf das 20. Jahrhundert, der Avantgarde eine w...
This paper proposes a revision of Russian modernism’s politically-motivated chronology and geography...
During the 1970’s, dissatisfaction with Brussels’ urban development was voiced by a series of counte...