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Capital Dilemma by Michael Z. Wise (1998, Hardcover) 
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Capital Dilemma by Michael Z. Wise (1998, Hardcover)

Author: Michael Z. Wise
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr
Publication Date: 1998-04-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1568981341
ISBN-13: 9781568981345
Product ID: EPID845615
Description: An account of the debate raging in Germany at the end of the century over plans for the reconstruction of Berlin as the national capital. Wise puts the debate into context by examining Albert Speer's plans for the rebuilding of Berlin as...
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Synopsis
An account of the debate raging in Germany at the end of the century over plans for the reconstruction of Berlin as the national capital. Wise puts the debate into context by examining Albert Speer's plans for the rebuilding of Berlin as the Nazi capital of Europe, and by reflecting on the city's foundation as the seat of the Prussian emperors and its role in the unification of Germany in 1871.

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Publication Date:1998-04-01

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Length:190 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:20.8 oz

Publisher's Note
The decision to move Germany's government seat from Bonn to Berlin by the year 2000 poses an epic architectural challenge and has fostered an international debate on which building styles are appropriate to represent German national identity. Capital Dilemma investigates the political decisions and historical events behind the redesign of Berlin's official architecture. It tells a complex and exciting drama of politics, memory, cultural values, and architecture, in which Helmut Kohl, Albert Speer, Sir Norman Foster, and I. M. Pei all figure as players. If capital city design projects are symbols of national identity and historical consciousness, Berlin is the supreme example. In fact, architecture has played a pivotal role throughout Germany's turbulent twentieth-century history. After the fall of the monarchy, Germany gave birth to the Bauhaus, whose founders argued that their own revolutionary designs could shape human destiny. The century's warring ideologies, Nazism and Communism, also used architecture for their own political ends. In its latest incarnation, Berlin will become the capital of the fifth German state in this century to be ruled from that city. How will the official architecture of reunified Berlin, a democratic capital being built amid totalitarian remains, be different this time around? The Federal Republic of Germany, a highly stable democracy in stark contrast to its predecessors, has been struggling with burdensome architectural legacies. In the process, it has considered remedies as varied as outright destruction, refurbishment, and, in the case of the former Nazi Central Bank now being converted into the new Foreign Ministry, physical concealment.

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"This is such an important book. Michael Z. Wise has gone straight to the heart of the project for a 'new' Germany--which is that the creation of a capital out of a newly and uneasily unified Berlin is really about the re-creation of a people's consciousness, and will shape, as much as any laws, the future of German democracy. I don't know another book that explores so thoroughly and thoughtfully the connection between public space, public sphere, and public memory, between the language of architecture and the language of community."
Publisher's Catalogue - Jane Kramer

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