Bauakademie Berlin

Armin Linke’s night photography reveals the vacancy of the Bauakademie as a trace of Schinkel in Berlin’s urban fabric. Despite current majority support in Parliament for a reconstruction of the historical envelope, there are clearly more differentiated ideas among architects and urban society in Berlin about the future of the Bauakademie building. At this important moment, this title offers conceptual perspectives for a contemporary Bauakademie.There is strong resistance to the appropriation of this important institution and building task by representational politics that actually threaten to obscure more historical traces than they are supposed to make visible with the motto 'As much Schinkel as possible'.
ISBN 9783868597011. JOVIS. pb. 320 pages. 25 colour & 90 b/w ills. 14.8 x 21 cm.
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