Anything Goes? Berlin Architecture in the 1980s
Widely labelled 鈥減ostmodern鈥�, it drew on structural typologies and stylistic devices from the past and tested alternative urban lifestyles. In the run-up to the celebrations marking 750 years since the original town charter, the entries submitted to the 鈥淚nternationale Bauausstellung鈥� in West Berlin in 1984/87 and the 鈥淏auausstellung鈥� of 1987 in East Berlin turned the city into a kind of architectural laboratory observed from well beyond its boundaries. Even at the design stage, some were already attracting criticism as artistically misguided, and significant examples of this era in architecture have since disappeared, been revamped or else threatened by demolition. This exhibition is the first attempt to show who and what set their stamp on the buildings and visions developed for East and West Berlin in the final decade before the Wall fell.
Widely labelled 鈥減ostmodern鈥�, it drew on structural typologies and stylistic devices from the past and tested alternative urban lifestyles. In the run-up to the celebrations marking 750 years since the original town charter, the entries submitted to the 鈥淚nternationale Bauausstellung鈥� in West Berlin in 1984/87 and the 鈥淏auausstellung鈥� of 1987 in East Berlin turned the city into a kind of architectural laboratory observed from well beyond its boundaries. Even at the design stage, some were already attracting criticism as artistically misguided, and significant examples of this era in architecture have since disappeared, been revamped or else threatened by demolition. This exhibition is the first attempt to show who and what set their stamp on the buildings and visions developed for East and West Berlin in the final decade before the Wall fell.
Artists on show
- Bernd Ettel
- Christian Enzmann
- Christof Puttfarken
- Dorothea Krause
- Frei Otto
- Günter Stahn
- Günther Ludewig
- Hans Kollhoff
- Helmut Stingl
- Hermann Kendel
- Hinrich Baller
- Inken Baller
- James Stirling
- John Hejduk
- Josef Paul Kleihues
- Kjell Nylund
- Manfred Prasser
- Martin Küenzlen
- Michael Kny
- Michael Wilford
- Moritz Müller
- Oswald Mathias Ungers
- Peter Meyer
- Peter Stürzebecher
- Rob Krier
- Solweig Steller-Wendland
- Thomas Weber
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