Berlin, a once divided city, retains its history much like the layers of an onion - distinct, part of a whole, and sometimes make you tear up a little. Take a walk in the city through Jenny Erpenbeck’s account in Go, Went, Gone to peel back the layers.
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Read MoreYes, even Berlin--population 4 million in 1925--appears on an outside circle of Dessau--population 70,000 the same year.
Read MoreA mid-17th century map of Berlin shows what the foundational core of the city was: Berlin proper to the east and the more elongated area know as Cölln to the west.
Read MoreThen, in 1921 Mies submitted a stunning entry to the competition for a high-rise office building near the Friedrichstrasse train station in the heart of Berlin.
Read MoreShortly after his entry to the 1921 Friedrichstrasse competition, Mies produced a second project for a high-rise office building.
Read MoreIn the highrise projects of 1921 and 1922 Mies was mostly concerned with the relation between structure and enclosure and the properties of the glass as a skin.
Read MoreThis may explain the height differences in the projects themselves, a one-story terrace extending about half the facade in Berlin and a lower volume where the building turns the corner in Stuttgart.
Read MoreThe 1929 competition for the redesign of Alexanderplatz in Berlin finally gave Mies the chance to bring together at a truly urban scale the ideas about city and architecture that he had developed for most of the decade.
Read MoreIf you look carefully at a map of Berlin dated any time after 1814 you can see how the city was at the very center of Napoleon's path, midway between Paris and Saint Petersburg.
Read MoreBesides their city palaces, sometimes kings, emperors and other rulers had a second seat of power, typically summer palaces.
Read MoreIt is particularly interesting to see the different way in which the two major cities relate to their geography.
Read MoreIn earlier maps of Berlin, the Tiergarten appeared typically not in the middle but way to the left, reserving the center of the drawing for the historical core of the city, let's say between Parisier Platz with its Brandeburg Gate and Alexanderplatz with its Soviet-era TV Tower.
Read MoreAfter the war, Berlin was in ruins and its reconstruction became the first--and no doubt foremost--exercise in Cold War urbanism.
Read MoreNot long after the end of the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) Berlin embarked in the construction of massive defensive system of walls and bastions in the star-shaped Renaissance manner.
Read MoreThere is a beautiful 1737 map of Berlin that depicts the city during the rule of Frederick William I.
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