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 MoreWhen I first saw the map of Weimar, I couldn't help seeing it as a human figure, with the historic center as the body and the green spaces as the limbs.
Read MoreYes, even Berlin--population 4 million in 1925--appears on an outside circle of Dessau--population 70,000 the same year.
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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 MoreWhen Fritz Hesse, the liberal mayor of the city, invited Gropius to move the Bauhaus to Dessau, he sweetened the deal with the funds for a new building.
Read MoreThe comparison may be a little funny but, in a similar vein, when Walter Gropius moves the Bauhaus to Dessau in the mid 1920s, he seems to make every effort to bring with him a lot of Weimar.
Read MoreWhich one is the front façade of the Bauhaus?
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 MoreIn 1925 Mies van der Rohe was appointed by the Deutsche Werkbund as the director of a housing exhibition in Stuttgart, the Weissenhof Siedlung.
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.
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