Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin

Provides a comparative analysis of selected works of architecture and urban planning in East and West Berlin during the "Wall era”, to reveal the importance of these structures to the formation of political, cultural and social identities. Pugh uncovers the roles played by organisations such as the Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage in West Germany and the East German Building Academy in conveying the preferred political narrative of their respective states through constructed spaces.

About the author

Emily Pugh is Robert H. Smith postdoctoral research associate at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Summary

Emily Pugh provides an original comparative analysis of selected works of architecture and urban planning in East and West Berlin during the "Wall era," to reveal the importance of these structures to the formation of political, cultural, and social identities.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Pugh
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2014
• EAN: 9780822963028
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6302-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1112 g
• Series: Culture Politics & the Built E; Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment; Culture Politics & the Built E; Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment; Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries