Reframing Berlin

Architecture, memory-making and film locations

Christopher S. Wilson, Gul Kacmaz Erk (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

412 Seiten

2023 | 1. Auflage
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-687-5 (ISBN)

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Reframing Berlin investigates the concept of urban memory through the transformation and/or consistency of the built environment. These architectural changes, defined as urban strategies, range from demolition (forgetting) to memorialisation (remembering) and are shown through case studies using film locations in Berlin. 64 b/w illus.

Reframing Berlin is about how architecture and the built environment can reveal the memory of a city, an urban memory, through its transformation and consistency over time by means of ‘urban strategies’, which have developed throughout history as cities have adjusted to numerous political, religious, economic and societal changes. These strategies are organised on a ‘memory spectrum’, which range from demolition to memorialisation.

It reveals the complicated relationship between urban strategies and their influence on memory-making in the context of Berlin since 1895, with the help of film locations. It utilises cinematic representations of locations as an audio-visual archive to provide a deeper analysis of the issues brought up by strategies and case studies in relation to memory-making.

Foreword by Kathleen James-Chakraborty

A new volume in the Mediated Cities series from Intellect

Christopher S. Wilson is an architecture and design historian at Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida, USA. He is also the “scholar-in residence” of the non-profit Architecture Sarasota. Gul Kacmaz Erk is a senior lecturer in architecture at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. She is also the founding director of CACity (Cinema and Architecture in the City), Collaborative Research Group.

Foreword

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Introduction

Berlin: The Remembered City

Urban Memory

Urban Strategies

Memory in Berlin

Filmstadt Berlin

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Demolition

New Reich Chancellery

Palace of the Republic

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Temporary Installation

Escape Tunnels

Wrapped Reichstag

From Scratch: New Construction

Sony Center

Spreebogen

Business or Pleasure?: Disneyfication

Checkpoint Charlie

Berliner Stadtschloss

Cycle of Life: Mutation

The Berlin Wall

Potsdamer Platz

Prosthetic Limbs: Supplementation

The Reichstag Dome

Berlin Olympic Stadium

Frozen in Time: Suspension

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Topography of Terror

On the Move: Relocation

Grand Hotel Esplanade

Victory Column

Survival Instinct: Adaptation

Berlin Techno Clubs

Berlin Bunkers

Altered States: Appropriation

Berlin TV Tower

Neue Wache

My Precious!: Preservation

The Brandenburg Gate

Berlin State Opera

Once upon a Time: Memorialization

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Stumbling Blocks

Conclusions: Berlin: Remember When …

Berlin Lessons

The Global Context

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Mediated Cities
Zusatzinfo	Illustrationen
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-78938-687-X / 178938687X
ISBN-13	978-1-78938-687-5 / 9781789386875
Zustand	Neuware