Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: LaTourelle, Rodney
Article Excerpt
Among the dushbins of history, Berlin is a trashcan par excellence. The city reads like a collection of smashed utopias failed dreams and spent ideologies; the traumatic consequences of total system failure. The remains of two world wars, which evoked at least two notions about reconstructive modernism, exist alongside structures dedicated to fascism, socialism, the Cold War and a struggling contemporary capitalism. Berlin is a site of ideological confrontation played out at the level of architecture: witness the Mercedes-Benz office tower with giant rotating logo built to be seen over the wall from the east.
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