Anyone who prefers to view postmodernism - with reference to architecture - as an epoch, looks with enthusiasm to the western part of Berlin in the 1980s. Nowhere else is there a greater density of buildings to which this label can be attached. Veritable architectural manifestos that shaped the cityscape from then on can be found there. The city and the time allowed for seemingly contradictory pieces of architecture, but what unites the residential buildings above all is the vehement artistic desire of their master builders. Thirty of these are being re-photographed around thirty years after their creation. Floor plans document the structural similarities and differences independently of the architectural means of expression.

Postmodernism in Berlin: Residential Buildings of the 80s

Arts & Photography

Kromrei, Claudia

Photography & Video

Niggli

Postmodern Non-Residential Berlin

History & Criticism

An entirely new artistic approach to Le Corbusier's iconic chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp. Le Corbusier's chapel Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp is arguably the most famous modern religious building and a UNESCO world heritage site. It has been photographed by millions of people, including some of the most distinguished architectural photographers. In this book, Austrian artist Siegrun Appelt takes an entirely new approach to looking at the iconic structure, distinct from all her famous predecessors. Appelt focuses with an utter concentration on details, creating compositions of the highest sensitivity and precision. Her images highlight the place's spatial structure and lines, Le Corbusier's ingenious direction of light, as well as surfaces and passages. The images can be read as hints to these details and at the same time invite a conclusion from detail to the whole. Published alongside the images is a dialogue between Claudia Kromrei and Otto Kapfinger, in which they investigate the potential of photography to show Le Corbusier's means of expression and discuss the visualization and perception of material and immaterial elements of this icon of twentieth-century architecture.

Le Corbusier―Ronchamp: Photographs by Siegrun Appelt

Kapfinger, Otto

Appelt, Siegrun

Scheidegger and Spiess

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