TY - BOOK AU - Walker,Julia TI - Berlin contemporary: architecture and politics after 1990 T2 - Visual cultures and German contexts SN - 9781350437043 AV - NA4425.G42 B4779 2022 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Visual Arts KW - Public buildings KW - Germany KW - Berlin KW - Architecture and society KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - City planning KW - Capital and capitol KW - Berlin (Germany) KW - Buildings, structures, etc KW - Print books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Berlin, the Contemporary Capital -- Bridging and Breaking--Master Planning the Spreebogen -- The Reichstag's New Lightness of Being -- Monumental Modernism--The Chancellery as Future Ruin -- Palaces of Doubt -- Conclusion: No One Intends To Open an Airport N2 - "Berlin Contemporary examines the architecture and urban planning of reunified Berlin, and reveals how its iconic new government structures embody the unsettled contradictions that animate contemporary architecture"-- ER -