Julia Walker - Berlin Contemporary: Architecture and Politics After 1990

Visual Cultures and German Contexts

Series Editors

Deborah Ascher Barnstone (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Thomas O. Haakenson (California College of the Arts, USA)

Visual Cultures and German Contextspublishes innovative research into visual culture in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, as well as in diasporic linguistic and cultural communities outside of these geographic, historical, and political borders.

The series invites scholarship by academics, curators, architects, artists, and designers across all media forms and time periods. It engages with traditional methods in visual culture analysis as well as inventive interdisciplinary approaches. It seeks to encourage a dialogue amongst scholars in traditional disciplines with those pursuing innovative interdisciplinary and intermedial research. Of particular interest are provocative perspectives on archival materials, original scholarship on emerging and established creative visual fields, investigations into time-based forms of aesthetic expression, and new readings of history through the lens of visual culture. The series offers a much- needed venue for expanding how we engage with the field of Visual Culture in general.

Proposals for monographs, edited volumes, and outstanding research studies are welcome, by established as well as emerging writers from a wide range of comparative, theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Advisory Board

Donna West Brett, University of Sydney, Australia

Charlotte Klonk, Humboldt Universitt Berlin, Germany

Nina Lbbren, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Maria Makela, California College of the Arts, USA

Patrizia C. McBride, Cornell University, USA

Rick McCormick, University of Minnesota, USA

Elizabeth Otto, University at Buffalo SUNY, USA

Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, USA

Annette F. Timm, University of Calgary, Canada

James A. van Dyke, University of Missouri, USA

Titles in the Series

Art and Resistance in Germany, edited by Deborah Ascher Barnstone and Elizabeth Otto

Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernisms Legendary Art School, edited by Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rssler

Berlin Contemporary: Architecture and Politics after 1990, by Julia Walker

Photofascism: Photography, Film, and Exhibition Culture in 1930s Germany and Italy, by Vanessa Rocco

Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 18501930: (No) Home Away from Home, by Erin Eckhold Sassin

It is a very great pleasure to thank the many people who have been instrumental in seeing this project through to completion. First, I thank Deborah Ascher Barnstone and Tom Haakenson for their discerning, sure-handed, and supportive work as editors of the Visual Cultures and German Contexts series at Bloomsbury Academic. I am honored to be included alongside the groundbreaking work of the other authors in the series. At the press, I am grateful to April Peake for her deft editorial skill as well as her consistent positivity and good humor, especially remarkable in the throes of a global pandemic.

That Karl Schefflers now-clichd characterization of Berlin as a city doomed forever to become and never to be does not also apply to this book is due to the help and support of countless individuals and organizations. It began as a dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania under the guidance of David Brownlee, whose wisdom, wit, and friendship will always be one of the great gifts of my scholarly life. Liliane Weissberg is a model of academic commitment in her keen insight, intellectual generosity, and unflagging kindness. The same can be said of the entire Penn community, to whom I am ever grateful.