Title | The Architects' Debate: Architectural Discourse and the Memory of Nazism in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1977-1997 |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1997 |
Authors | Gavriel D. Rosenfeld |
Journal | History and Memory |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 1/2 |
Pagination | 189 |
ISSN | 0935560X |
Abstract | (14). Stirling's design for the Wissenschaftszentrum was criticized for its "deliberate links to [Albert Speer]." Michael Brix, "Monumente der NS- und Trümmerzeit: Bewertungsprobleme der Denkmalpflege -- Beispiel München," Kunstchronik (Apr. 1983): 179. See also "Stirling in Berlin," Architectural Record (Jan. 1989): 96. The Neue Pinakothek museum, which was the first important work of postmodern architecture actually completed in West Germany, was derided as a building that would likely lure "a lost local Nazi official (Ortsgruppenleiter) searching for Hermann Giesler's [Nazi] Ordensburg Sonthofen." Reinhard Müller-Mehlis, "Buntes Architektur-Allerlei von Rothenburg bis Westwall," Münchner Merkur, 1/2 Sept. 1979, 8. Cf. idem, "Brancas Bau wirkt wie ein Stück Mittlealter," ibid., 21/22 Mar. 1981, 10; and Johanna SchmidtGrohe, "Die Zukunft für Münchens 50jührige Vergangenheit...?" Der Architekt, no. 4 (1983): 206. Similar criticism was directed toward Diethard Siegert and Reto Gansser's postmodern design for the new Bavarian State Chancellery (1981-1994) and [Alexander Freiherr von Branca]'s neo-historicist department store for the Hertie chain in Würzburg (1977-1980). Gottfried Knapp, "Vom Armeenmuseum zum Kasernenhof," SZ, 24/25 Oct. 1982, 73. Dieter Klein wrote of the Chancellery draft that "the impartial viewer is reminded more of Speer and [Paul Ludwig Troost] than the architecture of the 1980s." "Das Alte mug nicht schlechter sein," Münchner Merkur, 5 Nov. 1982, 18. Paulhans Peters, "Kroll, Bienefeld und das Armeemuseum," [Baumeister], no. 12 (1982): 1160. [Peter Neitzke] observed that Branca's turn away from functionalism had resulted in his producing "forms which were models in the fascist era." See Bauwelt, no. 17/18 (1980): 693. |
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Short Title | The Architects' Debate |