Capital Dilemma

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ISBN: 9781568981345
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 244 pages
15,2 x 22,9 cm
black & white
April 1998
€19,00 (excl. VAT)

Capital Dilemma

Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy

Michael Z. Wise

The decision to move Germany's government seat from Bonn to Berlin posed an epic architectural challenge and fostered an international debate on which building styles are appropriate to represent German national identity. Capital Dilemma investigates the political decisions and historical events behind the redesign of Berlin's official architecture. It tells a complex and exciting drama of politics, memory, cultural values, and architecture, in which Helmut Kohl, Albert Speer, Sir Norman Foster, and I. M. Pei all figure as players.

Michael Z. Wise, who covered Central Europe for Reuters and the Washington Post, has also written for the New York Times, the Economist, the New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly and ARTnews.