Postmodern Non-Residential Berlin

_Berlin as a figurehead of postmodernism
_Newly drawn floor plans in a uniform format
_New photos by Manfred Hamm and Thomas Bomm
_Different building typologies

Thirty buildings from the 1970s and 1980s, 30 built manifestos, densely clustered in two halves of a divided city: a power substation, a hotel and airport terminal, a diving tower, a school, and an animal laboratory. Not only are their functions and purposes fundamentally different, but even more so are their forms and architectural means of expression.

What distinguishes the architecture of these years is the search for a visualization of content beyond function: of fictions, themes and narratives, of history, typological continuities and contradictions. Postmodern is the formula for this – but a uniform "style" eludes us. The building forms are symbolic or rational, familiar or completely new. Claudia Kromrei presents these 30 buildings and describes them in their concrete form, their genesis, and against the backdrop of their creators' theoretical worlds of thought.