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Architecture as Image
Berlin Architectural Plans of the 1960s and 1970s in Photomontages
To present important planned projects in a way that was easily understandable and convincing, several architects in the post-war era turned to techniques familiar from the worlds of art and advertising. By cutting, combining, and pasting photographs and found materials, they produced images of designs that were supposed to be realistic. The goal was to obtain approval for building projects by means of appealing illustrations.
The original work was pasted together. Traces of its making and the diversity of its materials are still recognisable here (collage). Because it was intended to be copied and disseminated using media, however, its contours, cut edges and retouching blurred visually into a new scene that looks uniform (montage). The printed result becomes the ‘original’. These days, computer-aided design (CAD) replaces this arduous manual method.
Artistically ambitious architects also used cinematic means to present their projects. They edited audio and video materials and combined them into a lively narrative. They, too, used the montage technique.
- Exhibited Objects
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- Engelbert Kremser (*1938)
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Einzelteil
Train Station Halensee
- 1960er
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 19,5 x 25 cm (Blattmaß)
- Josef Kaiser (1910 - 1991) und andere
Großhügelhaus (“Large Hill House”) with Residents on the Pool, Design "Socialist Town/City as a Model"
- 1971
- Fotocollage, Colorprint
- 100 x 100 cm (Bildmaß)
- Dieter Urbach und andere
Design of a residential area on Lenin Square, collage
- 1967
- Colorprint
- 116 x 100 cm (Bildmaß)
- 1974
- Silbergelatinepapier, Fotomontage auf Karton
- 70 x 100 cm (Blattmaß)
- Dieter Urbach
Design for Palast der Repubilk (Palace of the Republic)
- 1973
- Silbergelatinepapier, Fotomontage auf Karton
- 48 x 90 cm (Blattmaß)
- Georg Kohlmaier und Barna von Sartory und andere
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Moving Pavements, Integrated Public Transport System (Unbuilt) – View from Breitscheidplatz
- 1969 - 1970
- Silbergelatinepapier
- ca 39,5 x 27,5 cm (Blattmaß)
- Georg Kohlmaier und Barna von Sartory und andere
Moving Pavements, Integrated Public Transport System (Unbuilt) – View
- 1969 - 1970
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 33 x 39 cm (Blattmaß)
- Engelbert Kremser (*1938)
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Gesamtwerk
Bridge house at Halensee bridge
- 1969
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 39,9 x 47 cm (Blattmaß)
- Engelbert Kremser (*1938)
Europa-Center, Fotomontage
- 1969
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 41,3 x 49 cm (Blattmaß)
- Georg Kohlmaier und Barna von Sartory und andere
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Autobahn Planning for Berlin-Kreuzberg, or the Fastest Way to the Berlin Wall (Unbuilt) – Public Planning: Aerial View Oranienplatz
- 1969
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 90 x 90 x 1 cm (Objektmaß)
- Georg Kohlmaier und Barna von Sartory und andere
Film "Niedrige Mieten durch Sanitärzellen"
- 1969
- MOV-Datei
- 1:56 min (Dauer)