Berlin’s Architectural Transition to Postmodernism Gets an Overdue Examination


OMA’s 1987 proposal for a residential development at Checkpoint Charlie. Image © Office for Metropolitan Architecture

OMA’s 1987 proposal for a residential development at Checkpoint Charlie. Image © Office for Metropolitan Architecture

The Berlinische Galerie’s exhibition Anything Goes? recounts how a global, contradictory Postmodernism took root on both sides of the Berlin Wall in the 1980s. Florian Heilmeyer in his piece originally published on Metropolis discusses the ambitious exhibition that was able to look simultaneously at both sides of the German city at that time.

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