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  • 09 April 2018
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Toward an "open architecture"

The International Building Exhibition 1984/87 in Berlin constitutes one of the most remarkable examples to discuss "open architecture". Almost 10,000 dwellings were constructed or restored in the Kreuzberg districts adjacent to the Berlin Wall, inhabited about halfway by immigrants. The renowned author Esra Akcan, related in many ways to Turkey, Berlin and the USA, narrates the history and reverberations of this architectural-political event.

  • A new perspective on IBA Berlin
  • Architecture, research and politics: a path-breaking event
  • Architectural history of current relevance

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Price: $89.99
Pages: 416
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Imprint: Birkhäuser
Publication Date: 09 April 2018
ISBN: 9783035613742
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: City & town planning: architectural aspects, History of architecture, Regional / urban economics
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Esra Akcan, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, NY, USA

Esra Akcan is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Architecture and board member at the Institute for Comparative Modernities. Akcan's research on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism foregrounds the intertwined histories of Europe, West Asia, and Northeast Africa and offers new ways to understand architecture's role in global, social, and environmental justice.