Longing for Unity

St. Matthew’s and Hans Hollein’s master plan

Perspective

The building in the reception

Planning and Reality

Utopie Kulturforum

KGM: landed!

The Staatsbibliothek (State Library) as Hyperspace

On the Utopian Potential of Hans Scharoun’s Reading Landscape

The Future

General restoration and new conception

Synthesis of the Arts

The Philharmonie as a unity of interior and exterior

Beyond Eden

The construction of St. Matthew’s Church

Destruction and Reconstruction

Vision of a new Philharmonie

A new library at the Kulturforum

An architectural vision between functionality and symbolism

The Staatsbibliothek (State Library) as Heterotopia

On the Creative Potential of Hans Scharoun’s Reading Landscape

A new Beginning

The reconstruction of St. Matthew’s Church

The Collection

The visionary spirit of Classical Modernism

Realization of an Utopia

The construction and opening of the Philharmonie

Utopia Kulturforum

The Philharmonie and the Forum

The Germania dystopia

The master plan

Utopia Culture Church

St. Matthew’s and the Dialogue between Art and Church

Memorial stele

The Architect

Mies van der Rohe as a Visionary

Dystopia Germania

The destruction of a district

Memorial and Information Point for the Victims of National Socialist »Euthanasia« Killings

Utopia Philharmonie

Hans Scharoun’s idea for a new kind of concert hall

The Kulturforum

The Tiergarten district

The new beginning

Kaiser-Platane

The Building

The Neue Nationalgalerie as a visionary building

Excursus: Germania

The House of Tourism on the grounds of the library

The Hall

Architecture and Performance

Memorial plaque for James Simon