• The construction of the “socialist town centre”: from the upbeat mood of the post-war years to the Eighties
• Important contemporary document of building in the GDR by Berlin architecture photographer, Gisela Stappenbeck
• Published to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, multilingual: German, English, French and Russian
  

 
Gisela Stappenbeck
East Berlin. 1959 to 1989
225 × 280 mm, 288 pages, over 300 images
hardcover with jacket
German | English | French | Russian
ISBN 978-3-938666-37-1

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Berlin – city of constant transformation, determined by a never-ending alternation between construction and destruction. Wars, large-scale fires, but also profound societal upheavals have marked the architectonic image of this city over the years. This book documents the mood of upheaval of the post-war years and the construction of the East Berlin downtown area to form a “socialistic city centre”. Published to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall it contains an important contemporary document of building in the GDR by Berlin architecture photographer, Gisela Stappenbeck.