Philipp Oswalt

Berlin: City Without Form by Philipp Oswalt examines how Berlin was shaped by the events of the twentieth century in a process of "automatic urbanism." More than any other metropolis, the city absorbed the forces of that epoch—modernity, fascism, two world wars, Stalinism, socialism, the Cold War, revolt, capitalism—and gave them form. This book demonstrates how, even today, opposed ideological,...