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ARTY-TECTURE
Preview - Friday 13 June 2003
Show - 14 - 29 June 2003 Fri -Sun 12 -6
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Andrew
Thomas
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Once
upon a time in 1970s East Berlin three satellite cities Marzahn, Hellersdorf
& Hohenschoenhausen were conceived and built. This enormous building
programme utilized prefabricated concrete panels to build mid and
high-rise communities. Marzahn alone boasted 56,000 flats for more
than 140,000 people. These Arbeiterschliessfacher (workers lockers)
were highly sought after offering luxuries such as central heating,
private baths, lifts and recreational facilities, perhaps this is
why one third of the population of East Berlin lived there. After
reunification the highly desirable became highly undesirable. Seeming
to be relics of the totalitarian policies of the GDR these places
fell from grace. Walking around Marzahn today after its recent facelift
is an exhilarating experience. Knowing about the apparent horrors
of modernist architectures ability to impose, (blah blah) control
and dehumanize its inhabitants, this could be called some kind of
historical fact, but, to my mind Marzahn ‘aint half bad...
for a visit. |
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Marzahn
- Lambda print |
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