Modern Architecture as Ideological Representations: East Berlin, West Berlin, and Hong Kong

Author(s)

Liza Wing Man Kam

Abstract

Through examining the urban development of West Berlin, East Berlin and Hong Kong, this chapter investigates the various architectural and spatial forms built during the Cold War era as ‘translations’ and ‘representations’ of forms of ideological engineering. Focusing on the notion of Modernism, this chapter unveils the political ideologies behind the architecture in West Berlin and East Berlin, and observes the hybrid spatial typologies that emerged in Cold War Hong Kong. In so doing, the chapter demonstrates the apparent antagonistic political ideologies of the Western and Eastern Blocs in West and East Berlin and showcases their coexistence in Cold War Hong Kong as a meeting point between the East and the West.

Organisation(s)

Department of East Asian Studies

External organisation(s)

Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Pages

19-37

No. of pages

19

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058844-3

Publication date

2021

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

507021 Urban history, 605002 Cultural history, 201201 History of architecture, 201203 Architectural theory

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Arts and Humanities(all), Social Sciences(all)

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/modern-architecture-as-ideological-representations-east-berlin-west-berlin-and-hong-kong(077d076e-8076-49cb-b018-b7ce5d552e4b).html