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

Autor(en)

Liza Wing Man Kam

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften

Externe Organisation(en)

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

Seiten

19-37

Anzahl der Seiten

19

DOI

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

Publikationsdatum

2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

507021 Stadtgeschichte, 605002 Kulturgeschichte, 201201 Architekturgeschichte, 201203 Architekturtheorie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

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

Link zum Portal

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