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Berlin

 Population: 3,390,000
Time Zone: +1 UTC
currency: Euro
official language: German

Berlin is a veritable feast for lovers of art and architecture, known for social and architectural experimentation. Starting with Prussia’s famous master builders, such as Schinkel, Langhans and Knobelsdorff, to the architects who worked here after the Wall came down. Their names, from Alvar Aalto to Peter Zumthor, read like a “who’s who” of contemporary architecture.

Berlin’s history is reflected in architecture, and roughly divided into 5 eras.

  • The Gründerzeit buildings of the late 19th century when Berlin’s population exploded in just a few years,
  • the functionality of New Objectivity in the 1920s
  • the totalitarian architectural style of the Nazis
  • the post-war era that documents the division and competition between the political systems of east and west in the divided city.
  • After the Wall came down. The new government and embassy district with the federal government buildings, new and refurbished embassy buildings, the representation buildings of the federal states, institutions and organizations.
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