From 1950 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Ministry for State Security (known as the Stasi) operated one of the most sophisticated and oppressive intelligence networks ever known.

It sort of always looked that way.... Learning this confirms my deepest fears about East ... architecture guide, but rather as a small book of impressions. I have used archive material and scans ...

Part Two comes closest to standard architectural history, as it discusses the work of East German architects and planners in Vinh and its adaptation to vastly different material and cultural ...

Opened in 1969 under Communist East German ... the German Architecture Museum's DAM Award 2019. The building's facade was carefully restored, as were several interior spaces. The old auditorium ...

"The artists chose this blue because they wanted to turn the hard and severe architecture ... in other east German cities, the Plattenbau complexes which surround the picturesque old town can ...

The German capital ... can be respected as a DDR (former East Germany) monument in East Berlin, but it cannot be respected by any means as a great piece of architecture." Berlin's most contested ...