Berlin part 1: Contemporary architecture in memoriam of WWII – Daniel Libeskind & Peter Eisenman

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This December, the weekend before Christmas, I made a flying 24 hour visit to Berlin. Berlin has so much to see that in that short period of time, one can only get a little taster. So I curated my own visit by making a small selection of sights to see, rather than trying in vain to do everything. I mainly concentrated on the 20th century, which means WWII and Cold War memorials.

As someone who studied architecture in the turn of the century and took not a few classes in Deconstructivism (or Decon), I had to visit two of the works I had read and been taught so much about, from two of the biggest names in Decon.