BAUEN FÜR DIE MASSENKULTUR

The city and congress hall represents a cultural phenomenon that was already dedicated to a mass audience back in the nineteenth cen tury. Especially in the years after the Second World War, this type of building flourished throughout Europeprimarily as a symbol o f a new cultural beginning. However, what value and significance do these cultural buildings, designed primarily in the 1960s and 19 70s, possess today? Can their architectural quality and monumentality really be preserved, whilst still meeting current usage requir ements, e...[Read more]