Brutalist Berlin maps over fifty buildings across the German capital, situating each within the city's singular role at the centre of twentieth-century European history — a context no other city can claim for its Brutalist fabric.
About This Book
Berlin's Brutalist architecture is inseparable from the ideological and physical ruptures that defined the city across the twentieth century. This compact urban guidebook, the first in Blue Crow Media's architecture series, treats that relationship seriously. Dr Felix Torkar — a Berlin-based scholar who also produced the photography — documents more than fifty buildings with detailed texts and images, framing each structure within its broader historical and political conditions. The result is less a catalogue than a curated argument: that Berlin's Brutalist built environment is readable only once you understand the city's extraordinary position in modern European history. Essential for anyone navigating Berlin with serious architectural intent.
Key Features
- 120 pages of building documentation with photography and detailed texts throughout
- Written and photographed by Berlin-based Dr Felix Torkar
- Covers more than fifty Brutalist buildings across Berlin
- Published by Blue Crow Media
What You'll Discover
- How Berlin's unique position at the centre of twentieth-century European history shaped the character and distribution of its Brutalist architecture
- Building-by-building documentation of over fifty structures, with photography and contextual texts for each
- Dr Torkar's framing of Berlin Brutalism as an architectural phenomenon that cannot be read apart from the city's political history
- A portable, expertly written field guide designed for on-the-ground use in the city
About the Author
Dr Felix Torkar is a Berlin-based architectural scholar and photographer. He is the author and photographer of Brutalist Berlin, bringing both written expertise and original documentary photography to the project.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 120
- Dimensions: 200 x 140 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781912018253
- Publisher: Blue Crow Media
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and design students travelling to Berlin, urban historians with an interest in Cold War–era built form, and collectors of specialist architectural field guides.