Dimensions
240 x 290 x 25mm
After the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 the new united German Parliament voted to move from Bonn to Berlin, back into the historic Reichstag. Sir Norman Foster was a non-German architect, who won the competition to redesign the highly symbolic building. This book is the definitive architectural study of the new Reichstag, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Bundestag in September 1949 and almost exactly ten years after the reunification of Germany.
Sir Norman discusses the design, evolution and construction of the building, highlighting the architectural, environmental and symbolic ideas that underlie the project. Highly illustrated with archive photographs, new photographic material from Rudi Meisel and others and Sir Norman's sketches and drawings. This wealth of material charts the transformation of the Reichstag from a grim relic of the past to an optimistic symbol of democracy and unity.
