Auf den zweiten Blick. Architektur der Nachkriegszeit in Nordrhein- Westfalen / A Second Look: PostwarArchitecture in North Rhine—Westphalia

摘要

"Not a few historic monuments lead an inconspicuous life," according to Hans H. Hanke.1 That is especially the case for most of buildings associated with the reconstruction of West Germany after 1945. What was built immediately and in deprived conditions for the surviving inhabitants of its war-torn urban cen-ters-plus nearly ten million refugees-is still on view in the housing estates of the country's large cities, and it exhibits the strange charm of casual insignificance.