Monumentality and Modernity in Hitler’s Berlin

The contentious relationship between modernism and totalitarianism is a key element in the architectural history of the twentieth century. This fully illustrated book argues that the architectural discourse of the Greater Berlin Project during the Third Reich cannot be fully explored without the broader historical context of modernity.

Hsiu-Ling Kuo is Assistant Professor of History at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her main research areas are art and architectural history, urban studies and critical cultural theories and her current research focuses on the politics of hygiene in the urban planning of National Socialist Germany.

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Contents: Modernist architecture and National Socialism – The discourse of monumentality before 1933 – Reshaping Berlin: The metropolis and urban planning in the early twentieth century – Monumentality and major projects on the North-South Axis – Private commissions and monumental constructions on the North-South Axis – Architecture and the mass psychology of monumentality.