Reframing Berlin investigates the concept of urban memory through the transformation and/or consistency of the built environment. These architectural changes, defined as urban strategies, range from demolition (forgetting) to memorialisation (remembering) and are shown through case studies using film locations in Berlin. 64 b/w illus.
Christopher S. Wilson is an architecture and design historian at Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida, USA. He is also the “scholar-in residence” of the non-profit Architecture Sarasota.
Gul Kacmaz Erk is a senior lecturer in architecture at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. She is also the founding director of CACity (Cinema
and Architecture in the City), Collaborative Research Group.