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Lynnette Widder

Lynnette Widder ist Architekturhistorikerin und praktizierende Architektin. Derzeit ist sie Associate Professor of Practice an der Columbia University, New York, im Bereich Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement.
Year Zero to Economic Miracle

Year Zero to Economic Miracle

West German architecture underwent a phase of intense productivity from 1949 to 1964. In the immediate postwar years, architects confronted Nazi legacies in building culture amidst drastic privation that hampered construction. As industrial production recovered and a middle-class nation emerged, so too did a new architecture influenced by the American International Style model, especially as Bauhaus masters returned to Germany from the United States as advisers.