Brutalism in Berlin
23 brutalist buildings mapped in Berlin, Germany · photos, architects and locations
Berlin's concrete architecture is inseparable from its Cold War division. In the West, the walled half-city used bold building programs to assert its vitality, producing structures like the Bierpinsel in Steglitz, a pop-brutalist tower designed by Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte, who also created the vast ICC congress center. Werner Düttmann, the city's building director and architect of the Akademie der Künste and St. Agnes church, now the König Galerie, shaped much of West Berlin's postwar civic fabric. Curtis and Davis contributed the sprawling hospital complex at Campus Benjamin Franklin, a landmark of American-designed megastructure in Europe.
Church building was a second engine of experimentation: postwar Catholic and Protestant congregations commissioned raw concrete sanctuaries such as Maria Regina Martyrum, a memorial church honoring victims of the Nazi regime. In the East, Hermann Henselmann moved from Stalinist boulevards toward modernist towers, leaving marks on Alexanderplatz and the city skyline.
Brutalist buildings in Berlin
Brutalist architects who built in Berlin
