Modern East - Build Your Own Modernist DDR
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20,90€
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Modern East - Build Your Own Modernist DDR is an activity artbook that allows you to discover some of the most captivating modernist and brutalist edifices erected in East Germany, have a glimpse over the Wall and build the icons of DDR-Moderne and the demolished ´Mokka-Milch-Eisbar ‘Kosmos'.
The book features Berlin, Cottbus, Dessau, Dresden, Halle Neustadt, Leipzig and Rostock
Modern East by Zupagrafika celebrates socialist modernist and brutalist architecture of the former East Germany. Have a peep over the Wall and reconstruct some of the most intriguing edifices erected between the early 1950s and the late 1980s, from the massive Plattenbauten of Rostock, to the icons of DDR-Moderne, like Kino International or Haus des Berliner Verlages, and the demolished relic of East Germany`s heyday - Mokka-Milch-Eisbar ‘Kosmos’. All models feature detailed illustrations of the original facades before their renovation.
The kit includes: 9 illustrated paper models to cut out and assemble, an introduction to the history of architecture in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik by Florian Heilmeyer (writer on architecture and urbanism based in Berlin), a short piece of information on each building and easy to follow instructions.
Haus des Berliner Verlages. Berlin (Ost)
Kino International. Berlin (Ost) * (includes 4 posters inspired by films produced in DDR, designed by Zupagrafika)
Ernst-Thälmann-Park Housing Complex. Berlin (Ost)
Mokka-Milch-Eisbar ‘Kosmos’. Cottbus
Y-Hochhaus. Dessau
Hochhaus Pirnaischer Platz. Dresden
‘Scheiben’ Housing Complex. Halle (Neustadt)
City-Hochhaus. Leipzig
Terrassenhaus, Schmarl Housing Estate. Rostock
Softcover
24 pages
Published in 2017 by Zupagrafika
Contains 9 paper cut-out models recreating the modernist architecture of the former GDR
