Autore
Calandra di Roccolino, Giacomo

Titolo
Il grattacielo come modello. La ricezione dell'edificio alto a Berlino nel primo dopoguerra
Periodico
Memoria e ricerca
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 64 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 221 - Pagina finale: 246

The skyscraper is an extraordinary typological and constructive invention. Two American citiescompete for the primacy in the invention of skyscrapers: Chicago and New York. The first skyscrapercan be identified with the Equitable Life Assurance Company Building. The fascination ofthis type of architecture soon spread to European architects. In Berlin the first to propose theconstruction of a skyscraper was Bruno Möhring, who designed a tall building for the GrandBerlin competition. The explosion of the debate on the skyscraper in Germany, however, occurredafter the First World War, during the Weimar Republic. The first competition for theconstruction of a skyscraper in Berlin, took place in 1921. Few years later it was followed bythe Alexanderplatz competition. Peter Behrens finally built two tall houses at Alexanderplatzwithout however renouncing the urban identity of Berlin. Since then the skyscraper will spreadthroughout Germany and Europe.



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