#  Spasms Of Modernity: Berlin Expanding 1900–1945 

 



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**Course:**  
**Students: Igor Ekštajn, Michael Keller, Annie White, Namik Mačkić, Miguel Lopez Melendez**

The theme of nature in the city is organized into two periods, one characterized by the notions of **settlement and linkage**, as demonstrated in the Jansen plan of 1910, and the second characterized by the notion of the **city as machine** becoming prevalent in the Weimar period, in which free movement and leisure take on renewed significance. A tracing of the Tempelhofer fields represents the drastic spasms that characterize this period, as the site transitions from a peripheral field for early aviation, to a highly differentiated landscape of many uses in the Weimar period, to a major focal point of the Speer plan in the National Socialist period and a service area for Germany as war machine.



 

 



 

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- [ Portals ](/project/portals)