JOVIS Catalog Fall 2022

ISBN 978-3-7533-0219-5
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ICC Berlin
Zara Pfeifer
Zara Pfeifer
Zara Pfeifer
ICC BERLIN
The ICC Berlin is a Gesamtkunstwerk, a giant time capsule that has
been waiting for a new usage concept for almost a decade. Planned
in the 1960s and opened in 1979, the exhibition building—designed
by Ursulina Schüler-Witte and Ralf Schüler, and encompassing Frank
Oehring’s incomparable wayfinding system—remains an attentiongrabbing
structure. While the building’s brutalist exterior overwhelms
the viewer, its interior conveys an air of calm, offering a view of the
suddenly quieted traffic through its panoramic windows.
This volume of photographs by Zara Pfeifer is dedicated to documenting
the interior of the building. Taking an unsentimental approach,
Pfeifer records the largely unchanged inner appearance of the building
that has been variously dubbed the Giant of Witzleben, the Battleship
Charlottenburg, or the Hall of Megalomania. Her images 9 783753 302195 develop a
Walther & Franz König
sense for the building’s noteworthy elements and capture the liminal
condition in which it has been suspended for years.
Hardcover
112 pages, 80 col. ill.
21 × 28.5 cm
Print 978-3-86859-756-1
€ 34.00 (DE) | $ 39.99 (US) | £ 29.50 (UK)
08.2022
English/German
ICC BERLIN
• Rare contemporary images of
a Berlin architectural icon in its
original condition
• Contains a text on the building’s
history, features, and past use
by architecture journalist Florian
Heilmeyer
• Designed by Something Fantastic
© Zara Pfeifer
Related title:
The Essence of Berlin-Tegel
Peter Ortner
Print 978-3-86859-631-1
EUR (DE) 22.00 | $ 25.99 (US) |
£ 20.00 (UK)