Building Images: The Reconstruction of the Neues Museum

Bauen und Bild: Der Wiederaufbau des Neuen Museums / Building Images: The Reconstruction of the Neues Museum was published in May 2021 as the first entry of struct, a new series by intercomverlag concerned with cultural analytical research about architecture. It was also published as volume 38 in the series Berliner Schriften zur Museumsforschung, Institut für Museumsforschung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz and volume 41 in Schriften des Internationalen Kollegs für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, University of Weimar. Johannes Bennke is the author of the bilingual publication (German and English). From intercomverlag:

This book presents, for the first time, a photographic record of the reconstruction of the Neues Museum, Berlin, by David Chipperfield Architects. These photographs show how images not only document the architectural and restorative handling of cultural memory, but also help to shape it. This book takes a media cultural studies perspective to explore what images of building processes show, how they affect the construction itself, and what we can learn from them.

Designer Reinhard Schmidt used Lector FSL throughout the whole book. Printing and binding by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg.