The City in the City: Berlin - A Green Archipelago

“City in the City - Berlin: Green Island” (The City in the City - Berlín: A Green Archipelago) It can be said that it is the most mysterious and fascinating of the many architectural proclamations of the late 20th century called “the city”. It is not only an important publication of the 1970s urban and architectural series, but Berlin Stories, which influenced contemporary architectural design across Europe and the Americas. The book chronicles a team led by O.M. Ungers (1926~2007), then Professor of Architecture at Cornell University (1926~2007) in the West Berlin front in a summer school camp, trying to come up with an emergency response to what was then Berlin's severe decline due to the Cold War through design research.。 Rem Koolhaas, 1944, who had been studying at London AA at the time, also helped with Rem Koolhaas, who had been studying with Angus at Cornell.

Originally compiled as a German-language pamphlet and published in Ithaca, the home of Cornell University, the Berlin Story has become a classic of architectural theory over the past 36 years, but it has proved difficult to obtain because of the sparse print volume and the variety of editions. The book was re-examined and republished in 2013, attempting to retrace the original version of the narrative and restore this piece of history: after the Berlin Fence was completed, the population of West Berlin, surrounded by East Germany, proposed a team of German architects, Angus and Cornell University, to gradually concentrate the city into a green enclave. The “islands” of architecture in the Sea of Shu Shue form micro-cities through huge self-sufficient buildings, thus strategically designing “urban decay”.