La ciudad entre sus escombros. Historias latentes en la ciudad de Berlín
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Martínez García-Posada, Ángel
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En algunas ciudades alemanas tras la Segunda
Guerra Mundial, la trama urbana se desdibujó
por completo, alcanzando un estado de
desolación, entre la urbanidad y el barro.
En otras no tan abatidas, con la retirada de
los escombros entre la vegetación, afloraron
terrenos vacantes que se emplearon como
huertos improvisados, acaso una primera
idea de orden en aquel caos. Luego llegarían
algunos planes, y una cierta instrumentación
urbanística y legislativa que alcanzaría
cauces previsibles y hoy visitables: según el
paradigma de reconstrucción fidedigna de
un pasado equivocado, o décadas después,
desembocando en una ciudad trasplantada
y sin sustancia, como algunas zonas de
Berlín. Frente a ello, en esta ciudad cargada
de relatos latentes, capital que es semblanza
de un siglo, quisiéramos reivindicar otras
historias ocultas bajo la ciudad que conocemos
o posibilidades de la historia que no fueron:
episodios paralelos, ciudades análogas, otras
arquitecturas y otros berlines que reverberan
junto al existente si se les sabe escuchar.
After Second World War, in some cities in Germany, urban structure was completely dissolved, reaching a high level of desolation, between urbanism and mud. In other cases not so erased, after retirement of waste, they appeared vacant sites available to set spontaneous gardens or orchids, a primary idea of order through that chaos. Then they were plans, urban regulation, and a disappointing trace of convention, following the paradigm of literal rebuild of a wrong past, or decades after, ending up in a pointless city, like some areas of Berlin. The other way round, in that city plenty of latent tales, like a portrait of a century, we would like to highlight other stories hidden under the well known metropolis together with possible alternatives of history that never happened: parallel episodes, analogue cities, other architectures and other cities of Berlin reverberating beside the real one if somebody may listen to them.
After Second World War, in some cities in Germany, urban structure was completely dissolved, reaching a high level of desolation, between urbanism and mud. In other cases not so erased, after retirement of waste, they appeared vacant sites available to set spontaneous gardens or orchids, a primary idea of order through that chaos. Then they were plans, urban regulation, and a disappointing trace of convention, following the paradigm of literal rebuild of a wrong past, or decades after, ending up in a pointless city, like some areas of Berlin. The other way round, in that city plenty of latent tales, like a portrait of a century, we would like to highlight other stories hidden under the well known metropolis together with possible alternatives of history that never happened: parallel episodes, analogue cities, other architectures and other cities of Berlin reverberating beside the real one if somebody may listen to them.
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Martínez García-Posada, A. (2016). La ciudad entre sus escombros. Historias latentes en la ciudad de Berlín. REIA: Revista Europea de Investigación en Arquitectura, (6), 89-102. http://reia.es/REIA6_05.pdf



