'The bright edifice of community': politics and performance in Hans Scharoun's Berlin Philharmonie

摘要

Hans Scharoun's Berlin Philharmonic is examined as 'performative' architecture, its spaces capable of embodying specific political ideas as well as reflecting and influencing human behaviour. 'It was democracy that commissioned this project. If we had not been serious in deciding that our nation is resolved - as it says in our constitution - to create a new order for itself and establish a social state on the basis of free self-determination, this building would not have been conceived and completed in the way that it has been, a buildingwhose reality [...] symbolises what is new about our order, embodying the element of freedom and the desire that man should be at its centre.'