"Why is German architecture so subaltern?" This provocative question was the title of an article concluding an ARCH + issue on "Young Architects in Germany" in 1993. The author, planner Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm, summed things up soberingly: "Nothing really outstanding, generally a little behindhand, in tow from major conceptual developments coming from elsewhere."2 His diagnosis: Lack of expression.
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