Luxury Apartments with a Tenement Heart: the Kurfürstendamm and the Berliner Zimmer.

Authors

Douglas Mark Klahr

Document Type

Article

Source Publication Title

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 70

First Page

290-307

DOI

DOI: 10.1525/jsah.2011.70.3.290

Abstract

The residential architecture that defined Berlin's famous boulevard of luxury, the Kurfürstendamm, has receded within the collective memory of Germans and non-Germans on account of the narrative that historians and novelists have presented over the past eighty years. Those writers have focused upon the boulevard's upscale entertainment and retail life, which blossomed in the 1920s. However, the majority of buildings that defined this two-mile avenue were opulent apartment houses completed before 1914, when entertainment and retail establishments were permitted to occupy only the street-level spaces of a few buildings in the boulevard's easternmost section.

Disciplines

Architecture

Publication Date

9-1-2011

Language

English

Comments

Published by JSAH

License

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Recommended Citation

Klahr, Douglas Mark, "Luxury Apartments with a Tenement Heart: the Kurfürstendamm and the Berliner Zimmer." (2011). School of Architecture Faculty Publications. 6.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/architecture_facultypubs/6