Berlin Style

Berlin Style is a neotraditional architectural movement that developed in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, emerging around 1990 during German reunification. It began in Berlin itself but has since been used throughout Germany and internationally, including work in India and Paraguay, and favors streamlined design with sparse decoration, drawing eclectically on earlier periods such as the early nineteenth century Neoclassical work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Grunderzeit architecture, early Modernism and Art Deco, a wider eclectic range than the stricter Anglo-American neotraditional movements typically draw on. The 1995 to 1997 reconstruction of the Hotel Adlon became one of the movement's defining early works, though it was controversial within the architectural profession at the time, and it helped establish the trajectory the style has followed since.