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Ruins and reconstruction at the Neues Museum

From the December issue of Apollo: preview and subscribe here In the years since the Neues Museum reopened in 2009, the reconstruction job overseen by David Chipperfield Architects has become a reliable symbol for the continuing task of Vergangenheitsbewältigung – the coming to terms with the past that has been a keynote of post-war German culture. In the architectural firm’s own words, the…

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