Two Germanies
After the war the cities were rebuilt, in the West often in a modern and spacious way, in the East on Soviet models and later with industrially produced housing. Berlin was divided by a wall.
Hans Scharoun’s Philharmonie in Berlin, opened in 1963, places the orchestra at the centre with the audience on terraces all around, and it became a model for concert halls all over the world. Mies van der Rohe returned with the Neue Nationalgalerie, a steel roof on eight columns.
In East Berlin the Stalinallee was built in the 1950s in a socialist classicism. James Stirling’s Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, opened in 1984, is one of the chief works of postmodernism.