Architecture and Planning Collectives of the GDR - Institutional structures and creative processes in socialist architectural production

民主德国的建筑和城市规划是以规划组的形式组织的，根据民主德国的体制制度，这些规划组被整合到社会所有的企业中--自由职业建筑师只有很少一部分。该项目一方面分析了这些规划集体在政治制度中的行政嵌入和作用，另一方面分析了建筑师的艺术生产方法和自我理解。集体作为一种政治经济组织形式的功能，以及作为艺术团体的角色，都受到了检验。这两个方面都对德意志民主共和国的建筑制作产生了影响，对于今天讨论由此产生的文物的历史分类和解释，包括版权问题，具有至关重要的意义。该项目从三个层面对东德的规划和建筑集体进行分析：(A)比较结构分析，处理机构背景、组织和等级，包括集体在历史上的网络潜力；(B)详细的项目分析，在其特定的社会历史和艺术背景下探索单个建筑和规划项目；以及对象分析(C)，将所产生的目标与规划过程以及作者可能的具体情况和问题联系起来。通过这样做，该项目为民主德国的集体研究提供了一个有充分根据的贡献，从而最终将以更高的差异性来分析建筑师及其作品在民主德国的(艺术)历史意义。该项目将对20世纪的集体艺术作品进行历史和经验的研究。

Architectural and urban planning in the GDR was organized in planning collectives, which were, according to the institutional system of the GDR, integrated into socially-owned enterprises - freelance architects were only available in a very small number. The project analyzes these planning collectives in their administrative embedding and functioning in the political system on the one hand and the artistic production methods and the self-understanding of the architects on the other hand. The collectives are examined both in their function as a political-economic form of organization, as well as in their role as artistic groupings. Both dimensions had an impact on the architectural production of the GDR, and are of fundamental importance for today's discussion of the resulting objects in their historical classification and interpretation, including copyright issues. The project analyzes the GDR's planning and architecture collectives on three levels: a comparative structure analysis (a) dealing with the institutional background, the organization and the hierarchies, including the network potentials of the collectives in historical terms; a detailed project analysis (b), which explores individual architecture and planning projects in their specific socio-historical and artistic context; and an object analysis (c), which relates the resulting objects to the planning processes and to the possible specifics and problems of the authorship. In doing so, the project provides a well-founded contribution to the research of collectivity in the GDR and will thus finally analyze the (art) historical significance of architects and their work in the GDR with a higher differentiation. And the project will carry out historically and empirically founded researches on collective artistic work in the 20th century.