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

东德的建筑和城市规划是由规划集体组织的，根据东德的体制，这些集体被纳入社会所有的企业-自由职业建筑师的数量非常少。该项目一方面分析了这些规划集体在政治体系中的行政嵌入和功能，另一方面分析了艺术生产方法和建筑师的自我理解。这些集体既作为一种政治经济组织形式的功能，也作为艺术团体的作用。这两个方面都对东德的建筑生产产生了影响，并且对于今天讨论由此产生的物品的历史分类和解释（包括版权问题）具有根本的重要性。该项目从三个层面分析了民主德国的规划和建筑集体：比较结构分析（a）处理机构背景、组织和等级制度，包括历史上集体的网络潜力;详细的项目分析（B），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），其将所得到的对象与规划过程以及与作者身份的可能的细节和问题相关联。在这样做的过程中，该项目为东德的集体研究做出了有根据的贡献，并最终分析了建筑师及其作品在东德的（艺术）历史意义。本项目将对20世纪世纪的集体艺术作品进行历史和实证的研究。

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.