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• Winner of Antoinette Forrester Downing Award 2018 (United States)
• Winner of Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award 2018

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""Daniela Sandler's Counterpreservation is an intriguing and important addition to the literature on Berlin's architectural, historical, and memorial landscape, offering valuable new insights that will advance the theoretical discussion. The book is replete with careful, engaging descriptions of recent projects in this ever-changing city, and the author convincingly uses these cases to generate a broader philosophical sensibility. The book's compelling detail and vivid imagery powerfully convey the texture of the Berlin that I know. After reading Sandler's book, I find myself haunted anew by the comings and goings of the Berlin landscape, the vanishings and the persistence and the imaginings.""-Jennifer A. Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods ""This is a beautifully written book. The passages describing specific sites in Berlin are among the most eloquent architectural writing I have encountered. Daniela Sandler has a superb style in explaining the theoretical stakes of her argument, as well. The concept of 'counterpreservation' that Sandler introduces in this study of 'architectural decay' in Berlin implies a reversal of valences: if ruins suggest collapse and disuse, counterpreservation indicates vitality and reappropriation. The book will certainly be of interest to scholars working in architectural history, memory culture, German Studies, and related fields. Many culturally informed readers who are drawn to Berlin and want to understand its urban dynamic will also find this book an informative read.""-Daniel Purdy, Pennsylvania State University, author of On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

"""Daniela Sandler's Counterpreservation is an intriguing and important addition to the literature on Berlin's architectural, historical, and memorial landscape, offering valuable new insights that will advance the theoretical discussion. The book is replete with careful, engaging descriptions of recent projects in this ever-changing city, and the author convincingly uses these cases to generate a broader philosophical sensibility. The book's compelling detail and vivid imagery powerfully convey the texture of the Berlin that I know. After reading Sandler's book, I find myself haunted anew by the comings and goings of the Berlin landscape, the vanishings and the persistence and the imaginings.""-Jennifer A. Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods ""This is a beautifully written book. The passages describing specific sites in Berlin are among the most eloquent architectural writing I have encountered. Daniela Sandler has a superb style in explaining the theoretical stakes of her argument, as well. The concept of 'counterpreservation' that Sandler introduces in this study of 'architectural decay' in Berlin implies a reversal of valences: if ruins suggest collapse and disuse, counterpreservation indicates vitality and reappropriation. The book will certainly be of interest to scholars working in architectural history, memory culture, German Studies, and related fields. Many culturally informed readers who are drawn to Berlin and want to understand its urban dynamic will also find this book an informative read.""-Daniel Purdy, Pennsylvania State University, author of On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought"

Daniela Sandler's Counterpreservation is an intriguing and important addition to the literature on Berlin's architectural, historical, and memorial landscape, offering valuable new insights that will advance the theoretical discussion. The book is replete with careful, engaging descriptions of recent projects in this ever-changing city, and the author convincingly uses these cases to generate a broader philosophical sensibility. The book's compelling detail and vivid imagery powerfully convey the texture of the Berlin that I know. After reading Sandler's book, I find myself haunted anew by the comings and goings of the Berlin landscape, the vanishings and the persistence and the imaginings. -Jennifer A. Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods This is a beautifully written book. The passages describing specific sites in Berlin are among the most eloquent architectural writing I have encountered. Daniela Sandler has a superb style in explaining the theoretical stakes of her argument, as well. The concept of 'counterpreservation' that Sandler introduces in this study of 'architectural decay' in Berlin implies a reversal of valences: if ruins suggest collapse and disuse, counterpreservation indicates vitality and reappropriation. The book will certainly be of interest to scholars working in architectural history, memory culture, German Studies, and related fields. Many culturally informed readers who are drawn to Berlin and want to understand its urban dynamic will also find this book an informative read. -Daniel Purdy, Pennsylvania State University, author of On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

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Daniela Sandler is Assistant Professor of Architectural and Urban History in the School of Architecture of the University of Minnesota.

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