@inbook{5db748f2529b4ad393c752d4621d6f99,
title = "The old guard modernists in Western Europe and post-war urban visions: Cornelis van Eesteren as jury member of the {\textquoteleft}Hauptstad Berlin{\textquoteright} competition 1957-58",
abstract = "Urban visions drawn on paper, assessed in competitions, and circulated throughjournals and books can have a huge impact on city planning. They can be asinfluential – perhaps even more influential – as realized plans that, after all, haveto withstand the realities of funding, land use planning or everyday use. Prizesawarded for competition entries and the publicity that comes with them caninfluence urban planning practices for decades to come. It was therefore a decision of far-reaching consequences when leading modernists were chosen as members of the jury for the Hauptstadt Berlin competition 1957-58 – a competition set up to plan for a future city center of a reunited Berlin as the capital of Germany. Among the selected jurors were Dutch urbanist Cornelis van Eesteren and the Finn Alvar Aalto, his friend from the Congr{\`e}s Internationaux d{\textquoteright}Architecture Moderne (CIAM). The selection of the jury was a conscious choice aimed at continuing and updating pre-war modernist discussions.",
author = "C.M. Hein",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-94-6366-360-1",
series = "Inaugural speeches and other studies in the Built Environment",
publisher = "Delft University of Technology",
pages = "149--160",
editor = "{van Faassen}, {Sjoerd } and Hein, {Carola } and Phoebus Panigyrakis",
booktitle = "Dutch connections",
address = "Netherlands",
}