In his book, The Ghosts of Berlin, historian Brian Ladd delves into the ongoing conflicts resulting from the "remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin." Some questions to think about while moving through this site:
What does Bauhaus architecture represent in this conflict?
Do the architectual goals of modern-day Berlin compete with the ideology of Bauhaus architecture?

"Modern individuals of 1926 need cities, buildings, dwellings, and appliances from their own time, the clear results in form and technology of the means and methods that our intellectual achievements have made available [...] Only once the comprehensive goals of modern architecture have been achieved will our epoch have defined a style of its own!"
-Walter Gropius

Throughout the history of the school, the Bauhaus concept of architecture underwent a convoluted transformation from Gropius's original concept of architecture as the ultimate aim of all creative activity to Meyer's notion of the stark functionality of architecture. Gropius dismissed past architectural styles -- Gothic, Rococo, Renaissance, and Baroque -- in favor of modern architecture. Looking at Berlin as a city in continual flux and constant reconstruction, we recall Walter Gropius's original concept of the building. This constant push to modernize, innovate, and start afresh meant a complete separation from the traditional and familiar to a style Gropius himself labeled as "strange and surprising".