Published by ARCH+, BERLIN 2013/1983 is Young and Giroux’s print rendering of their cinema-installation of the same name. With encyclopedic pretensions the artists document almost every building realized in Berlin in 2013 and present them alongside buildings erected one generation (thirty years) earlier.
This materialist architectural history of the years 2013 and 1983 counteracts the usual Berlin narratives and offers a refreshing, cliché-free view of the everyday structure of the city. The documentation of the over 750 building pairs in Berlin 2013/1983 follows a strictly analytical approach. Beginning at the northwest edge of the city, the artists and commissioned photographers scanned the building fabric for constructions completed in the specified years. They covered the entire urban area in the period between the end of February and the beginning of May 2015.