Three Berlin Churches

New ideas in church design. 

Three churches in Berlin. Each has found a new life after a period of decay or destruction.

One made of mud and wood on the site of an earlier church blown up during the cold war because it got in the snipers' line of fire.  Another marooned in an urban wilderness by the relocation of its people. The third an enormous building designed  for a community of 100,000 people, reduced to 5,000 after the second world war.

Each building has to find a new purpose within a continuing tradition. Innovative architecture and art play a key role in each story.

PAL DV

13 minutes

2002