Stephan Braunfels designed the Marie-Elisabether-Lüders-Haus in Berlin’s Regierungsviertel, completed in 2003. The house contains the Parliamentary Library and Archives for the nearby Reichstag, and it is part of the goverment Band des Bundes.
Standing on the site of the former Berlin Wall, the building’s modernist concrete structure recalls the cold history of Berlin’s socialist past, and the dreary modernist architecture that sprung during that era. It commemorates Socialist politician Lüders who was monumental in women’s rights in Germany, a struggle that is still ongoing. The modernist language is a vital choice for this national monument, a legacy of concrete that will never let Berlin forget its past.
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