Greg Castillo

Former Short-Term Grant

Professional Affiliation

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley

Wilson Center Project

Building Stalin’s Germany: Ideology, Identity, and Reconstruction in the G.D.R., 1946-1956

Project Summary

analyzes the transfer of Soviet urbanism to East Germany as a program to transform not only war-torn cities, but the national and class identities of their inhabitants as well. Stalinist neoclassicism; Soviet Bloc architecture