ABSTRACT
Between the close of the Second World War and the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961, scores of architects left the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany (SBZ), which became the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1949. 1 Other architects, fewer in number, chose the opposite path. Whereas some were able to build extensively or wield influence, others eventually became disillusioned, left, or retreated into an “interior immigration”. And there were even a few who maintained a residence in Western Europe or North America, yet, from time to time, traveled to the GDR to contribute their expertise without becoming entrenched in the complexities of the socialist system. 2
