Fifty years after Hans Dollgast's death, conference explores his role in rebuilding post-war Germany

"Amid the ruins, Germans mail each other picture postcards still showing cathedrals and market places, the public buildings that no longer exist."

"The Bavarian architect Hans Döllgast... pioneered a minority third way: critical or creative reconstruction, which takes a layered, collaged approach to reconstruction."

"His creative repairs to Munich's monuments, where 60% of the old city had been destroyed, advocate adapting damaged places to incorporate the scars of conflict."

"Both Modernists and traditionalists risked erasing memories of the Nazi period, making a reckoning with the past impossible without physical evidence."

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