Robert Conrad

Robert Conrad’s description of himself as Architecture Photographer is almost misleadingly modest. In his work buildings take on a quality of symbolic markers and milestones in cultural landscapes. Architecture is used as a prism through which he observes and reflects on the world around him and the past we leave behind.

Often Robert Conrad’s images are an act of preserving old things from disappearing – capturing dilapidated buildings as a form of protest against forgetting history. Robert Conrad lives in Berlin.

East Germany & East Berlin

Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee, East Berlin
Lychener Strasse

Sanatorium Beelitz

Beelitz Sanatorium #4
Beelitz Sanatorium #3
Beelitz Sanatorium #2
Beelitz Sanatorium #1

Ghost Stations

Sealed off U-Bahnhof Nordbahnhof
Bricked up Station Hall, Nordbahnhof
Platform, Nordbahnhof
Abandoned Train Tunnel near Potsdamer Platz
U-Bahnhof Stadtmitte
Pedestrian Tunnel, Nordbahnhof
U-Bahnhof Unter den Linden
Bricked up exit of U-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz
S-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz
Station office on Platform
Telephone booth on platform of sealed off underground station

Memories of the Wall

Sauna in the basement of the STASI headquarters, East Berlin

Vergessene Orte

Beelitz Sanatorium
Depot for military uniform supplies
Teufelsberg US 'Listening' Field Station
Power Station Plessa
Auditorium, Sovjet Officer Quarters, Zossen-Waldstadt
Sauna Plunge Pool, Basement, South Wing, former GDR Main Directorate Reconnaissance / STASI
STASI Kommando 2 Headquarters
Former GDR Military Uniforms Supply Depot, Bernau

The Wall

Wall along Stahnsdorfer Straße
Former Death Strip
Berlin Wall, Märkisches Viertel
Field in Stolper Heide
Wall at Staakener Nennhauser Damm
Wall at Rudower Chaussee
Wall cutting across Lindenstraße
Wall Segment with Graffiti
Wall at Lindenstraße
Death Strip near Lindenstraße
Death Strip near Brandenburg Gate
Brandenburg Gate, East Berlin

Italian Modernism

Calambrone