The underground stations designed by Rainer G. Rümmler for West Berlin represent a distinctive chapter in late twentieth-century architecture. Each station has its own identity, shaped by color, geometry, materials, and references to the history of its surroundings. The infrastructure becomes an expressive space, where everyday function coexists with a remarkable freedom of form.
What interested me was precisely this diversity: the ability of a single architect to create profoundly different spaces while maintaining a recognizable architectural language.
I chose to photograph eight stations using a rigorously frontal and symmetrical composition, establishing a sense of continuity between different environments. The repetition of the viewpoint allows each architecture to reveal its own identity through form, color, and proportion.
Stripped of movement and human presence, the stations temporarily lose their function as places of transit and reveal themselves as autonomous architectural spaces.
Eight spaces, eight identities. One way of seeing them.
