Wrapped Reichstag (Project for Der Deutsche Reichstag, West Berlin)

“I am fascinated by Berlin because I was interested to do an urban project. For me Berlin became more and more the city most evidently touched by twentieth-century history. It is not like New York, London, and Paris, but a divided city: one nation lives in two different places, experiences two different problems, and is highly explosive because it is beyond the everyday life problems which involve all historical reminiscence and future historical consequences. […] I try to use a structure of situation that has meaning for all the European cultures. The Reichstag became important in that idea.” (Christo in interview with Jonathan Fineberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977)