Berlin’s dramatic shifts in political climate throughout the twentieth century — and their architectural impacts — were observed, analysed and catalogued throughout the dissertation, to be able to draw conclusions on the extent of which extreme political ideologies can manipulate and control a city’s architectural and material identity through the role of the architect, and therefore its influence on the urban development of the city. Despite the acceleration of development and eradication of the former division since the reunification,  there are still traces of the divide evident within the city’s architectural elements and fragments. The dissertation employed and appropriated the methodology utilised by Giulia Foscari in the “Elements of Venice” text as the toolkit to analyse Berlin’s change in architectural language on either side of the Berlin Wall, to be able to draw conclusions on the role of the architect. The dissertation was completed with a First Class Honours.