Mirror, Myth and the Museum of Museums: Mourning the vanished monumentality of Leipziger Platz through architecture of mirror staging Part 2 Project 2025 Agata Kurzynska Cardiff University | UK The Museum of Museums examines collective memory in architecture, the concept of vanished monumentality, and urban mythologies to question the validity of critical reconstruction in Leipziger Platz, Berlin. Conceiving monuments, as mirrors of identity, understanding them through the prism of Lacan’s Mirror Stage - a framework through which the city confronts the fragmented traces of its vanished monumentality and collective identity. Leipziger Platz is a critically reconstructed octagon, in an area which was previously destroyed in WWII and the construction of the Berlin Wall.The proposal outlines an adaptive reuse of an early 21st Century shopping mall - the LP12, into the Museum of Museums - a civic hub for the Berliner Museumverband. Aiming to monumentalize both the absence of architecture - vanished monuments of the 20th century - and the modern incarnation of a monumental structure. The proposal critically responds to the pathology of Critical Reconstruction and its impact on Berlin’s memory culture.Through architectural addition and subtraction, the intervention transforms a site of commercial banality into a palimpsest where history is refracted, distorted, and layered. The project seeks to stimulate a propelling mourning of vanished monuments, transforming the urban wound of Leipziger Platz into a space for dialogue between continuity and change. Tutor(s)