Constructing and Reconstructing History in Twentieth-Century German Architecture , co-edited by Ph.D. candidate Alexander Luckmann and Professor Volker M. Welter, has been published by Routledge, February 2025.

The book started with Alexander's translation of Hermann Muthesius, "The 'Restoration' of Our Old Buildings" (1904), which led to a special issue of the journal Art in Translation co-edited by Alexander and Dr. Welter. The issue was published in 2023 and subsequently Routledge selected it to be published as a stand-alone book.

Constructing and Reconstructing History in Twentieth-Century German Architecture explores the battle in architecture between the internationalist voices of modernism and the localized resistance, which favored traditional technologies and regional precedents, reflected in microcosm the violent and complex histories of twentieth-century Germany. The chapters in this book span the years from 1902 to 1991 and interrogate the ways in which architecture constructed and reconstructed these histories, with a primary focus on those voices that were opposed to the dogmas of modernism. All translated into English for the first time, the chapters reflect the changing eras and contours of the German nation. They were written in the German Empire (1871–1918); the Weimar Republic (1918–1933); the Third Reich (1933–1945); the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which both existed from 1949 to 1990; and, finally, the reunified Germany that came into being in 1990 when the former GDR and the reunified Berlin joined the Federal Republic of Germany.