With architectural, building classification, street, and historical registers, as well as selected architect biographies, Potsdam offers an ensemble of palaces and gardens that has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. It features villa colonies, diverse residential construction, and buildings for culture and science. The architecture guide documents this urban and cultural landscape in all its historical layers from the 17th century to the present. The Potsdam architecture guide provides a fundamental overview of Potsdam's architectural and urban development history from the 17th century to the present with a selection of over 250 objects. The volume illustrates the total work of art of the Potsdam cultural landscape; furthermore, it highlights the numerous other facets of its architectural and urban history. Potsdam is presented as a Prussian residence city, a bourgeois villa location, a garrison town, a cultural city, a science city, and a place of modernity. The book also documents the diverse residential construction of the city, the architectural and urban planning influences of the GDR era, and the urban development since the reunification. Reconstruction projects such as the planned rebuilding of the City Palace and the Garrison Church are discussed, as well as the development of the new cultural site Schiffbauergasse and urban developments on the periphery. Detailed registers, a comprehensive map section, and a directory of selected architects allow for a systematic approach to the objects.