Living in Berlin, it is almost impossible not to come across through the traces of the Wall's memory — especially now, as November 9th approaches, the day it finally came down. One of the most remarkable qualities of contemporary Germany is the way it deals with its...

In the interwar years, the first visionary modern urban planners and theorists began to design and write about the cities of the future. Some of them, the more technocratic ones, spoke of the functional city, organised around transport, housing, work and leisure...

The United States, like much of the world, is going through a period of transition. I have no direct experience of the country beyond a visit to Chicago many years ago, and what I learn through friends or the news. I therefore speak not as an expert on America, but as...

Nowhere else in the world do two opposing visions of the Cold War coexist so clearly as in Berlin. Just a few kilometers apart lie the Hansaviertel and the Karl-Marx-Allee, two neighborhoods built almost at the same time but under very different political systems. I...

This September marks fifteen years since I moved to Berlin. Among the city's residents there is a popular saying: only after living here for ten years do you "earn the right" to say John F. Kennedy's famous phrase Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner). Kennedy first...

The stereotypical image of the Aegean is tied to the Cyclades. But this is limiting – the Aegean is far more complex. The Aegean is a sea scattered with islands, very different from each other, forming a world apart from mainland Greece. From Delos and Keros to...

Every summer, for about two months, the same scene unfolds daily at the ports of the Aegean islands: the ferry has just docked and the vehicle ramp opens. And then immediately passengers, motorbikes, and cars rush toward the pier with intensity and eyes full of...

How does a Mediterranean architect "survive" on beaches that have nothing in common with the Aegean Sea? A summer encounter with the Baltic Sea. The good – or the bad – thing about architects is that we always think in terms of space. Even when we are on holiday,...

Living in Berlin, it is almost impossible not to come across through the traces of the Wall's memory — especially now, as November 9th approaches, the day it finally came down. One of the most remarkable qualities of contemporary Germany is the way it deals with its...

In the interwar years, the first visionary modern urban planners and theorists began to design and write about the cities of the future. Some of them, the more technocratic ones, spoke of the functional city, organised around transport, housing, work and leisure...

The United States, like much of the world, is going through a period of transition. I have no direct experience of the country beyond a visit to Chicago many years ago, and what I learn through friends or the news. I therefore speak not as an expert on America, but as...

Nowhere else in the world do two opposing visions of the Cold War coexist so clearly as in Berlin. Just a few kilometers apart lie the Hansaviertel and the Karl-Marx-Allee, two neighborhoods built almost at the same time but under very different political systems. I...

This September marks fifteen years since I moved to Berlin. Among the city's residents there is a popular saying: only after living here for ten years do you "earn the right" to say John F. Kennedy's famous phrase Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner). Kennedy first...

The stereotypical image of the Aegean is tied to the Cyclades. But this is limiting – the Aegean is far more complex. The Aegean is a sea scattered with islands, very different from each other, forming a world apart from mainland Greece. From Delos and Keros to...

Every summer, for about two months, the same scene unfolds daily at the ports of the Aegean islands: the ferry has just docked and the vehicle ramp opens. And then immediately passengers, motorbikes, and cars rush toward the pier with intensity and eyes full of...

How does a Mediterranean architect "survive" on beaches that have nothing in common with the Aegean Sea? A summer encounter with the Baltic Sea. The good – or the bad – thing about architects is that we always think in terms of space. Even when we are on holiday,...