Illustrated essays
Writings &
Reflections
Writing on cities, architectural heritage and mediation, memory, and democratic public space.
An illustrated blog, organised around four themes — Athens, Berlin, the Bauhaus, and cities in general — growing from a single conviction: that cities change when we change the way we see them.
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Athens
Memory, modernity & urban identity
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What Tourism Forgets to Measure
This Easter I spent a few days in Athens and decided to see the city through a visitor's eyes. I wanted to explore what Athens offers tourists up close — its archaeological sites, how the city presents itself to people coming from abroad, and the wider picture shaped by mass tourism.
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Berlin
Division, reunion & urban transformation
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Alexanderplatz in the Mornings
Alexanderplatz, 7:30 a.m. One of the busiest areas in Berlin, with its large square, shopping centers, the major train station, and iconic landmarks such as the TV Tower and the Clock.
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Bauhaus
Legacy, reception & living modernism
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The Unknown Bauhaus of Dessau
How do we build the future with the knowledge of the past? Over the past year I worked on the preparations for the centenary of the Bauhaus in Dessau.
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Cities
Public space, democracy & urban life
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On Lisbon. Part Three.
The physical wear on Lisbon's buildings doesn't read as a renovation waiting to happen — it reads as part of a building's natural evolution. The facades are old but tended.
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Why these
four themes
These are the four themes I keep returning to — as a researcher, as a reader of cities, and as someone who moves between Athens and Berlin.
The Bauhaus is where my research is rooted. Athens is where I come from. Berlin is where I live. And the question of how we can live better together is what all of this is really about.