On Day Three, our tour’s scope expanded to engulf the entire Bosporus Strait and the lands that flank it. Özlem Altınkaya Genel caught us up to the 20th-century with a brief on the demography and politics of Istanbul’s outlying municipalities, followed by Özlem Unsal’s brief on...
The German filmmaker and Harvard alumna Brigitta Wagner shared with the Berlin research group her personal research in which she has been following in the footsteps and history of her own family in Berlin. Wagner traced the life trajectory of her grandmother through the neighborhoods in which she had lived, crafting a...
As part of the field trip to Berlin, the group of students and faculty of the Harvard Mellon Berlin portal paid a visit to the historic Bauhaus complex and foundation in the city of Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius, one of the founders of the Bauhaus and the chair of the architecture department at the Harvard...
As part of their personal research, a group of students toured and documented western parts of Berlin, specifically the Charlottenburg district – the former center of West Berlin. The students visited the site of Messe Berlin, Berlin’s monumental expo site, as well as the central parts of Charlottenburg...
Accompanied by the director of the German Architecture Center (DAZ) Matthias Böttger, the Harvard Mellon Berlin portal research group paid a visit to the DAZ, in which they saw a current exhibition about new housing projects in Berlin. Among other issues, the conversation with Matthias focused on the recent Berlin...
Accompanied by the director of the German Architecture Center (DAZ) Matthias Böttger, the Harvard Mellon Berlin portal research group paid a visit to the DAZ, in which they saw a current exhibition about new housing projects in Berlin. Among other issues, the conversation with Matthias focused on the recent Berlin...
Guided by Professor Phillip Misselwitz of the Technical University Berlin, the student researchers and faculty of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Berlin portal toured the district of Kreuzberg, tracing specifically the imprint of migration, the presence of the refugee population, and housing typologies and spatial...
The student researchers and faculty of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Berlin Portal returned to the district of Kreuzberg, this time with Dr. Barış Ülker of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University Berlin. This perspective on the neighborhood focused on the profound...
As part of their personal research, Namik Mackic and Eliyahu Keller, two students from the HMUI Berlin Portal traveled and documented two sites in former East Berlin: the Vietnamese Dong-Xuan Market in Lichtenberg – a port of call for Vietnamese and other immigrants who here make their...
As part of the 2015 research visit to Berlin, HMUI Berlin portal organized a workshop in collaboration with the Center For Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University Berlin. The workshop included lectures and presentations divided into two main panels:
with Eve Blau, Max Hirsh, Erik Ghenoiu, Pedro Aparicio, Mikela De-Chaves, Igor Ekštajn, Emma Goode, Aleksandra Kudryashova, Eliyahu Keller, Michael Keller, Namik Mackic
As part of the summer research trip to Berlin in June 2015, a group of faculty and students from across Harvard joined the landscape architect and historian Sonja Dümpelmann for a tour of three main parks in Berlin. It started with the Natur-Park Südgelände occupying the site of former industrial railway near the...
Together with historian Andreas Butter, HMUI Berlin portal visited and studied the centerpiece in the former East Berlin’s urban layout and the built environment of the former DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) more broadly. The tour focused on the major urban project of the post-WWII era in East Berlin – the...
This summer, four graduate research assistants – Igor Ekštajn, Eli Keller, Michael Keller, and Namik Mackic undertook a two-week field trip to Berlin together with portal director Eve Blau and affiliated faculty Max Hirsh. The objective of the visit was to gather base information on a number of key research sites in...
