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Students: Igor Ekštajn, Michael Keller, Annie White, Namik Mačkić, Miguel Lopez Melendez
The theme of nature in the city is organized into two periods, one characterized by the notions of settlement and linkage, as demonstrated in the Jansen plan of 1910, and the second characterized by the notion of the city as machine becoming prevalent in the Weimar period, in which free movement and leisure take on renewed significance. A tracing of the Tempelhofer fields represents the drastic spasms that characterize this period, as the site transitions from a peripheral field for early aviation, to a highly differentiated landscape of many uses in the Weimar period, to a major focal point of the Speer plan in the National Socialist period and a service area for Germany as war machine.