Berlin – a city of many faces and different identities – has been used as an experimental laboratory within the project seminar Berlin City West. From Ernst Reuter Platz to An der Urania, organized by the Doctorate of the Iuav University of Venice, and the Deutscher Werkbund Berlin. The seminar aimed to compare the functioning of theoretical research with the architectural project by involving teachers, tutors and doctoral students on the theme of the project. The exercise was shared with some other doctoral schools with a long tradition – Venice, Rome, Naples and Bari – in order to create a real occasion to compare strategies, methods and reflections, alternating, during several months, moments of work inside individual doctorates with strategic collective meetings to compare different visions and approaches. The work focused on Berlin, aware of the particular meaning that this city still has in the urban imaginary of European architectural culture, identifying places for design experimentation and defining objectives to adapt to the current debate on the conversion of certain areas of the city. The exercise, beyond any judgment, returns to reflect on the fate and destiny of some emblematic places in the city, proposing a comparison with its history within a ‘laboratory of future’.


editors Armando Dal Fabbro, Claudia Pirina
Berlin City West
Da Ernst-Reuter-Platz ad An der Urania
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isbn 9788862424615
book series Ricerche in composizione urbana
number 7
current edition 7 / 2020
first edition 7 / 2020
language Italian/English
size 24x28cm
pages 160
print color
binding paperback
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Claudia Pirina architect, researcher in Architectural and urban design at University of Udine, is graduated with honours at Iuav University of Venice. During university, she studied in Lisbona, Coimbra and Liegi. She obtained PhD in Architectural Composition at Iuav University of Ve...

Claudia Pirina architect, researcher in Architectural and urban design at University of Udine, is graduated with honours at Iuav University of Venice. During university, she studied in Lisbona, Coimbra and Liegi. She obtained PhD in Architectural Composition at Iuav University of Venice, where she carry out research and teaching activities. She was lecturer of architectural design at University of Parma and visiting researcher at FAUP of Porto. She also participated in several international conferences and workshops, and she organized workshops and exibitions. Her research interests include the pioneers of Spanish modern architecture, the relationship between architecture and art, and places of memory, in partìcular those territories which were the stage of the First World War in Italy. She is curàtor at Veneto Memorial della Grande Guerra in Montebelluna. She combines university activity with professional activity, dealing with projects at different scales and participating in international architectural design competitions, winning some prizes and honourable mentions. In 2004 she co-founded the CPF architetti studio with Pietro Ferrara. She obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in 2018.

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