Pratt Institute School of Architecture summer program in Berlin, a studio comprised of twelve exceptional third and fourth year undergraduates, developed temporary urban protoypes in Brooklyn to be tested and refined in Berlin. Studio space in the heart of the former East BerlinÑadjacent to a once derelict pocket of intellectual fomentÑprovided uncommon firsthand opportunity to experience a city with a strong sense of obligation towards the public realm.
The studio visited architectural sites in Berlin and, in partial fulfillment of their seminar
on contemporary tectonics, toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland with their professors,
surviving an aborted alpine hike 2200m above Innsbruck.
Shared workshops, pin ups, exhibits and lectures with counterparts from South America,
Asia, Mexico and Kentucky lent a multifaceted global perspective to the studentsÕ tenure at the Aedes Campus Berlin.