What can we learn from our relationship with architecture? What potentials, tasks and concepts can be derived from it for the future? The exhibition takes up those traces of a constant transformation of the city and opens discourses for the examination of urban living spaces. In the contribution of the offices Brandlhuber+ / bplus.xyz, those questions are discussed by reference to San Gimignano, the prototype workshop of the office in Berlin-Lichtenberg. As a place of transformation, the towers of the former VEB-Elektrokohle are contemporary witnesses of very different forms of change - on a political, economic and ecological level. This special place, which became a vision of something new through the narrative of "San Gimignano Lichtenberg", is the starting point for the new orientation of the office. In search of new models of architectural creation, the office is drawn to a new location with new challenges and potential. As the location for the office's new prototype workshop, Lichtenberg is not only the starting point but also part of the exploration of current architectural and urban planning issues.

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