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Poor but Sexy: Berlin, The New Communal Studio Instructors Frank Barkow, Arno Brandlhuber Seminar Instructors Niklas Maak, Fritz Neumeyer Teaching Assistant Maria Hudl Report Editor and Designer Maria Hudl Editorial Support Melissa Vaughn, Travis Dagenais, Sara Gothard A Harvard University Graduate School of Design Publication Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design Mohsen Mostafavi Editor in Chief Jennifer Sigler Publications Coordinator Meghan Sandberg
Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Mohsen Mostafavi and the staff of the Harvard Graduate School of Design for their support. Thanks to Yona Friedman, Renée Gailhoustet, Claude Parent, and the office Lacaton & Vassal for their hospitality during the Paris trip, and to the visiting studio critics including Rem Koolhaas, Thomas Demand, and Matthias Sauerbruch. Additional thanks to Arch+ for featuring the conference “Legislating Architecture” and to Rainer Hehl from Technical University Berlin for his help with the organization. Thank you to Dörte Hanisch for being so accommodating throughout the semester, to Christopher Roth for the film portrait of the studio, and to Something Fantastic. Image Credits Page 67: from Berlin Wonderland: Wild Years Revisited 1990–1996., ed. Anke Fesel and Chris Keller (Berlin: Gestalten, 2014).
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