13* Becomings for Berlin and Beyond
We are so pleased to share some highlights from the opening of 13* Becomings for Berlin and Beyond, the final exhibition of the first cohort of the newly established MA Architecture and Spatial Practices at Whitecliffe University of Applied Sciences.
Traversing the neighborhoods of Berlin as well as distant geographies, thirteen Master projects trace unsettled territories, spatial transformations, and possible futures. In Berlin, the students worked to reimagine our city from the sequence of intersections along Sonnenallee to the possibility of infills within the gaps of Mitte, from an incremental evolution of Pankow to the resurgence of a lost island in Tiergarten, and to a double destiny for a former site of production in Schöneweide.
Beyond our city, the projects ranged from the extrastatecraft of Mallorca's airport territories to the complex orography of historic Nazareth and the port expansions of Abu Dhabi, from the post-Soviet legacies of an abandoned bunker in Moldova and a former diplomatic housing megastructure in Warsaw to the contested touristic developments of the Croatian coast and a Malaysian island once used as a lazaretto. Together, they compose a provisional map of becomings: spatial trajectories for places that may still be imagined otherwise.
The Master's student exhibit, 13* Becomings for Berlin and Beyond, was open for public viewing from 7-9 July, 2026 in a nearby studio space. During the exhibition's opening, visitors were guided through the various projects by the students who created them and invited to imagine the possibilities of tomorrow through the eyes of emerging architects.
Projects created by Christian Buddenbohm, Ana-Maria Bulugea, Aimé Paul Buss, Omar Elsamman, Kuebra Bilge Karatekin, Syedah Khatoon, Chloe Luethi, Vladlena Naval, Marcos Juan Ojeda, Michelle Pap, Dua Ramaxhiku, Rena Sawaed, Julia Stefaniak
Curatorial lead by Giorgia Aquilar, Fariborz Rahimi, Lukas Staudinger
Exhibition production by Anita Saggese
13* Becomings for Berlin and Beyond was a collaboration with Europacity Ensembles
