As a research associate and lecturer at universities in Stuttgart, Berlin, and Lima, I have engaged intensively with questions of the city, urban perception, and spatial transformation. Over the last decades, I have lived and worked in both Berlin and Shanghai — two cities whose radically different historical trajectories, cultural conditions, and urban dynamics offer a particularly revealing perspective on contemporary urbanism. This long-term experience has profoundly shaped my understanding of the city as a constantly evolving field of perception, symbolism, representation, and social practice.

Photography forms an integral part of my research and spatial practice. Rather than serving as mere documentation, it functions as a tool for perception and critical observation, capturing the shifting relationships among space, image, memory, and everyday urban life. Through this process, the city reveals itself as a dynamic field of representation, social interaction, and continuous transformation.

In my architectural work, I explore ways of integrating strong conceptual ideas with the programmatic and functional essence of a building. Rather than imposing a fixed formal language independent of context, I approach each project through the specific conditions of site, climate, program, and urban environment. The unique character of a place becomes the starting point for the architectural idea itself.