Cities are a source of inspiration, find my publications on this theme here. Don’t expect to find the most popular places, I will try to take you elsewhere.
My posts on Berlin are on a dedicated page.
My posts as I published them:

Bauhaus: ADGB school in Bernau, a UNESCO site
A look back at one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites near Berlin: the ADGB trade union school. The UNESCO-listed Bauhaus architecture in Germany is grouped…
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Hans Scharoun – Schminke House
A post dedicated to a unique building, a 1930’s villa, whose design has left a deep impression on me. Hans Scharoun is a German architect whose…
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Rotterdam, sky scrappers, pop architecture and industrial culture
Too often neglected by tourists in favour of Amsterdam of course but also other destinations such as The Hague, Utrecht … Rotterdam is worth a stop…
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Discovering the small streets of Athens (2/2)
Today I invite you to accompany me on a stroll through some of Athens’ neighbourhoods. A visit in two posts, of which this is the second.…
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Discovering the lanes of Athens (1/2)
Today I invite you to accompany me on a stroll through some of Athens’ neighbourhoods. A visit in two posts, of which this is the first.…
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A visit to Cottbus
Following my post on Lusitania, here is Cottbus, the historic German capital of this mining region. We’re there very close to the actual Polish border, about…
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Typical of the DDR: Eisenhüttenstad
More than thirty years after the reunification, a large part of the architectural heritage of the GDR has disappeared, has been destroyed or completely rebuilt ……
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Prague, Art Nouveau and modernism from the 1930s to the 2000s
A wonderful mix of eras is what Prague offers its visitors today and my last post will take you from Art Nouveau buildings, to 1930s villas…
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Prague, discovering cubism … and the rest
A wonderful mix of eras is what Prague offers its visitors today and my post will take us from cubist buildings to classical Prague, not forgetting…
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