Architect engineer contractor - architect’s studio engineer’s office contractors room.

During the war many parts of Berlin were destroyed, poverty and depression swept throughout society.

Alexander’s vision was to rebuild hope, shelter and safety within his broken community. At the age of 55 he had endured a treacherous life; and this became his driving force to build a better place and a better life in a time of such hopelessness.

Alexander was an Architect; he saw possibilities and had vision for creating and shaping the city of Berlin into an inspiring place. His designs were eccentric but poetic. People aspired to his drawings and began to share his dream.

Alexander was also and Engineer and a contractor, This side of his personality challenged his architectural visions and in some ways restrained his visions of possibilities. He began to fight with himself and his vision as he constantly thought about how his structures were going to stand up and who and how someone was going to build it. It was this side of Alexander that caused him to began to pair back his designs to the true.

Due to the lack of materials in Berlin at the time, Alexander was forced to reconsider and compromise his architectural vision. His dreams for shaping the city for the better soon became out of reach. His proposed apartments for the people in Berlin became minimalistic designs and expressions of the bare supporting structure depending on what materials were available at a time.

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