The second time I was in Berlin in September 2009, seven years after my first visit to the school Alcalá, things had changed. When I visited the first time, I produced a stunning effect. Had studied the urban layout and writing an article for the school magazine, mainly about their own public space. The effect was awesome running into a reality very different from that seen in the books, I mean in the end, Berlin is changing: 2 times I've gone, 2 different realities.
Before that first trip, we study the Potsdammer Platz: important public space in Berlin, where he placed the first light of the world to regulate the busy traffic of the day: horse drawn carriages, trams (many) people on foot, bikes, trucks ... But when we got there, there was no one in the square. The light and did not regulate anything, was there over memorial than anything else. So what about people? underground in the subway, or in the brand (for time) Sony building. There was no crossing, exchange, busy, open-air market, nothing!. That started it all, the public space as a place of commerce. The rest of the way we turn around the square, the area Kulturforum, where the museum now always Mies Van der Rohe, the Neue Nationalgalerie, and my favorite library: National Library of Hans Scharoun.
On the second trip a few months ago , Kulturforum area was not much tourist attraction. Now what is cool "tour of alternative spaces"! Let's see, wait, I'm missing something ... how? if a site is "alternative" can not take a tour! Yes, in Berlin itself. The phrase I've actually got a leaflet proposed tours ... amazing.
The two v ECES I've been in Berlin have been, by coincidence, crucial. The first center squat or squat Tacheles just been busy, I was not very organized, and go through there was really being in a "alternative" was still current as the very famous Berlin squats Köpi or Rauchhaus . The street was poorly lit and the area was no way of tourists, restaurants and hotels were close but not pass.
Now the Tacheles is an art center in front of tourist restaurants, courtyard with concerts and parties and bar mojitos. Nothing remains of the mystery. It's like in London, tourists take pictures with the graffiti artist below South Bank. The other day I read an article in the Courrier International on the same subject: the disappearance of squatter buildings or conversion in art centers under contract.
On the second trip a few months ago , Kulturforum area was not much tourist attraction. Now what is cool "tour of alternative spaces"! Let's see, wait, I'm missing something ... how? if a site is "alternative" can not take a tour! Yes, in Berlin itself. The phrase I've actually got a leaflet proposed tours ... amazing.
The two v ECES I've been in Berlin have been, by coincidence, crucial. The first center squat or squat Tacheles just been busy, I was not very organized, and go through there was really being in a "alternative" was still current as the very famous Berlin squats Köpi or Rauchhaus . The street was poorly lit and the area was no way of tourists, restaurants and hotels were close but not pass.
Now the Tacheles is an art center in front of tourist restaurants, courtyard with concerts and parties and bar mojitos. Nothing remains of the mystery. It's like in London, tourists take pictures with the graffiti artist below South Bank. The other day I read an article in the Courrier International on the same subject: the disappearance of squatter buildings or conversion in art centers under contract. 
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