Cultural Revolution: A small glass and steel pavilion for scholars and writers on the grounds of the American Academy in Berlin is an elegant essay in structure.
At first, glancing through the tall windows of the 19th-century villa that houses the American Academy in Berlin'the center for transatlantic cultural and intellectual exchange conceived by former U.S. ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke in 1994'you see what seems to be a big white tent pitched in the Academy's spacious yard overlooking Lake Wannsee. That form turns out to be the roof of the new Fellows Pavilion, designed by the Berlin and New York architectural practice Barkow Leibinger to provide additional workspace for some of the scholars, writers, and other professionals awarded residence fellowships at the Academy each year.
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