BERLINWALL
Table of Drawings
0- About BERLINWALL
1- Entangled wall
2- Beyond the barbed wire
3- The wall killed two churches
4- All from the twins
5- Biography of a certain apartment
History：
“BERLINWALL” is currently a serialized project managed by Takafumi Tsukamoto and Akira Yamazaki.
In April 2021, under the guidance of Professor Akihito Aoi in a sub-seminar (commonly known as “Research Groups (RG)”) of the Meiji University Architecture History and Theory Laboratory, an assignment was given under the theme of “Research on Multiplicity.” Professor Aoi stated, “There are various approaches to multiplicity—union, junction, division, cohabitation, and so on. Based on these paradigms and the assigned readings, devise your own research project.”
In this context, the team of Naoto Katsube, Takashi Kawashima, Jiang Yilin, Taisei Kubota, Takafumi Tsukamoto, Akira Yamazaki, and Li Junkai selected Edgar Wolfrum’s Berlin’s Wall: A History of the Division of Germany as their assigned book and launched the project “How Was the Berlin Wall Constructed?” With the aim of reinterpreting the Berlin Wall as architecture and visualizing its concrete form, they participated in an in-lab review session in August 2021. There, they presented a half-scale mock-up of the Berlin Wall along with multiple drawings.
Subsequently, the project was renamed “Berlinnokabe” when Tsukamoto and Yamazaki continued their research and writing activities, prompted by the drawings. They are currently hard at work producing a total of five installments in this serialized project.
Introduction of Books：
・エトガー・ ヴォルフルム著、飯田収治, 木村明夫, 村上亮訳『ベルリンの壁：ドイツ分断の歴史』（洛北出版、2012／原著、2009）
・Gordon L Rottman『THE BERLIN WALL and the Intra-German border 1961-89』（Osprey、3rd 2010/First 2008）
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Special Thanks：
・AOI LAB: OFFICE FOR ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY/THEORY STUDIES, MEIJI-U
Production：
Takafumi Tsukamoto
Co-Director / Master of Engineering
2025.10- Enrolled in the Doctoral Program in the Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo.
2024.03 Graduated from Architecture and Urbanism Course, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Japan.
2022.09-2023.07 Chinese Government Scholarship General Scholar, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, People's Republic of China.
2021.03 Graduated from Department of Architecture, School of Science and Technology , Meiji University, Japan.
1998 Born in Nara. Japan.
instagram: @kuroi_tree
web site: https://tats.myportfolio.com/
Akira Yamazaki
Co-Director / Master of Engineering
2023- Employed at a newspaper company.
2023.03 Graduated from Architecture and Urbanism Course, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Japan.
2021.03 Graduated from Department of Architecture, School of Science and Technology , Meiji University, Japan.
1997 Born in Kanagawa. Japan.
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