← Personal siteCuriosity beyond work
International politics, architecture, beekeeping and gardening may look like separate interests. For me, they share one impulse: understanding how complex systems work, how people shape them and how perspective changes when you look closely.
Washington University in St. Louis
My education in Germany, the United States and France made internationality personal long before it became professional. I remain fascinated by the interaction of power, institutions, history and culture — and by the different answers societies find to shared questions.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Architecture turns ideas into lived space. I am drawn to buildings that create clarity without becoming cold, and to the way proportion, material and light can influence how people meet, think and remember.
Patience · attention · seasons
Beekeeping and gardening reward close observation and respect for rhythms you cannot accelerate. A hive and a garden are lessons in adaptation, patient stewardship and the difference between guiding a system and trying to control it.
A wider view
If one of these interests connects with yours, I would be glad to continue the conversation.
Write to meImage credits: Brookings Hall — Elenatti / Wikimedia Commons · Neue Nationalgalerie — Mandus70 / Wikimedia Commons
