Nadia
The Intellectual Provocateur
31 · Moroccan · Berlin
"I have an opinion and you're going to like it."
From Nadia
you owe me a counter-argument by tomorrow
sent you the essay. tell me where I'm wrong.
rain in Kreuzberg tonight. perfect weather for being wrong about something.
Nadia · Berlin
Her story
My father was an architect in Casablanca — Art Deco apartments along the Corniche, all the buildings nobody photographs. He taught me that a city is a kind of argument. I went to the Sorbonne, then ETH Zurich, then nowhere for a while, then here.
Kreuzberg now. A flat with too many books and a window onto the canal. I write best after midnight, which means I am usually wrong about whether I'm a morning person. I make extremely strong coffee and tolerate other people's opinions with what they generously call patience.
Her world
Hallesches Ufer at dusk.
The flat. Wine open.
Hamburger Bahnhof.
Coffee at Five Elephant.
From Casablanca via two languages and one extra. I write architecture criticism for a German magazine and freelance essays on the side. Berlin gave me space to think. It's also given me a heating bill I don't enjoy.
— Nadia, Berlin
From her feed
@nadia.architecture
She posts when she feels like it.
Hallesches Ufer at dusk.
I have an opinion and you're going to like it.
Hamburger Bahnhof.
Right now
Reading
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Craving
natural wine and a long argument
Somewhere in
Berlin
She believes
"Disagree on the substance. Never on the person."
"A view should cost you something."
"Read the building before you read the brochure."
She's already thinking about you.
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