P002 → Cut.Copy.Paste. How European Counterculture Shapes Space.
Research project conducted through UC Berkeley’s John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship.
Reserach conducted Summer 2025.
Work exhibited February 2026.
Project website: https://635660.cargo.site/
Abandoned factories become concert halls. Slaughterhouses transform into cultural centers. Military barracks evolve into autonomous communities. Cut. Copy. Paste. documents how European counterculture has shaped, and been shaped by, the architectural spaces it inhabits.Across thirteen European cities, this project examines the relationship between alternative cultures and their physical environments. From London's historic punk venues to Copenhagen's Christiania, Berlin's post-wall cultural landscape to Vienna's converted locomotive factory, the research investigates how communities have transformed forgotten buildings into vibrant centers of resistance and collective identity.
The findings are compiled into a nearly 300 page DIY-style publication that mirrors the ethos of the spaces it documents, combining photography, drawings, and text descriptions. This project illuminates an architectural canon that exists in the margins of history, yet powerfully shapes urban experience– spaces where architecture itself becomes an act of resistance.