Strasbourg

Here, water becomes part of the fortress—and reveals the limits of engineering calculation during a siege.

This stop explains how craft architecture and a vanished hospital survived changes of use in different ways.

This stop will examine a postwar dispute in which a practical project nearly cost the city its imperial palace.

This stop will show the cost of moving from one court to another for a fifteen-year-old future dauphine.

The final stop will move the conversation from a border city to a hall where personal experience of war became a project for the international protection of rights.

This stop follows the path of a marching song from a performance at home to the national anthem, and the fate of the people connected with it.

Here it becomes clear why, in a border city, a war memorial refused to divide the fallen by army.

Here, the commercial risk of an avant-garde interior will be linked to its rapid disappearance and later restoration.

Here the route begins a discussion of how a political order can be carried out while preserving its main purpose.