In the winter of 2015 I found myself sitting on a windowsill in a warm, ground-floor exhibition room at Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. I had momentarily forgotten that it was snowing outside, and as I leaned against the window I looked out toward the back of the Neue Wache (New Guard) memorial, which was blanketed in darkness. The building reminded me that architecture typically has a front and back, like the human body. I breathed onto the
