Award-winning architect and educator Tatiana Berger has made a spectacular ascent in the design world, as a practitioner, professor of architecture and urban design, researcher, consultant and entrepreneur. A pioneer and thought-leader, working at the interface of neuroscience, cognitive science, environmental psychology, art and design fields, Berger is the Founder and Director of Moving Boundaries Collaborative.

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"Moving Boundaries was the most rewarding and inspiring conference that I have ever attended, exemplary both for its content and ambiance", remarked world-renowned architect and author, Juhani Pallasmaa. Distinguished architectural historian and critic, William JR Curtis, noted, "Tatiana is without question one of the most talented, rigorous and inspiring teachers of her generation." 

 

Berger studied architecture at Princeton University and at the University of California, Berkeley. She practiced architecture and urban design in Portugal, Spain, Russia, U.S., and Austria for seventeen years. Her built works and collaborations with two Pritzker-Prize winning architects were published in periodicals Domus, Casabella, El Croquis, Detail, GA, A+U, and others, and presented in exhibitions in Lisbon, Madrid, Tokyo, New York, Moscow, and Venice. In addition to architecture, her experience in professional practice includes landscape design, urban planning, interior design and construction administration.

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Berger's architectural education connects her to some of the 20th and 21st century’s most illustrious architects, authors and teachers: she studied first with Professor Alan Colquhoun (Princeton) and worked with Richard Meier in New York, before moving to Porto, Portugal to study and work with Álvaro Siza Vieira. In Bregenz, Austria she collaborated with Baumschlager-Eberle, later becoming project manager of the 2014 Winter Olympics center. Kenneth Frampton has been an influential mentor, since 1991.  

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She was Professor of Architecture at the New School of Architecture & Design and at the Boston Architectural College, where she taught full-time for nearly twenty years. In her role as Liaison for Education, she founded and directed for three years the ANFA Center for Education (ACE), a forum of educators and researchers dedicated to reimagining design education. She curated lecture series and developed innovative curriculum at the New School in the pioneering Neuroscience for Architecture program, the first of its kind in the world. She continues to lecture internationally on diverse topics, most recently in Venice, Guadalajara and Madrid. Berger serves on the Advisory Council of ANFA (Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture) and is a Partner of EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association). 

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Berger's multi-faceted international career is testament to her belief in the power of architecture to generate empathy and understanding. She believes that architects have an ethical responsibility to create spaces which nurture and support human and environmental health. Whether working with students, bringing communities together as part of MB to share knowledge and develop new research, or helping clients to design buildings and landscapes, she strives to foster connections that stimulate the imagination and reinforce our humanity.

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Since 2022, Moving Boundaries has curated five courses and conferences around the world and helped to support research and new collaborations.The MB community includes over 5,500 supporters, 400 alumni and 60 faculty members, all part of a global movement that some have called an itinerant (mobile) university and think-tank with the power to shift paradigms and to recast the role of architecture and design in society. Each year Moving Boundaries awards close to $60,000 in scholarships to young professionals and graduate students. MB sponsored conferences of both ANFA and EDRA in 2023-24.

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Most recently, Berger began planning a new research and educational initiative in India, a cultural journey to celebrate life-centered design at this challenging time in history. Her work leading the Moving Boundaries global community, supported by a distinguished international faculty team, reflects her lifelong commitment to stretching the boundaries of the design disciplines and tradition to understand how design and human sciences help us to imagine and build a stronger and healthier society.

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"It is rare that one writes a recommendation for someone with talents in so many areas of importance with respect to education that it is difficult to decide where to begin. Tatiana is an individual of keen intellect, international experience, high design accomplishments, and with a dedication and sensitivity to teaching that can only be matched by her own rigorous standards of hard work. She has enriched her design work with the advanced research of ANFA and the Salk Institute of Biological Studies, both based in San Diego. With the deep commitment Tatiana brings to teaching, she stands at the very forefront in applying this new knowledge to the field of design", remarked world-renowned architectural historian and scholar, Harry Francis Mallgrave. 

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Berger resides in Porto, Portugal and San Diego, CA. She is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and English. 

 

 

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