He has built houses and worked in urban planning, created stage sets and anamorphoses. In 1988, he was, with colleagues, a joint recipient of the renowned Mies van der Rohe Award for the terminal station of the Berlin maglev.

But the true passion of Berlin architect and artist Yadegar Asisi are panoramic displays – because they are “the perfect simulation of space”. Asisi, who has been Professor of Architectural Presentation at the Berlin Technical University of Applied Sciences since 1996, believes “Panoramas allow us to rediscover seeing. What the viewer sees is not determined by an external director; instead, the viewer directs his or her own viewing experience.”

Born in Vienna to Persian emigrants in 1955, Asisi studied architecture in Dresden and then painting in Berlin. But it was always the combination of “space, light and illusion” and the possibilities of perspective drawing that fascinated him. By the late 80s he had discovered the computer as a creative tool, then panoramas with their magical three-dimensional effect in the early 90s. In 2003, architect Daniel Libeskind won the competition to redevelop the site of the World Trade Center in New York with a panorama created by Asisi. Following his highly regarded panorama exhibition “Berlin 2005 – Cityvision”, held in 1995 in collaboration with “Stern” magazine in Berlin, Asisi’s creative work since 2003 has mainly been for his Panometers in Leipzig and Dresden.

As the artistic director of Panometer GmbH in Berlin, Yadegar Asisi is further expanding his reputation as a specialist for three-dimensional simulations, as “the architect of illusions”.

External links
Chair at TFH Berlin
Asisi-Factory