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The organization of spaces and the creation of places is not left to chance. On the contrary: As social and geographic beings people always tend to arrange spaces for different reasons and purposes. So different the purposes and reasons are so different are the architectual arrangements and creations. Prof Dr Dean Joshua Hagen from the Northern State University in South Dakota is doing a lot of research on the changing practices in the engagement with space and place. His approach is linked with many political and historical questions, e.g.: How does architecture establish national and cultural identities? We asked Dean Joshua Hagen our questions with a view on the national-socialist regime in Germany.