Hi, I’m Natalie – your private guide to Berlin

I’m an architect and licensed Berlin tour guide, offering private, conversation-led tours that explore the city through its buildings, streets, and urban fabric.

My tours are designed for curious travellers who want to understand why Berlin looks the way it does — and how architecture reveals the city’s history, politics, and everyday life.

Why I guide Berlin through architecture

Berlin’s history is written directly into its buildings, streets, and planning decisions. War, ideology, division, and reconstruction have all left physical traces that still shape the city today.

As an architect, I treat buildings as historical evidence. We look at materials, layouts, housing types, and urban plans to understand how people lived, what values were prioritised, and how power was expressed at different moments in Berlin’s past.

This approach offers a different way into the city by connecting big political ideas to the everyday spaces people moved through, worked in, and called home.

From Australia to Berlin

I first came to Berlin as a visitor and quickly became fascinated by how visibly the city carries its past. What began as a temporary stay after the Covid lockdowns in Australia turned into a permanent move.

Living here continues to develop my understanding of Berlin as a historical subject, but most importantly as an evolving city being constantly shaped by ongoing debates around housing, memory, and urban change. That perspective continues to shape how I design and lead my tours.

What it’s like to explore Berlin together

My tours are private, flexible, and discussion-based. We move at a thoughtful pace, with plenty of space for questions, conversation, and reflection.

Rather than rushing between highlights, we slow down to ask better questions about why places look the way they do, what has changed, and what has endured. The aim is understanding and discovery, not information overload.

Guests often tell me they leave seeing Berlin differently and also look at their own cities in a new way.