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Constellation would have never seen the light of day and Admiral Steidel would have given the farm away.

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But poor rural schools rarely have college advisers with those connections; without them, admission "can be a crapshoot," says Carnegie Mellon's Steidel.

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"We start working with students as freshmen to get them thinking about what's possible in terms of what your education can do," Steidel says.

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Ms. Steidel, a German native in her 50s who has lived in Berlin since 1974, is an ardent fan of architects and their work.

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After experiencing the interior of one of its apartments, Ms. Steidel was smitten.

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Ms. Steidel now works at Mr. Henselmann's desk, which is built into a slightly raised platform and offers a panoramic view of Karl-Marx-Allee.

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I began exploring it and finally circling this tower, said Ms. Steidel, referring to one of the two terraced 14-story buildings where she has lived since late 2009.

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In 2004, Ms. Steidel was invited to a dinner party hosted by Isa Henselmann, the architect's daughter and a fashion designer, who still lived in the tower.

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In both the kitchen and the living area, Ms. Steidel enjoys the fascinating play of light and shadows that move along the walls of her apartment.

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A large foyer first leads to a room that was Mr. Henselmann's office; here, Ms. Steidel stripped decades-old yellowed varnish from the room's built-in wooden elements, including shelving and thin flat drawers used to hold blueprints and paper drawings.

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