summertime
Such a summer! I spent June traveling and studying design and landscape with students from Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Tech, and Cal-Berkely on VaTech professor Terry Clements’s annual sojourn to Europe. I returned from Europe at the end of June with a reinforced respect and admiration for other design disciplines, especially landscape architecture.
Also, I was able to study more than a few fantastic buildings. I was particularly excited to see some projects I had only read about, especially Zaha Hadid’s Vitra Fire Station, which was really fantastic. In Munich, I spent quite a bit of time getting to know the Brandhosrt Sammlung, by Sauerbruch Hutton, which has a wonderfully Baroque Modern facade (I think I just invented an adjective there). As usual, I was blown away by the work of Behnisch Architekten, but I was truly astounded by the numerous projects by Herzog & de Meuron I encountered. True masters.
Soon I’ll be posting some sketches and photographs.
