I am an architectural designer living and working in the Seattle area. This blog is used to document my travels around the world.
So the theory is this. All viruses, bacteria, and other sicknesses in Europe are slightly different from those in America. The symptoms are the same, but your immune system has no idea what to do.
Once one person gets the common cold, it then spreads throughout all international students. Before you know it, everyone is sick [...]
Our next studio project’s site is in Dundee… it was time to take a class fieldtrip an hour and a half north of Edinburgh to the mighty city of Dundee.
Four of us decided to hire a car (AKA “rent”) which would be cheaper than taking the train. We met at the Enterprise across the street [...]
Do to all our hard work, our class has been invited to the exclusive invite-only Festival kick-off party!
“Jonathan Mills, Director of the Edinburgh International Festival requests the pleasure of your company to celebrate the launch of the 2007 Festival.”
Time to dust off my tuxedo!
Two crits in two days! One for Studio, one for Tectonics. One very good, one very bad! Excuse me for a minute while I get something off my chest!
First up was the presentations in front of the Edinburgh International Festival Committee. As described earlier, we have been designing projection exhibitions demonstrating the past 60 years [...]
Richard Demarco is a photographer who has attended every single Edinburgh International Festival (all 60 of them over 60 years) and has taken literally millions of photographs of the “real” people who attended each one. I.E. the stuff you won’t see in the official press photos. We have complete access to his archive to include [...]
Decided to play tourist again today. I hadn’t been up to Prince’s Street or the Royal Mile since we were back in the hostel. So I took a walk up there with the intention of getting my first European haircut (eek), a Scottish flag to hang in my room (it needs something on the walls), [...]
Does anyone have a pencil? No?
Just a typical day in the Napier Interior Architecture department. With the advent of laptops, who needs those boring drawing boards anymore! I happen to know more than one professors in my time who would absolutely freak out by this picture and give us all a speech how we aren’t [...]