Day 3
Day 3
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Stuttgart, Germany
This is the first day of “school,” for this semester which we began by eating a very nice breakfast in the restaurant attached to the hotel, all sorts of meats, cheeses, fruits, and cereal with yogurt. Corey had us buy a 3 day tourist pass from the hotel which allowed us unlimited transportation for the next few days, after that was sorted out we set off after fearless leader. The first stop of the day was at Königstrasse the main pedestrian mall that ran from the train station through the center of town. This too would be a recurring theme throughout Germany as it was a popular way to rebuild the historic core of cities that were leveled by the war. We drew urban sections of this street as well as two others in town before breaking for lunch. Several of us had some all you can eat Chinese food, not far from the location of our second sketch of the morning.
That afternoon wee took a U-Bahn out to the Wiessenhofsiedlung a few kilometers outside of the town. The Wiessenhofsiedlung was an exhibition built in the 1920’s to boost Germany’s pride as well as to demonstrate a new way of producing housing. It was organized by Mies van der Rohe, who invited young “radical” architects to build housing for the exhibition. We saw an apartment block by Mies, two Corbu houses, as well as JJP Oud and Walter Gropius. After the Wiessenhofsiedlung we went to the adjacent Architecture school in a Concrete brutalist building with some very interesting spaces inside created through the use of lots of intermediate floor levels off of the main stairway. Another two blocks away was a very large open park with a double helix observation tower that I swear was tilted. We had dinner in our first biergarten; bratwurst, kartofelsalat, and some weissbier to wash it all down with. We concluded the day with an impromptu stop at some new modern all glass office buildings adjacent to the site that will become Stuttgart’s new train station.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Stuttgart, Germany
This is the first day of “school,” for this semester which we began by eating a very nice breakfast in the restaurant attached to the hotel, all sorts of meats, cheeses, fruits, and cereal with yogurt. Corey had us buy a 3 day tourist pass from the hotel which allowed us unlimited transportation for the next few days, after that was sorted out we set off after fearless leader. The first stop of the day was at Königstrasse the main pedestrian mall that ran from the train station through the center of town. This too would be a recurring theme throughout Germany as it was a popular way to rebuild the historic core of cities that were leveled by the war. We drew urban sections of this street as well as two others in town before breaking for lunch. Several of us had some all you can eat Chinese food, not far from the location of our second sketch of the morning.
That afternoon wee took a U-Bahn out to the Wiessenhofsiedlung a few kilometers outside of the town. The Wiessenhofsiedlung was an exhibition built in the 1920’s to boost Germany’s pride as well as to demonstrate a new way of producing housing. It was organized by Mies van der Rohe, who invited young “radical” architects to build housing for the exhibition. We saw an apartment block by Mies, two Corbu houses, as well as JJP Oud and Walter Gropius. After the Wiessenhofsiedlung we went to the adjacent Architecture school in a Concrete brutalist building with some very interesting spaces inside created through the use of lots of intermediate floor levels off of the main stairway. Another two blocks away was a very large open park with a double helix observation tower that I swear was tilted. We had dinner in our first biergarten; bratwurst, kartofelsalat, and some weissbier to wash it all down with. We concluded the day with an impromptu stop at some new modern all glass office buildings adjacent to the site that will become Stuttgart’s new train station.
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