Day 43
Day 43
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Venice, Italy
After waking up freezing at 6 in the morning due to an overactive air conditioner, someone had set it at 17 degrees, I attempted a shower in the bathroom that you couldn’t stand up in without hitting your head on the ceiling. It also had no shower curtain so try as best as I could there was still water all over the place. We ate breakfast across the street in the main part of the hotel. We headed as a group down to the biennale site, however we were an hour early and so Mark gave us an assignment to have ten quick sketches done by the end of the day. I got about 3 done before going to the biennale. The exhibition on world cities was really good with loads of innovative ideas on presentation that I can’t wait to try. It is amazing to look at graphic representations of the inequities that exist between first world and third world countries. The next gallery was an exhibition on using stone construction in the modern day, and a hypothetical proposal for a “new city” where 20 young Italian architecture teams each designed a part of it. The overall scheme was very cynical and utopian but it still proposed several interesting ideas. I stayed at the biennale all day, until I got kicked out a six, at which point I had to rush to try to finish some sketches before our 7 o’clock nightly meeting with mark.
For dinner most of us went to a pizza place that had a student menu. Afterwards we found one of the few bars in Venice and had a beer while Josh and I explained what we knew of stick frame construction techniques to Sky. After that we headed back where Kent and Ali insisted that I go get a magnum ice cream bar. I went just up the canal and had my first magnum, which was tasty but not extraordinary enough worthy of all of the praise lauded upon it. After that I headed back to the hotel and read or a while, and played some cards with Cheddar before bed.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Venice, Italy
After waking up freezing at 6 in the morning due to an overactive air conditioner, someone had set it at 17 degrees, I attempted a shower in the bathroom that you couldn’t stand up in without hitting your head on the ceiling. It also had no shower curtain so try as best as I could there was still water all over the place. We ate breakfast across the street in the main part of the hotel. We headed as a group down to the biennale site, however we were an hour early and so Mark gave us an assignment to have ten quick sketches done by the end of the day. I got about 3 done before going to the biennale. The exhibition on world cities was really good with loads of innovative ideas on presentation that I can’t wait to try. It is amazing to look at graphic representations of the inequities that exist between first world and third world countries. The next gallery was an exhibition on using stone construction in the modern day, and a hypothetical proposal for a “new city” where 20 young Italian architecture teams each designed a part of it. The overall scheme was very cynical and utopian but it still proposed several interesting ideas. I stayed at the biennale all day, until I got kicked out a six, at which point I had to rush to try to finish some sketches before our 7 o’clock nightly meeting with mark.
For dinner most of us went to a pizza place that had a student menu. Afterwards we found one of the few bars in Venice and had a beer while Josh and I explained what we knew of stick frame construction techniques to Sky. After that we headed back where Kent and Ali insisted that I go get a magnum ice cream bar. I went just up the canal and had my first magnum, which was tasty but not extraordinary enough worthy of all of the praise lauded upon it. After that I headed back to the hotel and read or a while, and played some cards with Cheddar before bed.
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