Tuesday, March 30, 2010


Sketching at the Louvre. This rainbow is created by the pyramid.

I took this picture in Barcelona while visiting Liz, Nicole and Fajer.

For spring break I went to Istanbul with Sean, Monika and Rojo. This is them on the right in front of the Blue Mosque.

Thursday, March 4, 2010


This is the figure ground of Monika and I's redevelopment of the waterfront in Trastevere. The black is existing and the grey is our design.

This is the Ara Pacis Museum by Richard Meier. We visited the building for history and sketching class. It houses Augustine's ara pacis and it is the only modern building in Rome.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010


On Saturday I went to a mozzarella farm and got the freshest of fresh mozzarella! This is me petting a water buffalo that provided the milk.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

This is my first project. I analyzed Piazza S. Ignazio and the Church.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010


In Verona we visited two Carlo Scarpa buildings, one being the Castel Vecchio, which is an older castel with interior renovations by Scarpa. I wanted to frolic in this building all day!

In Vicenza we got to go inside Palladio's Villa Rotonda. The plan is symmetrical and based on proportion so I made a snow angel and then was inscribed in a circle vitruvian man style!

Venice was awesome! This picture is looking back at the Campanile and Doges Palace!

We were in Bologna for half a day. We climbed the tallest tower in Italy. It was snowy and icy and they warned us not to, but we did anyway. This is a picture looking down the stairs.

Saturday, February 6, 2010


Our first stop on the Northern Italy trip was Florence! We climbed the Duomo! I saw the Caravaggio Medusa I have been wanting to see since we came last time and it was being restored. It was amazing in person. I held myself back from buying expensive leather things! I stared at the David for a while. We got to go into Michelangelo's Laurentian Library!

Friday, January 22, 2010


This is the view of Piazza Navona from our room!