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Week 2_Cultural Landmarks
This week was filled with the exciting architectural landmarks of Barcelona, in short we visited...MACBA, the Forum, the Picasso Museum, Santa Maria Del Mar Church (built around 1328); Gaudi's Casa Batllo, Casa Mila, and Sagrada Familia; Calatrava's famous Communication Tower; the Olympic Complex on Montjuic, FCBarcelona!, and finally Torre Agbar. All of the sites we visited were amazing architecturally and seemed even better in real life as opposed to the photos we would see in a class back at CUA. Gaudi's architecture is unreal and to think that he executed these sturctures successfully without the aid of computers that we have today is remarkable - his architecture is an art. Over 
Christmas break, I picked up a book on Calatrava and was paging through it thinking of how impressive his work was and now to see it in person is truly breathtaking; the Communication Tower is an architectural and engineering work of art. The views from Montjuic overlooked the entire city of Barcelona, it made the city and Europe come alive, as it was everything I had pictured in my head.
Life in Born, my neighborhood in the Old City, really is a symbol of Barcelona's cultural idenity. Not only is it always lively and full of locals passing by, it is also quite calm and relaxing. Its nice to wake up in the morning and hear the sounds of the old European street and smell the fresh air and the small bakery across the street. In this blog I want to bring the culture of Barcelona alive - from its Old City to the new clubs along the ocean, and everything in between. The experience of this city so far has been a life lesson on its own and I hope to learn much more on the life and the cultural traditions of Barcelona and its neighboring countries. Of course architecture plays a role in this, architecture shapes the way people live - it is the living designed environment.
This week was filled with the exciting architectural landmarks of Barcelona, in short we visited...MACBA, the Forum, the Picasso Museum, Santa Maria Del Mar Church (built around 1328); Gaudi's Casa Batllo, Casa Mila, and Sagrada Familia; Calatrava's famous Communication Tower; the Olympic Complex on Montjuic, FCBarcelona!, and finally Torre Agbar. All of the sites we visited were amazing architecturally and seemed even better in real life as opposed to the photos we would see in a class back at CUA. Gaudi's architecture is unreal and to think that he executed these sturctures successfully without the aid of computers that we have today is remarkable - his architecture is an art. Over 
Christmas break, I picked up a book on Calatrava and was paging through it thinking of how impressive his work was and now to see it in person is truly breathtaking; the Communication Tower is an architectural and engineering work of art. The views from Montjuic overlooked the entire city of Barcelona, it made the city and Europe come alive, as it was everything I had pictured in my head.
Life in Born, my neighborhood in the Old City, really is a symbol of Barcelona's cultural idenity. Not only is it always lively and full of locals passing by, it is also quite calm and relaxing. Its nice to wake up in the morning and hear the sounds of the old European street and smell the fresh air and the small bakery across the street. In this blog I want to bring the culture of Barcelona alive - from its Old City to the new clubs along the ocean, and everything in between. The experience of this city so far has been a life lesson on its own and I hope to learn much more on the life and the cultural traditions of Barcelona and its neighboring countries. Of course architecture plays a role in this, architecture shapes the way people live - it is the living designed environment.
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