Posts Tagged ‘denmark’
a question indirectly posed to me by sam kronick one late lasercuttery night, and one that i am starting to rethink this semester:
is studio really the best-designed environment for design?
what makes doing your design work in studio better than, say, in your nicely-decorated dorm room? or the buzzy woodshop? or one big round table with [...]
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Tags: archfamily, architecture, denmark, design, interiors, studio
copenhagen café culture
never have i been more excited to do 200 pages of reading for class than when each homework assignment equals trying out a new danish cafe.
on my daily journey home from school, i pass at least ten cafes, and they’re not just any euro-ish starbucks or panera-esque chain appendage — but all so charming and [...]
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Tags: cafes, copenhagen, denmark, happiness
jutland jaunts
last weekend, the architecture + design program went on a study tour to western denmark – including the cities of arhus, aalborg, and kolding. they all reside on the jutland peninsula, which forms the mainland of denmark and ‘juts’ like a finger into the north/baltic seas:
the cities in western denmark are just like smaller, quieter, [...]
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Tags: architecture, cities, copenhagen, denmark, design, travel
classes i am taking this spring [@ DIS + university of copenhagen] :
1. danish design
2. interior architecture studio
3. european urban design theories
4. turkey at the crossroads
5. human rights in africa
fully comprehensive list of meals that i have cooked for myself thus far :
1. omelette
2. stir fry vegetables
3. tortellini with tomato sauce
4. ravioli with pesto sauce
5. [...]
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Tags: cities, copenhagen, denmark, travel
a visit to Ørestad
after getting to know mainly copenhagen city center for the past two weeks, my European Urban Design Theories [EUDT] professor scooped us up from class this afternoon and whisked us to the metro. i love the metro here because the big windows grant me this view if i squeesh into the very front cart:
our destination: [...]
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Tags: architecture, cities, copenhagen, denmark, urbanism
hello copenhagen!
i stepped off the plane last weekend, right into the welcoming arms of 1) my wonderful new danish visiting family and 2) a grey, damp, overhanging mist whose icy fingers tickled the bone marrow of my sunshine-worshipping skeleton.
[little did i know that mister icy mist would would be looking over my shoulder...every...day. anders, who led [...]
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Tags: cities, copenhagen, denmark, happiness, sun
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name: tiffany chu
location: cambridge, ma (or san francisco / copenhagen / bridgewater, nj)
industry: architecture + media studies
role: bright, bushy MIT student.
