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Ruminations @ the “Bucks” in Warsaw
There is a distinct and very familiar smell of coffee that is signature to the Starbucks coffee shops back in America. A very similar smell greeted me today as I entered my first Starbucks here in...
View ArticleEthnography and Culture
By: Ethan Sims On Sunday I went to a special market celebration that happens every year around Easter. The first thing I noticed was the smell of smoked meat that led me right to the outside of the...
View ArticleBudapest
Some of us made it to Budapest this past weekend. If I could over-simplify with a gut feeling it would be a mix between Athens and Warsaw, but the culture and experience were pleasantly potent and...
View ArticleThe Nature of The Exchange
I mentioned in a previous post that there was a high number of students for this exchange and I touched a little bit on what this meant. I found out yesterday while talking to one of my fellow Polish...
View ArticleSpring Break and Routines
By Ethan Sims It is funny how 4 months seemed like such a long time when I was looking at it from the front end. School is in the process of wrapping itself up for us. Deadlines speak to us by rather...
View ArticleSpring Break and Routines Pt.2
By: Ethan Sims I mentioned that our projects are due soon, this means the stress level is a bit higher than usual. But I want to talk for a little bit about my spring break experience over the past...
View ArticleFaithful 523.
The buses that roar by in Warsaw become a part of the background noise, much like the lull of a sunny train ride as the trees skim light past your eyes and travel like flickers over your forehead and...
View ArticleThe End is Near
After our studio final review on Thursday and our Urban Planning final done this afternoon the work load is changing dramatically, almost as rapidly as Warsaw is transforming as the weather is...
View ArticlePawel Trebach on Following Urban Structure
Pawel Trebach demonstrated how the formal design of a building ties in with the fabric of buildings, roads, parks, and the views around it. Reducing the decisions into simple diagrams made it easy to...
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Abroad in Europe
If you haven’t checked out my profile, I am a third year architecture student traveling abroad with 11 other UDM students in Warsaw, Poland. I am living in a dorm with Polish students from the...
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