Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Appreciating the Sagrada Familia


When traveling to new locations, you do not have to be an architect in order to visit and appreciate famous buildings. Many well known buildings have long lines and high prices as proof of this. However, after years of schooling, architecture students experience these locations in a much different manner. We marvel over and care about things that many people do not even seem to notice.


My very first semester at Cal, I took a freshman seminar on the buildings of Berkeley. Our first visit was to Doe Library, where my Professor instructed us to feel the difference in material between the original library and the extension. As a group of shy freshman, we timidly pet the wall.

And now, with no hesitance and little prompting, we have no shame in this:

(me)











--Elaina Dente

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