A Year in Europe

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Special thanks to Griffin McCoy Scholarship Dedicated to the memory of Wojciech Lesnikowski



_Rue Mouffetard “Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté.”

PARIS

09/07/2014



_Saint-Joan of Arc Church _ Saint-Ouen Abbey Church

ROUEN

09/12/2014



_Grundtvig’s Church “The city's appearance today is shaped by the key role it has played as a regional centre for centuries. ”

COPENHAGEN

10/25/2014



_Mountain Dwellings _ VM Houses “To combine the splendours of the suburban backyard with the social intensity of urban density�

COPENHAGEN

10/27/2014



“The M/S museum is an architectural organism which invites to discovery.”

HELSINGOR

10/28/2014



_Fondation Louis Vuitton “a magnificent vessel that symbolises France’s profound cultural vocation.” -- Frank Gehry

PARIS

10/29/2014



“Rome is not built in a day.� I was deeply moved by those grand ancient architecture.

ROME

10/31/2014



_Castel Sant’Angelo _ St. Peter's Basilica From Vatican to Rome, it’s my pilgrimage way, and telling me the strength of faith.

VATICAN & ROME

11/01/2014



_MAXXI _ Jubilee Church “Open Museum Open City” Produced social and culture spaces that are truly democratic and open.

ROME

11/03/2014



_Jardins des Tuileries _ Musée de L’orangerie “The architecture forms one unified element whose balance and stability are carefully designed.”

PARIS

11/10/2014



“When sunlight falls on Brussels And the soft city comes to life If people are going to shine again The park fountains awakens A summer day�

BRUSSELS

11/16/2014



“Madrid is the most Spanish of Spain’s cities.”

MADRID

01/09/2015



_Museo ABC _ Museo Del Prado “Architecture is a mixture of NOSTALGIA and ANTICIPATION, the co-existence of history and vanguard.” -- Jean Baudrillard

MADRID

01/10/2015



“The train slows down, it’s the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.” -- Fernando Pessoa

LISBON

01/12/2015



“The Oceans, a Heritage for the Future”

LISBON

01/13/2015



_Fondation Cartier “It is an architecture based entirely on lightness, glass, and finely woven steel.� -- Jean Nouvel

PARIS

02/14/2015



_Musee des Confluences “a floating crystal cloud of stainless and glass”

LYON

03/21/2015



“Metz contains a mishmash of architectural layers, bearing witness to centuries of history at the crossroads of different cultures, and features a number of architectural landmarks.�

METZ

03/28/2015



_Ville de Nantes “History of places made of industrial warehouses.”

NANTES

04/04/2015



_Louvre Lens “we want to have an open house, open for society, for visitors, as well as for all of the people living in the city� -- Kazuyo Sejima

LENS

04/11/2015



“Basel has nonetheless remained open to new ideas and, in recent decades, has evolved into a veritable architectural mecca.�

BASEL

04/18/2015



_Notre Dame du Haut “Here we will build a monument dedicated to nature and we will make it our lives’ purpose.” -- Le Corbusier

RONCHAMP

04/18/2015



_Vitra Campus 1 “Here, visitors are offered inspirational ideas for their own homes and invited to explore their own taste in design.�

WEIL AM RHEIN

04/19/2015



_Vitra Campus 2 “... a gathering in a single place of a group of buildings designed by the most distinguished architects in the Western world� -- Philip Johnson

WEIL AM RHEIN

04/19/2015




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