Bonjour! It's a brisk 2 degrees Celsius here in Paris this morning. I'm in studio, enjoying a cafe creme, ready to build a site model. I'm going home in exactly 28 days, but right now, I wanted to share a bit about my trip this past weekend.
I was really excited because I got to go to Holland this weekend! The real Holland, not the city in Michigan :) I visited a lot of great Dutch Architecture and my friend Sandra. Sandra and I worked together on Support Staff at Geneva in the Summer of 2010. It was such a fun weekend and I'm sooo glad I got to go.
My first stop was Utrecht. I took a tour of this house: Rietveld's Schroder House. It's one that we've always talked about in school and I was so excited to see it. And I wasn't disappointed. The house is beautiful and pretty ingenious. The only thing that would have made it better was if I could have sat on the furniture. A real Red and Blue chair right before my eyes! Oh and I couldn't take photos indside either :(
I was really excited because I got to go to Holland this weekend! The real Holland, not the city in Michigan :) I visited a lot of great Dutch Architecture and my friend Sandra. Sandra and I worked together on Support Staff at Geneva in the Summer of 2010. It was such a fun weekend and I'm sooo glad I got to go.
My first stop was Utrecht. I took a tour of this house: Rietveld's Schroder House. It's one that we've always talked about in school and I was so excited to see it. And I wasn't disappointed. The house is beautiful and pretty ingenious. The only thing that would have made it better was if I could have sat on the furniture. A real Red and Blue chair right before my eyes! Oh and I couldn't take photos indside either :(
I stayed with Sandra and her family in Wilnis, a 30 minute drive from the center of Amsterdam. On Saturday night Sandra asked me where I wanted to go the next day. She said we could go anywhere. So of course, I chose Rotterdam!
I got to see this building, the Kunsthal. Designed my Rem Koolhaas in 1992, it's awesome. I learned so much and had a great time exploring with Sandra!
Near by is the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) which we checked out next. It was a really cool place with a ton of great exhibits on Dutch architecture. So cool!
It was crazy foggy all day Sunday, which was a bummer because Rotterdam has the largest ports in the world! But despite the cold and the fog, we enjoyed a nice lunch inside and saw this beautiful bridge.
Monday, I explored Amsterdam. I went on a free walking tour and learned a lot about the city and got to see a ton too. It was great. Especially because I didn't have a ton of time to explore on my own, or a really good map. And due to my lack of navigational skills, that held me back a bit.
The city was beautiful and definitely somewhere I'd like to visit again. It was a little overwhelming at first, but the it's such a unique city and I really loved it.
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