Well i am thru my first two days of our week long field trip across europe, we have been running all of barcelona in the pouring rain. I have limited time to update as i am on a strict schedule. However i can tell you barcelona is far superior to Rome, better food, awesome markets, and clean. So far we have seen some wonderful places but i cant load pictures just yet. Our first day began early as we left Rome for the airport a little after 6. The flight was w...

Premio Piranesi Finally after two weeks of endless travel and work the Premio Piranesi has come to an end.For those of you who do not know the Premio Piranesi is a design competition, considered by Italians as one of the more important competitions, which focuses on design in the field of architecture and archeology.This year the project was at Villa Adriana and focused on the inclusion of universal access and an improved museum.The operation was organized by A...

The location of my current design project, Villa Adriana is the result of Hadrians rule in Rome, a private estate of his built during his time. After his fall the villa was looted for its marble and today what remains are the foundations of the buildings. The site is where I will be working with 4 italian students from Milan and 1 other Penn State student to design a new experience of the villa that is universally accessible. While doing this project over the ...

After landing in Rome we of course had to wait for our bags and forced our driver to wait an hour before we finally made it out of the airport.Driving from the airport seemed as though maybe were in the wrong country, the landscape was bleak and tattered, it honestly looked as I would picture Saudi Arabia or maybe some third world country in Africa.There seemed to be no rules on the roads, cars drove where they pleased at the speed of their choice.However it seem...