Architecture students blog about their travels
It’s tradition for architecture students to take a grand tour during the summer months to visit sites that they may only have studied in books. Often these tours are the result of travel fellowships. This summer, four students in their final years at the Yale School of Architecture—recipients of various travel fellowships—wrote travel blogs for the website Archinect.
Marija Brdarski, a native of Serbia, traveled to former Yugoslav republics to investigate the architecture that grew out of social modernism in that region during the 1960s and 1970s. She is a recipient of the 2010 George Nelson Scholarship, along with Emmett Zeifman. Emmett is researching the diverse positions of architecture within Francoist Spain (1939–1975). His plans were to travel throughout the Iberian Peninsula, as well as parts of Italy and London.
Brian Butterfield, the 2010 Takenaka Fellowship recipient, spent this past summer in Japan training with the Takenaka Corporation, Japan’s oldest architecture, engineering, and construction firm, which traces its history back more than 400 years. Mark Talbot, the recipient of the David M. Schwarz Fellowship, traveled to Turkey to investigate the intermingling of cultures—and, consequently, architectures—that has occurred at this crossroads of the Middle East and Europe. The Archinect travel blogs can be found atarchinect.com/features/article.php?id=99497_0_23_0_M.
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