That's right. There was a point to me flying across the ocean besides just to have fun. I'm doing research with the Lehrstuhl für Landschaftsarchitektur at RWTH Aachen University as part of the UROP International Program.
Was that enough of a mouthful?
Anyways, I'm basically looking at maps and plans from a certain city district in Germany to determine its urban growth. The area is Lünen-Brambauer and it's located in the Ruhr Valley about 3 hours by train from Aachen. Every once in a while I *get* to make a trip there and back to see what the city is like now and visit a museum and the city archive. The rest of the time I work in a little glass box overhanging the entryway of the Landscape Architecture department in the old city center.
Was that enough of a mouthful?
Anyways, I'm basically looking at maps and plans from a certain city district in Germany to determine its urban growth. The area is Lünen-Brambauer and it's located in the Ruhr Valley about 3 hours by train from Aachen. Every once in a while I *get* to make a trip there and back to see what the city is like now and visit a museum and the city archive. The rest of the time I work in a little glass box overhanging the entryway of the Landscape Architecture department in the old city center.
It really is exciting to do research that relates to the place I am staying this summer. My project is a little different from most of the projects other students in my program are doing because it involves more interpretation than traditional experiments and my data doesn't come in the form of numbers. It is doing a lot to get me excited about architecture again. Maybe architecture school is somewhere in my future after all.