I'm on to Finland...catching up? We'll see how the rest of the day goes. Lovely day in Basel. I think it's a laundry day and then off to a Renzo Piano museum of modern sculpture. Also yesterday was the day that the financial markets ate it, just for some historical references.

Helsinki! September 11! Arrival and Saarinen the Elder!

Stockholm Day 3

This day was rainy so I just went back with Joe and Jesse to the Lewerentz Office building.

Stockholm Day 3

Stockholm Day 2

Here's some pictures for Stockholm Day 2. I'll update some info soon.

Stockholm Day 2

Stockholm, Sweden Day 1

This is a panorama of the entrance of the Woodland Cemetery by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. After being there, I know understand why people say it is one of the most amazing landscapes of the 20th Century. Amazing.

So, I've been way behind. I am actually in Basel, Switzerland right now, which is great but fun. This morning we took a bus to France and the Ronchamp pligrimage church by Le Corbusier. I made the decision to draw and not take pictures. I'll get some from friends to post for the record. Then we drove to Germany and visited the Vitra Design Center, which is the headquarters of the Vitra furniture company. The visitors center is the first building by Frank Gehery in Europe, the fire station is by Zaha Hadid, the main production facilities are by Norman Foster, the warehouse is by Alvaro Siza and the conference pavillion is by Tadao Ando. Obviously there are a bunch of great architects building there. I'll post pictures soon (hopefully).

Anyway, here's Sweden (Day 1) and, yes folks, that's September 6 and 7.

Stockholm Day 1

So we ride a lot of different transportation vehicles.

Such as city buses. This is a nice photo by Mr. Anderson. But have you noticed that my reflection is a creepy doppelganger of ill-will. Who is that guy? Oh, he's my reflection.

Then there is beer drinking.

and low light photos. Myself, Joseph Clark and Alexis Kurland get blurry.

What in God's name is so exciting up there? Oh. Bricks.

As traveling architects there is plenty of time devoted to walking and looking up at buildings. Joseph Clark, Jesse Anderson and myself participate in an Olso look-see. Courtesy of Ms. Wright-Swan.

A lot of our trip looks like this.

You travel with a bunch of people who love buildings/art/textures/colors, everyone's always shoot pictures of shit. And we're in every one's photos. Courtesy of Mr. Anderson. I think this is the Oslo Airport by the way. Apparently, Alexis and I like something over there.

St. Petersburg Begins

Day 1

Additional Moscow Pictures

These are pictures by friend Alexis. Yes, even though he has a girl's name, he is a boy.

MOSCVA pt. 2

Gettin to it

Day 1: Moscow. I've tried to label the places where I could remember them. Can't find my Moscow map and it's hard to remember now.

MOSCVA

Russian Visa

Europe 2008 Travel Studio

Mass Update -- SWEDEN

So, I've finally gotten some of my Sweden pictures processed. Instead of adding them all to this web log though, I'm just going to link to a picassa web site.

This first link is to general St. Petri pictures.

http://picasaweb.google.com/dansylvester/StPetri?authkey=NzouKpWSREM#

And here are some architecture pictures of the group around Sweden (Lund and Stockholm).

http://picasaweb.google.com/dansylvester/ArchTours?authkey=TtcOFlyjZDI#5244165213926028946

And here is a random collection of pictures of the group up to no good.

http://picasaweb.google.com/dansylvester/People?authkey=V81Bw1282CU#