Berlin, Germany

Today, very cold. Bitterly cold.

Altlandsberg, also cold, still cute though. I feel a lot of pressure on this project considering they are actually considering our ideas for reality. We stayed in town for dinner and ate at Fat Sam's. If for any reason you are in that area in your lifetime, go eat at Fat Sam's. Not a lot of English spoken, but we made do and the owner who did speak a little English was more than nice to us. Food was amazing. I had Schnitzel. Yup, schnitzel. Basically a sort of fried meat (depends on what kind you get) with either an egg or a creme sauce on top.

Last time I was in Europe, I thought the food sizes were fairly small, but you got like 3 courses usually. Germany must not have got the memo. I can hardly finish meals, not to mention take out is a very American thing apparently, although that is changing.

Tomorrow Desseau. Bahaus :)

Berlin, Germany

Yesterday we did a little precedent field trip for our studio project. The theater was called Schaubuhne. The building was a little outdated, but the inside functionality was nice. The really interesting part was the theater itself. The floor is made up of about 75 panels that can all be mechanically moved up or down. They can change where the seating or stage is for any show. They can also change the landscape of the stage for the show. The ceiling was also this interchangeable grid system where lighting can be shifted in accordance with the floor layout. Pretty neat stuff, very different.

Today we got back to Altlandsberg, Germany for a second field visit. By the way, we got in like 2 or 3 newspapers out here. I'm going to try to get a copy as soon as I can.

Tomorrow we have a day trip to Desseau to see Bahaus and a new green environmental building.

This weekend is Prague :)